The Brussels Post, 1915-11-11, Page 2The Green Seal "�.
• By CHARDS EDMONDS WALK
Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby,"
"The Time Loa," etc.
I
1 Highly Recommended
For the Complexion.
i Everywhere --from coast to coast,
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CHAPTER XI,--(Cont'd).,
If the room suddenly had turned
upside down, I could not have been
more 'staggered, I vaguely heard
Struber aslnng other questions in a
tone that brooked neither disregard
nor inattention.
"Do you mean one o' the fellas with
the diamond was Steve Willets?"
"No, no, no; I didn't say Steve--
just Willets: no;
all I efer heard
of his name, The other fellow's, that
I lei get,
"
"The fierce -eyed fellow. He was o' the two was Willets?"
jolly enough too, though, when he had I
anything to say. He mostly sat quiet
and watched, 1 remember."
Struber gave his head a short jerk
as if the puzzle were perfectly com-
prehensible to him,
"And the little ivory box they
brought the uncut stone in, would
yuh recognize it if yuh were to see
it again?"
"Surely," replied Aartsen. "It was
square ---about two inches"—be in-
dicated the size with his hands—
"covered with funny Chinese ears-.
ings—"
We all turned abruptly to Miss
Fox. She had uttered an inarticulate
cry of amazement.
"Why," she faltered, suddenly
blushing and confused under our con-
centrated regard, "that describes a
shall Chinese box that has belonged
to my aunt ever since I can remem-
ber. But of course it can not be the
"Of course not," Aartsen readily'
agreed. "Just as there was nefer
such another diamond as this one."
"Don't be too sure," Struber drily
advised him. "I can show yuh inside
of an hour a box I bet yuh'll swear is ,
the same one."
IIe flipped the sheet of wrapping •
-
paper across the table toward the ex-
pert.
"If the box had been wrapped in
that," he went on, "wouldn't it just
about fit those plain crosses?"
"Don't forget," I spoke aside to the
detective, while Aartsen, perplexed
and frowning, examined the wrapper,
"that there is another box that will
fit those creases."
I meant, of course, the ring box.
The only recognition by Struber of
my reminder was another curt nod;
he did not remove his sharp regard
from Aartsen. Presently the latter
shoved the wrapper aside.
"I should say yes," said he. "But
that means nothing. Blenty of boxes
are that size and shape; any one of
them would fit those greases."
With a secret, crooked little smile,
Struber recovered the wrapper, and
folding it along the creases, careful
not to erase them, quietly placed it in
bis pocket.
"Mebbe you're wise when it comes
to givin' diamonds the acid test," he
ubserved to Aartsen, "but yuh ain't
wise to the fact that this particular
chunk o' ice was in somethin' else be-
sides that wad o' paper when this
wrapper was put on. Mr. Ferris
ain't told us yet why he didn't bring
it along."
Because I couldn't findit " I
such quickla boxlained. "It as Mr. Aartsen precisely
—a replica of the Lox you have al-
ready seen, Struber. A verbal de-
scription, you know, wouldn't amount
to much,'
"What does anything amount to in
this case?" inquired Struber. "You
don't know. You're not ready to say
what's important an' what ain't. It's
up to me to find out, for 11 k like
I got to horn in without a invite be-
cause my reg'lar duties 've brought
me in. This here gent"—indicating
Aartsen by a sidewise motion of his.
head—"won't even say for sure what
the rock's worth. I reckon they're
scarce all right; but them dinkey lit-
tle boxes seem to be as thick as fleas
on a dog. How many is there any-
how? I'd like to see Miss Fox's
aunt's."
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"You may," she quietly told him.
"She'll show it to you if I give you a
note to her," I
"Thanks, Mies, Fax. I'll take a
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eeseear out there some time to -day,
CHAPTER XII.
