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The Brussels Post, 1912-8-1, Page 2• ONLY A ONx 1 1 ; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER XI.—(Cont'd) She brought Min one of the daily papers, and with a little sigh of dis- appointment removed the religious "weekly," leaving Frithjof tei his depressing study of the column ]leaded "Situations vacant," Alas! how shirt it was .cumpered to the one dedicated to "Situations wanted." "A correspondence clerk want- ed," made him look hopefully at the lines which followed, but un- luckily a knowledge of Portuguese was demanded as well as French and German; while the corn mer- chant who would receive a gentle- man's son in an office of good posi- tion was prudent enough to add the words. "No one need apply who is unable to pay substantial premi- um.,' what he needed was soon making his way up the well -swept carriage - chive which led to Rowan Tree House. To his surprise the door was sud- denly flung open as he approached, and a little boy in a velvet tunic came dancing out on to the steps to meet him. "Roy, Roy !" shouted the little fellow merrily, "I've come to meet you!" Then speedily discovering his mistake he darted back into the dour -way, hiding Ms face in Cecil's skirt. She stood there with a little our- ly-headed child in her arms, and A SUMMER DRINK WHICH STRENGTHENS ulcer danger, for he is a strong swim- mer, but he was not in a pleasant humor, with the soaking his clothes were getting and the merriment of the crew at his expense. _ A strong tide hacl swept him A delirious summer drink is iced away from the steamer, but he was Bovril. Mix a spoonful in a cold situ; leisurely swimming back,when soda water. This is both cooling an strengthening. Colrl bouillon served alone or with toast or crackers 15 an exquisitee afternoon refreshment. Make aquantity of Bovril with boiling water in the usual manner and cool It 1n the Inc box. Mau, hostesses are serving this bouillon whieh is always excellent. The best way to buy Bovril is in the 11b. bottles. These are by far the most economical, being retailed usually at 81.75, and contain eight times as much as the bottle usually sold at 35o. We will gladly send on application a very use en invalid f 1 1 fl t 1 1'd and those on deck saw the fin of a shark coming through tete water in his direction with alarming speed, They shouted a warning, and the steward swain as he never had be fore, while Captain Mallen set about getting a life -boat over the Fide. But the captain and Drew soon realized that before the boat could leach Eirstell the shark a eau renerai dietetics, which explains why would overtake him. Bovril aids digestion and enables von to absorb the full nourishment from your ordinary diet. Address: Bovril, Limited, 27 St, Peter St., Montreal. how you manage such things in Nor- way, but to my mind it seems that the middle of the day is the time for the square meal, as they say in America:" If the meal that awaited them in the dining -room was not "square," her soft gray eyes and the deep- it was, at any rate, very tempting; blue baby eyes locked searchingly 1 from the fine damask table -cloth to out into the semi -darkness. Frithiof the silver gypsy kettle—from the de - thought the little group looked like lieately arranged chrysanthemums a picture of the Holy Family. Seine- to the Crown Derby cups and sau- Out of the whole list there were how he no longer dreaded the in- eers--all bespoke good taste and the side of the house. For the first time. only two situations for which he for -weeks he felt the sort of rest personal supervision of one who could even inquire, and he soon really cared for beauty and order. which is akin to happiness as Cecil found that for each of these there recognized him, and camp forward Fur the first time for weeks Frithiof were hundreds o£ applicants. felt hungry. No more was said of with a pretty eagerness of manner Each week brought him, of course, the unappetizing subject of the. letters from Norway, his uncle sent to greet him, too much astonished i dearth of work, nor did they speak at his sudden appearance for anyi him Tetters of introduction to earl.