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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-10-29, Page 2Money Hakes Moncy; Or, A Strange Stipulation. of numerous letters; 'those mysterious letters which he had novel opened In her presence,En1d read carefully through rhis lawyer's letter, and when site had done- so she sat and covered her faro ; with her hands She was lre»lbling from the effect of a ^meat; 4 dreadful shock, For this letter recapitulated in curt legal terms vestals facts which had 'already been communicated to her hue - band; and these facts dealt with a be- uest made by the late Mrs, Manumit to Julian Bryant, The amount of this bequest was so large that tile figures dancedbefore Mind's Byes. / The lawyers had written apparently ✓ to repeat once again that there had been no mistake, nor was there any posstbil- CHAPTEit Ill,—!Continued).. _. could came ity of compromise; their duty was to again. pay over this money to Mr. Bryant only "Pleased!" said Sultan Bryant. if he fulfilled the condition attached to chore got queer . notions of what Is There were no more walks, no more the bequest. likely to please Inc, I must sari" dreamy. happy discussions.. no more And what Was this condition? plans for th'e future; poverty had work- If hen reed to live his life apart from So Enid 110001• wont bank to the !pais ed a blight en the happiness' of these the girl h0 had married, then Julian Who had given her such hope, and tits two young people. 2444 sordid ugllnese Bryant would be a rteh man, a man dJ111)O old' plana remained shut, of a life destitute of charm had come '%vlth an assured position, a man with `They stayed on through the winter, between thorn, EMd cherished her power! it he refused to fall in with and the early part of spring. Little Mrs. (lope and her faith in the sunshine to this condition, then not a penny would. pass into his possession. Julian Bryant's wife sat she hardly knew how long with her trembling hands pressed to her hot eyes. She' thought she had gone through as much suffering inthe last few months as a woman's heart can bear; but nothing that had gone was as bad as this. To feel that she stood a tangible barrier in his path! That she, who loved him, who would have given her life for him If It had beendemandedof her, should he recognized as a bar to all that was worth having In life, was a tragedy In its way, it destroyed so much, Now Was explained to her so much; the ir- ritability, the restlessness. the en, spoken trouble: all those things that had drawn her husband so surely away from her! She knew him so well. She could read into his heart and follow almost 0400, phase of the torture which this unusual and most cruel proposition must have signified to him, and When the first hot resentful misery- had pass- ed, her thought was of fullest pity for the man. She longed to comfort 11101, to put 11 bear," 40)10). The hum: llatlon was lifted from her arms about him and to hiss him, and Bryant thanked the man and gave him Her silence was now explained, to hold his tired head on her breast; fer she know the poison hint' a smile. He remembered the last She must have been too ill to write. He this strange time 11e had entered the office, and how was sorry he had misjudged her. Death bequest. Love for herself (that won - beautiful life had seemed to him then. 15 the great leveller. derful le -re.) was fighting now, not merely against ugly - necessity' but He had only gone a few yards down Neither he nor his wife spoke of the the street when the porter ran after dead woman when they islet that night against the grimmest determination. bin"Hewillnever do it!"she said to nor did they ever disease her death. The lterse1E "never' never," before dawn and duly life $rpt rarely, laughed now; indeed. come, but it wag no easy task, for 3.1.1- gra there fell upon the two young Ilan was so changed, •pad1)144 a silence. They walked together, When the work had conte his wife .1).,, t together; they were always .tad felt that this heavy cloud that rest- ed so tangibly upon theist would surety be lifted, but J"' »n's spirit had seem- ingly lost the trick of catching .tope; he waS not merely physically tired; the an was morose, cynical, cruelly hard at times, and Enid could never have guessed the real cause of this change in her husband. Rachael Warnock's silence, that humiliating silence, did tog !'her; but the misery of their posi- tie neper let them be together really, When the anniversary of their wed- ding day came round, Julian Bryant found himself literally without 'a shil- 11115 in his pocket. He went out in the usual waykiss- ing his wife gravely and saying 110- thieg;.ltnd suddenly there came upon more than disappoint, it burned.1,114' the impulse to