The Brussels Post, 1912-9-26, Page 7If ON LY A MONTH;
OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED.
CHAPTER XVII,—(Continued.)
"My .life is slipping by," she
thought to herself, "and somehow
I am not snaking the most of it. I
am harder and colder than before
all this trouble came, I was a mere
fine -weather character, and the
storm was too much for me, If I
go on hating tyuntie perhaps I shall
infect Swanhild, and make her turn
into just such another narrow -
hearted woman, Oh, why does one
have to live with people that rub
one just the wrong way?"
She fell asleep before she had
solved this problem, but woke
early and with a restless craving,
which she could not have explain-
ed, dressed hastily, put on all the
wraps that she possessed, and went
out into the fresh morning air.
Leaving the steep high -road, she
struck off to the left, intent on
gaining the top of ,Hjerkinsho. All
around her lay one great undulat-
ing sweep of gray country, warmed
by the bright sunlight of the sum
mer morning, and relieved here and
there by the purple shadow of some
cloud.
"If one could always be in a peace
like this," she thought, "surely life
would be beautiful then! If one
could get out of all the littleness
and narrowness of one's own heart,
and be silent and quiet from all the
worries and vexations and dislikes
of life 1 But if one could always
have a great wide open space like
this that one could go into when
one began to get erose—"
After a time she rose and walked
quietly home, full of an eager hope-
fulness, to begin what she rightly
felt would bo a new life.
Poor Sigrid! sho had yet to learn
that with fresh strength comes
harder lighting in the battle of life;
anti that of those to whom much
is given much will be required.
They were very cheerful that
you," said Major Brown, glancing
at the direction.
She stepped haetily forward to
take it from him, with flushed
cheeks and trembling hands; it
seamed an eternity before she had
torn it open, and the few words
within half paralyzed her.
For a moment all seemed to stand,
still, then she became conscious of
the voices around.
"Oh, we were almost blown away
at
Foksbuen," said one.
"But such fladbrod as they Make
there!" said another, "we brought
away quite a tinful."
"Nothing wrong, my dear, I
hope?" said Fru Gronvold. Ohild;
child, what is it/ Let me read,"
Then ease an ahnost irresistible
impulse to burst into a flood of
tears, checked only by the presence
of so many strangers, and by the
necessity of explaining to her aunt.
"It is in English," she saidin a
trembling voice. "From Mr. 'Boni-
face. It says only, 'Frithjof dan-
gerously ill. Come."'
"Poor child 1 you shall go at
once," said Fru Gronvold. "What
can be wrong with Frithiof? Dan
gerously ill! See, it was sent from
London yesterday. You .shall not
lose a moment, my dear. Here is
your uncle, I'll tell him everything,
and do you go and pack what things
you need,"
The girl obeyed; it seemed as if
when once she• had moved she was
capable only of the one fear—the
terrible fear lest she :should miss
the English steamer.
"I have murmured and rebelled,"
she thought to herself, "and now
God is going to take from me even
a chance of making up. Oh, how
hard it is to try too latel'
"We have been looking out the
routes, clear," said Fru Gronvold,
coming into the room, "and the
best way will be for you to try for
morning at breakfast. Afterward, theeFriday afternoon boat• from
when they were standing in a. little Christiania, it generally gets to
group outside the door, she even Hull alittle before the Saturday.
one from Bergen, your uncle says."
"When can I start?" asked ig-
reaaefly. ` M»
"You must start almost at once
for Lille-elvedal ; •it will be a ter-
rible tiring drive for you, I'ni afraid
—eighty-four kilometers and a
rough road. But stillthere is time
to do it, which is the 'great thing.
At Lille-elveda] you will take the
night train to 'Christiania, it is a
quick one, and will get you there
in len hours, quite in time to catch
the afternoon boat, you see. Your
uncle will take you.and see you in-
to the train,,: and if you like we can
telegraph te some friend .so meet
you at the Christiania Station; the
worst of it is, I fear most peop'e
are away just now,"
"Oh, I shall ,not went any one,"
said igrid. "if only I can catch
the steamer nothing,;matters."
"And do not worry more than
you can help," said Fru Gronvold,
"Who knows?You .xnay find hira
much better."
"They would not have sent un-
less they feared-" Sigrid -broke off
passed her arm within Sigrid's
quite tenderly, and talked in the
most amiable way imaginable of the
excursion which was being planned
to. l ongswold.
"Look! look -1" cried Swanhild,
merrily, "here are some travelers.
