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The Brussels Post, 1913-3-6, Page 2ONLY A M TIl OR, A CURIOUS MYIYSTI:,RY EXPLAINED: CHAPTER XXXV1I,--(Cunt'd) "They are late this evening," Swanhild, already dressed in her said Sigrid. "I wonder whether white cashmere and pretty white Herr Siverteen has caught Frithiof. beaver hat, danced in and out of 1 hope not, fur the tennis does him the room fetching and carrying 1 so much good." and before long the bride, too, wag "Is he working very hard?" asked dressed, and with her lung tulh' Cecil. veil .over the dainty little wreath of He always works furiously; and real orange blossom from Mine. just now I think he has got what Lechertier's green -house, and the some one called 'the lust of finish - homemade dress which fitted ad- tug' upon him; we see very little of not up yet.. I thought he had &ve mirably, she walked into the little him, for when he is not at business years?" sitting-ruum to show herself k Fri- he is hard at work over Herr Siv- "The five years would be over thief. erteen's mammeript. But it really next October. I knew it would "I shall hoed up your train, Sig- seems to agree with him; they say, conte eonre day, but I never thought . rid, in case the floor is at all you know, that work without wtlrry of it so soon, and to take them away dusty," said Swanhild, much en- harms no one." in a fele days!" • joyi jg the excitement of the first "A very moral precept," said a "I remember now," said Frith - wedding. in the family, and cletet'- voice behind her, and glancing up iof, there is a rule that. by good Mined not to think of the parting she saw Frithiof himself emceeing behavior in prison they can slightly till it actually camethe little lawn. shorten their time. 1 am so sorry "Gwen is to meet us at- the, The two years had not greatly al- fur you; it will be a fearful wrench church," explained Cecil. "Do you tered hint, but he seemed more frill to you to part with Lance and know. I think the carriage Muse be of life and vigor than before, and Gwen." waiting, for I see the eldest little success and lupe had entirely ban- She locked her hands together, Hallifield tearing acr,,se the court- idled the look of conflict which fur making to attempt at an answer. yard.'" so long had been plainly visible in "How exactly like the world," "Then I must say good-bye ta-, his face. Sigrid felt proud- of him thought Feithiof to himself. "Here every one," said Sigrid: and with as she glanced round; there was is a girl passionately devoted to one last look round the little home something in his mere i,l'vsieal these children, while the ' mother, Who never deserved them at all, has utterly deserted then. To have had them fur five years and then suddenly to lose them altogether, that is a fearful blow to her ; they ought to have thought of it before adopting the children." "Is there nothing 1 eon do to -CO WES Wonen's commonest ailment --the root of so much of their 111 -health --promptly yields to the gentle but certain action of Na -Pru -Co 1-axatives, 25o. a box at your druggist's, NATIONAL WWI] ANS CHeMICAI. CO. OF 2ANAbA, LIMITCO. I bl not take them away for a few days, but you had better bring them down to see him." "He is nut of prison I" exclaimed Frithhil. "But surely his time is which had grown so dear to them, strength whieh always appealed to she took F rithiof's arm and went her. out into the long stune passage, "We were just talking about where a group of the neighbors yott," she said, "ancl wondering stood waiting to see the last of her, when you would be ready to play." and to give her their hearty good "After that remark of yours wishes. which I overheard, I almost think That chapter of her life was end- I shall have to eschew tennis." he eel, and the busy hive of workers said, laughingly. "Why should I would no longer count her as queen- bee of the establishment. • She was quite silent as they drove through the busy streets, her eyes had again that sweet, dreamy look in them that Cecil had noticed ear- lier in the morning; she did not **WI, I, am .m esob w,. e,* Ori the Farm gob -m.Ct..4.4.m'os'aa-lbah-v." nt Care of the Farrowing Sow. Special farrowing pens are pro- vided only when many breeding sows are kept, .but where there is to be a removal from the ordinary quarters to a special place it should be done in good time, so that the sow may become thoroughly accus- tomed to her new surroundings, writes Mr, W. 11. Gilbert, There is considerable :difference of opinion as to why sows kill and eat their young, and no doubt the causes are as diverse as the theor- ies advanced to account for it. One of them, however, and not the least common, is insufficient space. A. sow, when she lies down in close quarters, is apt to catch an unfortunate youngster between her carcass and the wall against which she generally places her back when suckling her pigs, The farrowing -pen shuttle], of course, be regulated to some extent by the size of the breed kept, but generally the space allowed is too