go to Raehel Star- . nock, • - The fact that he had humbled him - "If I humble myself, if I give her the self to write and solicit her help am - satisfaction of letting her know that. bittered Bryant; hundred times a day she was right, perhaps She may do he tortured himself with the recollection something for me: at least I shall know of that letter. He did not hesitate to whether she is working against me, and curse the woman to whom it had been if she 1s. I won't spare her!' addressed. But when he called at the well -re- And then one day the papers put out membered office the porter gave•hlm the in large letters the news that Mrs, information that BSrs. Marnock was Marnock was dead: her millions gave not: there. her a place of importance: her death "She don't conte often now, sir," he was a fact of public interest. said. "She has been ailing a Tait this Juliant Bryant read the news and a • winter, andis abroad somewhere in quick pang of regret shot through hint; foreign parts;-leastways, that Is what It was followed by a strange sense of "Oh, sir, I beg your pardon, sir,"' hevery- name of Rachael Warnock had said; but I'vejust heardas Mrs. power to stab them both. The young Marnock's come back. She is in. London. wife had never known exactly what You itnow where she lives, don't you?" words had been spoken In that most re - "Yes," said Julian Bryant. markable interview; but she had quick Againacting on impulse. he hailed imagination. She could guess. And a 'bus and was carried'weetwards. There was something neve beating in his -heart, "something that dispelled for a little while the wretchedness. It was hope. For if she were 111 and Suffer- ing,' then perhaps this would be the moment in which to approach her. She had been good to hint, she had shown him kindness more than any other person In those days when everything had been taken from him so suddenly; 11e only wanted work, not favors, only the means of earning a life for himself and for one dependent on him. He made his way by degrees to her house: she lived in one of the most fashionable quarters; he had dined at this house twice in the old days, that 11ad been when her husband had been alive, and he had been summoned there to discuss his future. The luxury. the beauty. the wealth contained In this house had said very little to him then because to a certain extent he bad been accustomed to such things: but now, as he stood on the doorstep. the remembrance of thisWO- Man and her power mocked him anad he almost turned away. Necessity Was however so pressing that he set his lips and put his heel 012 many and many a time of late Enid had forced herself to confess that Mrs. Marnock's fierce denunciation of their marriage had at least the merit of cone mon sense to recommend it. At any rate, -she always shrank from the mere recollection of Rachael Warnock. Enid had no time nor chance to read the p- eers, So was ignorant of the fact that everybody was talking about Mrs. Mar - nock and the money site had left. The will had made a sensation; there was so much money. The wonderful- be- quests to charity„ the almost ironical disposition of her fortune was the theme of'the moment, Unlike his wife, Julian Bryant knew of all this, and that his heart would be sore with envy as he read the names of those whom this death had enriched was only natural. Her relations, her secre- taries, her servants, all those who had worked for Rachel Warnock had been remembered, even some of his own Mtn and kin (people connected with the dead !roman through her marriage) Were mentioned as benefttttng by the Will. Although he was doing splendidly in his nen' work, and the promise of earn- ing a steady wage was drawing dally nearer. the bitterness that had crept his pride. He was not destined, how- into Julian Bryant's heart still poisoned ever. to see Mrs. Marnoch, as he was him: he was always sullen now; his given the information that she was not wife saw less and less of him, he even well enough to receive anyone. Site forgot at times to hiss her when he went out and came In. And little by little there stole into Enid's mind the suspicion that there was an element of mystery underlying her.. husband's changed manner. - She grieved for her lost happiness was confined to her room, "tA'ill you give me a message. sir:+ Would you like to write a note?" Julian Bryant said "4110" at first, and then he changed his mind. T.,. I'll write: .FIs stet down at the table in the wide, but there was a touch of natural re - Spacious hall, so charmingly arranged,entntent In her sorrow, She did not un- luteing treasures on the walls; it was derstand why Julian should treat her so scented with flowers. a glimpse of an- unkindly, unless indeed he had lost alt other world. He did