The proposal I wanted to offer re- 1
specting the diamond . may be suf_
ficiently explained by the disposition
finally made of it. Before our .party
broke up and separated, it was with .
the understanding that the priceless' Chink sign and all I feel !lice 1 was
gem was to remaing in the custody of 'way out over my head, where the un -
ti edeliv red onlynupoe ne either my y otd o Ideain't no Sherlock Holmes." was ettin' me
Miss Fox's application in person, and
in the presence of Mr. Hall himself:! Miss Pox and I both laughed; but
No merely written demand—less than right away he regarded me with
a court order, of course—would belivh'Just watchmsical your Uncle Heinle," he
honored, and should anything happen 1adjured;"I'll go plugging along in
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to nxe I imposed confidence enough m
we wa, an' I betteha, when we come
Miss Fox to trust to her judgment and to cash in, my stack won't be all
discretion in case of emergency. Fin- nvhies. . Going anywhereparticu-
ally, unless Mr. Hall were fully Ila;-: lar to -day?" he asked irrelevantly.
isfied that everything was proper, he I considered.
need not deliver the diamond at all.I "Why," I returned at length, "I
Thus was an inestimable treasure, , must be at the courthouse at two
seemingly ownerless, safeguarded, have a motion to argue in department
and my burden of responsibility light- four; that will take only a few min-
ened. lutes. After that an engagement at
Three of us—Struber, Miss Fox, the Henne Building; then the inquest.
and myself—emerged upon the walk ,You are not asking merely out of
together, At that moment a rangy, curiosity, I suppose?"
gray automobile spun by, so fast that; "You suppose right. Mebbe Pll
I caught only a hazy glimpse of its' have something to tell yuh before
occupants, who were two in number: night. Don't forget this—don't let on
the driver, and 'a figure in the ton-, like you're wise to your shadow.
neau, muffled to the ears in a drab Yuh might scare 'em off, and I want
motoring -coat. A feeling that I had , 'em to keep followin' yuh for a
seen the car before impelled me to ; while." He turned abruptly to Miss
watch it until it rounded the corner Fox.
allmax more astonishing than any-
thing else that thebaffling mystery
had yet jolted me with. She was only
frankly curious and her lovely eyes
were aglow with a light of nnticipa-
tion, Then elle saw the boX andaut-
tered a little exclamation,
(Tee be continued.)
VL 'AR AND BUTTERFLIES,
Only Fine, Elavoury Teas
are used to produce the famous
What Fashionable Women Are Doing
in the Great War.
Centuries ago a chronicler of the
crusades recorded quaintly of .a" ter-
Iain vain and valorous knight;
"Three wounds he received in this
battle, whereat he laughed; but the
Paynim who shore his tall plume he
cursed deeply, and rested not till he
had, with his good sword, shorn off
his head,"
That was in the day when every
gentleman who was not a priest must;.
be a fighter, and could be a dandy
only by the way. It was many years
later that another type arose, dandy
first and fighter afterward: the grace-
ful idler, the society fop, suddenly
transformed by patriotism, at his
country's call, into a hero. History
proved him, fiction adopted him; he
became one of the most popular fig-
ures in drama, etory, and romance.
But until now neither fact nor fiction
has supplied a corresponding type of
heroine.
The great war of to -day, although
it demands of many of the noble wo-
men who have answered the eall.
greater ability, responsibility, and 1
thoroughness of training than has
ever been demanded of women before,+
has also offered opportunities of ser -I
vice to others, hitherto merely women
of fashion and the gay world, which
'
many have eagerly accepted. Women
used only to organizing balls toil on
committees; women who have shone
in foreign capitals interpret for hap-
less refugees; women who havd play-
ed with petted children in charming
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Nearly all butter sold by the farm-
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be. By more careful handling and
better methods there is no reason
why this product should not, only be
improved in quality, but a betterprice
should be received for it. By carry-
ing out the following conditions and
methods a very much better grade of
butter should be produced:
Hand separator cream produces bet-
ter butter than that separated by any
other method. The deep can surround-
ed by cold water is second best; pans
and crocks are third best, and the
water -dilution method comes last.
