The Brussels Post, 1907-7-25, Page 7M
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OR, A SAD LIFE STORY
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CHAPTER XXXVI,
Jim's first caro on returning to Mils.
}hotel is to ascertain that the departure
for Dammam Mira bus really laical
educe, and, having been reassured on
41118 point, retires to his own bedroom to
reconnoitre rho terrace, upon which it
glvos. The 0101 has long tlruilk up the
fain from the tiles, and the chairs have
, been sot out again. The hotel guests, in
tall the sociability of their after -luncheon
Snood, are standing and sitting about,
The widow \Vadruun, with great)lay of
1, Cyuhrov and lip, is pacing up and down
in nroh conversation with her habitual
violIlu. , Snatches of her alluring NW
reach Jim behind his muslin curtain as
she conies and goes
"I think 111at caged birds paged to be
loved 1" "'Tho prophet was a wise man,
was not tie? 110 knew- a liltlo about us,"
eta,
in her usual place, nlaof from the resp
et filo company, Elizabeth is sitting in a.
clinging while gown of some woolly
stuff. With a dainty white kerehiel
twisted about her head, and a bundle of
many -tinted. Eastern stuffs on her knees,
she looks Lilco a 111110 Romney. Now and
again, us fragments of the widow's siren
strains reach her ears, ho sues her lips
curl up into delighted laughter; but, for
the most part, she seems to bo looking
round rather uneasily, as if seeking
something or someone. Can it ho him-
self that she, in her innocence of being
observed, is on the watch for 7 Ile itas
no right to be playing the spy on her
in any case. IL 10 0,ear, that, dressed as
she is, sho cannot bo meditating going
out. Ile must not frighten her by any
too direct or sudden attentions. In a
11111.8 while the other occupants of the
terrace will drift away, and he will stroll
out and join her, and together they will
watch 1110 shade of the lacus -(roe length-
ening over the red flaw's. But she pre-
sently belles his calculations by rising,
and, with her rainbow -tinted pile of
brocades clasped in her slender arms,
slowly passes into the house. Iies site
retreated thither for good? and will he
lta'o 10 frame some flew flimsy excuse
for knocking at her door?' But again
lie is out of his reckoning, for in about a
'quarter of an hour she re -issues, dressed
Tor walking; and atter one more linger-
ing, and, as it seams 10 11111, disap-
pointed glancearound her, paces, a soli-
tary, little figure, down the hill. He lays
Ms watch before him, and having
counted five minutes on Its dial -plate,
sols off in pursuit. Ile overtakes her
fust as she reaches the point where the
lane debouches into the highroad. She
stands, looking rather disconsolately,
first up the hill, then down It, evidently
uncertain which direction to choose.
"You cannot nuance up your mind?" he
say's', pausing beside her, and laking off
his hat.
She gives a slight start, and a friendly,
pleased smile runs all over her faro and
up into her oyes—a rmile that makes
1111)1 say, to himself confidently Malt was
he whom her glance had been seeking
•on the terrace.
"',Vbuclh do you advise?"
I edviae the town,"
ile Inas long known her teachableness,
.180 11 13.110 great surprise to him that she
et once turns in the direction conselled.
"As I am going hers myself, will you
:alloy me to walk a little way with you?"
ile makes the request wen respectful
aliflidence; and site, after ono small
troubled look, evidently given to the
memory of her father, assents,
They set off down the 11111 together,
1110 air, sharp after the rain—ns sheep;
i t least, as Algiers' stingless air ower is
—bringing .. the color to Elizabeth's
.cheeks, as she steps along fight-ilearted-
ly, 500000ly refraining from breaking in -
10 a run down the steel's inolhe. tier
spirits oro so evidently rising at every
yard that 110 hazards his next step.
"1 am going to see the Arab town;
;Miss Strut says that I ought."
"Sho meant, you to ask her to show it
yot. 3" cries Elizabeth, with a -lough;.
'but site was quite right—it is delightful;
a ant sure you will like 11."
"You have been there?"
"Yes, once or twice; not hail so often"
—regretfully—"as I should like to have
been,"
Dare he spear: upon the last Innocent
hint? But while Ila is doubling she goes
ion
‘"Yogi must lake care not (0 lose your -
:self ; it is such a puzzling place; ell the
:streets aro oxadly lice each other."
