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The Brussels Post, 1912-8-22, Page 2ONLY A NI OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPI4AINED. CAHPTEIR, XIV. The cemetery just outxiie the Stadsport at Bergen, which had called rth the eage' admt".st' .n of Blanche Morgan in the previ•i,s summer, looked perhaps even leve- ller now that winter had come with its soft, whits shroud, The body of Sigurd Falek rested beside that of his wife in the midst of all this love- liness, and one winter afternoon Sigrid and littre Swanhild came to bring to the grave their wreaths and crosses, for „ft was their father's birthday. They had walked from their uncle's house laden with all the flowers they had been able to collect, and now steed at the gate of the cemetery, which opened stiff- ly owing to the frost. Sigrid looked older and even sadder than she had done in the first shock of her father's death, but little Swanhild had just the same fair rosy face as before. "No one else has remembered his birthday," she said, as they enter- ed the silent grave -yard. "See, the snow is quite =trodden. Sigrid, when are they going to put father's name on the stone ?" and she point- ed to the slanting marble slab which leaned against the small cross. "There is only mother's name still. Won't they put a bigger slab in- stead where there will be room for both " ` "Nat now," said Sigrid, her voice trembling. "But why not, Sigrid? Every one else has names put. It seems as if we had forgotten him." "Oh, no, no," said Sigrid, with a sob. `It isn't that, darling; it is that we remember so well, and know what he would have wished about it." "I don't understand," said the child wistfully. "It is in this way," said Sigrid taking her hand tenderly. "I can not have money spent on the tomb- stone, because he would not have liked it. Oh, Swanhild 1 -you must know it some day, you shall hear it now -it was not only his own money that was lost, it was the money of other people. And till it is paid back how can I alter this 1" Swanhild's eyes grew large and bright. "It was that, then, that made him die," she faltered. "He would be so sorry for the other people. Oh, Sigrid, I will be so good; I don't think I shall ever be naughty again. Why didn't you tell me before, and then I shouldn't have been cross because you wouldn't - buy me things?" "I wanted to shield you and keep you from knowing," said Sigrid. "But after all, it is better that you should hear it from me than from some outsider." "You will treat me like a baby, Sigrid, and I'm ten years old after all -quite old enough to be told things. . . And oh, you'll let me help to earn money and pay back the people, won't you?" "That is what Frithiof is trying to do," said Sigrid, "but it is so dif- ficult and so slow. And I can't think of anything we can do to help." "Poor dear old Frithiof," said Swanhild. And she gazed away over the frozen lake to the snow moun- tains which bounded the view, as if she would like to see right through ahem into the big London shop where, behind a 'counter, there stood a fair-haired Norseman toil- ing bravely to pay off those debts of which she had just heard. Very sadly they left the cemetery, pausing again to struggle with the stiff gate, while Swanhild held the empty flower -baskets. "Can't you do it?" exclaimed the child. "What a tiresome gate it is I worse to fasten than to un- fasten. But see! here come the Lundgrens. They will help." Sigrid glanced round, blushing vividly as she met the eager eyes of Torvald Lundgren, one of Fri- thiof's school friends. The greet- ings were frank and friendly on both sides, and Madale, a tall, pret- ty girl of sixteen, took little Swan- hild's arm and walked on with her. "Let us leave those two to set- tle the gate between them," she. said, smiling. "It is far too cold to wait'for thein." OId folks who need something of the kind, find NA' D . o LAXATIVES most effective without any- dis0omfort. Increased doses not needed. 25e. 0 box et your druggist's, flst!u& tier end chsmtcsl co, of Conant ttmltsd....... 164 Now Torvald Lundgren was a year or two older than Frithiof, and having long been in a position of authority he was unusually old for his age. As a friend Sigrid liked him, but of late she had half feared that he wished to be more than a friend, and consequently she was not well pleased to see that, by the time the gate was actually shut, Madge and Swanhild were far in advance of them. "Have you heard from Frithiof yet 1" she asked, walking on brisk- ly. "No," said Torvald. "Pray scold him well for me when you next write. How floes he seem? In bet- ter spirits again?" "I don't know," said Sigrid; "even to me he writes very seldom.; It is wretched having him so far away and not knowing what is hap- pening to him." "I wish there was anything I could do for him," said Torvald, "but there seems no chance of any opening out here for him." "That is what my uncle says. Yet it was no fault of