not choose his love 1'or her, and she would not let hem words. he wrote like a man distracted. self think this yet; stilt, their life was Z want you to help me;- I've tried so different. Ther seemed to be nothing everything and everything has gond she could do for Julian. He put her against me. You were .once very goad aside so completely. She knew nothing to me and I disappointed you, I'm of his work or of his prospects. He sorry; but just because you were good seemed to have a god deal of business to me' once I want you to give me an- about which she knew nothing. Other chance. I've come 20 my last Letters came frequently, but he put penny. God knows what will happen if them in his locket unopened to be read I dyn't get something to do. f don't ask schen he was alone. She rose, and picking up the letter she slipped it back into the coat pocket, and then she stood a moment with clos- ed eyes, lifting the coat In her arms and pressing her lips to 1t as though it were sentient and responsive: then she brushed the tears away and sat down and thought deliberately. Happily, Su- ltan was net coming back till late, there were s0 many hours to which to think m,d set! (To be continued.) •i NORM AN A\GELL IN FRANCE. Tells of His Experience in That Sorely -Tried Country. Norman Angell, the world's peace propagandist of London, has been here iii France, where he has been shut off from the outside world in a 'small village. Of his ex- periences he said : "Soldiers, soldiers everywhere. It was impossible to get away from them. I was living cheek by jowl with them, occasionally sharing their food, sitting round the camp fires and discussing the war and politics. The contrast between Eng- land and France as regards the sit- uation. is striking. "In France there is not a family that has not suffered privation, ruin, or loss .of a member, mostly the breadwinner, The checks of wealthy persons remain uncashed. Someone goes to Paris with the intention of returning home the next day, and is swallowed up. A week passes, and nothing is heard of him. We are told that the train service is still excellent, which you to take me back into your nffice, Once as she was looking at hint renting means that a foue hours' journey is but a word from you would give me with a pang at her heart how tire, heaccomplished 'with -.;th luck in 144 or on work somewhere else. I ask you to was, and how Ills good leeks had faded, hours.'' speak that Wo1'd. I -Ie signed it witil his full name, and 111s hand trembled as he inscribed her's on t11e envelope. He hardly ]:new where he walked their eyes .net. There was such an agonized expression in the man's face that Enid's lips trembled. She rose, and going across. site hissed him ten- derly when he left the house: he was agitated, "You are worrying about something," nervous. unhappy. Now that he had site said. "Dearest, 1194 dearest, won't Written to her be felt 115 if he had done you tell me what it is?' wrong, and yet --and yet, a drowning. -"Don't imagine things;' Julian an - Wan will clutch at a straw. and unless steered, and he spoke roughly; but he he had Help, - he, too, would go under, caught her to him and hissed her as he b.Heffoundvehimselfulfter awhile 111 I'ic- cadllly, and gave a great start when someone hit him on the shoulder. Turn- ' - ing, he laved a man he knew well. a former chum, one of his old regiment just home from India on,leave. "you are the first of. our fellows I've struck, Bryant. what are you doing?— . -'not11000 ". Well. come along, we'll have lead not kissed her ler a long time, and a flame of happiness ran through her. radiating all that was dark for just a little while. •I unlit you only to remember that I atn here," ehe whispered to him un- steadlly—"that I love you , . that I would do anything for you, Julian, any- thing,• my dear One, anything!" His voice was not steady, as he an - a 'peg are! and then well hlu ave no). swered her 1,10W Meeitis to be baelt in the old ••y 44007 it:' he said, and his voice country," was strange and hard, She drew away in dared ,ort of way Julian fellow- from hint, and all wets darts once ngaln, od the other man into a club. .It was for it seemed to her as if her loving: like 11 -glimpse of cid days to sit at a Words had carried hurt to him instead well-appointed table, to hear regimental of comfort. •ehnti, to talk over old times and old friends; and out of this there aline a That night he told stet' 115 was going suggeSticn. to the country on the Morrow to he Tho man hone from India was too tested in his driving; he 11115111 be ab- sent all day. 