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."
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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
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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.
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"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.
And many a man's self-control is
due to the fact that his wife is big
enough and strong enough to sit on,
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On the Farm
ANIMAL HAPPINESS.
The dairyman who is looking for
results will not allow the dog or
the small boy to worry his cows. He
knows that if he wants a well-filled
pail they must not be frightened,
but kept quiet and content.
The grower of beef cattle is sure
to weed out the one that is continu-
ally bawling, when it should be
grazing, for the simple reason that
there is more waste than gain of
adipose tissue at such a time. 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.
The farmer's wife is doing her
she a "in the profit-making. She al-
ways has done it, but now she is
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THOSE DELIGHTFUL PETS
I.IVIf LIZAIRDS ARE THE RAGI1
IN LONDON NOW.
No Trouble to Keep --Glass of Wa-
ter and a Few 11icu1 Worms
Daily.
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.
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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,
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In Spain .and Italy vinegar is pro-
vided by the l-andowners for the
laborers hi harvest -time.
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