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The Brussels Post, 1912-7-25, Page 2ONLY A. MONTH OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER X.—(Cont'd) he might possible find you temper - The Swedish minister received ary work. He is the author of that him very kindly, and listened to as much of his story as would bear tel- ling with great patience. "It is a very hard case," he said. "The English firm perhaps consulted their own pockets in making this new arrangement, but to break off an old connection so suddenly, and Oxford Street ones will put you as it chanced at such a trying hie- down at the corner, by Mudie's. meat, was hard lines. What sort Let me know how you get on; I of people are they. these Morgans? shall be interested to hear." . You have met them?" Then, with a kindly shake of the "Oh, yes," said Frithiof, color- hand Frithiof found himself die- ing. "One of the brothers was in missed; and somewhat cheered by Norway this sumtner, came to our the interview, he made his way to house, dined with us, professed the the address which had been given greatest friendliness, while. all the him. time he must have known what the Herr Sivertsen'e rooms were of firm were meditating," the gloomiest; they reeked of to - "Doubtless came to see how the baceo, they were ill lighted, and it land lay, said the minister. And seemed to Frithiof that the window ~what of the other brother?" could not have been opened for a "I saw him yesterday " replied g week, An oblique view of Mudie's Frithiof. "He was very civil; told, library was the only object of in - me the telegram had been sent off terest to be seen without, though. that morning about the affair, as it by craning one's neck, one could would not bear delay, and spoke get just a glimpse of the traffic in very highly of my father. Words Oxford Street. He waited for some cost nothing, you see." minutes wondering to himself how The consul noted the extreme bit- a successful author could tolerate terness of the tone, and looked searchingly into the face of his visi- tor. "Poor fellow 1" he reflected; "he starts in life with a grievance, and there is nothing so bad for a man as that. A fine, handsome boy, too. If he stays eating his heart out in London he will go to the dogs in no time," ' "See," he said, "these Morgans, though they may be keen business men, yet they are after all human. When they learn at what an unlucky time their telegram arrived, it is but natural that they should regret it. Their impulse will be to help you. I should advise you to go to them at once and talk the affair in Norway, and anyhow I mean to over with them. 11 they have any get it." proper feeling they will offer you some sort of employment in this new Stavanger, branch, or they might, perhaps, have some opening for you in their London house." "1 can not go to them," said Fri- thiof in a choked voice. "I would rather die first." "I can understand," said the con- sul, "that you feel very bitter, and that you resent the way in which they have behaved. But still I think you should try to get over that. After all they knew nothing of your father's affairs; they did not intentionally kill him. That the two disasters followed so closely on each other was but an accident." "Still I could never accept any- thing from them; it is out of the question," said Frithiof. "Excuse me if I speak plainly," said the consul. "You are very young, and you know but little of the world. If you allow yourself to be governed by pride of this sort you can not hope to get on. Now turn it over in your mind, and if you do not feel that you can see these people, at any rate write to them." "I can not explain it all to you, sir," said Frithiof. "But there are private reasons which make that al- together impossible." The blood had mounted to his forehead, his lips had closed in a straight line; perhaps it was be- cause they quivered that he com- pressed them so. "A woman in the question," re- flected the consul. "That compli- cates matters. All the more rea- anee, a fixed resolve that he must son that he should leave London," and would find work ; and in spite Then, aloud, "If you feel unable to of constant Failures this never left apply to them, I should recommend him. you strongly to try America. Every Ile tramped down to Vauxhall one flocks to London for work, but and began to search for lodgings, as a matter of fact London streets looked at some half-dozen sets, and just now are not paved with gold ; finally lighted on a clean little hoose everything is at a standstill; • go in a new looking street a few hun- where you will you will hear that dred yards from Vauxhall Station, trade is •bad, that employment is There was a card up in the window scarce, and that Irving is dear." advertising rooms to let. He rang "If T could hear of any opening the bell and was a little surprised in. America 1 would go at once," to find the door opened to him 'by said. Frithiof. "But at Bergen we a middle-aged woman who was on - have heard of late that it is no such easy thing even over there to meet with work. I will not pay the ex- peoses of the voyage merely to be in my present state, and hundreds of milee further from home," "What can you