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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-2-15, Page 6COALS OF FIRE 11 1 "Beastly rough luck en you, Maisie being saddled with o useless log of husband and sick child! Upon my soul, when I think of the future, wish at times the Huns had put an other bullet in me!" "Don't Dick!" protested the young wife, with a cry of pain. "And don't look at the future -anyway, not till after Friday.' "Sketched your playbills yet?" in- quired the young man after a pause, his face pinched and white above his scarlet necktie. At the question the girl's delicate pencilled brows met in a frown. "There's something wonting, Diek -in the play -bills, I mean. Exactly what, I dotet quite know. It's the miechief, to be nobody. f need puffing. -crocking up! What's in a nume Bless you, just everything! I'm not afraid I couldn't pg..1 the thing off once I was :darted, but a name's the 'Open eesame" " She broke off as if struck by a sud- den thought -grey eyes narrowed to pin -points. She drew her breath sharp between her teeth. "Dick," she burst out, "I believe 111 risk it!" "Risk what, dear heart?" Feverishly she forged ahead, un- heeding his question. "How'd it do to describe myself as Maughan, pupil of the world - famed whistler, Tom Tapper'?" Tom's name would be a "draw" - dead certain! "But, my darling girl, you never had a lesson from Tapper in your life!" She didn't hear him. It wasn't ex- actly "straight," maybe. Thus she re. fleeted. But for Dick and the child! Reavenel She'd do more than that! And it wasn't cheating -not quite! She could whistle as well as Tapper any day. They'd get their inonee's worth, whoever came to the concert on Friday. "Maisie!" "Yes, dear!" "You should have married Tapper, confound him! Why didn't you? He was as keen as mustard in the old - days!" "Because, dear boy, as it happened, r I preferred you," "Funny taste, upon my soul! Tapper hated me like poison," proceedee the speaker. "You'd have done a let bet- j ter for yourself if you'd married Tap- per." 'Depends on what you mean ly "a lot better.'" "Plain as a pike -staff. He's at the top of the tree!" "He's at the Front," she rejoined sbsently. "So ' if drew a pencil and paper to her and scribbled a rough draft of a play- bill. "How does this sound?" She ad. dressed her husband. " `Maisie Maughan, artiste, pupil of the world.. renowned Tom T • ' That to fetch them! Why, 'Diek Tapper's' a name to conjure with!" He nodded approval. "Better get them thrown off at once," he counselled, "and placard the I place with them!" She obeyed, going out thrilled with her own inspiration. By next day h Mudbury blazed with the announce- , a meet. The public had never heard of I "Maisie Maughan." But to a man, to t a woman, they had heard of Tom Tap- c per! The hall engaged for the owl- 11 aim bade fair to be packed. e 'Maisie" -alias Mrs. Richard Sel- h lars-wheeled out her invalid child the Ire same afternoon. If she had con- science pricks, she stifled them. The g deception, she told herself, was an in- nocent one, and she would do her best o on Friday. And then, of a emblem the child In f the pram piped out an ejaculation: "Mummy, man!" "What is it, ducky?" The baby's finger pointed. "Black man!" she reiterated. Mechanically Maisie turned, Then, of a sudden, her heart seemed to stop. and clutched a the pram to steady herself. On he came. He was in khaki, Be had seen her, 11e recognized her.. I "You!" he **elated, and looked from her M the child. IIis dark eyes blazed on her. How well she recalled every :Nat- o ure, the trick of his eyes, the twitch of his lips beneath his moustechias when, OR now, he was mightily moved! "Wit -where did you spring from?" Her shaking lips would scarcely frame the question, "Somewhere In France!" he answer- ed. IShe stammered hopelessly and broke down, her eye at the moment ,11,iignIit:ing on one of her glaring play- s"Wh-what do you think of me?" ' iereed ot,t, at !alt. ; -whet de I think of you!" he eche. ed, pueeled. "1 unee told you what I thought a you!" he ansevered, drop- ping his voice. don't mean that!" she cut acmes Try es she would, ehe couldn't con - trot her eyes. They flickered over to the oley-bill. It was impossible its glaring scarlet headline could have 'a-i'd him --his own name blazing in eepieds-impossible! She rushed into apology -abject, grovelling, "We ---we do things for people we I love we wouldn't do for ourselves!" she panted, incoherently. "Dick has come home -a wreck! He needs things. 