'for Dl to express the opts he he felt Enid was ue to give 111m his - break - 'for Bryant ,neither could he offer as- fast, and she sent Min to his work with sistanc14 at least not the assistance a loving hiss, and a blessing, felt if Which he felt pretty surely - was what not spoken, and then she went bank to the others man needed; but the shabby bed again, rev it was very early, and look of his former chum, the misery in site cried a little while: she was 80 un• Julians dyes hurt him dreadfully, and happy. he 'Would trot let his guest go ll they She yearned over the men site had had talked things over and he had made married just as a mother yearns over. a Julian promise to meet him in a couple child. ofday's time. Sha Poll her courage Ending slowly next las he wrote saying that 110 away She was beset with anxiety: had backed a winner and that his chum What 001.21d she do? Iiew could she wee Standing in with him, and with the helphim? How bring back satnblance cheque he enclosed came the suggestion. of ilei!' lost happinese') "Why don't You learn all titers is to he added, about vmay beton to aegoodthing again next week at liemptnn and if so I o Don't be etuiTy After she had risen and dressed she roused herself. The little .tome had to be cleaned, and there was mending to sh ant forgot y u. be done, for Julians wall! played great about this, old chap: yeti know We must havoc with his clothes. stanch by. one another; and you were And whim Enid swept, dusted, and cod to. isle Inmanyways When I first She Effete iuii etlkto ioeett hiiittvivithi a, joined," smiling face and planned to give him That flight Julian Bryant told his something slice for itis supper, Once wife. that things' Were';changed, -aid that, again site set 'herself to look opthnistl- ee was, going to serve an apprenticeship nail, -to the future. Perhaps to -day atsone ranter works,would be a-turn@t^'-pahlt in (heir liVes, "Withlost a little luck, 1'11 be, able' if he d(c1 leen to -day he might soot be 10 turn in something before longi' be in regular worst. That the Work would aaid. You mean you are going to learnto delve a cub?" asked .Enid, with a. little !'etch in lier volealand her husband nod- ded his head. "Yee," the. • "Lat1d he added grimly; "if 1 ge the' chance " • "fl"yet% drive.,+. ear. wily can't f p1a,y. be 111 a sense menial had ceased to vex her tender splrit. They had tested so many degrees or suffering tltnt there remained net a glimmer of snobbery to either of thorn; To drive a motor -cab would be hard work, but 1t was a. man's work, and a amen with brains could -rise even in this profession. 'indeed. Enid In p[it)114'7" found it possible to r4.loire that her 11e - and 'Sultan 74ry,v,C cauglil hip h.e,'thliov©d anis should have a '1111., lived out cry. ,. .. rr - As'she settled Iteveelf. finally with her Ileedlee and cottmis rule a crust of h10, fill Which there was a big rent) in lier lap. somothtng hnppened, \ letter slip• ped net 1.1' one of the necktie or the cont and fell on fen Boer, its Jinid Bryant steeped t , pfck ail tide leiter tend-�repl,11') it, he unused soddenly, A certain rut.ot• insot'Jllea helEelf, and thotifh A fLrme, at nolo ivahw3 ina, her ars, cause of .his prqquur� resolntlun.. ghe ev and her llea.rt brei. hurrlerlly. Shn hf,sl• tvtll. tis. sw;iy br.•1' rill ,x nuked n-alnnt the, letier. Trot lt. time longe "line ditties nil tSle cv..'it^+• Rept Julda�n opt 1111 very' tele; he pet t,'r: at !east fourteen haute 41 day et the start; there were nn more pretty little t)lnnere, llh more invented del lsae les, The tired Mae jest swallowed ills feed and got to is he..tnswered hes )n the 0)1011 a.1., no ele..e r.IT(ee tirade, •13eaaUse I wort let my wife wm•It,' 'fie]tieat:a her and held her eery' tight- ly in his arms, 'T'leltse food,: we are going to.. gat I hreu511 With our bad times` very soon naw, datdtlte," he said. yr u Ali en'that ho was out er the house a (1111 time end beta Worked again Incas- santly:en� the old Kane, 'Sone day 110 Will ebonge his lellnn. and let ane share ills work, she said r caught her, eye she' locosbe- permitted } i.sted, t b as111e' thenn1(4n mote, Min heel el ed. and that lien de'0!si.4,1 Was' tak,!n, low:Ming stelde 1)14 veer, else spread nut the paper en the table i1' 'rens: nt ]per. Ti wag a nonimenienti'rt Irmo a. firm of so110101rs, late •dtltee a weep b6it in 4,1020 t4 "Jell what slretr 1,t bins, ;mu,(''ck, and was., evidently one previoludy. olid headed "ito • the late Angell recited some of the ru- mors cerrent daily. "Your local paper tells," he said, "quite seriously that the Russians have entered Berlin and that Pots- dam Palace is in ruins. Then you get dark hints that whole French regiments are demoralized and that officers and men have been execut- ed by scores with a distinguished general thrown in. "German spies are arrested everywhere. Advertisements are being ruthlessly pulled down by the town officials