do?" asked the consul: "Is your English pretty good ?" "I can write and speak it easily, And, ef.courae, German too, I un- derstand book-keeping." "Any taste for teaching?" asked the consul. "None," said Frithiof,, decidedly. "Then the only thing that seems open to you is the work of a secre- tary, or a elarkship, or perhaps you eotrid manage translating, but that is not easy work to get, Everything now is overcrowded, so dreadfully overcrowded, However, of course I shall bear Ton in mind, and yeti ,yourself will leave no stone unturn- ed, Stay, 1 might give you a, letter bf introduction to Herr Sivertsen; well-known book on Norway, you know, I)o you know your way about yet?" "Pretty well," said Frithiof. "Then there is his address—Muse- um Street. You had better take an omnibus at the bank. Any of the such a den, and trying to imagine from the room what sort of being was the inhabiter thereof. At length the door opened, and a gray-haired man of five -and -fifty, with a huge forehead and somewhat stern, square -jawed face. entered. "I have read the consul's letter," he said, greeting Frithiof and mo- tioning him to a chair. "You want what is very hard to get. Are you aware that thousands of men are seeking employment and are unable to meet with it?" "I know it is hard," said Frithiof. "Still I have more chance here than "I am tired to death of young men coming to me and wanting help," he remarked, frankly, "You are an altogether degenerate race, you young men of this generation; in my opinion you don't know what work means. It's money that you want, not work." "Yes," said Frithiof, dryly, "you are perfectly right. It is money that I want." Frithiof rose. "However worthless, we unlucky have to live," he said, coldly. "And as I can't pretend to be interested in 'culture,' T must waste no more time in discussion." He bowed and made for the door. "Stay," said Herr Sivertsen; "it will do no harm if you leave me your address." "Thank you, but at present I have none to give," said Frithiof. "Good -morning." He felt very angry and very sore - hearted as he made his way down Museum Street, To have met with such a rebuff from a fellow -coun- tryman seemed to him hard, speci- ally in this time of his trouble. Ho had not enough insight into char- acter to understand the eccentric old author, and he forgot that Herr Sivertsen knew nothing of his cir- cumstances. He was too abrupt, too independent, perhaps also too refined to push his way as an un- known foreigner in a huge metro- polis. He was utterly linable to draw a picturesque description of the plight he was in, he could only rely on a sort of dogged persevor- FOOD FOR HOT WEATHER If you aro among those whose body needs nursing along, either on account of Important work to bo done or on account of waste of strength Prom. Past or presentsickness, -- Bovril should form an important part of your summer diet. - Not only does it build and atrengthen but it adds materially to your Power to absorb the nutriment contained in ordinary food. Bovril is concentrated beef in • its best form, A little spread on thin bread and butter saudwiehes,or on hot buttered toast, Is both appetizing and nutritious. A simple cup -of Bovril makes an appetising and strengthening bouillon. Send .for our booklet which gives 'much useful information to any mother. Bovril Limited, 27 St. Peter St., Montreal. clean, and, spite of her severe face, he rather took to his landlady. "My things are at the Arundel Hotel," he explained. "I should want to conte in at once. Does that shit you 1" "Oh, yes," she said, scanning him closely. "Can you give us ally references?" "You can, if you wish, refer to the Swedish Consul at 24 Great Winchester Street." "Oh, you are a Swede," she said. "No, I am a Norwegian, and have only been in London since yester- day." The landlady seemed satisfied, and having paid his five shillings in advance Frithiof went off to secure his portmanteau, and by five o'clock was installed in his new home. It was well that he had lost no time in leaving bis hotel, for during the next two days he was unable to quit his bed, and could only con- sole himself with the reflection that at any rate be bad a cheap roof over his head and that his rent would not ruin him. Perhaps the cold night air from the river had given him a chill on the previous night, or perhaps the strain of the excitement and suf- fering had been too much for him. At any rate he lay in feverish wretchedness. tossing through the long days and weary nights, a mis- ery to himself and an anxiety to the people of the house. He discovered that bis first im- pression had been correct. Miss Turnour, the landlady, was well born ; she and her two sisters—all of them now middle-aged women— were the daughters of a country gentleman. who had either wasted his substance in speculation or on the turf. He was long since dead, and had left behind him the fruits of his selfishness, three helpless wo- men, with no particular aptitudes and brought up to no particular profession. Miss Charlotte, the middle one of the three, who had more heart than the rest, tried to persuade him to see a doctor. "No," he replied, "I shall be all right in a day or two. It is nothing but a