Two carioles and a stolkjaerre com-
ing up the hill. Oh! I hope they
will be nice, and that they will
stay here."••
The arrival caused quite a little
bustle of excitement, and many
speculations were made as to the
relationship of the two sportsmen
and the two ladies in the stolk-
jaerre,
"Is there any one of the name of
Feick here ?" asked one of the
travelers as he dismounted from
his variola, "We were at Dombaas
last night and promised to bring
this on; we told the landlord that
we meant to sleep at Fokstuene, but
he said there was no quicker way
of delivery. Seems a strange mode
of delivering telegrams, doesn't
it?"
"Why, Mies Feick, I see -it is for
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abruptly,, unable to finish her
tenco,
Then Dome the wrench of p
ing with poor Swanhild, who b
down altogether, and had to be
in the desolate little bedroom
bing her heart out, while
wont downstairs with her at
bade a hurried farewell to M
Brown, Oscar, and Karen; t
with a pale, tearless face,
climbed into the stolkjaerre,
was driven slowly away in tiro
motion of Dalen,
At length the final change
been made. Eylsaugen was pleas
and they .drove en as rapidly
might be for the last stage of t
journey. At any other time
beautiful fir forest through wh
they were passing would have
lighted her, and the silvery ri
in the valley below, with its ma
windings and its musical Tipp
would have made her long to st
Now she scarcely saw them; a
when, in the heart of the fore
the skydsgut declared that his ho
must rest for half an hour, she w
in despair.
"Bait there is plenty of tis
dear," Reid her .uncle, kind
"Como and take a turn with
it will rest you."
She paced to and fro with hi
trying to conquer the frenzy of
patience which threatened to ov
her.
"Seo," he eaid at length, as t
sat down to rest on one of t
moss -covered bowlders, "I will gi
you now while we are quiet
alone the money for your passa
Here is a check for fifty pout
you will have time to get it ca
in Christiania;" then as she pr
tested that it was far too muc
"No, no; you will need it all
England. It may prove a long i
nese; and, in any case," he aclde
awkwardly, "there must be e
pauses."
Sigrid, with a horrible chokin
in her throat, thanked him for 1
help, but that 'sin a any case" ran
in her ears all through the dri
all through the waiting at the h
tel at Lille-elvedal, all through th
weary pourney in the train.
Yet it was not until she stood o
board the "Anglo" that tears cam
to her relief. •
The bustle and confusion on th
steamer, the busy sailors, the weep
ing emigrants, the black mass o
people on shore waving their hat
and handkerchiefs, some sobbing
some singing -to cheer' the travelers
and behind, the beautiful city
Christiania with its spires and tow
-ars, all this had to Sigrid the stran
gatefeel<ug"of n-nleality; yet it w,a
a scene that no one pr se enteetetl.l.-,
ever forget.
• 'GRAFTER XVIII.
On the following Monday after-
noon, Ray `Boniface, pale and worn
with all that h,e had been through,
paced the arrival platform at King's
Cross Station...His heart beat
quickly as the esigine'darted into
sight and One carriage after an-
other •flitted past :liim. For a min-
ute he could nowhere see her; but
hastening up the platform, and
closely scanning the travelers, he
at length caught sight of the gol-
den hair and black dress which he
had been imaging to himself, and
heard the clear voice saying, with
something of ,Frithiof's quiet deois-
ion
It is a black trunk from Hull,
and the name is Feick."
Roy came quickly forward. •
' Trithiof ?" she asked, as she
took her hand in his.
"He is still living," said Roy; not
daring to give an evasive answer to
the, blue eyes which seemed to look
into his very heart.
"I will see to your' luggage," lie
said; "but before you go to him
you' must have something. to seat;
I see you are quite worn out •with
the long journey, and unless 'you
are oaks you will only agitate
She did not speak ,a word, but
passively allowed him to take. her
to the refreshment -room and got
her some tea. To please hiin she
tried hard to eat and drink, and be-
fore long they wave driving to Vaux-
hall, and all fear lest she should
break down was over.
"Now," she said at last, "tell
me more about hie illness. What
brought it on ?"
"The doctor says, it must .have
been brought on by' a great shock,
and it seems that he heard ' very
sad news that day of Lady Ronal -
aux.''
"I knew it was that wretched
girl in some way," cried Sigrid,
clinching her hand. "1 wall she
were dead!"
"She is, as Frithielf incessantly
says,' 'Wore° than dead,'" replied'
1 Roy. "It is a miserable story. Ap-
' parently ho got hold of some news-
paper, react it all, and was almost
immediately broken down by it.'
They say he was hardly himself
when' he left • shop that night,.
and the next evening, when I saw
him, I found him delirious."