1 hadn't got them to give him. And baby, she'e been at death's door. I was desperate! And -and I whistle still, but I'm nobody, and they want a name." She stopped, out of breath. Against her will, and forced by the mesmer- ism of his eyes. she nodded in the di- rection of the blazing play -bill. I "You've got a name. I thought if I ' put 'Pupil of Tom Tapper,' it wooed double -treble my chalices of getting an audience. And -and it wouldn't hurt you!" • It rushed through her brain, here was her companion's chance of tvreak- Ing his vengeance on her, and he would take it! He had always hated Dirk. The two thad never hit it off -never! And !Dick had rather "rubbed it in" -his triumph over him. He had made it glaringly plain to his defeated rival that he felt himself "top dog." She trembled as she realized that the man at her side held her in the hollow of his hand, so to speak -held Dick Foul baby as well -and that he would be merciless. She had fallen silent. There was a 130.13S'—it pause that seemed an etern- ity to the woman. "Where's your husband?" She nodded in the direction of a row of ding -e- tenements, "We've gut ruome there for the time b .t. " "Take me to him!" he commanded. ant there was an expression in his eyes that brought her heart to her mouth. Did he mean to humiliate her before Diek-to include Dick in the "slating" ha meant to give them both? She wondered, distracted, what was the penalty ehtel have to pay for this thing she had done. She shivered at the thought of possible prison! Tap- per might exact to the uttermost far- thing when she recelreet how in the past she had bumbled' his vanity and ossed him aside. Her own soul had wen mirror -clear at the time, but he ad passionately characterized her e a. "flirt," "a coquette." Mechanically she turned the pram owarda their dingy lodgings. Her ompanion paced at her side in silence, t grew more than she could bear. She would beseech, implore, supplicate,. urable herself if need be, if so be he ight turn away his wrath. They paused at the shabby wicket - ate, and at that moment the baby, ith a shrill crow of "Man!" thrust ut her hand in invitation to the tranger, He covered the tiny fingers or a moment with his great brown t eyes sought his anew, mute, implor- ing, there's only one way out of °One way out?" she echoed stupid- ly. "One way outl" he reiterated. She waited, "And that is," he added, "to pre - Pare an additional lot," "If you knew" -she broke across him, clistracted-"how-how I was tempted—" Ile raised hia hand as if to stop her. Tho baby, with a crow of delight, clutched at it wildly, "Look here, let's go one better!" he pursued, ignoring her interruption. "Ffow will something like this do? "Tom Tapper, having returned un- expectedly from the Front, will eon- eribute a couple of solos and join his pupil in a duet," Maisie stared up at him, speechless, spellbound, her lovely eyes wide, her lips apart. dant understand!' he stain- mered. "And yet it's plain as daylight!" he told her the ghost of a mile flicker- ing over bis gaunt features, as he stood above her. ' "You -you don't- •youcan't mean it, Tom?" she breathed, le an awed, incredulous whisper. "I mean it right enough!" be lime. - ed her, nodding. "And now, look here, you've got to take a leeson from me before Friday if you don't mean to ' cheat the public -though, upon my , soul, I'm blessed if there's anything I can teach you! Even in the old days, you know, you could knock spots off me. Besides, when you've been look- ing death in the face daily, hourly, as I've been doing of late, you forget even how to whistle!" "Tom!" she cried. "Oh, Torn!" And a lump rose in her throat and a mist before her eyes. "Somehow" -inco- herently -"it doesn't seem as if you were quite -quite you -the old Tom!" "I'm not, my girl! Pm free to con- fess it! See here, you go out there ane chap, and you come back another." Next day flaming orange -colored handbills fluttered down in an ava- lanche on Mudbury, being scattered