- much of their Norwegian recollec- ous London firms. but each letterthought of shyness to intervene. I tions, because they know it would We thought you must have gone be a sore subject with him just now. brought him only fresh disappoint- back to Norway," she exclaimed. ''I went, ayou so glad have come to see Meanwhile in the study a very At first certain aspects of Lon -I matter-of-fact conversation was be - don life had startled Frithiof ; but he speedily became accustomed to them; if he thought of them at all it was with indifference rather than disgust. One day, however, he passed with seeming abruptness in- to a new state of mind. Sick with disappointment after the failure of a rather promising scheme sug- gested to him by one of the men to whom his uncle had written, he her twilight. lk 'too hopBlesa auol wretched even to notice the direciv,,n he had taken, and with a miserable perception Its his last good card was played, and that all hope of success was over. To gain an honest living was ap- parently impossible, the world af- forded him no facilities for that, hut it afforded him countless oppor- tunities of 'Viable another sort of life, Why should he not take what be could get Life was miserable and worthless enough, but at least he might put an end to the hideous monotony of the search after work, at least he might plunge into a us, The children thought it was Roy who opened the gate. He will be home directly. He will be so glad to see you." "I should have called before," said Frithiof, "but my days have been very full, and then, too, I was not quite sure of your address." He followed her into the brightly lighted hall, and with a sort of sat- isfaction at isfaction shut out the damp Novem- wa ed through the crowded streets, Nee .W2• so often spoken of you and your sisters," said Cecil; but when Roy called at the Arundel and found that you had left without giv- ing any address, we thought you must have gone back to Bergen." "Did he call on me again there?" said Frithiof. "I remember now he promised that he would come, I ought to have thought of it; but somehow all was confusion that night, and eftei•weed I was too ill." "It must have been terrible for you all alone among strangers in a foreign country," said Cecil, the ready tears starting to her eyes. "Come in and see my mother, she which world have at has often heard how good you all phase of life any rate the charm of novelty. were to us in Norway." She opened a door It was one of those autumn days dooron the left of when shadow and sun altercate the entrance hall and took him into • quickly a gleam of sunshine now flooded the street with brightness. It seemed to him that a gleans of light had also broken the drease- ness of his life. If he sinned he would do so deliberately. He look- ed the two lives fairly in the face now, and in his heart he knew which attracted him most. The dis- covery startled him. "Why not? why not!" urged the tempter. And the vague shrinking seemed to grow less; nothing in heaven or earth seemed real to him; one of the prettiest rooms he ha ever seen; the soft crimson carpet, the inlaid rusewood furniture, the book -shelves with their rows of well -bound books all seemed to be- long to to each other, and a delight- fully home -like feeling came over him as he sat by the fire, answering Mrs. Boniface's friendly inquiries; he could almost have fancied him- self once more in his father's study at Bergen—the room where so many of their long winter evenings had been passed. he felt that nothing mattered a Mrs, Boniface was one of those straw. As well that way as any very natural, homely people Whose commonplace remarks have a sort of flavor of their own, and Cecil had something of the same gift. At last the front door opened and footsteps sounded in the hall. little Lance ran out to greet Mr. Boniface and Roy. and Frithiof felt a sudden shame as he remembered the purse - proud tradesman that foolish pre- judice had conjured up in his brain —a, being wholly unlike the kindly, oog man w wanderings he had thought of Roy shoolantlhandsttr h him seeming in Bonifaee, and had wondered whe- a moment to know who he was and he should seek frim out again ; all about him. but in his trouble he lied shrunk about so you have been in Lon- ,donfrom going to comparative astrap- ,don all this time!" exclaimed Roy. gees, and, as far as businese went, ung held. "What I want to find out," said Mr. Boniface, "is whether you are really in earnest in what you say about work. There are thousands of young men saying exactly the same thing, but when you take the They lowered away, but before the boat was in the water Ifirstell's efforts had brought him almost be- neath the overhang of the stern, and the shark was less than a dozen feet behind. The men who had not manned the life -boat turned aside in dread of seeing Kirstell dragged beneath the water, when William Tozer, the third officer, a big Eng- lishman, sprang on to the rail and dived overboard. In one hand he clutched his big sailor's knife, its blade ready opened. His body scarcely raised a ripple as it cut into the water, but an in- stant later there was a tremendous commotion where the shark had been coming on. Its tail lashed the water, and the big fin thrashed up and down. Then it disappeared amidst the reddening water, and a moment later Tozer rose to the sur- face, to catch a long breath and strike out easily for the steamer. When he and Kirstell had been hauled