"It is hie brain that is affected,
then 9" she faltered. •
"Yes; he seems to have been out
of health for a long time, but ho
never would give way, But if only
we scald get him any sleep he might
even now recover."
"How- long has he been without
it?"
"I came to hint on 'Tuesday toys
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he read that paragraph, just this
day week, and he has never slept
since than. When did my telegram
reach you, by the bye?"
"Not until Thursday You see,
though yo;i cont it on Wednesday
morning, yet it had to be forward-
ed fl'otn Burgon, as we were in en
out -o£ -the -way piece on the Dovre-
field."
"And you have been traveling
ever since? You must be terribly
worn out."
"Oh, the traveling was nothing;
it was the terrible anxiety and tho
slowness of everything that Wiliest
maddened me, But nothing mat-
ters now, I am at least in time
to see him."
"This is the house where he is
lodging,"'said Roy, as the cab drew
up. "Are you fit to go to him now,
or had you not better rest first?"
"No, no, I must go to him direct -
1v " she said. And, indeed, it seem-
ed that the excitement had taken
away all her fatigue; her cheeks
were glowing, her oyes, though so
wistful, were full of eagerness. A
(To be continued.)
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On the Farm
THE MAN BEHIND THE COW.
In live stock and dairying brains
are more used to -day than brawn.
Not so very long ago it seemed ra-
ther important that "the man be-
hind the cow" should bo an athlete,
at least able to do not only ono
hard day's work, but many of them.
Sixty or seventy years ago, whoa
our cities and railroads were young,
as was also the dairy business, the
principal .surplusage of dairy pro-
ducts came from where the greater
part of the summer had to be spent
in raising, harvesting and storing
up feed for the long, old winter;
and the man who could swing a
scythe from 4 to 11 a.m. and wield
a fork from 1 to 9 pan., or till the
Last load was safe in the barn, was
generally considered to be about
the right sort of a man to make a
-success of a dairy farm.
Feed must still be stored up for
the winter and times of short pas-
ture, but the many machines now
to be had to facilitate this work ,
have reduced the actual labor part
of this work almost beyond compu-
tation. Young men may hardly
realize it, but there are a few yet
alive who can remember what' it
was to lead a gang of mowers in
heavy clover and herds -grass; it
was not called timothy then. It
may not require any higher degree
of brain power to run these new
machines than it did to rightly
sharpen and hang a scythe, for this
could not be well done by anyone
who was either mentally or physi-
cally weak. Now the mowing ma-
chine, tedder and rake are all
equipped with easy spring seats,
while the power -loader and horse-
ork do the rest; and, weather per-
mitting, the hay crop is easily so-
ured on time and in good ostler..
hen, if the dairyman has a silo, he
an command succulent cow feed
s good or better than green grass
or every day of the year, and he
Beds it, and by keeping an ao-
ount of each cow he need not sweat
much for fear of the sheriff.
It has taken centuries of experi-
mental breeding to make the dairy
w the wonderful animal that she
now is; yet a few minutes' time and
very small outlay for stamps will
ring from the Department of Ag -
culture and the experimental
rm to "man behind the: cow" to -
ay the records of these years; and
ow him just how he can find the
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ods of care and feeding, and '
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1912 PRIZE CONTEST FOR ,FARMERS
This contest is along the same linea as the
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that there are three times as many prizes, and
therefore three times as many chances for
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Quite often the flavor of butter is
spoiled on account of the churn not
being in a good, clean and sweet
condition. This is especially true
when a churn is used only once or
twice per week, as is often the ease
on the farm. Flavor is the quality
which gives butter its value over
other fate. A little carelessness in
regard to keeping the churn clean
and in a sweet condition will often
spoil this desirable flavor in but-
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After the buttermilk and butter
have been removed from the churn,
it should be scalded out with hot.
water, so as to remove. all of the
grease. If any particles of the
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arc liable to become oily, and the •
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water has been removed, If the
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it is not so liable to become musty.
A musty churn should be thor-
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If the churn h.as become musty
from standing idle for a consider-
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sweeten it up is to slake a few
lumps of lime in it. The lime should
be diluted with water to bring it
to a creamy consistency. This
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hot, leaving the air vent open to
allow the escape of the gas. The
lime should be left in the churn for
about an hour and should be churn-
ed occasionally. Tho lime should
be removed then and the churn
rinsed out with pure water. If the
churn is extremely musty, this
treatment should be repeated oath
day for several days in succession.
Scalding the musty churn with hot
water is quite effective, but in ex-
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The churn should be kept open
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