"You do not feel inclined to show ole
ithc way, about It?"
iso throws out the suggestion in a
,semi -bantering voice so that if it meets
' 'lvltn obvious disapproval ho may at
•Duca w'llhdrav it. She stops suddenly.
.stec< still, and faces him,
"Are you speaking - seriously? It
would bo yery delightful but do you
ililin1 I. bright? Do yon thinks ought?"
Sho,1111s her eyes, .widely opened, like
:a child's et 'leering of some unexpected
areal, to his. flow astonishingly clear
ithcy !ret and how curiously guileless 1
'life has not the least doubt 1Ioel sho wltl
sweetlyacquiesce in his dealslon, which-
over way it lends ; and, for a second, it
movement of irrltuton with her for her
-pliability crosses his imlind. She ought
tie be ebbe to have an opinion of her own.
'.While he hesitates; she spanks again.
"1t is just the afternoon to do soma -
!thing pleasant on," she- says Wi,s(futly,
and yet gaily too, "Oh,. how good the
au' tastes:1 and how dearly f love the
:sun I" -lifting her (nee - with .sensitive
lips, hall open, as if to suck in his
beeMs, to 1110 great gold luminary pour-
ing down itis .wnrnllh through 1110: pep.
per -trees upon therm "inn 1 hili lake
your advice; I know 01 old"—with u
pr0lty (lattm'iing sn:lio--"lhnl you always
;give gond advice, " Doyou think that I
ought ---do yeti really think that fought?"
He throws 110115010)1 o to rho winds
and although not two hears ego 110 hard
professed 10 •Cecilia lits Inability to de.
cede upon 'ilio propriety or impropriety
of any given course of female action,
now answers with an almost brutal deci-
siveness
siveness :
"I do not think that there is tho small-
est doubt about it,"
A relieved look crosses her features.
Then I am sure It is all light," she
says,. with a joyful surrendering of her
judgment Into his keeping, and so, once
again, steps along with her quick feather -
light feat al his side.
Por the moment she is the happier of
the two, since he is not perfectly pleased
either with himself or her. It is in vain
that ho tells himself that It is 110 babe
whom he is beguiling; that, difficult as
11 Is to believe il, those limpid eyes have
looked at the sun for seven -and -twenty
years. Ha still has a lingering sense of
discomfort at having availed himself,
for his own profit, of her docility. And
yet, Ave minutes later, Ile takes yet fur-
ther adVanlogo of that quality in her:
They have reached the Plateau Sauller°,
and the stand of nacres that "station -
mein" there. Jing pauses.
It is a good distance to the Arab
town, 1 fancy, and very tiring- walking
when you get here."
"It is as steep as the side of n house;
we shall bo like flies on a wall," cries
she delightedly.
"11 would be a pity to be too Tired to
enjoy it before you got there, would not
11?' sayS 110 doubtfully, -aid eyeing her
bright slenderness with an air of uncer-
tainly as to her powers of endurance.
"!tad not we better—would you mind --
our driving there?"
"I am not at all tired,' replies she; "I
do not feel as If I ever should be tired
lc•day ; but if you think it better--"
Still he looks al her dubiously. To him
there appears to be a much greater de-
gree of the compromising in a tete-a-tete
drive than in a walk. In lire one case
the meeting may have been accidental;
to the other there can bo no mistake as
lo 1110 deliberate intention. But either
this does not strilce Elizabeth, or she
thinks, "In for a penny, in for a pound;''
or, lastly and most probably, having
givon.up her judgment into his keeping,
she finds it easier and most natural to
acquiesce in whatever he may propose.
• The ungenerous thought flashes across
him that if this is the principle on'which
sho has guided her life, it is,small: won-
der if she have made sl3�pwreck of it.
Ela hails 01 nacre, and silently stands her
in, and again they are off.
Elizabeth has disolainled fatigue, and
yet the restful position is evidently
agreeable to her delicate body : aid she
thanks stint so gratefully for his thought
of her that his hard thoughts of her dis-
solve into -remorse, and by-and-by
change into an enjoyment almost as en-
tire and uncalculating as her own.
Elizabeth has astonishing powers of
enjoying herself. If he had not known
that fact before, the afternoon would
have revealed It to folio.
