The Brussels Post, 1912-7-18, Page 6ONLY A MONTH;
OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
CHAPTER IX,—(Cont'd)
This islets seemed ,ito rouse him,
He became much more like himself,
and as they walked drown the Strand
the conversation dragged much less,
For the first time he spoke of the
work that, awaited him on his re-
turn to Bergen, and Roy began to
think that his scheme for diverting
him from hie troubles had been on
the whole a success.
"We must arrange what day you
will come down to us at Brixton,"
he said. as they turned down Arun-
del Street. "Would to -morrow suit
you?"
"As . far as I know, it would,"
said Frithiof, "but if you will just
come into the hotel with me we will
find out if there is any message
from my father. If there is no-
thing, why I am perfectly free. It is
possible, though, that he will have
business for me to see to,"
Accordingly they went into the
hotel together, and Frithiof accost-
ed a waiter in the entrance hall.
"Anything come for mo since I
went out?" he asked.
"Yes, sir, I believe there is, sir.
Herr Feick, is it not?"
He brought forward a telegram
and handed it to Frithiof, who hur-
riedly tore open the orange enve-
lope and began eagerly to read. As
he read, every shade of color left
his face; the telegram was in Nor-
wegian, and its terse, matter-of-
fact statement overwhelmed him.
Like one in some dreadful dream he
read the words:
"Father bankrupt owing to fail-
ure Iceland expedition, also lost
Morgan's agency."
There was more beyond. but this
so staggered him that he looked
up from the fatal pink paper with
a sort of wild hope that his sur-
roundings would reassure him, that
he should find it all a mistake. He
met the curious eyes of the waiter,
he saw two girls in evening dress
crossing the vestibule.
"We ought to be at the Lyceum
by this time!" he heard one of them
say to the other. "How annoying
of father to be so late!"
The girl addressed had a sweet,
sunshiny face.
"Oh, he will soon be here," she
said, smilingly. but as her eyes
happened to fall on Frithiof she
grew suddenly grave and compas-
sionate; she seemed to glance from
his face to the telegram in his hand,
and her look brought him a hor-
rible perception that after all this
was real waking existence. It was
a real telegram he held, it was all
true, hideously true. His father
was bankrupt.
Shame, misery, bitter indignation
with the Morgans, a sickening per-
ception that if Blanche had been
true to him the worst might have
been averted, all this seethed in
his mind.
By this time he had partly recov-
ered. was sufficiently himself again
to feel some sort of anxiety to read
the rest of the message. Possibly
there was something he might do to
help his father. He read on and
took in the next sentence almost
as a glance.
"Shock caused cerebral hemor-
rhage. He died this afternoon."
"Frithiof felt a choking sensation
in his throat, if he could not get out
into the open air he felt that he
should die, and by an instinct he
turned toward the door, made a
step or two forward, then stagger-
ed and caught at Roy Boniface to
save himself from falling.
Roy held him up and looked at
him anxiously.
"You have had bed news?" he
asked.
Frithiof tried to speak, but no
words would come, he gasped for
breath, felt his limbs failing, saw a
wavy confused picture of the vesti-
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elderly gentleman joining them,
then felt himself guided down on to
the floor, never quite losing consci-
ousness, yet helpless either to
speak or move and with a most con-
fused sense of what had passed.
"It is in Norwegian," he heard
Roy say. "Bad news from his home,
I am afraid,"
"Poor fellow !" said another
voice. "Open the door, some one.
It's air he wants."
"I saw there was something
wrong, father," this was in a girl's
voice. "Ho looked quite dazed
with trouble as he read,"
"You'll be late for the Lyceum,"
thought Frithiof, and making an ef-
fort to get up he sunk for a moment
into deeper depths of faintness;
the voices died away into indistinct-
ness, then came a consciousness of
hands at his shoulders and his feet,
he was lifted up and carried away
somewhere,
Struggling back to life again in a
few moments he found that he was
lying on a bed, the window was wide
open and a single candle flickered
wildly in the draught, Roy Boniface
was standing by him holding a glass
of water to his lips. With an effort
he drank.
"You are better, sir?" asked the
waiter. "Anything I can do for
you sir? Any answer to the tele-
gram?"
"The telegram! What do you
mean?" exclaimed Frithiof. Then
as full recollection came back to
him, he turned his face from the.
light with a green.
"Tho gentleman had, perhaps,
better see a doctor," suggested the
waiter to Roy. But Frithiof turned
upon him sharply.
"I am better. You can go away.
All I want is to be alone."