aboard, the young third offi- cer explained that he had merely performed a trick common to many of the natives of the south seas, where he has cruised for many years, He had timed his dive to come up beneath the shark, and had ripped him open with the big knife. There was some danger if you missed the shark the first time, he confessed. other. Why not? Still the thought of Sigrid held him in check, the remembrance of her clear blue eyes seemed to force himto go deeper down beneath the surface of the sullen anger and disappointment which were goad- ing him on to an evil life. Was it after all suite true ? Had he really tried everything? Two or three times during his it was scarcely likely that Roy could help him. Again came the horrible tempts tio, again that sort of terror of his own nature. He turned once more to the picture of the Remsdalshorn ; its seemed to be the one thing which could witness to frim of truth and beauty and a life above the level of the beasts. Very slowly and gradually he be- gan to see things as they really were ; he saw that if Ise yielded to his temptation he could never again face Sigrid with a clear con- science. He saw, too, that his only safeguard lay in something whieh would take him out of himself, "1 will get work," he said, almost not find fiercely. "For Sigrid's sake. I'll; wt! doMr. Baniface.y�"What sortsomething, h ne more try. "Whereabouts are you staving •1" "Close to Vauxhall Station," re- plied Frithiof. "Two or three times I thought of looking you np, but there was always so much to do." "You have found work here, then?" "No, indeed ; I wish I had. It seems to me one may starve in this !place before finding anything to do." "Gwen wishes to say good -night to you, Herr Feick," said Cecil, leading the little girl up to him ; and the bitter look died out of Fri- thiof's face for a minute as he stooped to kiss the baby mouth that was temptingly offered to him. "It will be hard if in all London New modern plant of E. W. Gillett Company Limited, Toronto, Ont., consisting of six buildings, with three Railway sidings and separate office building. trouble to go into their complaint you find that the real ery is not 'Give me work by which I can get an honest living!' but 'Give me work that does not clash with my tastes—work that I thoroughly like.' " "I have no particular tastes," said Frithiof, coldly. "The sort of work is quite indifferent to me as long as it will bring in money." "You are really willing to be- gin at the bottom of the ladder and work your way up? You are not above taking a step which would place you much lower in the social scale." "A fellow living on the charity of a relation who grudges every far- thing, as taking something away from his own children, is not likely to trouble much about the social scale." said Frithiof, bitterly. "Very well. Then I will, at any rate, suggest my plan for you, and seo what you think of it. If you care to accept it until something better turns up, I can give you a situation in my hoose of business. Your salary to begin with would be hut small; the man who leaves me next Monday has had only five -and - twenty shillings a week, and I could not without unfair favoritism give you more at first. But every man has a chance of rising—and 1 am quite sure that you, with your ad- vantages, would do so. You under- stand that, as I said, it is mere work that I am offering vou. Doubt- less standing behind a counter will not he very congenial work to one brought up as you have been ; but you might do infinitely worse, and I can at least promise you that you will be treated as a man—not, as in many places you would find it, as a mere `hand.'' (To be continued.) But he felt, as thousands have felt before him, that he was handl- capped in the struggle by his lone- liness, and perhaps it wee this con- sciousness snore than any expecta- tion of finding workwhich made him swallow his pride and turn his steps toward Brixton, CHAPTER XII. 13y the time he reached Brixton had never i- dusk. was cute Roy it f t Il i h' his address but work do you want? "I would do anything," said Fri- thiof. "Sweep a crossing if neces- sary." They all laughed. "Many people say that vaguely," said Mr, Boniface. "But when one conies to practical details they draw back. The mud and the broom look drs tan Ce you all very well thein , y , see." Then' as a bell was rung rn the hall, "tat tts have tea first, and i you ill COMA into m afterward, f wY , Y t tl we will talk the matter over, We are old-fashioned people in is INTELLECTUAL PILLS. To Increase Man's Physical and Mental Tiger. It took a German scientist to in- vent the intellectual pill. The basis of this is a drug called antikenotoxin, which has the qual- ity of neutralizing the poisons which are said to be the cause of mental fatigue. Dr. Weichardt, professor at the University of Erlangen, Germany, recently demonstrated that the muscles of animals suffering from physical or mental weariness secrete a certain poison, to which he gave the name kenotoxin. Then it was shown that antikenotoxin in - • Co ' limas te' a it 2y _a 4 �za.