over the place by industrious young maidens engaged for the purpose, an- nouncing that: "Tom Tapper, the world-famous whistler, had unexpectedly returned from the Front, and would support his pupil, Maida Maughan, at the Town Ball on Friday evening," "Dick -Dick wasn't it splendid of him?"demanded Maisie, her lovely face aglow, the clapping and stamp- ing still ringing in her tingling ears, as she perched herself on the edge of her husband's couch when the thing was over. If only you could have been there! I believe Tom was as delighted as I was, Oh, and at the end -what do you th/nk? Toin'e agent was there, and offered inc a London engagement for next week. Dick, I'm made!" "Jolly decent!" agreed the man. Then, after a pause, and with a queer hiugh: "Gives me a feeling here don't C.9 Fa mg. E, .4."‘e4ya&4e The Mending 2:r gyeptional 4 ,S twuntir rAN-Met THE LATE MR. ANSON McKiel. As Seen By His Pastor. The follewing striking tribute to the late Mr. Anson McKim was re- cently given by Rev, Frederick It, Griffin, Pastor of the Church of- the Messiah, Montreal, where the deeeas- , ed worshipped for so many years and with which he was so closely identi- tied, 'Charing the responsibilities of office with his accustomed zealous care "The true wealth of a nation is its men. That nation is rich which has citizens of large and generous na- ture of gifts trained by high purpose and faithful industry, men of uner- ring rectitude and unimpeachable in- tegrity oe character. Mr, Anson Mc- Kim, whose death was announced re- cently, was such n citizen. Be came from the best stock in out' Canadian life, being endowed with those ex- ceptional abilities which enabled him to take by sheer merit a foremost place in the business life of the country, and with those dispositions and ideals which won for him such affection and honor as come to few e continued in his nature the contrasts which mark the well- rounded and balanced life. The saga- city which made him successful in large and exacting business enter- prises was no more striking than the sympathy which made him a generous supporter of scores of humanitarian interests. The strength which en- abled him to organize and develop large undertakings was not more con- spicuous than the gentleness and friendliness which endeared him tonin astonishingly wide circle of friends, young and old. A bet of the positions which he held in business life, in clubs, in the church and in public wel- fare movements would show the ver- satility of his talents and would indi- cate 10 a measure the confidence and respect in which he was held. "Ile loved music and pictures, he rejoiced in the beauties of nature, was fond of healthful spate, was a reader or good books, and delightful in the companionship of friends; he took his life work seriously, but felt that the great work of life was to you know" -he tapped his chest as spread abroad a larger and more he spoke -"of -of coals of fire!"- generouis happiness among his fellow London Answers. men. STORMY WEATHER HARD ON BABY Some Cold -Weather Suggestions. With the advent of efficient start- ing devices and such comforts as co vertible bodies, tonneau heaters, etc., the all -year-round use of the high- grade motor car has -become an almost universal practice, At this season a few suggestions may be in ceder as to the easiest and best methods of assuring the most pleasant and ef- fective winter operation. As the quality of the gasoline on the open market is continually de, creasing, it is becoming more and more important to obtain the desired warm -weather operating conditions in the motor et all times. The auto- mobile motor, equally as sensitive to the cold as the human organism should have extra covering in cold weather. An ideal warm -weather operation can be secured by having the power plant and the surrounding air under the hood kept warm, as in summer. Forunately this is com- paratively easy to accomplish, since the motor is itself constantly generat- ing heat. It ie well to use a radiator cover with an adjustable opening so as to prevent excess cooling in extreme weather. 