'The man retired, but Ito-- still
lingered. He could not make up his
mind to leave any one in such a
plight, so he crossed the room and
stood by the open window looking
out gravely at the dark river with
its double row of lights and their
long shining reflections. Presently
a sound in the room made him turn,
Frithiof had dragged himself up to
his' feet, with an impatient gesture
he blew out the flickering candle,
then walked with unsteady steps to
the window and dropped into a
chair,
"So you are here still?" ho said,
with something of relief in his tone,
"I couldn't bear to leave you till
you were all right again," said Roy.
"Won't you tell me what is the mat-
ter, Feick?"
"My father is dead," said Frith-
iof, in an unnaturally calm voice.
"Dead!" exclaimed Roy, and his
tone had in it much; more of awe
and regret.
"He is dead," repeated Frithiot,
quietly.
"But how was it?" asked Roy.
"It must have been so sudden. You
left him well only three clays ago.
How was it?"
"His Iceland expedition had fail-
ed," said Frithiof, "that meant a
the man ; "he went off about an
hour ago."
"Gone l" exclaimed Roy in somo
surprise. "Did be leave any hies -
sage 7"
"No, sir, none at all. He was
looking very ill when he came down
this morning, but went eut as soon
as he had had breakfast and didn't
come back till four o'clock, Then
he called for his bill and ordered
his portmanteau to be brought down
and put on a hansom. And so lie.
drove off, sir."
"You didn't hear where he was.
going to7"
"No, sir; I can't say as 1 did,
The cab, if I remember right, turn-
ed along the Embankment, toward
Charing Cross." •
"Thank you," said Roy. "Very
possible he may have gone hack to
Norway by the Continent,"
And with a feeling of vague disap-
pointment he turned away.
CHAPTER X.
When Roy Boniface had gone Fri-
thiof sat for a long time without
stirring. He had longed to be alone,
and yet the moment he had got his
wish the most crushing sense. of de-
solation overwhelmed him. Me-
chanically he drew down the blind,
struck a light, and noticing that on
the dieordered bed there lay the
crumpled pink paper which had
brought him the bad news, he pick-
ed it up, smoothed it out, and read
it once more.
There was stili something which
he had not seen in the first horrible
shock of realizing his father's
death. With darkening brow he read
the words which Herr Gronvold had
weighed so carefully and counted
so often.
"I will provide for your sisters
till you can. Impossible for you to
return in time for funeral. My ad-
vice is try for work in London. No
opening her for you, as feeling will
be strong against family."
It was only then that he actually
took in the fact that ho was penal
DR. EUGENE ITAANEL
Of the Federal Department of
Mines, who is conducting the peat
fuel experiments for the Dominion
Government.
less—indeed far worse than penni-
less—weighed down by a load of
debts which, if not legally his, were
his burden none the less.
And yet it was out of this very
torture of realization that his com-
fort at last sprung—such comfort
at least as he was at present cap-
able of receiving. The name of Feick
fatal blow to his business; then, this 1 should yet be redeemed; and a
glow of returning hope rose in his
heart as he remembered his father's
parting words, "I look to you, Fri-
thiof, to carry out the aims in which
I myself have failed, to live the life
I could wish to have lived." Yet
how different all had been when
those words had been spoken! The
recollection of them did him good
—brought him, as it were, back
to life again—but at the same time
they were the most cruel pain.
Perhaps he perceived this, for he
raised himself, banished the mind
pictures which had absorbed him so
long, and began to think what his
first practical step must be. He
would lose no time, he would begin
that very moment. The first thing
must of course be retrenchment, he
must leave the Arundel on the mor-
row and must seek out the cheapest
rooms to be had. Lying on the
table was that invaluable book
"Dicken's Dictionary of London."
He turned to the maps at the begin-
ning, and decided to try neigh-
borhood
h-
ra
borhood of Vauxhall and Lambeth.
Next game the question of work.
And here the vastness of the field
perplexed him—where to turn he
had not the slightest idea. There
was also in Fleet Street a Scandi-
navian club; he would go there and
get a list of the members; it was
possible that he might meet with
some familiar name, and at any rate
he should hear of his own language
sZlgkepi Which in itself wotlld be a
relief. This"...i rsangcd, he tried to
sleep, but with little; sltcgess,l,,;hiiS
brain was too much overwrought
with the terrible reversals of for-
tune he had met with that da with
the sorrows that had cornu to him,
net fix
"Single epics,
But in battalions I"
Whenevor lto did fora Tow
"Herr Fa Fa ek has gone, sir," said utes sink .intks a doze, it was only,
morning, there came to him Mor-
gan's telegram about the agency,
It was that which killed him."
"Good God I" exclaimed Roy,
with indignation in his. voice.
"Leave out the adjective," sa'd
Frithiof, bitterly. Business is busi-
ness, you see, one can't sentimenta-
lize over old connections,"
Roy was silent, he had no glib,
conventional
sentences ready to
hand. And then as lie contrasted
that bright, homely room at Bergen
with this dark, forlorn hotel room
in London, a feeling that he must
get his companion away into some
Less dreary atmosphere took posses-
sion of him.