limited, and we frequently see big heavy sows with hardly room to turn around in the diminutive apartments that, previous to far- rowing, served them as sleeping quarters. Small breeds should be allowed a space of not less than eight feet by eight feet, increasing in the case of the larger breeds up to twelve feet by eight feet, or twelve feet by ten feet; and to prevent the young pigs from bring crushed against the wall, it is a good plan to fix a strong rail around each side of the farrowing -place, at a height of from help yon':"' he said, turning toward set -en to nine inches from the floor, give .a whole hour to it when Herr her. "Shall I go and fetch Lance and a similar distance from the Sivertsen is impatiently waiting for and Gwen?" wall. the hell installment?" ' This will prevent the sow it encs—, 9_ s ` With an effort she stood np' ering down with her hack a ai:nst: �IpER "Herr . tett ell is insatiable," "No, no, she said, trying hard '' the side of thepen and provides a' said Sigrid taking off her garden- P s _ _ ._ „ !, to speak cheerfully. "Don't let refuge for the ing-gloves, And I are net gotn n youngsters who can ..__ g this spall your game. I am butter, get under theprojection. to allow you to return to your ?Id I will go and find them." m mistake seem to see outward thins, until- bad wars: as long as you Bre withIt is a. ingt ow wi to provide: g t, J But by a sudden impulse he- the farrowing sow with a large after awhile her eyes met Frithiof's me you will have to be something • sprung up, made her take his arm quantity of bedding. Under'orclin- and then her face, which had been more than a working drudge." and walked to the house with her. ary circumstances there is no bet - rather grave, broke into sudden "Since Sigrid has begun baby's;, "You are still rather shaky, I ter bedding material for pigs than brightness, and she said a few educati:,n," said Frithjof, turn lg.- think," he said. "Let me come good wheat straw, but for the far - words to him in plied to with a look so hitllltofeloy- ebet 1 ae het nicly tee e very du;tainotice orialthat to t youryou, I the stairs fl at Plow etlnngeit was save wort stuff is refesow a rable to t] erate quantity longf ing pride and contentment that it the rest of us." !that you should have known be- materials in which pigs are apt to eerrtt d the sunshine straight into "Ion shouldn't make stage asides ;forehand that this was coming? Did get tangled and unable to .eseape Cecil's heart. in each a hood voice," said igel& Iyou ever have a presentiment of quickly out of the way of a clumsy "This marriage is 0 capital thing pretending to box his ears. "1 anti that kind over anything else 1" mother• for him," she thought to herself. going to meet Roy and to feteh the "Never," she said. "It was The question whether at farrow - "He will be happy in her happi- rackets, and you take him into the such an awful feeling. I wondering time the sow should be left to nese." garden, Cecil, and make hien bo- what it is that brings it." +lrer own devices, or assisted in any By this time they had reaehedthe have properly." He left her in the hall and ran; way in taking charge of the pigs church; Lance, in the dress he had •'Are you really so specially busy upstairs to the nursery, where he; until the birth is complete is much worn at Mrs. Horner's fancy -ball, just newt" asked Cecil, as he open- was always a welcome visitor. Both !debated by pig -breeders. She stood ready to hold the bride's ed the little gate and joine l 1:t r ; ehildren rushed to meet him with ' should certainly be watched. "or was it only your fun ?"Cries of delight. - In many cases the sow farrows "No, it was grins earnest," he; "Cecil has sent me up with a mos-, during the night and is found with replied. "For since Herr Siv':r;-,-! sage to you," he said. her pigs all right and comfortable sen has been so infirm I have bad j "To say we may come down," in the morning, but it is not always roost of his w ile to do. But It Is shouted Lance. "Is it that, Herr I so, and oat it Ealy sacrificed sows well-paid work, and a very great;Frithiof1" are the result of a want of a eap- he]p toward the debt -fund. In ten • "No," cried Gwen, dancing round able attendant. years' time I may he free." ; •him, "it's to say a holiday for to- If the sow has farrowed all right, "See:' exclaimed Cecil, "there 'morrow, I guess." 