feverish attack. I can't af- ford doctor's bills." She looked at him a little com- passionately, his poverty touched a chord in her own life. "Perhaps the illness has come in order, that you may have time to think," she said, timidly. Frithiof was in no mood to re- spond to her well -meant efforts to convert him, and used to listen to her discourses about the last day with a stolid indifference which al- together baffled her. CHAPTER XI. By the Saturday morning he was almost himself again as far as phy- sical strength was concerned, and hie mind was healthy enough to turn resolutely away from these useless broodings over the past, and to ask with a certain amount of interest, "What is to be done next?" When Miss Charlote came to in- quire after her patient, slie found to her surprise that he was up and dreesed, "What!" she exclaimed. "You are really well, then?" "Quito well, thank you," he re-. plied. "Have you a newspaper in the horse that you would be so good as to Iend me?" "Certainly," said Miss Charlotte, her face lighting up, as she hastened out of the room, returning in a min - mistakably a lady though her deep- ute with the special organ of the ly lined face told of privation and 1 religious party to which she belong- ed, "I think this might interest yen," she began, timidly. "1 don't want to be interested,,, emit] Frithiof, dryly. "All I womb is to look through the advertise- ments, A thousand thanks, but 1 s@e this paper is riot quite what I need," "Are you sure" that you know what you really aced 1" she said, earnestly, Had she not been such a genuine you might have, ,she saki; "but it little woman, he would have spoken would not be very comfortable, It! the dry retort, "Madame, 1 need would be only live shillings a week, including attendance," "Allow me to see it," said Fri- thiof. He felt so tired and ill that if she had shown him a pig -sty he, would probably have taken it mere- ly for the sake of settling matters, care, possibly also of ill -temper. He asked the price of the rooms. "A sitting -room and bedroom at fifteen shillings a week," was the reply. "It is too much, and besides I only need ane room," he said. "1 am afraid we can not divide them." He looked disappointed. An idea seemed to strike the landlady. "There is a little room at the top money," which trembled on his lips. "Yon see," be said, smiling a lit- tle, "if I do not find work I can. not pay my rent, so :t must lase no time in getting some situation," (To be continued.) A man isn't entitled to env reedit ,At it wee, the room, Though hare foroveream%ng temptation that and eomfortiose, was spotlessly doesn't tempt. UNEASINESS IN FRANCE. Predicted That Another Revolution May Result. The general nneasiuess which the prevalence of socialism, theinorease in the price of living, and the gen- eral political discontent in France had brought with them, encour- aged the Bonapartists, who have been quicsoent recently, to hold a monster meeting at the Salle Wag - ram, Paris, the other evening;, The Marquis de Dion was the principal speaker. Five thousand people listened to him and applaluled to the echo his plea for "a consular republic." The implication, of course, was that Prince Napoleon would be the Consul. Although there is little likelihood of a monarchy, an empire, or even a consular republie in Franca in the immediate future, there is no doubt whatever that the French people are ripe for another revolution. No- body is quite satisfied with the pre- sent form of government. Every- body feels. no matter what class he belongs to, that he is overtaxed and ove-r-red-taped, There is a general feeling that the real rulers of the country (who are not merely the Government, but all the mem- bers of the two Chambers, and far too many of their friends) aro much too expensive a luxury. If General Boulanger were alive there might easily be a coup d'etat to -morrow, By turning out the con- gregations, the nominal rulers of France have set the many -headed in power. and they are harder mas- ters than either the priests or even the nobles ever were. The bour- geois is a long-suffering animal, but he is beginning to kick against the pricks. The Socialist element has so swelled a head that its demands are rapidly becoming more than the bourgeoise will stand, and in France, when unrest has become as general as it is now becoming, a flare-up is inevitable. A Lyell -known politician said the other day that war of one kind or another must break out in France within the next five years. His meaning was that if war with an- other -nation slid not come to turn people's thoughts away from their home troubles, a civil war, with or without bloodshed, a revolution peaceable or otherwise, would be a necessity. cF DETECTIVE DOYLE. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sat at a dinner on one of his visits to New Yolk beside a lady who asked leave to consult him about some thefts. "My detective powers," he replied, "are at your service, madam," "Well," said the lady, "frequent and mysterious thefts have been oc- curring at my hoose for a long time. Thus, there disappeared last week a motor horn, a broom, a box of aa' woo::°'#°°4 Sir A. Conan Doyle, golf balls, a left riding boot, a dic- tionary, and half a dozen tin plates." "Ah," said the creator of Sher- lock Holmes, "the ease, madam, is quite clear. You keep a goat," H. Ai7STEALIA'S CENSUS. 