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The Brussels Post, 1912-6-13, Page 2ONLY A MON TH OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER V.—(Continued), "1 camp to ask you, sir," said Frithiof, his heart beating quickly, though he spoke with his usual di- rectness. "I came to ask your eon - sent to my betrothal with your (laugh ter ?" "With my daughter!" exclaimed Mr. Morgan. "Betrothal! What, in Heaven's name, can you be thinking of 1" "I do not, of course, mean that there was a definite engagement be- tween us," said Frithiof, speaking all the more steadily because of this repulse. "Of course we could not have thought of that until we had asked your consent. We agreed that I shottid come over this au- tumn and speak to you about it; nothing passed at Balhalnz but just the assurance that we loved each other." "Loved each other!" ejaculated Mr. Morgan, beginning to pace the room with a look of perplexity and annoyance. "What folly will the girl commit next?" At this Frithiof also rose to his feet, the angry color rising to his face. "I should never have ,woken of my love to your daughter had I net been in aposition to support her," he said hotly. "By your English standards I may not, per- haps, be very rich, but our firm is one of the leading firms in Bergen. We come of a geod old Norwegian family. Why should it be a folly for your daughter to love me?" "You misunderstand me," said Mr. Morgan. "I don't wish to say one word against yourself. How- ever, as you have alluded to the matter, I` must tell you plainly that I expect my daughter to make a very different marriage. Money I can provide her with. Her husband will supply leer with a title." "What!" cried Frithiof, furious- ly, "you wi11 force her to marry some wretched aristocrat whom she ean't possibly love? For the sake of a mere title you will ruin her happiness." "T shall certainly do nothing of the kind," said the Englishman with It touch of dignity. "Sit down, Herr Feick, and listen to me. I would have spared you this had it been possible. You are very young, and you have taken things for granted too much. You believed that the first pretty girl that flirted with you was your future wife. I can quite fancy that Blanche was well pleased to have you dancing attendance on her in Norway, but it was on her part nothing but a flirtation ; she doesn't care fer you in the least." "I do not believe it," said Fri- thioff, hotly. "Don't think that I wish to ex- cuse her," said Mr. Morgan. "She is very much -to be blamed. But she is pretty and winsome, she knows her own power, and it pleases her to use ib: women are all of them vain and selfish. What clo they care for the suffering they cause?" "You shall not say such things of c her," cried Frithiof. desperately. "Tt is not true. It can't be true!" Iris face had grown deathly pale, and he was trembling with excite- ment. Mr. Morgan felt sorry for I him. "My poor fellow," he said kindly, "don't take it so hard. You are 6 not the first man who has been de- ceived. I am heartily sorry that my child's foolish thoughtlessness should have given you this to bear. 1 But after all, it's a lesson every one has to learn ; you were inexper- ienced and young." "It is not pors,ible 1" repeated Frithiof, in terrible agitation, re- membering vividly her promises, her wards of love, her kisses, the expression of her eyes, as she bad yielded to his eager declaration of love. I will never believe it pos- sible till I hear it from her own lips:" With a gesture of annoyance, Mr. Morgan crossed the the bell. "Well, let ho said, coldly, treated you i11; I for a moment, and right to hoar the o herself," Then, as peered, "Tell Miss room and rang it be so, then," "Blanche has don't doubt it you have every xpianation from the servant ap- Morgan that I want her in the drawing -room. De- sire her to come at once." The minutes of waiting which fol- lowed were the worst Frithiof had ever lived through, Doubt, fear, indignation, - and passionate love strove together in his heart, while mingled with all was the oppressive conseiousness of his host's presence, and of the aggressive superiority of the room and its contents. Perhaps the waiting was nob alto- gether pleasant to Mr. Morgan; he poked the fire and moved about 11 restlessly. When, at Iast, light 'footsteps were heard on the stairs, and Blanche entered the room., he turned toward her with evident alis - pleasure in his face. She wore a dress of reddish brown with a great deal of plush about it, and something in the way it was made suggested the greatest • possible contrast to the little sim- plc travelling -dress she had worn in Norway. Her eyes were bright land eager, her loveliness as great as ever. "You wanted me, papal" she