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Somebody has discovered more land at the South Pole that will have td be taken indoor and thawed out before being used. He Filled the BIIL A stranger "lien dining at a foreign hotel was accosted by a de- tective, who said to him, "Beg your pardon ; we are in search of an escaped convict and as a manor of form will you oblige us by showing your passport?" "Do I look like 'a convict," "Possibly not. In any case I ,shall require to see your passport." The stranger, feeling annoyed, presented the officer with the bill of fare and the latter commenced to read "Sheep's head, neck of mutton, pig's feet." "Very good," he observed, "the description tallies, YOU will please come along with its." A gossip is never .a welcome visi- tor—after telling all she knows. - train, and Gwen came running up, eager to take her place in the lit- tle procession. A few spectators had dropped in, but the church was very quiet, and up in the chancel there acre only Roy and his beet man, Mme. Lech• ertier; old Herr Sivertsen, and the father and mother of the bride- groom. Charles Osmond read the service, and his pretty daughter-in- law had begged leave to pla,v the organ, for she had taken- a fano net only to little Swanhild. but to the whole fancily, when at her fa- ther-in-law's re'iu.'St she h:ti .n..111ent; shi' Was lucking very upon them. After the wedding was pretty that evening, her gray eyes' over and the prer'ession hat.] •,tae were unusually bright, there was a; more passed down the aisle, she still went ori playing, having a 1: of finishing in her nature. ( harles Osmond came out ':'f the vestry and stood beside her. "1 aur glad you played for them," . he said, when the last eked had been struck. "It was not at all the quiver, she Seemed to be ter the sort of wedding to lie without point of fainting. music." "Is anything the matter 1" ire "It was one of the nicest wed- asked, alarmed by the sudden clings I was ever at," she said ; change in her face. `.Are you ill, "and as to your Norseni Fri—he ie t• t"l all you said, and more. Ito you know, there is a strung look about him which somehow made me think of my father 7 01; I do hope be will be able to pay off the debts '' she should be fed in much the same is the first narcissus. How early it 1 "No, net that exactly," he said; way as dining the closing days of is! I must take it to mother,for "but your father has come, and gestation, It is a great mistake tot feed for milk before farrowing, and equally an error to begin to stuff the sow with treating or milk -pro- i clueing food immediately afterward. • The inexperienced breeder thinks j he must brace up his sow with' plenty of good food to meet the de- 1 mind on her system and produce plenty of milk on which the pigs can grow and thrive. In theory this sounds well, but: experience goes to show that it is a' poor sort of sow, and one that should not have been bred from, that does not, at the start, produce enough milk for her pigs without an extra to' special feeding. The time for this is later on when the pigs are • growing and require a largo quantity of rich milk to sat- isfyy their requirements, and in pro- viding which, if not assisted by bet- ter food, the sow is dragged down `e -- __._ in condition. To commence this ]ugh feeding directly the pigs are born is not only unnecessary, and therefore waste- ful, but, it is injurious. It really defeats the object of view; or it overstimulates the milk -glands and inflames the udder; while the effect on the little pigs is to sicken them and cause scouring, and liver de - she so fond of them." I Cecil scants you to conte down and 'He stepped to gather the flower 1 see hem." for her, aced as she took it from (To be continued,) hint. he just ;lanced at her for a soft glow of cuter itt her fair face, • an air of glad contentment seemed to hover about her. He little guess-; ed that it was happiness in his sup • - cess which was the cause of all this. Even as he watched lit'r, however, • her color faded, her lip•i began to She dict not reply, but let hint help her to the nearest garden -seat. - "It is the scent of the narcissus; it is too strong fur you," he seg-! gesied. DIGNITY :%.N1D IMPUDENCE. "There is only one thing which ••„o," she gasped. "But a most, Sweep—"Hi, Matey, just give us could hinder him," said Charles awful feeling cone over me. Some- a lift anter me shoulder with this Osmond! 'ere hag—I don't want to drop it I" "What is that?" asked Erica, looking up gnickiy. "Death," he replied. quietly, She macre no answer, but the word did not jar upon her, for she was one of those who have learned that death is indeed the (rate t,f Life. Silently she pushed in the stops and locked the organ. CHAPTER XXXVIIT, One spring evening, rather mo1•e, • .than two years alter the wedding, pre:et: him there, hem the house. Sigrid tuns working away in tin• lit "'the :. 1it,ht," he thought to Ile back garden, to which, now that himself. What un earth can it her household duties were light, she he?" devoted a good Ileal of her time. It "Master asked me to give you joined the garden of Bowan Tree this, Mies ('c•cil " said the maid, House, and, for greater kv,neeiri- handing her a alto penciled note, encs; an opening had been matte in Shesat up hastily, making a des - the hedge, and a little green gate perat•e effort to look as if nothing put up. Upon this gate leaned weir wrong with her. The servant C:t f il, chatting comfortably, her wont back to tate house, and Frith - tennis racket under her arm, and ioff waited anxiously to hear what with a pleasant coneeionaness that; the note was about, She read it the work of the day was over, and through and then 'handed it to him. It ran an fellows I thing is going to happen, I am sure of it." He looked perplexed. She drop- ped the nareisan't from her hand, anti he picket] it up and put it on Irate Corporal—"When you're serving your Country you ought to know better'n grumble just be - the further side of the bench, still emcee some dust has blown in your rangement, to which young pigs are clinging to his eau theory that 11 diimner?" Recruit—"I don't mind: prone. was the crouse of her faintness. 