on the ground that they contain some subtle form of German espionage. "Yet the soldiers with whom you hobnob are models of good humor and kindliness, Sometimes they are the most unmilitary of mili- taires, good, honest, bourgeois, running to fat and a partiality for sleep after meals, But the' moment they hear of German barbarities they become inflamed and pray for a chance t r avenge them." 3• Taste Notice. A specialist claims to be able to make hair grow on a bald head by rubbing it frequently with a Turk- ish towel. It is barely possible that fuzz off the towel has given him false encouragement. Paw Didit't Know. Willie—Paw, are a man and his wife one? Paw—Yes. my son, Willie—Then how many was Solo. mon? Paw—You go to bed, young man. ,t 'Three Year Old. "Mother," said a three-year-old girl, "I don't think you know much about :bringing up children, do your "What makes yol2 think that, dear?" "Jie'eause you always send me to bed when I'm not a bit sleepy, and make me get up when I am," The ideal. "Would you fo1-give 1110 if I kissed heti?" "now can 1 tell beforehand?" Evemy girl on earth imagines that she would make an ideal wife, NIETZSCHE, TUE MAD MAN. The German .Author Who Ras Pol. Boned 11ift Country's Neill$. Ni•ebesehe'a philosophy is said to have had greatinfluence on the mind of Germany, and in the pro- duction of the present state of af- fairs there. Ratth•ee than being an active influence upon Germany, Nietzsche might better b -e called the first one to'express a philosophy, or a rational. sentiment, that was growing in Germany, That senti- ment, fed by her swifter -flying fac- tory wheels, her broadening com- mercial lines, is simply the senti- ment that has tinged her mor'al's, her philosophy, her very life• --ma- terialism, commercialisan, progress. How Nietzsche can be identified with that sentiment has been hard to see until now, when everything Ge'rm'an—the soul of Germany—has been laid bare by the war. Nietz- sche, known to us as a lead, dis- eased, rhapsodic blasphemer, sim- ply idealized the "material pro- gress" religion of Germany ! Ideal- ized it, put it on four corners of philosophy, bound it up in argu- ment, and—ale far pias we can see— did it unwittingly, thought he was a philosopher, when in reality, he was only an instrument thrust ahead of his Time, to cry in a strange voice about a Superman who was to come after—and that we should prepare foe his coming! Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born of Polish blood long settled in Germany, at Roecken, in Saxony, 1844. He was brought up in a most religion's home atmosphere and studied at Liepzig, later becoming a professor at Basel University, in Switzerland. Asa camp steward in the Franco-Prussian War he con- tracted a nervous disease, and front youth to his death he was a nervous wreck, dyspeptic, addicted to drugs. He died in 1900 insane. His books, which paused a genu- ine sensation in Germany, were published between 1872 mad 1888. He has long been an accepted figure im Fredcricli tlithehu NietzSchc. Germany. His works are read by all students. But in England and America, where his books have crept in as if by stealth, 11:•e is not taken seriously Christianity Greater Folly. In a word, Nietzsche believed that Christianity and Democracy, the pillars of our life, were the great -- est of human follies. Both systems held the ,average man, the humble man, the modest man, as the ideal type, and so put the brakes on pro- gress. Both Christianity and Demo- cracy preserved the weak and forced the strong to give of their strength to the weak. Nietzsohe's ideal so- cial arrangement was one in which there would be a huge, moral, help: less slave class mastered by a email, active, progressive class, which did not aim at the -equality of all class- es, but at the ultimate production, at the top, of Superman! All this based 013011 'an amendment to Scho- penhauer, which Nietzsche called "the will to power." The idea took Fut once in Ger- many, where, as a matter of fact, a huge mass ie under the heel of a master elalsa—the militarises. Pro- fessors, eager to adopt anything so flattering to the class as Nietzsohe's philosophy, began teaching it. And this great mass, who can pass legis- lation only under the censorship of the Kaiser, in spite of their vaunted Socialistic s't'rength, has grown up to fancy itself "super." For the beauty of Nietzsche is than he in- veighed against monarchy just enough to allow this mass. of -which he spoke to witheringly to imagine itself capable of getting into the running in the Superman stakes, Anglo-Saxon minds, in the last fifteen years, have weighed Metz, eche, and while they put up 0, pro- tective barrier by elaiming he was a product of his time, they admit he was