'It is also well to see that the carburetor has a bot -air connec- `Hon to the intake manifold, so that the cold air is preheated when going into the carburetor. The newer cars are also provided with an air -choking de- vice which gives an over -rich car- buretor mixture to aid in starting and rapidly warming up the motor. With regard to the quality of gas- oline: In some localities the gas- oline commonly offered for distribution is of poorer quality than in others, but it is now almoet always possible to obtain a higher test gasoline, which, generally speaking, will prove more efficient in cold weather than a low test. In this connection bear in mind, however, that high-test gasoline does not necessarily mean better gas - "He made Montreal and Canada ohne, In some cases a very light richer through his living and has left grade of fluid known as "Casing Head them poorer by his death." Gasoline" is used, which has such a Making Sure Of It. "It's a fine morning, Mike," said the The stormy, blustery weather which squire. we have during February and March "It's a foine mornin', your honor is extremely hard on children. Con- and ladyship. An' euro, I had a foine ditions make ft necessary for the me- drams last night." ther to keep them in the house. They "What did you dream, Mike?" en - are often confined to overheated, bad- quired the lady. ly ventilated rooms and catch colds "Sure, 1 drim't his honor gave me a pound of beecy, and your ladyship which ruck their whole system. To guard against this a box of Betby's gave me a pound of tay!" "Oh," laughingly replied the squire, Own Tablets should be kept in the: house and an occasional dose given the "but you know, Mike, dreams go by baby to keep his stomach end bowels contraries." working regularly. This will not fail "Shure, then, your honor can give o breal- u Id d 1 h h me the pound of tay, and her ladyship ones. She laughed up in his f3ee. of the in d i conditon till the can give the pound of baccy.,, The next they were in at the gate and brighbaby goo the blood drummed in her ears and s in hammered on her brain. Did her h senses play her false, or was it real- w ity? The world -famed whistler- -ber d one-time lover! Impossible! Inere- diblel He was coining towards her. b Pier pulses pounded, Her eyes, emitJi - Ing from her head, stared blankly at the apparition. She went ashen white is ter days come along, The Tab - he knocker. - p the gravel path. Her hand was on lets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box from The "Stop a minute!" he commended. Dr. Williams Medicine Co„ Brockville, Iter hand dropped to her Ride, Her yes stared up at him. There was omething his face -gaunt, worn, (/heerfulness is the duty of every aggard-eyed--that arrested her. (He nation in Hine of war. Every man as like a man who has. been looking and woman who wears a cheerful face ally face to face at death.) • in time of war is performing a na. "It's too late to alter the hand- tienal duty. There is 3 n reason Why ills?" He put the question. Almost sou should not be cheerful if you have is voice seemed changed. a (leer conscience. You will have «'r* late!" ehe echoed, anti her nues began to quake l teat if you feel you have done your Herove! Ont. Y etly. • Figures Grow. Guest -Good gracious, waiter! Nine and nine makes eighteen, not nineteen/ Wieeter-Ah, but monsieur must re- member that everything has been meg- mental by the war," rn Three parts, by weight, a coand one part wheat fed twice a day inlitter, litter, together with a mash mixture of two parts meat scrap added to two ports of ground corn and one part bran, fed in self feeding hopper, fur - glebes a well balanced ration, accord - ug to the Ohio Experiment Statical, 9:C1-2013 Xlcofiza.mai c12,5f tb seEms To ME THAT- NfOOR, •ETAE EANCiNET 1-AS1'ED LATE mouoi ROW, NOW, 601. A teREAT Jol<E, l'il!,L. N OU .so DON'T' 4.5C+N-D WELL Wiled "1001:j THE JOKE- 15 (..,4 BERT' rlfelel'i 6TorOlf LETS EPaut4-'1ou KI,row vie is i4E4NZ 1-rj— 4 NAT SALESIMIJ AO He VETS OP AND -sAkb..s Hem - SIVE A NEW 44T,)b EVEv MARRIED MAN lotto CNI "TRUTHFUI-tti 1.....,_ ....