The cream should be kept in as
nearly a sweet condition as possible
into Fifth Street and disappeared to- «If yuh ll give me that note to your nurseries establish orphanages, care until enough has been gathered for a
ward astengagedgs thus perhaps two aunt,' he said, "I'll bother her just for destitute mothers, or adopt war churning. This should then be soured
P p long enough to let me see the ivory babies, Other women of the modern or •ripened. To ripen the •cream warm
seconds. Then I became aware that box you spoke about." '
Miss Fox's hand was clutching my We moved up closer to the building, athletic type, untrained in nursing, it to a temperature of '75 to 80 de-
arm and that Struber, was regarding away from the jostling sidewalk devote their nerve and muscle to slav- gi'ees, until it is sour enough; then
us inquiringly, as if to ask why we throng. A sheet from my memoran-I ing in hospitals,—hastily improvised, cool down to a temperature of from
lagged.�„ 1 dum-book, my fountain pen, the mem-ill ill equipped, overcrowded, under- 55 to 60 degrees, which is right for'
"Did von see that automobile?" , of andum-book itself serving as desk, manned hospitals,—where they fag churning. Let it stand at this tem-'
asked Miss Fox in a dropped voice !and the note was written right there. I for the real nurses, and turn their Perature for an hour or so before
I glanced at her, surprised that she She appended a street and number hands to anything from writing wills
should have been attracted to it too. 1 that I identified as being some dis-!and messages for fromen to men -
saw that she was disturbed. Auto- tance oist on Boyle Heights. "The g dying
mobiles of all shapes and sizes and First Street car goes within two ial and often horrible tasks of wash -
vintages, were passing in both direc- blocks of the house," she told him.
tions in two continuous streams; Struber gallantly doffed his shabby
but I knew very well the one she derby and murmured his thanks. To
meant. I me he said over his shoulder, as he
"Yes," I replied, "I was wondering moved away:
where I had seen it before."' drift back to your loft as soon
"All during our morning ride," she as I can. I've a hunch it'll help
declared, "it followed use, Her look things along if we compare notes.", 1
s troubled as tt met mine She let "1'm willing,' I agreed.
her hand drop from my arm as she' detective, in his illusory shiftless
continued hurriedly: fashion, went rapidly away.
"When we paused, just before turn-,
ing into Vermont Avenue, it f_daused l
too." CHAPTER XiII.
Struber had approached and was Up to this time I had spoken of the
now an interested listener. death -ring to Miss Fox only in the
At that instant a light of coinpre- slightest and most casual way; be-
hension broke upon me; something cause, prior to Steve Willets's eath
surged up into my conscious mind and -I never could bring myself to think-
; exacted recognition, something that ing of him as her father—her interest
intuition or subconsciousness had ap- in it had seemed so remote that the
prehended all along: there had not idea did not suggest itself, and after -
been a moment when I was abroad wards I was restrained from speaking
during the past week that I had not of it by a reluctance to mention the
been followed, my every movement' instrument that had been the direct
watched. Without being able to, cause of that death.
connect it with any certain, definite, But now, with the potential con -
occasion, that gray automobile dart-, nection between the ring and the
ed dimly in and out of memory's field,. ivory boxes in mind, and the manner
personifying the shadow that had in which they had come into the mys
hung persistently upon my trail. In ! tory surrounding her awn life, I de -
my mind I saw it as through a veil. tided that she was entitled to have
MissI Fax's perturbed assertion all the information relating to it that
served to fix the conviction; yet I was I could impart. The circumstances of
sure I had not noticed this particular her attitude toward the bandit being
automobile during our ride—I had nearly, if not quite, impersonal, re -
been too engrossed to heed insigni-'lieved the situation immensely. She
cant details, like automobiles, or even fostered no tender memories of the
solar eclipses or earthquakes. So I man; in his death she had known no
questioned her assurance until I could, grief. The only sentiment respecting
no longer conjure up a doubt. ihim that she could possibly entertain
"You know," I said, "it's a common was regret that he had been the sort
thing to imagine that another car is of man he was. His taking off had
following yours. They do, too, but been a blessing instead of an afflic-
inadvertently; it's a sort of hypnosis, tion.