Honest, that his search for truth was genuine. In short, tee have at suet pictured him as a wild, mad man, who, armed with a broom, has fiereely attacked the great edifice of human life, to smash it to pieces.; but that his broom has only swept away a lot of dust and grime and the cobwebs of niisoon ceptien and emote leaving the vast pillars, the massive masonry, shin- ing brighter than ever, Per that we have given hirm credit, Hb has been tti good hottee-oleane•e Aeolis Not ltcadisble. Nietx'sche's books, the grefutest of Pen Perfection Waterman's Ideals write with un- equalled ease and last a lifetime. Cleanly to use and safe to carry. Ile sure you buy the genuine: with the Spoon Feed. Look for the word "Ideal" in globe. Regular, Safety and Self -Filling Types. $2.50 to $50.00. At Tour Nearest Dealers. L. E. Waterman Company Limited, Montreal which is probably "Thus Spoke Zoroa,stel, are not very readable. He deals in generalities mostly, and he Sticks to no set plan, wandering about from idea to idea, and using a roaring, bellowing, jumbled style that occasionally permits a passage of real. beauty to crop up. Of peeuliax significance are same of his sayings just now. For. in- stance : "It is •chaxacteristia of an un - philosophical race to hold on firmly to Christianity—they need its disci- pline for moralizing --and humaniz- ing. The Englishman, more gloomy, sensual, headstrong, and brutal than the German, is for that rea- son, as the baser of the two, .also the more pious•; he has all the anore need of Christianity." That passage has a terrible hu- mor about it, just now l Then again— "Every elevation of the type man has' hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society—and so will it always be—a, society believing in a long scale of gradations of rank and differences of worth among human beings, and requiring sl'avery in some form or other." "Soldiers and their leaders' have always a much higher mode of com- portment towards one smother than workmen and their employers. At present, at least, all militarily es- tablished civilization still stands high above all so-called industrial eivdlization ; the laltter, in its pre- sent form, is in general the meanest mode of existence that has ever been." It is just possible that the Devil has released Nietzsclle'•s soul from the mild torment of fire, to take him over 'the fields of Belgium, to see his countrymen believing what he believed; and to look on the scarred towns, where a few weeks 'ago there flourished "that meanest form of existence." 0 NOTABLE WALKING STICKS. Late King Edward Collected over Three Thousand. The collecting of walking -&ticks was his late Majesty's favorite hob- by, his most treasured •stick being one which was regularly carried by Queen Victoria. This remarkable stick was fashioned from a branch of the Boscobel oak which once con- cealed Charles II. when escaping from Cromwell's soldiers. Queen Victoria had it altered somewhat, and a little idol from Seringapatam was inserted as a knob. King Edward's •collection of walk- ing -sticks, of coarse, included all sorts of designs. It was a fact, how- ever, that he preferred as a rule an' ordinary creek shape. Indeed, his fondness for this particular design gave not a little impetus to its pop- ul•arity. Talking' of famous walking -sticks and their owners, Messrs. Henry Howell & Co., who are probably the largest stick makers in the world, recall a curious story of the ominous trick which Char'le's I.'s walking - stick played on that unhappy mon- arch, for during the .famous trial at Westminster. Hail the head of the stick fell off. Bygone monarchs were very fond of walking -sticks, and Queen Eliza• beth put hers to an unpleasant use, for the merry Queens Bess employed them far beaking her maids of ho- nor, In the club -room of the Royal College of Physicians there is pre- served the gold -headed cane once the symbol of the doctor's profeis- sion, which .was used by the cele- brated Dr. John Radcliffe, who at- tended Queen Mary, and afterward by four other eminent physicians. At Kensington Museum, too, play be seen Goldsmith's malacca cane, which has some charming gold mounts. One of the most remark- able sticks in existence is owned by a seaman on his Majesty's ship Glory, and was . made out of love letters placed on a steel spike. f. Shop girls in New York city number over 100,000. An egotist is a man who expects a woman to marry 'him for himself alone. 