-/e6 > - a -v-2 G 1'110 t • ethhi Ne' l d Better. this &P and Sealed Pckge Ask uoLr' row about it CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO. UMIIE1I. MONTREAL. jetted into a man increased his physical and mental vigor. This led Prof. Lorentz to think of utilizing antikenotoxin to stimulate brain work. He considered that errors of calculation, for example, should be set clown to fatigue. He found that problems given to his class in mathematics at the be- ginning of the lesson were solved in five minutes by three students; in eight minutes by thirty-three; in ten minutes by sixteen. Other similar problems, given at the close of the lesson were solved in five minutes by one student; in eight minutes by twenty-seven; in ten minutes by twenty-three. Evi- dently. said the professor, it is men- tal fatigue that causes the slower Work. On a subsequent day Prof. Lor- entz vaporized antikenotoxin in the class -room first before the close of the period and then set his pupils problems as before. The. result was that they were solved in three min- utes by three students; in four minutes by thirty-one, and in ten minutes by one. And the solutions contained fewer errors than usual. This was the origin of Dr. Lor- cntz's intellectual pills. European physicians are still a bit sceptical,, saying the pills must be subjected to more thorough tests. when he was a child. Since it ha•s been ploughed in it has been cover- ed with an amazing assortment of pansies o£ splendid quality. "No seed," says the vicar, "has been sown nor have there been any pansies nearby. The only solution I can give is that the seed must have lain dormant in the soil for more than a century." One of the pansies, it appears, is of an altogether unusual type, be- ing like a gold and bronze butter- fly. d• Occasionally we meet a grown man who can eat almost as much as a small boy. If young stock are reduced to starvation rations in a drought - stricken pasture they not only cease to grow but they suffer a let -down in condition from which they are very slow to recover. PANSIES GIVE •A SURPRISE. Seed Must have Lain Dormant More Than a Century. The Rev. Tertius Poole, Vicar of Culmstook, in Devon, England, tells a curious story of the results of ploughing in a grass lawn the year before last for the purpose of turning it into a rose garden. He says the lawn had not been disturb- ed for quite a hundred years. A parishioner who is 95 years of age says that his father used to mow it KNIFING ,x SIi,1.iLii. Brave Deed of a British Sailor at Santa Lucia. Whether sharks really eat human beings or not, no one likes to be chased or to see a friend chased by ono of them. And so, whether Wil- liam Tozer ectilr lly saved Ms ship- mate's life or not, he did a very brave thing, in a vary neat and workmanlike manner. f George ?rrrstsll to w arde When eo. I , t Wlo G the British steamship 'Ramsay, fell overboard while the steamer was f Captain Lucia, C✓ Santa L coalingat S n 15 rete ao ua y given rm , s u y Ms.11en and the officers and c ,. he made inquiries at is shop in. the this most of whom were an deck, laugh - neighborhood, was offered the loan, house and keep to the oldcustom'cd heartily at the plight of the of a diteci ory , and having found of tea and supper. I dont know steward. Kirateli was no pestie- NO DANGER. Miss Antique—I hope, driver, you will not run away with me! Cabby—Bless yer, no mum l I've got a wife and six young 'uns at home already. � 0n the Farm traD•6411'b2/iW 1.-i~b•O4v1: W.99 CONSERVING SOIL MOISTURE, The damage directly attribntablo to dx'outh represent an onormoue annual loss to farmers. If we would devote more attention to the work of conserving soil moisture during the spring and early summer, the summer drouths would be far less destructive to our growing crops. `[horn are few seasons when thero is not sufficient moisture to mature good crops if proper methods are employed in handling our sails so that the moisture will not be lost through evaporittion during the pri- mary growth of the crop, The growth of crops should net be retarded at a time when it is within our power to provide them with moisture. The average farmer begins every spring with an average supply of moisture in his soil to supply the crops through a rainless season, but on most of our farms the lack of drainage and indifference to the conservation of moisture reduce the yield of crops. After the soil moisture has been allowed to evaporate we are pow- erless to provide a new supple for the crops that have been robbed. Summer drouths can be avoided in no other way than by improving the water -holding capacity of the soils and shaping the . methods of tillage and cultivation so that we may -prevent the loss of the mois- ture with which they are saturated at the beginning of the season, On many soils underdrainage is necessary and will produce won- derful changes in the character of the soil. It improves its action to- ward heat, light penetration of roots, and the implements used in the preparation and cultivation and stimulates bacterial action, which we are just beginning to ap- preciate as an important factor in soil fertility. . 