one driver riding aimlessly and un Accordingly, therefore, after Stru-
eansciously letting the car ahead act ber left us and we were once more
as
• choose a route of his own." j the opportunity I called Miss Fox
I"That may be the explanation," she! into my private room for the purpose
assented, so dubiously that I knew she; of telling her about the ring. The
Ididn't think so at all. I story of the diamond, of course, she
It appeared that Struber had not had already heard that morning, ex-
i observed the car; but when I present sept one feature that I pulDtosely
I ly admitted that Miss Fax possibly had not referred to at the bank, name-
; had been correct in her suspicion that ly, the coincidence of its apparently
I the gray car probably had followed miraculous arrival, and her having
us with intent, not only that morning,' come into the midst of that astound -
1 but had trailed me closely all week, ing situation with what was to Inc
1 he was disposed to view the matter the most extraordinary story of all.
I seriously. He even expounded a! My principal purpose, however,
1 theory elucidating the problem. I was to give her the ring's history, as
"Yuh start out to shadow a fella," much as I knew of it; and as 1 un-
he averred; "stick close to him all locked the drawer where I had hidden
the time—I don't care whether he sees it beneath a mass of old papers, I
1 yuh ox' not, or hasn't any reason to said:
I suspicion he's being followed—he'll I "The diamond coming as it did was
1 get next to it in time. Funny thing, enough to upset any man; but the
but it's so. He can't pick out the two boxes being exactly alike was the
shadow, but after a few days he gets limit" I was fumbling for the ring
uneasy and fidgety without knowin' box. "You know, there is an atmos-
why—gets to jerkin' his head round phere about this box, as if it had be -
and lookin' to see who's behind him, longed to the ring for ages. It was
You walk mostly, don't yuh?" hard to believe that there could be
he abruptly broke off. I another just like it. Right on top of
"As much as I can," I told him, , that came your story, then, a day or
"It's about all the exercise I get." Itwo later, the Strang letters—well,
"Wish you'd get the license num it's been a pretty strenuous week for
ber," he went on, "or could describe me."
them better. It don't look good to; My hand encountered the box,
me. Them ginks is prepared for any- which I drew forth. The instant Miss
thing. I see how they work it*, they're, Fax beheld it I knew its appearance
pretty foxy, all right. As ong as was not strange to her. But how lit -
you're waikin' the guy in the back tie did I dream that this relatively un-
seat episode
o was to end in a
s
eat walks too,shadowin'pub,while P
the other trailalong with thauto,'
keepin' him in sight. Then if yah
hop a car, get a taxi or anything like
that, this guy signals his machine,
climbs aboard and don't lose yuh. An
auto followin' a fella on foot would be
spotted by him right off, so this gray
.auto keeps out o' your sight as much
as possible—but you've got a lino on
'ern just the same."
"But why the dickens should they
want to follow me?"' 1 demanded.
"Who are they anyway?"
""Search me,' he returned gloomily.
""What With that diamond and the
pilot—too lazy or feeble-minded to . back at the office, the instant If ound
ing, scrubbing and disinfecting.
Others give themselves, with their
automobiles, to the Red Cross, and
drive their own cars, filled with
wounded, over war-torn roads and
half -wrecked bridges with skill and
daring. Often they run them under
fire, and ,not one of them has flinched.
"If ever this terrible time, which
seems an endless nightmare, does
really end," the American wife of an
Englishman of high social position,
who has been loyally working with
the rest, wrote home recently, "and if
I wake up to peace and pretty clothes
and gay doings, and life as it used to
be—sometimes I wonder who it will
be that will wake ? Not I, as I ani
now, or it wouldn't be waking, and
not 1, the old I of before the war;
that I, my dear, is as dead as if she
had been shot. I want to be happy
and jolly again, yet when S think of
the old life it seems no more possible
to take it up and live it than to go
back and be a little girl. I have died,
or grown up, or been born again since
then—I don't quite know which! I
only know that I am, and must be,
different, and that I cannot even wish
to be the same again."