be- gan; then, as she came forward and recognized Frithiof, she gave a little start of dismay and the color burned in her cheeks. "Yes, I wanted you," said Mr. Morgan, gravely. "Herr Felek's son Inas just arrived.""I am very glad to see you again," she said, forcing up a little artificial laugh and holding out her hand. But. Frithiof had seen her first ex- pression of dismay and it had turn- ed him into ice; he would not take her proffered hand, but only bowed formally, There was a painful sil- ence. "This is not the first time, Blanche, that you have Learned what comes of playing with edged tools," said Mi'. Morgan, sternly "I heard from others that you had flirted with Herr Falek's son. in Norway; I now Iearn :that it was by your own suggestion that he came to England to ask my consent to an engagement, and that you allowed him to believe that you loved him. What have you to say for yourself?" While her father spoke, Blanche stood by with bent head and down- cast eyes; at this direct question she looked up for a moment. "I thought I did care for him just at the time," she faltered. "It— it was a mistake," "Why, then, did you not write and tell him so? It was the Ieast you could -have done," said her fa- ther. "'It was such a difficult letter to write," she faltered. "I kept on putting it off, and hoping that he, too, would find out his mistake. And then sometimes I thought I ould explain it all better to him if ie came." Frithiof made a step or two for- ward; his face was pale and rigid; he blue seemed to have died out f his eyes; they looked like steel. 'I wait for your explanation," he said, in a voice which, ifs spits of its rimless, betrayed intense agita- ion• Mr. Morgan, without a word, quitted the room, and the two were eft alone. Again there was a long, oppressive silence. Then, with a sob, Blanche turned away, sinking own on an ottoman and covering her face with her hands. Her tears intently melted Frithiof:; his in- ignation and wounded pride gave lace to love and tenderness; a orb of wild hope roee in his mind. "Blanche! Blanche!" he cried. 'It isn't true! It can't be all over! thers have been urging you to oke some grand marriage—to be he wife perhaps of soma rich nobie- an. But he can not love you as I love you. Ohl have you for- ctten how you told me I might rust to you? There is not a mom- nt since then that you have not een in msethoughts." "I hoped so yeti would forget," he sobbed. "How could I forget? Wham man ould help remembering you day rid night? Ohl Blanche, don't you ndeestand that I love you 1 I love 00 I" "1 understand only too well," she aid, glancing ab him, her dark eyes rimming over with tears, He drew nearer. "And you will love me ones mare," he said, pessionaitely, "You ill not choose rank and wealth; 011. will—" "Oh, hush, hush!" she cried. "It as all been e dreadful mistake, 1 ever really loved you. Oh, don't ok like that) I was very dull in orway; there was no one else hilt ou. I am sorry, very sorry." He started hack front her as if AG 1104 cleait him Sema mortal ow, but Blanche went en, speak - g quickly and incoherently, never eking 111 his facer. Are you one of those to whom every; meat is another source of suftering ? Na.ia'u-Co bytipepsiaTablet<s will help your disordered stomach to digest any reasonable meals, and will soon restore it to such perfect core Mien that you'll never feel that you have a stomach. Take olio efter each meal. 50e. a Box at your u 15r ggists. Made by the National brag and Chemical Co, of Canada, Ltmted. 160 d p 0 O m m g 0 b c a u y b w 11 n to N y el b] in to "After we went away I began see all the difficulties so plainly our belonging to different ceuntr and being accustomed to differe things; hub shill 1 did really think liked you till we got to Christian There, en the steamer coming hom I found that it had all been a m take." She paused. All this time shell aarefuliy kept the fingers of h left hand out of view ; the positi was too constrained not to attra Frithiof's notice. He remembered that, in the wea ing of betrothal or wedding ring English custom reversed the No wegian, and turned upon her a most fiercely. "Why do you try to hide th from me?" he cried. "Are you a ready betrothed to this oth man ?" "It was only last Sunday," sl sobbed. "And I meant to write you; I did, indeed." Once more she covered her fa with her hands, this time not a tempting to hide from Frithiof tl beautiful circlet of brilliants on he third finger. It seemed to him that gia hands seized on hien then, an crushed out of him his very life. Y the pain of living went on renters lessly, and as if from a very grea distance he heard Blanche's voic "I am engaged to Lord Rom aux." she said. "He hacl beets i Norway on a fishing -tour, but it wa on the steamer that we first me And then almost directly I kno that at Munkeggen it had all bee quite a mistake, and that I had never really loved you. Wo me again at one of the watering places in September; but it wa only settled the day before yester clay. I wish—oh, how I wish—tha I had written to tell you!" She stood up impulsively an drew nearer to him, "is there nothing I eau do t make up far my mistake 1" she said lifting pathetic eyes to his. "Nothing," he said, bitterly. "Olt, don't think badly of enc fo it," she !headed, "Don't liat me." "Hate yon !" he exclaimed. "I will he the curse of my life that love yon—that you have made in love you." He turned as though to go away "Don't go without saying good bye," she exclaimed; and her eye said more plainly than words, "I do not mind if you kiss me just once more." He paused, ice one minute, fire the next, yet through it all aware that his conscience was urging him to go without 'delay. • Blanche watched him tremulous- ly; she drew yet nearer. "Could we not still be friends?" she said, with a pathetic little qui- ver in her voice. "No," he cried, vehemently, yet with a certain dignity in his man- ner; "no, we could not." Then, before Blanche could re - over enough from her sense of hn- miliation at this rebuff to speak, he owed to her and left the room. She threw herself down on the ofa and buried her face in the ushions. "Oh, what must he think of me ? what must he think of el" she sobbed'. "How I wish I ad written to him at once and saved myself this dreadful scene! How could I have been so silly! so readfully silly ! To be afraid of rising a few words in a letter ! y poor Viking! he looked so grand he turned away. I wish we could ave been friends ati11;•it used to e so pleasant in Norway; he was unlike other people; he inter- sted me. And now it is all over, nd I shall never be able to meet im again. Oh, I have managed ery badly. If I had not been so prudent on Munkeggen he might ave been my cavalier all his life, nd I should have liked to show him. ver her to people. I should have ked to initiate him in everything." The deck on the mantel -piece ruck five. She started up and ran foss to one of the mirrors, looking nxiousiy at her eyes. "Oh, dear i, dear! what shall I do?" she nought. "AIgernon will be here redly, and I have made a perfect ijoct of myself with crying." hen, as the door bell -rang, she tight up a couvrotte, sunk down the sofa, and covered herself up iotul'esquely. "There is nothing r it but a bac! headache," she said herself. (To be continued). c b s c m d h w b1 as b b• so a e v im h a 0 li st ac of t1 di of ca on P fo to OLD INNS AT ST. ALBANS. St. Albans, which claims the old- est inhabited house in England, now an inn, is rich in old hostelries. The Peahen there dates hack to the 16th century, though the present building is modern, save for some old woodwork in the coffee room. The Priory, too, in Holywell Hill, was once the Bull Inn, and as sueli was visited by Queen Elisabeth; while off the High Street is tho George Inn, dating from 1448, which at ono time had its private chapel far the lite of its guests. -- London Chronicle. "Mamma," said little Ethel, with a discouraged look on her Mee. "I ain't going to - school any more," Why, ray dearie, "what's the matter?" the mother gently ani - 'attired. 'Canso it ain't no use at all: I roan never learn to apelI. The teacher keeps changing the ( words on me all the time." 0 lellesaveltelleeleaseeeseleelteseeseOle al On the Farm WHY BA1) EGGS? During the warn, weather the are many bad eggs placed on t market, - Those bad eggs may b dirty, incubated, shrunken or hel rotten or moldy . and bad flavoree Solna of the causes of dirty egg are unsanitary conditions about th poultry house; lack of litter in th house; an insufficient number o nests; small nests ; poor nestin material; allowing hens to roost o nests, and net gathering eggs ofte enough. The few dirty eggs tha are produeed should be consume at home and not washed and sold With these faults corrected th number of broken eggs would b lowered, for spino of the above con .ditions result in both dirty an broken eggs. The cause of some o the breakage, hewever, is the lac of mineral matter for the eggshell Oyster shells or bone will furnis this mineral matter for the produc tion of thicker shelled eggs, Egg producers should take sufiici ent pride in their product to gi it proper caro from the time it i laic! until it is marketed, Subse quent handlers should exercise similar precaution, Careful atten tion to these important paint would materially lesson the losse enumerated above and would ad to the pleasure of producing and o eonauming this important food, Eggs may bo a delicacy or only an