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Extra a Granulated Sugar 444444 any of these original packages you are sure of getting the genuine f Canada's finest sugar,pure and clean �' , as when it left the Refinery Ws worth while to insist on the Originalg Packages. .CANADA SUGAR REPINING CO,, LI ITED� MONTREAL. V 33131,631:33,113 .0.131333.7.33 • 413,03,4333Z 13.3.3349-11, 011 the Farm s,0'ceoese �S eees.eieve 1t Papa to 'Think, The thinking farmer is the ono who is making good to -day. It is he who considers the effect of every lick; who studies his soil and by the use of modern methods, with an equal amount of labor, increases the yield • from two to fourfold, writes Lucie T, Webb. It is the thinking woman who accomplishes in one day by thought and system what her neighbor does in two. Yet how few of our women think, They go into the day's work with an in- distinct idea of the myriads of things to be done, jumbled together things to be done, jumbled to- gether, with no plan, no outline in the mind eye; no grouping of tasks so that two and three things may be done at the same time; no re- gard for short cuts and easy ways; and, most of all, with no consider• ation whatever for their own strength and physical endurance. They stand through countless op- portunities to sit and rest the tired feet. They trot from one.plaee to another in an aimless way, making many trips where one should an- swer. All because they do not think. A woman's life on the farm at its best is 'hard, how hard no one but the one who has lived it without hir- ed help knows. Much of the drudg- ery can not be eliminated, even by a world of system. There are meals to cook, dishes to wash, beds to make, floors to sweep, milk to churn, vegetables to gather, fruit to save, water to bring, and some- times, I am sorry to say, wood to cut, pigs to feed, and cows to milk. This ie hardly a beginning of the daily tasks that confront her; and when there are babies to care for I often wonder that she is alive to tell t11e story. Surely then, if there is any heap to be had in thinking, the farm 'woman needs to think. Else she can not greet her tired husband when night comes with a well -kept home, good food, and, best of all, a cheery smile. Balanced Rations. A balanced ration is "one in which each of ,she different food ma- terials or nutrients is present in just ' the right proportion and amount to meet the needs of the animals," says Bulletin 159 of the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station. Tests indicated that cowS fed balanced rations yielded a pound of butter •er for each seven- teen pounds of total nutrients con- snaned, while 21 pounds were con- sumed to a pound of butter fat when an unbalanced ration was fed. The use of the balanced ration thus saved four pounds of digestible nu- trients for each pound of butter fat pounds, 1% pounds of butter fat were produced by the same number of pounds of digestible nu- trients in balanced rations as was required for a pound of butter fat when the unbalanced ration was fed. Not only was the butter fat more economically produced, but the cows given a balanced ration finish- ed the test with better appetites and in much better flesh and gen- eral physical condition than the others, Keep Edges of Fieids Clean. Mose owners of creek farms do not make any great effort to fight the 'brush and timber that keeps creeping in from the woodland along the fields. Where there is plenty of rainfall, the timber eau crowd in on the fields very rapidly, and the farmers who do not desire to have the size of their fields de- crease should make every effort to keep the edges of the field trimmed up. White elms are especially bad about working in -to a field., This tree has long limbs, which grow for really wonderful distance's over the fields, shade the ground and pre- vent the crop from making a pro- fitable growth. Then the bree pro• duces great amounts of seeci which fly --ayes, fly is the word, for they have wings—out over the fields, where they sprout and begin to grow. It is true they usually will die, but they cause as much bonier as weeds, and they must be, killed. ,H "God With Us" on Gentle 11 Bette. Embossed upon the belts of the German soldiers is the legend, "Gott emit uns" ("God With Tis"). They are a virile and believing ala - tion --such people make a terrible enemy. There is no place in the German mind for cynicism, which sometimes in older nations shakes people wonder whether the strag- gle 'between national groups is good in the eyes of God. ,the Germans are fighting like a band of brothers. I11 time of war the relations be- tween class and class, bbbween of- ficet+ and man in the ranks, are close and cordial—they are "eon= rases," a word continually, ol> their Ilea as they fight, For their nation they ilre cold, inhuman, b•erbaria. That, is why, if we believe that me- ral laws govern this world, and that might is net -right, we must fight, them as we fought and conquered Napoleonisin, 13u1 let us have no delusions about their real ;:har- antel'. '.