Sometimes to lose a self is to find
a soul.
MISSILE FOUND BY X-RAYS.
Bullet Taken From Heart and Soldier
Still Lives.
The opening of a chamber of the
heart and extracting a bullet is re-
ported by Professor Freund and Doc-
tor Caspersen in the Munich Medical
Weekly. The patient was a young
soldier who had recovered from a bul-
let wound through the liver. Upon
X-ray examination preceding his dis-
charge from the hospital a foreign ob-
ject was discerned in the heart. It
moved synchronously with the heart's
pulsations, and the physicians decided
that it was a shrapnel bullet.
1 To prevent possible dangerous com-
plications it was determined to re-
move the bullet. The breast was
opened, the pericardium slit sufficient-
1ly to permit the heart to be brought
' forward, a quick incision was made in
the right ventricle, and the bullet was
immediately found and removed.
Much blood was lost, but the bleed-
, ing
leed,ing stopped after a prompt stitching
and the patient made a complete re-
covery.
The bullet, which weighed 12
grams, had taken a most erratic and
extraordinary course. It.struckthe
, soldier on the left shoulder from
above, as he was storming forward,
inflicting only a flesh wound. It pass -
I ed down and diagonally across the
body, barely marking the skin, was
deflected by a cartridge box and en-
tered the liver, passing completely
through it into the vena cava, one of
the two trunk veins that emptytY into
the heart. The bloodstream convey -
cd it thence into the right ventricle
of the heart.
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churning, if possible. This will cause
the butter to come in better condition.
Cream that is being ripened should be
thoroughly stirred several times be-
fore it is ready for churning.
It is often advisable to save some
of the buttermilk of one churning to
be used as starter (the same as yeast
in bread snaking) for the next batch
of cream. Add a small amount of this
buttermilk to the sweet cream when
enough has been gathered for a
churning; thoroughly stir it, and, it
will ripen very much more rapidly.
Care should be exercised to keep this
old buttermilk in as good condition as
possible.
Strain all cream into the churn.
This will remove all clots and
particles of curd, and there will be no
danger of white specks in the butter.
Do not fill the churn over one third to
one half full. Give the cream room
for agitation, which insures quick
churning. Turn the churn just fast
enough to give the cream the greatest
amount of agitation.
The butter should be gathered until
the grains become about one half the
size of wheat. Then draw off the but-
termilk through a strainer and wash
the butter in cold water two 'Si three
times or until the wash water is re-
moved practically clear. In washing,
care should be exercised not to bring
the grains together in one mass, but
rather keep it in the granular condi-
tion. The washing of the butter re-
moves the buttermilk and makes the
butter keep for longer time. It also
puts it in. better condition for salting.
The butter should be taken from
the churn in the granular condition
and the salt sprinkled over it before
it has been worked together. Usually
a scant ounce of salt is added for each
pound of butter.
One working, at the time of salt-
ing is usually sufficient, providing the
butter is hard enough when removed
Sure He Would.
Did you ever, have a cold you
could not get rid' of?
No—If I did I'd still have it now.
There Were 100,000 fewer Visitors
to the London Zoological Gardens last
year than during the previous ewelve.
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from the churn. If the butter is some-
what soft when taken out, it can be
salted and set away for a few hours
until it gets hard enough to finish.
Butter is usually worked enough when
the water has been removed so that
it will bend without breaking. Too
much working will spoil its grain and
make it salvy, while leaving too much
water in it will spoil its peeping qual-
ities.
Pack or print the butter as soon as
it has been worked sufficiently and
put it in a cool place until it is taken
to the market. Remember that the
appearance of the package, as well
as the way the butter is packed, has
a great deal to do with the selling
price.
In order to make a uniform colored
butter for the entire year, some color
may be used. Very little will be re-
quired during the spring and summer
months, when the cows are getting
green feed. Colored butter is not
only more appetizing, but can be sold
on the market for a very much better
price than that which is not colored.
The color should be added to the
churn before starting to churn.
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Odds and Ends About the Styles.