ordinary, or *von inferior, materi- al for food purposes, depending very largely upon the way they aro handled by producer, middleman and consumer, Om ho e d, 1. s • • 0 0 f g n n t cl e e f k h ye s a s 1 £ ICNIELL• OF OLD MILK PAIL. .A wonderful system of ventila- tion has boon devised for dairies, and its general adoption by all farmers who apply intelligence and scientific methods to their ventures proves its merit. But puro air alone is not sufficient for the cow barn, No dust must be permitted to ao- cuuzulate, the barns should be kept in perfect sanitary form and the animal must bo subjected to fre- quent cleaning operations, Scien- tists have sounded the knell of the old-fashioned milk pail with its flar- ing edges. The small -topped pail is in favor, It offers less of an open- ing for baeteria that may fall lilto the milk during the process of milk- ing, Some bacteria invariably are found in milk. The 'laboratory shows, however, that those germs are beneficial rather than injurious to the human consumers, But the presence of bacteria directly trace- able to filth and unsanitary condi- tions is at once a source of danger and a signal for medical warfare on the undesirable dairy, "Keep the cow stable as neat and as clean as the kitchen," is the slo- gan of the most progressive dairy- men, They are in the ascendency, The eareless, old-fashioned dairy- man sees plainly the handwriting on the wall, TREATMENT OF LIVE STOCK. horses and, in fact, all domestic animals aro very ni ieh more im, pressionable•than they are goner. ally supposed to bo. Cattle which have had a kind master, a man of gentle but firm nature, show the effect of their associations as a breed or strain, Years of good treatment not only make an im- pression on the individuals, but ere impressed with such force as to bo - come a breed characteristio, In short, a keen judge can tell pretty nearly what sort of association a horse has had by his temperament, The importance of creating a pet' temperament in a trotting or pacing horse should not he under- rated. 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Will Empire Fall Next Year As Prophesied By a Sorceress. The recent Socialist victories in Germany have revived the singular story of Emperor William I. and the fortune teller, which at the time of the old Kaiser's death was whis- pered with awe by the supersti- tious. There is now only one part of the, prophecy left unfulfilled„ and the date for that is set for next year. The story goes that in 1849 the Crown Prince who was later to be- come the first Emperor, found him- self in Baden, and heard so many stories of an old fortune teller that he was induced to go to see her. The sorceress was seated at a table, on which were spread various bits of wood bearing figures, Her cus- tom was to touch these pieces of wood with a pencil, guided, as she assured her clients, entirely by in- spiration. Combined in some way these figures gave you the. most ex- act information as to the future. "In what year will the German Empire be founded?" first asked the Prince, whose Bead was already full of his great ambition. The old woman took up the fig- ures 1, 8, 4, and 9, and formed the number of the current year, Then she touched various other figures and placed them one by one in a column under this first line. The Prince said when she had finished that the date 1849 appeared twice in different form, thus: 1849 1. 8 4 9 "Add them," said the fortune- teller, "and you will find the year in which the German Empire will be founded." The prince, did as he was told and found the betel to bo 1871. "When will I die?" he asked next. Tito sorceress made the date 1871, and then began touching figures again. She touched four and ar- ranged them as she had done in the first instance. Prince William saw that she had again repeated the data: 1871 1 8 7 1 "Add them," she said; ,"they 6y give the year in which you will die." They cane to 1888. The Prince put his third and last question : "Wizen will the German Empire fall ?" A third time the woman fixed the last date and added four figures. When she had finished the Prinee saw : 1888 1 8 8 8 "Add them and you have the elate of the fall of the German Empire." The figures came to 1913. This odd story was told when Wil- liam I. died in 1888, after being crowned Emperor in 1871. Twice have. the old witch's figures told the truth. Superstitious folk look at the election returns and wonder what will be the empire's fortunes in 1913. •1' SARDINES AND SPRATS. Few Know Difference When Little Fish Get u4 Tins. Though they aro totally different species of fish, sprats are sometimes sold as sardines, and few people lrnow of the distinctions between them. Briefly, a sardine is a young pilchard. In