Sho must have driven through the
Trench town almost every day since her
arrival, and yet its cheerful white -shut-
tered houses, its boulevards of glossy -
leaved Ileus -trees, its cafes,. its arcaded
streets with their polyglot promenaders,
seem to 1311 her wild us lively a pleasure
EIS if she had but just landed from the
steamboat that brought her.
• The throe Spahis, eternally silting in
a row on a bench outside some general
oflloor's quarters, robed in their great
red cloaks, with muslin -swathed swart
heads and long red -leather boots, dimly
descried beneath the stalely sweep or
11)011'-tttantes, silting there motionless,
solemn and -silent as -tic rules; a ven-
erable Arab, only to be distinguished
from Abraham or Isaac by his carrying
a vulgar brown umbrella ; .a short Ka-
byte seen in back' vie -v, with Ills rope. -
bound head-dress, its brown -and -while
striped frock, and Ills ba'o red legs,
striding along, looking exactly like a
ludicrous and indelicate old woman ; a
Biskrali water -carrier, poising a great'
burnished copper pot on his shoulder;
two title baggy-irousererl white ladies -
waddling along; a dozen of smart blue
Turoos. She is enraptured with them
-
alt -
They loavq their [Move in 010 Place do
1s Callledralo, and enter upon the mys-
terious recesses of the Arab town. Up
and down endless Nights of steps, up
street after street -11 streets they can be
called, that are not wider than a yard in
their widest part—and above their steads
We rafter -supported houses lean to-
gether, letting scarp -a glint' of daylight
drop down upon tie dusky path far be-
low. .
They pass arched doorways, with
pretty designs In plaster --doorways
whose doors open inwards upon mys-
terious inlorlors—house or court., or
mosque or Marabe. All along stand tiny
shops, lii10 wild -beast dens, as far as
light and space go, 111, only by the tem-
pered ]iglu -in reality, only semi-dark-
nessrjhat enters in front. Flow can
they sea to works -plait 'straws for 111-
slnnce7 as the auto coon -black llogrecs
aye doing, upon whom they stare in,
°squat -upon sho ground. The turbans,
and the red sashes, end the burnoliss
glimmer out of the little dim frontages,
8011810 cha'm'.ng pierced -brass Moorish
lamps hang and swing aloft; and tempt-
ing piles of dully splendid brocades and
bright, gold 1uminaled gauzes glean
from the crowded shelves.
The narrow su'soliets-.080 full of un -
busy, y g ,
un -hurrying Easterns hideous old
nogresses grinning like Monkeys, Idle
Arabs sauntering along in their lazy
grace, droned like Greek statues, saun-
tering along between the blue -washed
walls, that loolc in then' effective var'l0-
ton upon the blinding \bhltewash as if
501110 of MO slky-color had rubbedOff
upon thele.
Tilt . and Elizabeth have patleed, In
their leisurely strolling and staring, lo
look front 1110' straight shadowed alley
in which they are Standing up 11 ions
Might of steps to a low carved doorway,
and a bit of starch -blue wall at the top.
Mown the steels IlIght a veiled, trousered
woman Is waddling, her immense panto.
loons waddling awkwardly as she de-
scends,
s
.
Elizabeth stands still, shaldng with
laughter at the sight, JIm laughs too.
"rhoro is no expense spared In antler'
1'1) (lore, is Blore? iL would not be a-
bad dress for a Laney boll, Did you over
go to a fancy ball ss a Moorish lady?"
Iter laughter lessons, though her face
Ls still alight wf111 mirth.
"1 110ver Wiles at a fancy ball,"
"Never ?"
"Never; I never was at a ball in my
life."
Her laughter is quits dead now,
"Never at any bull in your life 1" Te -
peals he, his surprise betraying hint into
one of Mose flights back into the past
for which sho has always showed such
repugnance. "Why, you used to love
dancing madly I remember your danc-
ing like h dervish. What Is more, I re-
member dancing with you."
"011, do not remember anything to-
day 1" cries she, with a sort of writhe in
iter voice; "do not let either of us re-
member anything I Let us have a whole
holiday from remembering I"
So saying, she moves on quickly; and
yet With the dance gene out of her feel.