Dr. Thomas H. Norton says: "One
way to solve the scarcity of dyestuffs
is to educate the people to wear white
hosiery."
This would mean that pounds and
pounds of valuable dyes could be
used for fabrics, etc.
With the high shoe the white
stocking is the sane thing, anyway.
It is cleaner, because it can be boil-
ed in the washing; and, without doubt,
the white stocking makes for com
for 1. Many women who hobble about
on aching, twinging feet could secure
comfort by avoiding dyed hosiery
and wearing white.
Many woolen fabrics have wide
herders of embroidery in heavy cord-
ing and Persian lamb effects, or gold
and silver threads with openwork.
There are many striped patterns,
principally in Agnella, which re-
semblesthe old-fashioned Scotch
homespun. Trimmings are chiefly of,
metal embroidery and fur, though
some odd silk and wool embroidery is
used on afternoon and street gowns.
Many of the new materials are so
elaborate as to make the use of any
trimming unnecessary.
A very charming dancing frock has
a skirt of pink taffeta.' Over the taf-
feta is a skirt of white net. Over the
white net skirt and the pink silk shirt
isa skirt of pink net. And the pink
net has bands of so£t,pink satin and
silver ribbon. The bodice is entirely
of ribbon, mitred at the arm styes,
forming short sleeves and crossing,
surplice fashion, at the back. The
mitred corners are finished with tiny
blue velvet bows. Falling, rippling
and tumbling down one side of the
skirt is a trail of delicate fairy-like
flowers of silver tissue.
Handbags are much more conspicu-
ously elegant than they have ever
been. Even the severe shopping bag
of leather has a clasp of semi-precious
cabochon stones. As for the after-
noon arm bags, head embroidery is
the last word in style. If there is a
frame—and quite as often there is
not—it is hidden. Faille and velvet
are the favorite materials for the up-
to-date bag. Small beads are sewn
on by band in modern style designs.
While steel and jet beads are seen on
popular models there are charming
combinations of colored beads ming-
led with those of gold and silver.
Spangles, too, are used in the same
fashion as the beads.
The inside laced boot has certainty
gained a victory over the Back lace,
One sees every well -gowned woman
wearing them. The truth is that the
back lace boots are very hard to make
fit in ready-made shoes and not near-
ly as easy to lace and fit as the inside
lace. Satin ones are promised for
some elaborate frocks, but those of
soft white kid are delicate enough to
be worn with almost any gown. The
careless way that some of them are
laced is a pity, for it makes the ankles
look heavy to see kid wrinkling about
them.
Low shoes are very slipper -like in
shape.
THE MONGOOSE IN JAMAICA.
They Have «Become the Bane of the
Island.
The introduction of the mongoose
into the West Indies some 40 years
ago has upset the order of nature
there much as it has in the Hawaiian
Islands. Just as in Hawaii, these fer-
ret -like animals from India not only
destroyed snakes and rats in the su-
gar cane fields, the object for which
they were imported, but proceeded to
clean out the wild birds of the island,
as well as poultry yards, pigs, kids,
Iambs, new-born calves, puppies and
kittens. In the West Indies they have
also consumed the lizards, with the
result that insects have increased to
an alarming extent.
It was less than 20 years after four
male and five female mongoose were
turned loose in Jamaica that the Gov-
ernment had to appoint a commission
to investigate. This body drew up a
severe indictment against the animal,
adding to his diet not only all birds
nesting on or near the ground and the
young of the farmyard, but turtles,
I'anderabe, bananas, pineapples, sweet
potatoes, cacao and even fish, which
he catches with his paws. Worst of
all was the charge that while protect-
ing the sugar cane from its enemy,
the rat, he oven bit and drank the
juice of young cane.
In late years outcries against the
mongoose have come from other is-
lands. In Trinidad the Government
offered a reward for the body or tail
of each mongoose, but instead of re-
ducing the pest, it only set some of
the natives to ,mongoose breeding for
the reward.
Prizes have been offend byan
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agricultural society for an effective
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