4.274,414 Persons Are Registered aIt Christie ns. The recently undertaken census of the Commonwealth of Australia has led to the publication of sosne interesting details concerning the religious professions of the popula- tion. Out of a total of 4,274,414 per- sons registered as Christians the following .aro allotted respectively to the principal denominations; Church of England, 1,710,448; Methodist, 547,806; Presbyterian, 568,836; Congregational, 74,046; Baptist, 97,074; Protestant (unde- fined), 109,861; Roman :Catholic, 921,426, It should be noted that the total number, of men in Australia is 2,313,035, exceeding the total of women, which is 2,141,970, There is little discrepancy between the' numbers of women and men allot- ted to the various Christian denomi- nations, but whereas 516 men regis- tered themselves as atheists and 7,659 as of "to religion," while 55,766 objected to stating their re- ligious beliefs, the corresponding figures for the female population are athcsits, 63; no religion, 1,60x; and 0,870 who would not state ben lief ---at striking disparity. Each and Every 5—Pou Package of d Extra Granulated Sugar contains 5 pounds fullweight of Canada's finest sugar, at its best. Ask your grocer for the 8441 -5--Pound Package. CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., Limited, Montreal. 11 .11554514%ori'•✓. 01 On the Farm DON'T FOR THE MILKERS. One—Don't put the can under the cow until her udder is clean. Two—Don't begin to milk th"b cow with a wet tail until you have tied it. Three ---Don't tie it too short. Four—Don't put your fingers in the milk. If you want to soften the teats mills a drop into the palm of your hand and rub them with this. Five—Don't let your pail get too full when you are milking a young cow. Six—Don't crack the seat of your stool on the cow's back if her tail goes in your eye. Seven—Don't strap a heifer if you ran help it. She is generally restive because the milking hurts her. Eight—Don't fodder the cows un- til the milking is finished or you will have a lot of dust in the milk. Nine—Don't talk while you aro milking. Ten—Don't on any account milk any curd, blood or rope into your milk can. If you find any slime in- side the sieve find out where it comes from. Eleven—Don't have your nailt long, Twelve—Don't half do the job un- less you want to dry the cow. IN THE OHICKEN YARD. The average chicken does not pay for his keep and be should be sent to the block as soon as he weighs four pounds, unless he is to be kept for breeding. Let a strange dog rush through the poultry yard and the excitement will affect the egg supply for that day. When hens have no sentiment there is no doubt they are extreme- ly nervous at times—particularly during the breeding season—and should be so placed that they can- not be disturbed. It does not matter so much about kind h i do about. the the breed as t es of treatment your hens receive, 01 course, if you are going in for poultry to sell on the market you must select the fowl that will pro- duce the most meat, and if for eggs the breed that will produce more eggs than meat, Then it is "up to you" to get the most out of them, as the slang dons. NOTES OF THE HOG LOT. Sometimes a week's chill rains or cold weather will set the pigs back a month in their growth. After all that may be said in fa- vor of other pastures, clover stands at the head when it comes to the right thing for pigs. A great many farmers do not rea- lize that grass supplies a feed en- tirely different from corn and that it is a bad practice to change en- tirely and suddenly from one to the other. When the pigs are taken out of the pasture this fall they should not be turned suddenly into the corn fields or fed all the new Dorn they can eat. Make the change gradually. If a hog dies an the farm, no mat- ter from what cause, take no chanc- es, but remove the body a long dis- tance from the feeding lots and burn it. ORCHARD NOTES. Many growers say that weeds are as 'valuable as fertilizer as olovor and cow peas if they are turned under every year. The grower who will sort his ap- ples into two or more grades, packed well, will get more money for his fruit than the one who throws all kinds together in a bar- reI and places a Layer of the best ones on top. The city dealer profits by the lazi- ness of the grower by grading and repacking his badly assorted fruit. That corky old apple, the Ben Davis, still holds a high price in the city markets because its fine ap- pearance deceives the ignorant buyer. s INVISIBLE INK SECRETS. There are several ways in which two persons can correspond with each other unknown to even the people before whose eyes the very letter is held, Young ladies, for in- stance, may use new milk as ink, When dried this is invisible, but if coal dust or soot be scattered upon the paper the writing becomes legi- ble, Diluted sulphuric acid, lemon juice, solutions of nitrate and chlor- ide of cobalt or of chloride of cop- per write colorless, but on being heated the characters written with the first two become black or