— low boiling point that it cannot be handled in an ordinary carburetor, and it should be avoided. The bad effects produced on motors in' cold weather on account of low - test gasoline are difficult starting, missing fire, inefficient running for some time after the engine is start- ed, fouling of spark plugs, and some- times the presence of gasoline mixed with the oil in the base on account of condensation in the cybeiders. On this account extra care should be taken to see that the oil base is fre- quently drained and refilled with fresh oil. In wilt cold weather this should be done at least every 1,000 miles. The grade of oil to use in ddld weath- er is a medium heavy grade. To prevent freezing the water -cir- culating system we recommend simply the addition of either denatured or wood alcohol to the -water. in order to make a solution which will not freeze up to ten degrees below zero, remove two gallons of water from the circulating system, and replace 71 with two -gallons of elcohol. It met, of . course, be borne in niind that alcohol evaporates somewhat more rapidly than the water, so that in order to keep the solution at its original strength it is desirable when refilling during the winter weather to ase half water and half alcohol. Radiator Curtain for Winter. During the winter months the mot- orist will find his car much easier to start if a radiator curtain is provided. Keeping the motor reasonably hot will also add to the fuel economy. 'A convenient curtain may be construct- ed as follows: Take a strip of lum- ber a half inch thick and two inches wide, and as long as the width of the radiator. Near each end moupt a shade-rollee. bracket. Cut a certain roller to fit the brackets and fasten the curtain to it. Attach the strip near the bottom of the radiator with two small bolts. Fasten a strong coed to edge of curtain and run! through radiator and under hood and pass through a hole in the dash. Now fasten a small ring to the end of cord. To provide for different adjustments, screw several hooks into the dealt at intervals, over which the ring may be slipped. When going toward aebrisic -wind the curtain may be set to shut out most of the air. • - Make Gardens Productive, The Ontario Education Department have issued a circular to inspectors and teachers that in order to assist in meeting the shortage of foodstuffs the teachers who are giving instruc- tions in agriculture and horticulture in provincial schools should grow plants of food value in school gar- dens. Home gardens should also be enlarged for this purpose and vacant lots cultivated. Inspectors are also advised to denionstrate more fully the important beating which agricul- ture has upon the welfare of the people. It has been .estimated that if this is done the food products of Ontario would be increased by $10,000,000. Preparedness. Captaine--What arrangements have you enade 111 case Zeppelins come? N. C. 0. -If any bombs are dropped on the 'uns, sir, the camp will be rolls. ed by three blasts on a whistle, I 10. Habits at first are cobwebs and at last chains. Green cut bone is a good egg pro- ducer, nourishes the feathers and keeps hens in good health. FOR A BAD COUGH ITere ls a fine old-fashioned recipe for coughs, cOlds or catarrh trouble that has been used with great BUCC099. Get from your drug- gist I os, of Parmint (Double Strength) about 7 5ci worth and add to It i Pint of hot water and 4 ozof granulated sugar. This wtlI make full halt a pint when Mixed. Take one tablespoonful 4 times a day 140 more racking 'ponr whole body with a cough. Clogged nob- trils shoult1 open, air paesaffea Of Your head clear up so you can breathe freely. It la easy to pre - Pare, Costs little and is pleasant to take. AnyOne who hat, a stub- born cough, or hard told or catarrh in any form should give this prescription a trial. Any druggist can supply you, or a bottle will be sent on receipt o/ 75e postal nOte of, 1002103, ornet., Address internml.tonal Laborato- ries, 74 St, Antoine St., Montreal, Canada. OH ilinlwvia-1 T4kr 14E -HAS NoT KISszie, 6ki WHAT r M4' WOMAN tur NIS OWN TTSPWIFE ,SIN!3w., CE WAS Aeie 5A1.5 :61VE teE A MARRIEW, AO le• A GLP1 GETS 14/Ict 1 WAS flARRIEP W5TER DAY ' GERMANS LOSE IN - TRENCH WAIIFARE H KIND OF FIGHTING NOT SUITED TO GERMAN SOLDIER, But the Allies and Especielly Our Canadian Troops Have Been Successful. If the Sereth District in Rumania le to become like the chief eastern ,and western fronts, and trench fighting is to take the place of rapid move- ments of large bodies of troops in the open, etemest 