"Don't stay all alone in this
place," he said, abruptly. "Come
home with me to -night."
"You are very good," said Fri-
thiof, "but I don't think I can do
that. I am better alone, and in-
deed must make up my mind to-
night as to the future."
"You will
go back to Norway, I
suppose?" asked Roy.
"Yes, 1 suppose so, assoon as
possible, To -morrow I mustsee if
there is any .possibility of getting
back in fair time. TJtiluc]cily, it is
too late for the steamer, which must
be starting at this minute from
Hull."
"1 will wine in to -morrow, then.
and see what you have decided on,"
said Roy. "Is there nothing; I can
de ter y v newt"
l 'lNothin g titanic volt." etid Fri-
thjof, And 'Roy wished himgood-
night arid went on,
The next day he was detained by
business and could not manage to
call at the .Aruts 1 i
de t11late inthe
afternoon, Noticing the sante wai-
ter itt the hall who had been pre-
sent en the previous evening, be in-
quired if "thief werefu:
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SEEDING THL' GRASS LANDS,
Too much importance can not he
given to the selection of pure grass
seed, for there is no greater fail-
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agement than to fail to secure a
good stand if grass or clover.
Every year I am becoming more
and more favorably impressed with
the value of alsike clover, although
we have used it for a number of
years in all of our grass and seed
mixtures, writes a correspondent,
We have repeatedly failed to se-
cure a favorable stated of common
red clover, and to our surprise the
alsike would come along and make
a good stand and we would be en-
abled to harvest a very profitable
grass crop. Many times red clover
will not thrive for the reason that
the soil has become somewhat acid,
but the alsike will make a very good
crop notwithstanding the acid con-
dition of the soil.
Another valuable characteristic of
alsike clover is the fact that it will
stay in the soil several years, and
if permitted it will reseed itself. Al-
sike clover grows but little after
mowing and no second crop can be
expected from it, Both in this re-
spect, as well as the longer time it
requires to mature its maximum
crop, alsike clover stands after red
clover.
Its great and undeniable advant-
age, on the other hand, lies in the
fact that it is more hardly than the.
common red clover and can be suc-
cessfully cultivated on moist soils
and land that is flooded at certain
Vines during the year on which red
clover will not grow.
If alsike clover seed is mixed with
pasture grass mixtures, it yields
rich and certain grazing crops, and
when cultivated on arable land red
clover seed should be sowed with
the mixture with which the field is
seeded.
In this way a great advantage is
gained in the fact that the first year
after sowing the fodder may be har-
vested chiefly consisting of red clov-
er and in the following years after
the red clover begins to deteriorate
the alsike comes in, in its place, and
yields rich and certain crops, with
the timothy and other grass seeds
with which the meadow is seeded.
On our farm we follow the same
general methods of culture that we
practice in growing red clover, with
the addition of the following: As
the alsike has a tendency to lodge
when it is in full vegetation, we find
that it is advisable to sow it with
other grass seed, by preference with
timothy and red clover. The crops
by this means are very rich and the
timothy supports the clover, so that
it does not fall to the ground and
rot,
While alsike does not yield as
large crops to the acre as common
red clover of equal stand, yet it is
very profitable, and in actual feed-
ing value I have found but little
difference ton for ton when it was
being fed to a herd of dairy cows,
and for feeding horses and all kinds
of ;young stock I have found it
greatly superior. The time of cut -
to be haunted by the most horrible
dreams, and when morning came he
was ill and feverish, yet as deter-
mined as before to go through with
the programme he had marked out.
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Alsike clover is not considered by
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It is my honest opinion that there
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I have found in actual practice
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Scientists now say that the use of
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been treated for cholera by the use
of virus is seldom affected by the
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other pigs ff they are treated with
the virus and in that ease are sel-
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The lig made pot-bellied by feed-
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without any grain is an easy victim
of disease, because it is lacking in
n utrition.
Dollar for dollar, middlings and
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Young pigs suffer from indigestion
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Pigs, aatd, it act, all hogs, should
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The farmer who grows a liberal
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has much trouble from the ordinary
diseases to which swine are subject.
The reason why hogs so eagerly
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such material, is because they do
not have, while in close eonfine-
ment the material their system de-
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material from the ground.
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The Romance of a Novel Restored
A Lover.
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means of clearing up a misunder-
standing between sundered lovers,
but this joyful sequel followed upon
the publication of a review in a
London (England) paper of a novel
called "He Who. Passed."