1' a ••.,., �.---mac— _ J. .^ A root cellar like this won a prize last year. `IIE drawing was made from a photograph of the root -cellar with which D. A. Purdy, of Lumsden, Sask., won a cash prize in last year's contest. In that last contest there were 36 prizes. There will be three times as many prizes (108) in the 1912 FARMERS' PRIZE CONTEST THUS you will have three times as many chances of winning a cash prize. You do not have to use any certain amount of Canada Cement to win a prize. There are absolutely no "strings" to this offer. There are twelve prizes for each Province(three of $50 ; three of $25; three of $15; and three of $10) and you compete only with other farmers in your own Prev- ince and not with those all over Canada. ' 11 makes no difference whether you have ever used cement. Many of last year's winners had not used it until they entered the contest. When you write for full particulars, we will send you, free, a book, "Whoa the Farmer Can Do With Concrete," which tells evcryeliitig you need to know about concrete. It is absolutely free, and you are under 110 i obligation to buy "Canada" Ccmentor to do anything Ilse for tis. Wa1Tn your name and gddre,l eh the 40 044, and mill 16 or u,e levet of poet earj. ad pe will „nd ran al ante rhe book .nd. rnli raSl,nlar, of tie 1912 raze Conte,,. Adan.* Publicity Meoaeez CMOS COMMA Company Gimltell ; 504.s54 Herald Building, NuttedtteNutted .Y.e0 cvax ///'e.,0/ '• ,/ / // , s,//!///„ BENEFITS OF SPRAYING. For the purpose of showing the farmer and fruit grower how he might save that part of the apple orop which is usually sacrificed to insect and fungi, most excellent ex- periments were made during one entire season by the Kansas Col- lege of Agriculture, the college -men going into the field and personally carrying on the work of spraying. The results of the spraying were uniformly good, and the owners of the sprayed orchards were well pleased. The following splendid results of this work are valuable to farmers and fruit -growers in Canada as well as Kansas, for they demon- strate beyond a doubt the helpful- ness of spraying, Commercial results from seven widely separated orchards, includ- ing both commercial and home types and composed of the varieties of apples recognized as standard in Kansas, carefully sprayed showed an average gain of four bushels in actual yield o£ merchantable fruit per tree, or 37 per cent., compared with untreated parts of the same orchards. Not only was the actual and rela- tive amount of merchantable fruit materially increased, but the aver- age percentage of number ones and number twos, which are the high- priced grades, was also increased by fifteen per cent. and 6.6 per cent. respectively. The average net profit from spraying was shown to be $1.62 par 'tree, or $97.20 per acre when the fruit was sold as orchard run, and to be almost doubled when proper- ly graded and marketed. All seriously injurious insects and • fungous diseases have been marked- ly reduced and most of them have been made almost negligible. Prepared lime, sulphur plus arse- nate of lead has produced the best results on apples subjected to Bor- deaux injury and nearly free from apple blotch, while Bordeaux mix- ture plus arsenate of lead gave best results on varieties attacked by ten - pie blotch, DAIRY SUGG1ITSTIONS. The universal interests his the problem cf increasing dairy profits through the cow -tasting associations show that dairy farmers are willing" to learn better ways when they have convincing. proof to sustain 'a theory: Some dairy farmers who are pro- ducing veal and cream Prem the same cows mill; the cows partially and let the calves fhfish, Pretty rich feed for• the calves for the -fat content of the first milking is about two per cent, fat. A little dairy ' education would save $100 a year in many dairies in this one point alone. It is imperative that we, provide 56110 means of tiding the dairy herd over the season ,if failing pas- ttu1irMes, , inhstseacdccoreai nly regretting Ph:, dairyman who depend., imam the pasture during the su+mnrr nncl - •', ,. louse to feed his lln•du1,l.,thety 1 , r p, t -i r..h r til ',,,• i� ....!din nn ,:• c \ tt +d ground.