Frithiof's, it seems hard that he should have to suffer. I think the world is very cruel. You and Madale were almost the only friends who stood by us; you were almost the only ones who scattered fir branches in the road on the morning of my father's fun- eral." "You noticed that?" he said, col- oring. "Yes; when I saw how little had been strewn I felt hurt and sore to think that the others had shown so little respect for him, and grateful to you and Madale." "Sigrid," he said, quietly, "why will you not let me be something more to you than a friend? All that I have is yours. You are not happy in Herr Grenvold's house. Let me take care of you. Come and make my house happy, and bring Swan- hild with you to be my little sister." "Oh, Torvald I" she cried, "I wish you had not asked me that. You are so good and kind, but- but-" "Do not answer me just yet, then; take time to think it over," he pleaded; "and indeed I would do my best to make you very hap- py `I know you would," she replied, her eyes filling with tears. "But yet it could never be. I could never love you as a wife should love a husband, and I am much too fond of you, Torvald, to let you be mar- ried just for your comfortable house." "Your aunt led me to expect that, perhaps, in time, after your first grief had' passed-" "Then it was very wrong of her," said Sigrid, hotly. "You have al- ways been my friend -a sort of sec- ond brother to me -and oh, do let it be so still. Don't leave off being my friend because of this, for indeed I can not help it." "My only wish is to help you," he said, sadly, "it shall be as you would have it." And then they walked on together in an uncomfortable silence until they overtook the others at Herr Gronvold's gate, where Torvald grasped her hand for a moment, then, looking at his watch, hurried Madale away, saying that he should be late for some appointment. Fru Gronvold had unluckily been looking out of the window and had seen the little group outside. She opened the front door as the two girls climbed the steps. "Why did not the Lundgrens come in?" she asked, a look of an- noyance passing over her thin, worn face. "I didn't ask them," said Sigrid, blushing, "And I think Torvald had some engagement,' said Swanhild, un- consciously coining to the rescue. "You have been out a long time, Swanhild, now ren away to your practicing," said Fru Gronvold, in the tone which the child detested. "Come in here, Sigrid, I want a word with you." Fru Gronvold had the best of hearts, but her manner was =for- tunate; from sheer anxiety to dc well by people she often repulsed them. To Sigrid, accustomed from her earliest girlhood to come and go as she pleased and to manage her father's house, this manner was almost intolerahie, She resented interference most strongly, and was far too young and inexperienced to see, beneath her aunt's dictatorial tone, the real kindness that exist- ed. Her blue eyes looked defiant as she marched into the sitting -room, and drawing off her gloves began to warm her hands by the stove, "Why did you not eek Torvald Lundgren to come in 1" asked Fru Gronvold, taking up her knitting. "Because I didn't want to ask WATCH, YOUR CHILDREN'S HEALTH If any of your children xoom to be Palo and anaemia, growing too fast or too slowly, don't start doctoring them, Food is the keynote of a child's growth and health. Some children, owing to constitutional weakness, or as a result of children's diseases, w111 not thrive on food from which stronger ones benefit. In such cases the addition of Bovril to the dint will produce marked. results. Bovril is concentrated beef in its best and moat palatable form. Stringent solenti.ae tests have shown that it is a great ody-builder. It is In Itself a highly condensed food, but it possesses the remarkable power' of enabling tho system to draw the full store of nutriment from ordinary food, Give your child between meals, once a day, a cup of warm milk, in whish 9011. have stirred a spoonful of Bovril, and try a dash of Bovril in your gravies, sauces and soups. It will bo not only the delicate ones wbo will appreciate the added zest, all will benefit from the increased nutrition. him, alrnbie," "But you ought to think what nacre him happy --as happy as he other people want, not always of yourself." "I'did," said Sigrid, quickly. "I knew he didn't want to Dome in." "What nonsense you talk, child !" said Fru Gronvold, knitting with more vigor than before, as if she vented her impatience upon the sock .she was making. "You must know quite well that Torvald admires you very much; it is mare affection to pretend not to see what is patent to all the world." "I do not pretend," said Sigrid, angrily, "but you -you have en- couraged him to hope, and it is un- fair and unkind of you. He told me you had spoken to him." "What! he has proposed to you?" said Fru Gronvold, dropping her work. "Did he speak to you to- day, dear ?" "Yes," said Sigrid, blushing crim- son. "And you said you