its'itnmatnre stat•° it lives in the warm waters off the shores of France, Italy, and Spain, though occasionally it is found not far from the coast of Devon and Cornwall, England. The mature pilchard is, however, a well-known Cornish fish. On the other hand, a sprat is a sprat, and the small specimens ono secs in the shops are fully -grown fish. Sprats are caught in enor- mous quantities off the coasts of the British Isles and in Norwegian wa- ters. In Franco there are no fewer i than 170 factories engaged in the n trade of preparing and tinning sar- dines. Towards the middle of the eighteenth century, at Nantes, sar- dines were first prepared in olive - oil and packed in barrels, and there are no fewer than one hundred and sixty -ono different methods of cook- ing this delectable dish, Enormous exportations of sardines are made annually to Australia and South Africa. Bacon ---"That sounds like a mas- ter hand at the piano?" Egbest— "It is. It's my wife I" AUSTRALIA'S YELLOW PERIL IF COUNTRY IS COLONIZED Br COLORED ALEN. Vast Ilnoc*npicll 'Territory Sout'e* of Danger to British Empire. "Australia's Greatest Danger" ie the title of a striking article in tho current dumber of the National Review, London. Tho writer, George Gascoyne, argues that this greatest clanger to Australia and ono of the greatest dangers to the British Empire lies in the vast un- occupied northern territory of Aus- tralia. In the two words of the Kaiser's famous phrase, tho danger is the Yellow Peril. Here is territory of 523,820 square miles, two and a half times the size of France, with a seaboard of 1,240 Hiles, several splendid harbors and a series of navigable rivers. It is imperfectly explored, but 102,100 square miles are classified as indif- ferent, though containing mining possibilities; 148,000 square miles contain patches of good pastoral land with uncertain rainfall, 43,000 square miles are good pastoral country, and another 29,000 are first-class, both subject to inter- mittent tropical rain ; 160,000 square miles are essentially tropical, with rainfall to correspond. NO LAND FOR WHITES, In 1908 the white population of this great territory was 1,081, of whole 677 were male adults. In 27 years the white male adult popula- tion increased by 27, at the rate of just one white man a year. In 1910 the white population was said to bo stationary. The article holds out no very comforting prospect as to avoiding the danger, The writer in one pas- sage says:— "1 do not believe that any white race will ever people northern Aus- tralia and rear hardy, vigorous sons able to fight for their lives, as they would certainly have to do at some time or other. The lands of the monsoons are eternaily set apart for the colored rases. "I have lived many years in the tropics and have seen the white races in several tropical countries, and deeply though I sympathize with the policy of white Australia, it is my unalterable conviction that the north can never be developed and held by whites. The pale, drawn 'faces of the women of the coastal districts of northern Queensland aro surer testimony than all arguments." Yet he urges the Commonwealth to pursue the policy adopted last year, to hasten on the North to South Railway and adhere to its de- cision to exclude colored labor. The admission of colored labor, on any terms, he argues, must prove fatal, for it must mean even- tual submergence. Indentured la- bor from India is ruled out, for the Government of India has decided that it will no longer permit the re- cruiting of coolies in India, unless the laborers are allowed to receive the rights of eitizonship at the ex- piration of their indentures, should they desire to remain in the land of their adoption. If the Indian coolie were allowed to remain, submergence would fol - ow of he carie in great enough umbers. As a matter of fact, In- dia has not enough surplus adult population properly to colonize the northern territory, and there is, moreover, the undeniable fact that the Indian coolie always gets out of field work as soon as he can. NOTHING BUT YELLOW MEN. Mr. Gascoyne is very convincing in his argument that if this terri- tory is to be colonized by colored labor, there is nothing for it but the yellow men. Once this is admitted he maintains that the game is up. Experience has proved that once admitted on a large scale the yel- low man cannot be restricted to one arEvea. en assuming that Chinese la- borers could to -day be recruited on the indenture system, and that they eeuld be kept within a certain area, ono thing meat follow at once --the yapanese inttst also be admitted, "for the doer could not he opened to China and slammed in the face of Japan." 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