It never quite con1es baric. They look
into an Arab club, where men are squat-
ting, playing with odd-looking cards and
drinlring muddy coffee. Then a loud
noise of jabbering 'young voices makes
them peep in upon an. Arab school,
where a circle of 11111e Moslems is sit-
ting on the ground, scribbling Arabic on
slates ; while between the knees of the
turbaned Master a -tiny baby scholar, of
three or four, Is standing in a lovely dull
sheen coaliet. Elizabeth strokes tho
baby -learner's coppery cheek with her
light hand, and says with a laugh, .1h01
it seems odd to see little street boys
writing Arabic ; but her laughter Is no
longer the bubbling, irrepressible joy -
drunk thing It was before he lead in-
dulged in his tactless reminiscences ; it
is 1(30 well-bred, civil, grown-up sound
that so often hes no inside gladness to
10101011 it. In his vexation with himself
kw the clouding over of his little heaven
that he himself has effected, ho tries to
persuade himself that it is caused by
bodily fatigue.
"If I were asked," ile says, by-and-by,
looking down affectionately at her pallid
profile, "I should say that you had had
about enough of this; your spiril"-
smiling—"Is so very much too bigfor
ye r body that one has to keep an eye
upon you."
It would not be touch Of a spirit 1f It
were not," replies she, with a pretty air
of perfectly sincere disparagement of her
own slight proportions ; "1 know that I
look a poor .thing, Incl I em rather a
fraud I do not tiro easily; I am not
tired now."
"Bored, then?" with a slight accent of
pique. ,
She lifts her sweet look, with a sort
of hurry of denial unit. .
"Most distinctly not." •
"Y0u would l,.ce to go on, then?"
"Yes."
"Or back?
She hesitates, her eyes exploring his
with, as he feels, a genuine anxiety in
it to discover what his own wishes are,
so that her decision may jump with
them.
Yes—perhaps; I have really no
choice."
EIo 110111 looks at her and speaks to
her with a streak of exasperation.
"D0 you never have a will -a prefer -
00100 01 your Own ?"
It is evidently no unfamiliar thing to
iter to be addressed with causeless irri-
tability. The recollection of her father's
lone in speaking le her flashes back re-
morsefully upon Jim's fllOmOry. Is he
himself going to lake a leaf out of that
book ? It would be a relief to hhn were
silo to answer hint sharply ; but to do
that is apparently not within iher capa-
bilities, though the tender red that tinges
her cheek shows that .she Inas felt his
snub.
In this case I really have not," she
answers gently ; "but I dare say, that it
was lh'e Ofile of me not to speilk more
decidedly ; let us—let us"—another
swift and •
apparently quite involuntary
glance et hien - to see that she is 1101,
after all, running counter to its irlclinn,.
tions—"let us go home!"
So theygo home. -11is near sunset -
ling as they drive along the Boulevard
de la Republique, the filling end to `soy
princely a day. AL the quay 111e moored -
vessels lie, their masts - and spars making.
a. dark design against an ineffable even-
ing sky. of mother -of -peal and trans-
lucent, pink. The sea, which to -day has
not been of sapphire, but. of watchet-
blue," pierced and shot will, While, now
copies exnclly the heavens. 3t, loo,
shades from opal to translucent p11111.
!low many changes of raiment !hero are
in the wardrobe of the groat wet
mother 1 -
(To be continued).
ASLEEP F011 A YEAR.
In the French hamniet, of Rccouies, not
far from Rodez, there is a girl of fifteen
who has loin in an unbroken sleep from
Jame 1 of last year. She is tine daughter
of a farmer the eldest of four children,
who all enjoyed good hesllll until the
si..rhng of 11107, When the eldest develop-
ed„ stomach troubles which necessitat-
ed tier being !kept In bed, end she tools
less ` and less » ourbshment, until on
June 1 she fell into a sleep, from which;
she has never' awoke. Iter case has
been studied by seven doctors.
IL doesn't nccessaruyfollow that a
tan; is any good just because he's es
good as his word.
C'ifNTINUE
ThOege Who are gaining fleeh
and estrength by regular treat.
mens with
Scott's Emulsion
ehe Id Continue thetreatment
oa�nd0li ti c000lm'n sin -taller Itwi (
do aaWay .With any objection
Which(e attached to ratty pro-.
ducts during the hoat0d
season.