would let him have his answer later on. I see, Of course you could not ask him in." "I said nothing of the sort," said Sigrid, vehemently. "I told him that I could never think of marry- ing him, and we shall still be the good friends we have always been." "My dear child," cried Fru Gron- void, with genuine distress in her tone, "how could you be so foolish, so blind to all your own interests? He is a most excellent fellow, good and steady and rich -all that heart could wish." "There, I don't agree with you," said Sigrid, perversely. "I should wish my husband to be very differ- ent. He is just like Torvald in Ib- sen's `Ett Dukkenbjem,' we always told him so." "Pray don't quote that hateful play to me," said Fru Gronvold. "Every one knows that Ibsen's fool- ish ideas about women being equal to men and sharing their confidence, could only bring misery and mis- chief. Torvald Lundgren is a good, upright, honorable man, and your refusing him is most foolish." "He is very good, I quite admit," said Sigrid. "He is my friend, and has been always, and will be always. But if he were the only man on earth nothing would induce me to -marry him. It would only mean wretchedness for us both." "Well, pray don't pub your fool- ish notions about equality and ideal into Karen's head," said Fru Gron- vold, sharply. "Since you are so stupid and unpractical it will be well that Karen should accept the first good offer sire receives." "We are not likely to discuss the matter," said Sigrid, and rising to her feet she hurriedly ;eft the room. Upstairs she ran choking with angry tears, her aunt's last words haunting her persistently and in - Rioting deeper wounds the more she dwelt upon them. "She wants me to marry himso that she may be rid of the expense of keeping us," thought the poor girl. "She doesn't really care for us a bit, for all the time she is grudging the money we cost her. But I won't be such a bad friend to poor Torvald as to marry him be- cause I am miserable here, I would rather starve than do that. Ohl how I hate her maxims about taking what you can get I Why should love and equality and a true union lead to misery and mischief? It is the injustice of lowering woman into a mere pleasant housekeeper that brings half the pain of the world, it seems to me." But by the time Sigrid had lived through the long evening, bearing as best she »night the consciousness of her aunt's disappointment and vexation with her, another thought had begun to stir in her heart. And when that night she went to her room her tears were no longer the tears of anger, but of a miserable loneliness and desolation. She looked at little Swanhild ly- ing fast asleep, and wondered how the refusal would 'affect her life. "After all," she thought to her- self, "Swanhild would have been happier had I accepted him. She would have had a much nicer home, and Torvald would never have let her feel thats he was a burden, He would have been very kind to us both, and I suppose I might have would ever have expected to be. And I might have been able to help Frithiof, • for we ahouid have beat rich. Perhaps I ant losing this chance, of what would be best for every one else just fora, fancy. Oh, what am. I to do? After all, he would have been very kind, and here they are not really kind. He would have taken such care of me, and it would surely be very nice to be taken care of again," (To be continued.) TRAVELLING LIGHT. Yet De Latocnaye Was Able to Ap- pear at Diluter in Full Dross. Sir Charles Napier was once de- lightfully pictured in Punch as set- ting out for Seinde with "his soap" and very little besides. De Latoc- naye, a Breton emigre of 1700, who travelled in Ireland, chiefly on foot, and invariably turned up at the houses of his friends with almost no visible baggage, carried nearly as simple an outfit. Yet in some mys- terious way he was always able to appear .at dinner in full dress. In his book, "Promenade en Irlande," De Latocnaye tells how he accom- plished- this feat. "I had my hair -powder in a bag made of a lady's glove; my razor, needles, thread, scissors and a comb all went into a pair of danc- ing -pumps. In addition, I carried two pairs of silkestockings, breeches of such fine stuff that they would fold up as small as my fist, three cravats, two very fine shirts, three pocket -handkerchiefs, and a dress coat with six pockets. "Three of these pockets I kept for letters, portfolio, and so forth; in the others, whenever I was going to call at a decent house, I stowed away my belongings, which were packed, some in the pumps, the rest in one of the pairs of stockings. "At other times," he concludes, with more than French vivacity, "I tied the three parcels in a handker- chief and carried them at the end of my walkni;g-stick, on which I had managed to fix an umbrella." Thus equipped, he stayed at Lord Kenmore's for a week, at Hazel- wood and at Florence Court for the same length of time, at Lord A1ta- mont's and Ballynahinch for