brown, and the latter green,. And when the paperbecomes cool and the writing disappears, leaving the patter blank again. Two good in- visible inks are made by saltpetre dissolved in water, and equal parts of sulphate of copper and sal am- moniac dissolved in water. A BENEDICT'S IDEA, Mrs. Benham—"All the world loves a lever," Benham—"Sure 1 A man can be popular any time if he it willing to make a fool of himself." Take A Fingal 01 "SI. Lawrence" Sugar Out To The Store Door —out where the light can fall on it—and see the brilliant, diamond - like sparkle the pare white color, of every grain, That's the way to test any stigar -- that's the way we hope you will test mo WA' S la gar Compare with any other sugar --compare its pure, white n sparkle—its even grain --its matchless sweetness. (letter still, get a 20 poutul or too pound bag at your grocer's aurb test "St. Lawrence Sugar" ill your home, ST. LAWRENCE SUGAR iftEe114E21212G LIMITED. r a!(fNTIMAL. 67A FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTED OF INTEREST FRaal ITER RANKS ANI) BRAES. What is Going on in The Highlands. and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. It is proposed to erect a Public school at Firth. An epidemic of scarlet fever has broken out in Bookie. A motor ambulance has been got for Dundee, at a cost of £548. It is reported that smallpox has broken out at Olengarnock. IL• is proposed to have a railway station at Rosyth Naval Base. • lames Rattray, one of the rescued from the Titanic, is a native of Dundee, Extensive building operations are being carried out at Berwick Bar- racks. Private T. Melsaac, Peebles, has been presented with the Tong -ser• viee medal. A new postoffxce with improved accommodation is to be provieled for Kilwinning. An alarming are broke out in a row of miners' houses at Kockenti- bee, Crosshouse. A daring burglary was committed in the shop of Mr, Wm. Chalmers, jeweller, Kilmarnock. The installation of motor power in the fishing skiffs on Loch Fyne has met with much success. The price of household coal at Edinburgh on the 18 pound net was 2] to 28 shillings per ton. Considerable damage was done by a fire that occurred at the farm of Little Barras, Drumlithie. Mr, Vernon Roberts, Kincardine Castle, is to act as chieftain at the Auchterarder highland gathering, The municipal bowling greens in Glasgow had to be closed at times on account of the unsettled wea- they. Fully one thousand women and girls are thrownoutof employment by a fire at the Bradford Mille, Aberdeen. Much damage was done by fire that occurred on the premises of a waste paper merchant in Wales Street, Aberdeen. Berwick town council have agreed to purchase a steam fire engine from Glasgow Corporation at a cost of £100, Shipbuilding is very brisk in the Clyde district. Last month it ag- gregated 54,000 tons, and it prom- ises romises to continue so for some time, Tames Stewart, butcher, Perth, was fined 40s. or 220 days, for push- ing his wife into the fire, and as- saulting his 12 -year-old daughter. An obelisk in memory of Alexan- der Anderson, "Surfaceman," has been erected in front of Kirkcon- nel schoolhouse, Dumfriesshire. FEVER GERMS IN VEGETABLES, Very Scarce Unless Grown Under Unsanitary Conditions. Recent experiments showing that vegetables may act as vehicles of typhoid fever sounds alarming, un- til the whole story has been told, and then it is understood that while this is true, the chances of contag- ion by means of vegetables is so slight that there is little to worry about. Soil was inoculated with fecal ma- terial containing typhoid germs and radishes and lettuce planted in it. Some of these plants were kept in- doors and sprinkled from time to time, while others were allowed to grow naturally out of doors. It was found that after twenty-five days the plants that were grown in- doors had typhoid germs on the leaves and stems, while it was thin ty days before the germs were found on the leaves and stens of plants grown out of doors. AJI .this was merely by war, of ex- periment and proved nothing, as far ns clangor to the eoneumer is concerned, inasmuch as the soil in which the plants were grown was first carefully inoculated with the dread germs, This naturally would not happen in the average garden, and espe- cially in the great truck gardens where so much of the produce is raised for city consumption, There is a possibility, however, that vege- tables growing too near a sink drain in th-e country or too near the stable yards might possibly acquire some of these germs. There are few vegetables ever planted in such localities oven away in the Country, while modern sani- tary systems do away with even the sink drain plots anti the stable yard. So that while the result of this experiment sounds "scary" al first, no one should worry in the least about clangers of typhoid from vegetables, especially since there are a thousandfold greater dangers of contagion about us every day, the common house fly, for instance, be- ing one of, these examples. A girl expects a man to bink her hair is naturally ctn'ly even when she knows that he knows it isn't,. It is every olio's duty to have 'looks; r library is notri luxury., but ianb of the necossariti of life,