Send lar tree sample,
SCOTT dt BOWNE, Chemists,
Tonto,Ontario,
Soo, end $,,00 1 all drogg;ets.
ONTHEFi
UPII'O-DATE DMIhYLNG,
Clean Mincers and 010011 Milking,—
The stable should be provided with
brushes readily attached to the milling
stools or accompanying them, The
milkers should bo encouraged to use
these brushes before 01i11c1Ad and 1f su011
milkers are naturally cleanly, they
should also bo encouraged to dampen
111(1 udders before beginning to milk,
If tho milkers are not naturally order-
ly, systematic and cleanly, discharge
them and either get .clean mi1111)18 or
quit the business. IL is impossible to
make a filthy mat clean by any set of
rules or by any amount of possible sup-
ervision, "'Though thou shouldest bray
a f001 In a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness de-
part from ilim."
Tito milk Is received in pails washed
in this way. They aro first rinsed off tit
tepid water; then wash in water 1,00 !tot
for the hand and containing some clean -
song powder or sal soda, the washing
being done by brushes rather than
cloths. They are then rinsed with boil-
ing water and steamed 11 possible, other-
wise taken from the rinsing water, the
loose drops shaken off and allowed to
dry without wiping.
Pilo milk is strained through two or
three thicknesses of cheese cloth which
pieces are washed and scalded or bo(t-
en between successive hours of milk-
ing.
After straining, the milk is either aer-
ated, cooled and sent to 1110 factory or
IL is rule through the separator.
Use of Hand. Separator.—The stand
separator bids fair to revolutionize the
deity industry. 13,, the use of this la-
bor and butter savor, the farmer can
lake practically all of the fat from the
milk •and can do 1t at the tinge of milk-
ing white tine milk is warm. The skim -
milk is then ready for the calves or
pigs.
Who then will buy a separator? Ile
that has four or more cows and w01115
l' make all the butter possible from
them at 1110 least cost.
\Vhy shall he buy? Because the.
amount of fat a separator saves over the
cold deep setting will not only pay the
interest on the first cost of the machine
tut will actually pay for the machine In
a few years, if the number of cows is
large enough to warrant. Because, loo,
the 5lci1lu1ilk is not taken Into the house
at al), but Is ted warns to 1110 young
011811,
Again, if the cream .is delivered Io a
creamery to be n'(ade Into yatler; the
inllk does n t have l
n v0 tob a hauled t0 the
factory and buck again 7t Is kept sop.
orasuurte,ing. uncontaminated with rskimrn'illc
from 011ier courses and is fed before
An examinolk)n of the records of pigs
officially oondenmed as tuberenious et
the Chicago stock yards shows 11101 the
great bulk of lulx'rculcus logs conte
from the dairy districts and undoubted.
ly got, the disease from drinking unpas-
teurized skimmilk returned from the
factory. By separating the milk at 1 01110
the cow owner avoids this source of
infeotlon for his young 010011,
\Vhat Sort of Separator Shall Cow
Owners I3uy7—The one tliut will skim
the largest amount of milk the clean-
est in a given time with the least force
to run it, Separators vary widely 'n
eapaclly, Some of the hand machines
will separate only 250 pounds and hour,
while others will run. through 'ully
eight hundred pounds. 011ier things
being equal the larger machines are the
more economical.
Separating milk is a slow job tat best.
It tastes from one to 'two hours a day
and this multiplied by the number of
clay's -in the year grows to a very per-
ceptible stare of the working time of the
11005011.
Again It takes no longer to wash and
rare far a large machine than a small
Que. Finally no one should intend to
remain a dairyman with two or three
COWS. 111,5 ambition ought to be to in-
crease the -size of his herd until he is
carrying all 1110 cows his farm can
support. The large machine will not
have to be exchanged when the num-
her of cows increases. The separator
should have Capacity, skim clears, be dur-
able, simple in construction, easily
cleaned and easy of separation,
Separators' Location is Important --
The care of the separator is not a hard
problem if the location Is right, the
foundation good and the essentials hi
the way of accessories are convenient,
One thing required is pure air, A
COW stable will not do, because tile air
cannot be kept pure, Although it 15
handy to have the separator right there
so you can pour the milk from the pail
into which 11 is drawn, through a
strainer at the top of Ihe-separator
can, still such n practice is rightly for-
bidden in the stable itself. The separa-
101 must be placed where the air is al-
ways pure.