longer still, no doubt to the astonishment of housemaids as well as of hosts. But .he was never disturbed by his lack of luggage, aed steadily re- fused all proffered loans of cloth- ing. By the time De Latocnaye got to Sligo the weather had broken, and he was obliged to add a spencer to his wordrobe. g ' CORRECT. •i!!i !i!i!!';!!i!ijii!!ii!i:!!E! • .::: !!i!!:ii!i "Here's a little problem for you. Jones bought a dog for $10, and sold it for 15 per cent. profit, to Smith. Smith sold it to Robinson for sir% per cent. profit, and Robin- son unloaded it on Perkins for 5 per cent. more gain. Then Per- kins sold the brute at a 10 per cent, loss. Now, the question is, what did Perkins sell it for?" "Gosh! Too complicated for me. What did Perkins sell it for?" "Because it bit one of his chil- dren on the leg!" POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Talk isn't always cheap; it often costa a man a black eye. A bigamist is a man who has more wives than brains. A bent pin on a chair makes an excellent starting point. It's easy to earn a living, but getting it is another proposition. No, Alonzo, you can't make both ends meet by stretching the imagi- nation, Our idea of an optimist is a man who saves a little sunshine for a rainy day. ' An occasional, failure encourages the hustler to make a more strenu- ous effort, Experience is a great teacher, but graduates are handed their diplomas by the undertaker. Love may not make the world go round, but it has that effect on the wheels in the lover's head. A piece of colored glass looks beautiful in a chureh window, but it does not show up well in a ring. A mon never knows how fleet- footed he really is until he has oc- casion to make it getaway from a leap -year girl. 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The stock content to feed upon the good pasture at hand, rather than busy themselves trying to break into for- bidden fields, possibly not nearly as good, are the ones that make tbe- most gain in weight. The hen that is dogged every time she finds a nice soft place to scratch is not the one that makes. the best egg record. She may be hard on the garden, but a good fence would easily fix that. Do not discourage. her natural efforts and then expect her to do her best for you. The horse that is compelled to fight flies continually cannot get in a full day's work, or at least if it does there is less in stamina which eventually tells on the life work of the animal. Neither can it do its , strain. best with an ill-fitting harness. The horse that is comfortable and in good spirits is the one which makes the record. A flock of sheep harassed by dogs soon show the trouble in their gen- eral condition as surely as in their manner. Fleetness of foot is not one of the characteristics of the ani- mal and when this is enforced as a means of preservation it is to the detriment of the flock. The farmer and his family, as well as his stock, accomplish more when carefree and in a happy turn of mind. All Nature is fresh- and cheerful. It is profitable for us to be likewise I getting recognition as a partner in the business. This is having -it has had -its ef- fect, and the result is, farmers are now posted on poultry profits. They will continue to be posted, and those who have been operating incubators will go back to hen incubation only when they return to the old custom of treading out the grain with oxen- --only when they are prepared to put the cream separator on the shelf. Poultrymen who are in the busi- ness commercially -whose living de- pends upon the profits -would as soon think of threshing grain with the old-time flail as they would of hatching chicks or ducklings with hens or ducks. The thought would be absurd. Without the incubator they would have to go out of busi- ness. NOTES OF THE HOG LOT. If a thin sow has more pigs than she can suckle to advantage, take part of them away and raise them on a bottle. They should be taken away when only two or three days old, and they will then quickly learn to take milk through the ordinary nursing bottle with a rubber nipple and in a short time will learn to drink from the trough. Bad practice to sell good - brood sows and replace with young gilts, as continued breeding from imma- ture sows will produce a weak In selecting a brood sow watch the herd at feeding time. The thriftiest always get to the trough first, and these are the ones to buy. Never buy a brood sow with short legs and short, ohunky body. She must have big feeding capacity in order to produce plenty of milk. LEARN TO GRAFT. Why not urge the boys to experi- ment in grafting different kinds of fruit trees? Dig up some email fruit trees, such as plum, cherry, apple or peach, some of which can be raised by planting the seed. The plum and cherry trees can be found almost any time where the sprouts come from the old trees. Then get some limbs from a tree of the same kind and of a choice variety and bury them all in a box of dry dirt in the cellar. At any time during the winter or spring graft them and put them back in the dirt till time to plant out. Including natives and Europeans, the population of India is 315,000,- 000, CROWDING OUT THE HENS. Where not many years ago nine out of ten farms had never heard of an incubator, to -day the 'word is passing from. farm to farm that the profits Ore larger, the work less on- erous, the hatches more. sure,, and the hens are taking fewer holidays, laying more eggs. Not all on ac- count of the incubators, but prim- arily on account of the incubator, and, secondly, on account of the large amount of book. 