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Nothing less than a bullet through the heart, the head, or an important+ artery is sure to bring d eath in the wars of to -day, Aletteminel wounds, involving - e ven manifold penetrations of the i1,tt•otines, show a surprising per - cordage of recovery, and little is to he feared from thoracic wounds that do not molest big arteries of the heart. What used to be known as gaa- greno has virtually disappeared, and only in rare instances does pus form at all. When 11 does, it is primarily due to neglect or to nu- skillful uskillful handling by surgeons. These conclusions aro .set forth in. en article by Prof. Frank Colmers, of Coburg, who took charge of the hospitals in Sofia at the request trf King Ferdinand upon the breaking out of the war in the Balkans. Two things have brought about the improvement over the days when any wound of the limbs meant amputation and penetration of the abdomen was nearly always fatal. Ono is, of course, the greater ad- t•aleD of asceptic 'surgery. The other is the form, constitattfon and velocity of the modern projectile, Bores a Neat Bole. Except at extremely close range —within 100 yards, where the bullet of the armies of to -day tears .a hole bigger flutn a man's hand at the• point of exit—the projectile 'ordi- narily bores a neat hole through its victims. Furthermore; it is ren- !dered asceptic by theheatgencrated Iby its high velocity, and it carries no particle of clothing ink the ca- nal of the” wound. The wound is, therefore, absolutely germ -free, and if proper]y bandaged it devel- ops no pus. Dr. Colrners, who served in the Japanese hospitals during the Russo - Japanese War, warns against tamponing wounds . to cheek hemorrhage. Wherever this course was followed—and a great many Bulgarian surgeons followed it ---infection resulted. It is interesting to note that the proper treatment for gunshot wounds puncturing the intestines appears to be do • treatment at all. The most favorable recoveries, says Dr. Claimers, were recorded in the caves of rrren who, shot through the abdomen, had been missed and al- lowed to lie on the field two or three days, with nothing to eat and with- out; being moved, He recommends that arrangements should be made hereafter to earn for these then tcii,me they Be and leave them there until vire punctured intestines have• had a -chance to start healing natur- -ally, • 4%Isy Germany is Interested. A point of especial interest for• Germany lies in the fact that the war in the Balkans is the arse time the projectiles now used in the Ger- man army rifle have been used in actual combat. The Turks are em- ploying these bullets. They consist cif a stool jacket lbaded with lead. They vary, however, from those used in most other armies in that, instead of having an oval nose, they ere decidedly pointed, The eeetrc .1 gravity of the round nosed projectile 'is nearly in the middle, but that of the pointed bullet is nearer the base. Asa result It has tt tendency, only overcome by the twist imparted by the rifting and by its great velocity, to change ends in Hight, to "keyhole," eta it is ex- pressed. The instant the nose • meets resietanoe this 'potentially is converted into effeottive action, the bullet turns in the wound's channel, and the result is both a more extern - sive implication of tissues and the frequent lodging of the bullet in the body, making later operative inter- ference necessary. Another note- worthy effect is that the bullet, in thus turning, very regularly is gripped, the jacket separating ex- plosively from the cone and minute particles of both jacket and letud in- vading the entire region of the wound. This ntiturally leads to in- fection and sepsis, The pointed bullet appears also to penetrate arteries more often than the round - nose pt'ojeatilo, which more often pushes them aside with little dam- age, in tell these respects, there- fore, it tray be consideree]' ai less humane projectiles than the otlter. ,t Shrapnel wounds remain the nowt flange routs, although fortunately the least frequent. The projectiles rarely have enough velocity to pen- etrate the body, and, .therefore, generally remain in the wound, Moreover, they menially convey pieties of clothing .or hair into the body and the .result is frequently toeanue and de -atilt rToWIw "lleiiO is a strange girl. She sloes riot know the names of some of her best friends." Mtud • r'That's nothing, Why, r don't even know what my own tame will, be in '4 ;tear from' ?tow." •