The room where the separator is must
be free from dust, hence the woodshed is
forbidden unless a part of it be part[
ironed off and well floored 00 ,bias it can
be Rept clean and sweet,-
'. floor FSeparator
' t 1 0l a
Ili 1 0 !h oom had
bettor be made of conrele slneo milk is
board to be Skipped 0001'ti some time
and must be washed up with abundance
of water, This. demands a tight, sound
floor and good drainage. A cement floor
is slippery and cold, but it can be !kept
much sweeter than a wooden Ileor,
The 800111 must be arranged to ex-
clude flies. The separator must bo kept
spotlessly clean, and this cannot be' done
in a room to which flies are admitted,.
Screens to windows and doors are neces-
sary', with an occasional use of insect
powder W trill off such flies as stout in
with the Milkers.
The <room ought l0 bo where It can
be kept cool and yet where the, sunlight
can have free range to kill the bacteria.
11 Is not to be understood that the sep-
arator is lo be set oft into a world of its
own where nothing but pure milk enters
and only angels can attend it. It is
iquile possible to build a room as an in-
tegral pact of the barn itself, or as part
of 1110 house, where all the, requirements
are fully met. Pura air, !rept pure, free
f:gm dust and fairly cool with sunlight,
aro the essentials.
i%1OB13ED.
Sunday School Teacher -'-"What does
this verse mean whore it says: 'And
the lot fell upon Jonah'?"
Bright Boy—"I guess it means the
whole gang jumped on 11110,"
—4
IGNORANCE,
Iiorold—"W'dl, Johnny, how do. YOU
like your new teacher,
Johnny—"Not much. She don't know
allyihmg, Today she asked me who
discovered ' America."
THE ONLY -WAY.
"Tell me," said 1110 lovelorn youth,
"what is the hest way to and out what
a woman thinks of you?"
"Marry here" replied Peckham,
promptly.
— —• —'--
THE PARTING GUEST.
"Yes, sir," said the man in Cell 711,
"tine was when I was admitted to the
very best houses."
"And what brought you here?"
"'They caught me coating out!"
AVOID DANGER,
Mother (10'fulure son-in-law)—"I may
tell you that, though my daughter is
well educated, she cannot icon! "
Future Son-in-law — "That doesn't
matter touch, so long es she doesn't
try."
m, •
'k
-•-:may e
hiOetty Forgot to be Ze.onel
t�- 0, BETTY didn't mind being call -
1 - ed "old-fashioned." Of course.
111 VVV sho was "old-fashioned." Aunt
Jana told her so every day, so it must
be true, although Aunt Jane did say
people were "odd" mostly when they
didn't do things her way. You know
they say you're "old-fashioned" when
you 000 things that other people can't
see, when you dream such beautiful
dreams, and whets you splay nice games
with what Aunt 7ano would call the
People of your imagination—though to
you they're real girls and boys, just the
same.
Oh, It's "nice to bo "old-fashioned," es-
pecially when you lh'o in a big farm-
house, with the nearest neighbor n mile
away. It keeps you from growing lone -
1y.
But, in spite of all your imagination,
sometimes you get a wee bit lonesome.
At least Betty did, until sho found her
Other Self, Let me tell' you how this
'same about.
Betty liked rainy days. Sounds funny,
doesn't It? Not that she didn't enjoy
being out-of-doors, but next to swaying
In the branches of her favorite tree In
the orchard, she liked to bo up In the
big, roomy attic, listening to the rain-
drops pattering on the roof. Somehow It
made her feel sort of sad—and you know
it's nice to feel that way sometimes.
'Tisn't that you're altogether sect, for
your heart gives such a' funny throb
when you look around the shadowy
nooks that 11 makes you feel almost hap-
py and yet a itttlo bit afraid, as though
sorilo strange person you would ItJco to
see were near, yet you were afraid to
meet her.
ANOTHER BETTY • *..1.4.,
It was just such a day when Betty
made the acquaintance of her Other.
Self. Many and many a time she had
climbed the narrow stairs to the attic.