'knowledge distributed with it. 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According to the Landon Daily Mirror, the fashion, introduced seine time ago, of using live lizards as women's adornments is growing rapidly in favor, and bids fair soon to become the "rage." Many women now pay afternoon calls car- essing wriggling green lizards, which have little gold- or silver col, lays round their scaly necks. So popular has the reptile become that it threatens to depose the fluffy beauties of the Pomeranian and Pee kinese world from their posts of honor. A lizard has many qualifications as a pet. It can cling around and decorate its owner's neck ; get itself tucked up under the collar of a coat ; snuggle under fluffy wraps and feather boas; he used as a live and elegant bracelet; carried with dignity in the hand, and shoved away in a bag should it happen to be temporarily in the way. And it has a further advantage -not that it is material -of being cheap; 60 centstite. will buy one, and eight meal worms a day -they cost 12 cents per 100 -will satisfy its normal appe- HAS BECOME CRAZE. "Scores of well-known.; ladies keep lizards as pets," said T. W. Seal. Mr, Seal is an authority on the subject. He has a shop where he has sold hundreds of lizards to well-known persons. "The fashion started last April. A lady artist had four blue Persian cats, but she wanted to add to the color scheme, and so she bought a few bright grass -green Dalmatian lizards, and now the blue eats and green lizards frisk about together on the floor of the lady's studio. Her friends were delighted with the idea, and the craze for lizards has become so popular that during the last two months I have sold hundreds. "Dangerous? Not a bit. We tame them before selling them. We handle them over water -if they fall they don't hurt themselves -until they get accustomed to us and stop biting, and afterward they never give any trouble. ATTACHED TO A CHAIR. "There are various kinds of liz- ards -the wall, green, Horned, Gal- lott's, great spotted eye, the Dal- matian and the Austrian, the blue - throated -but the spotted eye liz- ard and the Dalmatian are the best. They aro about twelve to eighteen inches long, and ladies carry them about while walking or motoring. As a rule a pet lizard.has a tiny gold or silver collar around its neck, and attached to it is a chain, so there is no chance of the pet getting lost while out with its mis- tress. "Lizards are no trouble to keep. You put them'in a glass case when they are not being fondled, and all they require is a glass of water and a few meal worms. These worms - they are about an inch long -come from Germany, and from eight to ten form a complete meal. They like just a pinch of lettuce, but worms are their favorite dish. They need to be fed only once a day -in the evening. "One of my customers has named, her lizard Fritz. `Fritz !' she calls, and the lizard goes to her and ac- tually holds up its head to be fed. "It's the same in my shop. All the lizards know when it is feeding time, and when I approach them with the worms they put up their heads and open their mouths. They won't touch dead worms. '1' WISH ()CICELY GRANTED. Kaiser's Youngest Son Does Fairy Godmother Act. The Kaiser's youngest son, Joa• shim, has been indulging in the fairy godmother act. An Augsburg machine shop ap- prentice Josef Mirk, was tramping toward Strassburg, where he hoped to find work. He was sitting by the roadside day -dreaming aloud for the benefit of a laborer whom he had met, "If I were king," he observed, "I would ride to Strassburg in a red velvet motor car with a golden coin in my pocket instead of -ono small. silver piece." Hardly had he said the words when a red upholstered powerful motor glowed up alongside and a young man about the apprentice's age, -plainly dressed, asked if the apprentice was going to Stress- burg and if he would like a title. The day -dreamer accepted with alacrity. His companion dropped hien at the Labor Exchange, pressing a gold coin into his hand and bidding him call at e certain works the next- day. extday. Not until he had seen the manager of the works and obtained employment did the apprentice learn that the motorist was Prince 5'oachim, ik.---....-q+ In Spain .and Italy vinegar is pro- vided by the l-andowners for the laborers hi harvest -time. �pn