'nark another German failure. Areteench warfare the Ger-. mans are beaten by all their enemies, but particularly, by the French and British, and most; particularly, we may say without boasting, by the Canacliunse • It was Hindenburg who 'said some time ago that the war would be lost by the side whose nerves snap- ped first. If the German nerves have not snapped upon the western front they have been sadly frayed. No- where along the 400-nille front can the German soldiers go comfortably to bed at night in the knowledge' that they can rest till morning. They are continually haeassed by exploding shells, They cannot tell at what moment there may arise out of the darkness a force of sleepless enemies, bent On their destruction, and irtter egad in taking only ono or two of them alive as prisoners. Many let. tars found ou dead Germans show that this continuous warfare that slacks neither,for darkness or storm is breaking the heatt of those who have to support it, and it is worth while rioting that it is the Germans who have to support it They are. doing no trench raiding. They are not only on the defensive as far as the western battle' Tine in general is ,concenied, but upon every section of It. Big Gains, Small Loss. The objects of trench raiding, which, upon the scale that the Canadians have hitely undertaken it, corresponds to a reconnaissance in force, aye two. There is the immediate object of kill- ing or Capt a number of the enemy, and incidentally wearing down his nerves, and the object of finding out what he is up to, how strong he is at any particular position. When it IS found out what German units are in front of any given part of the line, the strength of the line is known, and it has often happened that a minor treneh raid hardly* worth being men- tioned in offimal commumgues has de- cided whethei there should be an at- tack in force the next day:. At /east one prisoner is always brought back alive, and prisoners talk, se, that in this manner information that may prove invaluable to the Headquarters Staff is collected. Of late there have been more prisoners brought in than there have been casualties among' the British and Canadian attackers,. all the enemy killed or wounded in their trenches being "velvet." Thus the process of etftrition goes on favor- ably as far as we are concerued. Not Made For Germans. Trench warfare, through it may have been foreseen by the Germans, is warfare absolutely contrary to their genius. In masses of infantry the Germans will go against as devastat- ing a fire as any soldiers ever faced. The iron discipline enforced makes obedience a second nature, and thee- niight march shoulder to shoulder over Niagara Falls if they were ordered to do so; but cast out singly in the Niagara River, forced to SWIM for themselves, the Germans, would be rowned ten to one compared with the British, Their whole training has tended to make them mere cogs in a wheel. Now cogs in a wheel are no ehe machinery needed for trench war- fare, The men engaged in it have to do their own thinking. In the black night the attackers become separated. Each man's hand has to guard hie own heed. The fighting becomes an in- dividual venture. British peoples take kindly to it. German peoples do not. d Noe -Blooming Wax Plant. sWhen a wax plant (Hoye.) fail e to bloom stir some bonedust into ,the surfece soil, and after its growing period water sparingly, barely enough to keep the sail moist, and give a . rather Bunny situation. Weep it in this condition for six weeks or more, then begin watering and encourage renewed growth. Plants that are thus treated will mostly develop flow. or spurs, upon which the flowers will be produced at the blooming period. It ie web not to cut away these spurs, RS in doing so chances for succeeding bloom will be ruined, If the soil is very rieb stir some lime into the sur- face soil rather than bonedust. In repotting '000 at beat half sand to dimiuish the liberal growth of the blanches, and promote the develop- ment of blooming buds. aren't they?" Certi e"Telophotes are m -severs, "Web, that dopende upon who collo Youo11 l:1):" Sthings are always in ,fiethio». Among ellen are good cows, well- ' hires, and farm tools that are ' te,Itothe purpotie for which .to(la