Sooften had she rummaged through the
old trunks and furnitoro that she could
have named everything there. That M.
almost everything, for near the window
there was one great chest, Inside of
which she had never peeped. The blg,,
rusty lock seemed to mock her when.
ever she tugged at it — sometimes so
strongly that she felt sure It must give
Way,'
You may know how surprised she wao
When, upon giving dt a jerk this time,
the lock gave way with such sudden-
ness- that she fell back into the old
cradle. But st11l more surprised was
she when she raised tho 111, She found
treasures without number. There were
handsome dresses all made 111queer
fashions. Trying one 'of those on, sho'.
found that It just tit, Somehow, It
seemed to feel more comfortable than)
her own, bet perhaps that was because
she, likethe Comm, wao "old -lash-,;
toned."
Eagerly she now went on` with her
Search. Soon she came upon.. an old
leather -covered. diary. Opening it, she
started on finding her own name on
the flyleaf.
Bettye heart beat nulekly'as she eat
Sown in her grandfather's armchair and
began to rend the curious old diary,.
Beading from the, very beginning, sho
saw this entry;
May n, 1710.—Aunt Prlsrilla Bays it
!s wicked for me to keep anything se-
cret front her, Bo It o, d th • diary
is wicked, I A nilst 058 Uncle this
de m ' think es
If 1 It bo . 110010 of n of t
nine's soli. 5111011 beautiful tlltb,0p 5 comp
totheta
me that k must write delve,
Last time whelp T wee ropintu 11)
chords, I tbhl0ht tlli,t the Rifnistefallu
the people grow wings and flow awns,....
It Was splendid, only 7 didn't se along'
with them. - But when 0 Wrote about
the dream in my other diary, Aunt
llsrl/4111e said It was ;non:memo Arno not
at ter # :dlarl'. andzatlat It was wicked
to dream in church. 1 wrote about duty
and obedience in my other diary today,
and Aunt Priscilla was so pleased that
I almost owned up about this Thought
and -Dream Diary. But I cannot write
100e and obedience forever, and I must
Write about my dreams. I do Seal so
wicked. Tomorrow I wear my now lav-
ender bonnet for the arst time. Mary
will want 0010 086 1t as soon as she sees
It."
Betty was in raptures. 'Why, - this
Betty was "ofd-fashloned," just like
herself. Iiow nice it Nasi "Aunt Prls-
cilia," she feit sure, must be like Aunt
Jane, too.
Never after this did Betty feel lonely, '
'Whenever she wished sho could live the
life of the other 'Betty. Putting on the
quaint dresses, she could easily Imagine
herself going through all that the other
Betty ' told 'of in her Thought and
Dream Diary. Indeed, she grew so that
she sometimes forgot which 13etty sho
really was, and, as Aunt Jane said,
grew more "old'fashlonod" than ever.'
But what did that matter? Aunt Pres•
cilia had most likely often said the same.
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uGII%rilla i
WkyoofloUpooCscheischcs esookht
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FOLKS
400-004* CYO
WHAT TWO BOYS DID.
'1'lie taller: boy leaned on the fonote.
"My, but this is great!" he said.
Rupert looked up from the corn Ito was
hoeing, "What's great?" Ise asked.
"Why, all those fields and orchards,
lite ale, everything," answered the other,
Now to Rupertthe air he had brea4hotl
and the fields and the =herds he Eta',((
looked at all itis life did not seem won'
dorful at all ; in fast, ho felt puzzled
that this boy visitor at sho next farm
should think them so.
"But you live in the city, Joe," he
Urged, "whore there's so suuch to see;
I thought you would tend it dull out here
in the country."
"Live in the city? Yes," scoffed 7011,
"I guess you wouldn't think it Was so
(lila if you had to levo where` the houses
dere so close you could hardly got it
breath of air, and there was hardly a
tree or a bit of grass lo see. 'That's the
way 11 Is 111 the part of the city where I
live. Why, I know lots of boys who
never saw -the country in their lives,"
"They never did?" And Rupert looked
around with a feeling of amazement that
all these things should not be familiar
to every one.