The story is by a woman who de-
scribes how and why she refused to
marry the man she loved. The ob-
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life, and rather than confess it site
allowed him to pass out of her life,
As the book hears the stamp of an
authentic experience, and is a
thrilling human document, it sold
widely, and in course of time a
copy of the review, giving a syn-
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of a man living in the tropics.
He was profoundly affected by
what he read, and secured a copy of
the hook at the earliest possible
moment, to find that he was the man
described in its pages,- as well as to
discover why his offer of marriage
had been declined. The sequel
comps off early in the fall when "He
Who Passed" will marry the wo-
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THE PROBLEM -
Woman Urges Her Sex to Forsake
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To care for and manage a 20 -
room house, unaided by even ono
servant, would seem to most women
who understand the requirements
to be an impossible task. Yet this
is accomplished easily by Mrs,
Frank Ambler Pattison of Colonia,
New Jersey, who has achieved what
she calls domestic independence.
Nor is her housekeeping drudgery
to her. She enjoys it and has time
to go largely into society, to attend
to a large correspondence, and to
be a devoted mother to her two chil-
dren.
Mrs. Pattison believes that every
other woman can manage a house,
either large or small, by making
modern methods do the work which.
has until now been done by a staff
of servants. She formerly kept
these servants herself, and known
what she is talking about. She se`
about solving the servant question
and installed in her home an im-
provement which would seem to
help her plans.
To begin with, there is an elec-
tric washing machine that will turn
out in two hours, rinsed and ready
for hanging on the tine, a washing
that would take a good laundress
all clay to do. There is another ma-
chine run by a. motor, and this mo-
tor is really Mrs• Pattison's
BEST "HANDY MAN."
It is.used for turning the ice cream
freezer, for operating the vacuum
cleaner, the sowing machine, the
meat grinder. the knife sharpener,
the coffee mill, the grater, the cake
mixer, the bread mixer, the egg
heater, the churn, and the silver
cleaning machine. This eliminates
a goodly proportion of the labor
of housework.
Electrio'srons save steps from the
ironing table to the stove and give
uniform heat. A wonderful ice box
is so arranged that the iceman goes
into the cellar to fill it, but when
food is wanted from it, by stepping
on a button, the box is made to rise
through the floor and pops up into
the kitchen. The cooking and serv-
ing of meals have been reduced to
a science in Mrs. Pattison's experi-
ment stations. She has learned to
use the fireless cooker, and has sev-
eral different kinds installed in her
home. The most wonderful one of
all is a recently perfected electrical
cooker. Therc is a clock on the
front of it.
"Suppose I decide to -clay," said
Mrs. Pattison, "that I want my
breakfast to begin cooking tomor-
row morning at 7 o'clock. I set the
clock at that hour• Then I move
the pointer on this other dial to the
amount of temperature I want in
my oven, 200 degrees or whatever it
may be. That's all.
I GO TO BED.
In the morning at 7 o'clock, without
anyone's going near the thing, the
electricity is automatically turned
food starts to cook. When the tems
perature rises to 200 the current is
automatically turned off. The
ovens being insulated by non -con-
ducting wails, they keep that tem-
perature, and breakfast will be
ready when wanted. If a woman
wishes to go to church or to a club
meeting or a bridge party, or to
lie down for a nap, she can prepare
dinner in advance, set the clock,
and not even give things another
thought until serving time.”
There is an interesting garbage
consumer run by gas, a silver
cleaner which requires no rubbing
r of the articles to be cleaned, and a
dish. washing machine. Mrs. Patti-
son hopes that artistic paper dishes,
cheap enough to be thrown away,
will be an invention of the near fu-
ture. Meantime she urges all house-
keepers to study improved and time-
saving methods of koopsing house.
She believes that the cost of anile
labor saving devices can be saved,
even in households where there is a
very small housekeeping allowance,
if women will learn to operate them
and will forsake the old hard labor
methods of housekeping.
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A GORGEOUS GARDEN.
Mr, James B. Duke, the Ameri-
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of
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p s home
at Somerville, New Jersey. Lakes,
hills, waterfalls,•shrubberies, drives
and fountains, without `regard. to
cost,' wero ordered for the park,
which extends over 3,000 acres,
There are thirty-two miles of drives
winding in and out of beautiful
groves, past grassy lawns dotted
with statuary, gigantio'flower-beds,
rose-bowered pergolas, fountains,
balustrades, and temples. There
are more than 10,000,000 plants, of
which one million are the • rarest
rhododendrons. Two Itunclred
fountains of. all sorts and designee
spout up 20,000,000 gallons •of water
ever'yday, .and servants and trados6
men enter the. mansion which is be
ing oonetructed'by a tunnel from
the main road. without passing
...through the gardens at alt.
From north a to to smith sidle t t n '
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of the Atlantic Ocean is 8,1500` Mies,
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