"No," answered Joe, "they'd just jump
51 my chance of slaying at Cousin John's
for a month. There was Pete Warner,
right near me, all the real grass an' trees
he ever saw was out in the park, an'
there were signs all along the wanes,
'ibeep off the grass,' so you didn't darn
to stop on 11 to 'see hots soft it was. My,
but Pete did want to come Svlth me, an'
I wish he could, for he's been sick with
a fever an' the doctor says what he needs
now is good fresh air." -
"Can't he come, now?" asked Rupert,
quickly. "If your cousin's folks can't
keep him I know my mother would let
hurt slay at our house. I was sick once
an' 1 tell you I know what its like!"
"011, the staying part is ail right. I
was telling Cousin John's wife about
Pete and she said he might come there.
BM the trouble is the fare. You sea his
father is dead, and this mother had close
tines getting along before Pete was sick,
so now with the doctor's bill and all and
he not able to work yet, I know Pete
won't fool that he can afford the Looney ;
in fact, he said so when he told me what
the doctor said."
"it's too bad," and Rupert took a
deeper breath of air he had hardly" val-
ued before. "But, say, Joe, is your tlsh-
ing tackle ready for us to try the lake
to -morrow 7" and the talk turned to
plannieg for the good times they would.
have.
For all this, Rupert did not forget what
Soo had told him, and the palesickboy
-
teed,' who .had been up and down the
World many times in the interval,' met
the prince on the Strand Boulevard at
Copenhagen. The greeting of the two
friends was an affectionate one.
"Come and lunch with me. My wife
and d will be alone. - And bring that
envelope. You shall hear the explana-
tion of the riddle."
When Princess- Maud had retired, and
the two men were snlolctng their cigars
and drinking their coffee, Prince Carl
asked Iierdebred to open
THE FATEFUL ENVELOPE.
"You will never know the torment
that those words of the Malaga palmist
have caused me. Fortunately they were
all rubbish. Read for yourself."
Ederd•ebred read:
"You wild have a. throne; you will •
change your name without changing
yo10ngu0ge."
"urYou can now undet'siand why 1 was
so upset," said the prince, "by a pro-
phecy made to me, a mere lad, far from
my country, by a woman who had nol
the slightest idea who I was.
"You know how f love my brother.
No one in the world is dearer to me.
Just thick, his death alone could cause
the fulfilment of the prophecy. For ten
years, every time my brother Christian •
was ailing, I was a prey to unspeakable
anguish. Tile words of the fortune:
teller would recur•to me, and the Imago .
of my dead brother rise up before toe,.
IL was a ten years' nightmare,
"At length, when my brother married;
my fears began to bedissipated, and
now that a son and heir (the little Prince
Frederick) is born to him I can laugh
at tine Iles of Dotia Dolores de Isla."
Five years later, on. Nov, 13, 1006,
Prince Carl of Denmark became Iiaa•
ken VII. of Norway, changing his name
Without changing his language)
A
—301
GUILD SLAVES IN ENGLAND. -
'i'ols of Six find Some of Four Employs
ed in- Lace Industry.
"It is said that children In Notting.
ham start lace work at 4 years of age,
and I myself have seen v0 -year-old chit.
dren at work," said Miss Squire, an in -
specter of factories, 111 giving evidence
before the House of Commons commit.
lea which Is investigating the question
of home \work, - -
"It Is quilo a 1011711031 thing at the
dinner hour to see children busy at
1,<4ne with lacework," she Centbiued.
"11003' do not even Walt to lake off their
hats or Jackets before beginning.
are given something to ea on t way,
back to school, -
"They also work in the evening,
sometimes with thele mothers end'some-
t:meS- 31) neighbors' houses, Children
it; years old are found earning several
shillings a wade,
"111 the Birminghann metal trade chil-
dren aro also ocnployed 'sorting out
sn1all articles. In, the past they were
largely ornployed In the matchbox
t: ado, and they still make boxes for all
leeks and other small things."
Dealing Wltll 1110 very lore price' paid
foe ilomd Work, Miss Squire said ono
case which came under her notice was
that of a widow with two children, 'This
woman made shirts at WO, a dozen,.
and she had to provide her own cot-
ton, a hd. reel being used in making
three dozen shirts. 11er earnings
varied troll Os. to 88. a week.
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A small boy regards work as n
Means of keeping gt`oWo4vp peoplo out
of mischief,