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The Brussels Post, 1915-11-25, Page 2The Green Seal By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK ------ 4 uthor of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby," Fh , "The Time Lock," etc, CHAPTER XIV,-s(Cont'd). was not wide awake enough to wonder at sue') an unusual occur- rence. A lighted lamp etoad on the dresser, and, I remember, it was the preaenao of the lamp that convinced ine next morning I hadn't been dream- ing. Almost right away I drifted back to sleep; but not before I heard Aunt Lois whisper in a distressed tone:.'The Kies of the Silent Death— God protect this poor, helpless, inno- cent baby!' "That episode remains the most vivid of my early ehildhood. What could she have meant by those strange words? DM she refer to the mark? I never forgot them. "Aunt Lois, you must understand, is naturally nervous and excitable, and as young as I was I made al- lowances for her disposition, without knowing why I did so. Children, you know, seem to enderstand such things intuitively. But as I grew older—I mean mature enough to speculate upon it—I used often to wonder what she meant by 'The Kiss• of the Silent Death.' So one day I asked her." She fell silent and sat for a while meditating. I did not interrupt, but I was thinking that Mrs. Fox must hold the key to the riddle, and if my tact and diplomacy could do it, it was up to me to persuade her to unbosom herself. Lois looked toward me again and took up the thread of her narra- tive. "Poor, dear Aunt Lois. When I told her I had caught her crying over me in the middle of the night her confusion and distress of mind scared me so that I commenced howling at the top of my voice. She caught me up in her arms, declaring that she had meant only to mother me; that in the same way she often had tiptoed in to where I slept to see that every- thing was all right with me, and1 that I must run along and play and think no snore about it. "Her betrayal of her heart -hunger on that occasion made me for the first time realize keenly that I had no mother but her—that she had no child but me. I never got any fuller explanation, and after that, my curi- osity, childlike, dwindled and finally died awey. "So it came about that after a while the details got to seem like a dream, and when I thought of the episode at all it was as such. But you must see, as I do now, how im- possible such a dream would be for a child who had never heard of death. "I understand better now. She was looking at my mark—my in- delible badge of infamy—of murder —of God knows what!" She clutched at her bosom as if she would pluck the stain from her. "I can almost feel the horrible thing burning into my flesh! No -wonder it filled her with pity .and compassion!" From whatever angle one might view it, it was in all conscience a monstrous thing that anybody could have been so inhuman as thus to brand and disfigure a helpless, inno- cent child with a mark of such abom- inable associations. It was much as if she rested under the stigma of a crime of which she was not only blameless but ignorant. .And yet, had it not been put there, her very exist- ence would have been snuffed out years and years before. This I was to learn later. "The Kiss of the Silent Death"— verily, the touch of the accursed ring was patly described in this euphem- istic phrase. I had just reached a decision that I must see and talk with Aunt Lois and try to convince her that it was now her duty to tell what she knew; that the mystery hanging over her niece and foster child' had assumed a phase that threatened her with name- less injury unless the handicap of silence were removed so that friends who were ready to help her might be armed with knowledge, when a sud- den clamor of the telephone made Lois and me jump. Such was our nervous tension at the moment. I grabbed up the instrument and clapped the receiver to my ear, and immediately recognised Struber's voice. "That you, Mr. Ferris?" he asked. "This is Struber. Say, if you can let Miss Fox off she'd better come home right away. Don't scare her; her aunt's all right; but something was pulled off before I got here and the old lady's gone bug. Get me?" I became aware that Miss Fax ., . w mped, tense with anxiety, was bending over me. She too had heard. "Ask .him," she hoarsely demand - "what has happened." "Look here, Struber—Miss Fox heard you. You must make it more convincing that nothing serious has happened to her aunt," Ile broke in quickly. "Take my word for it, Mr. Ferris, Mrs. Fox is all right. She's simply beet scared stiff, and her own kin can do more for her than a flock of dippy neighbors. I don't want to say too much over the phone, I hung up and turned to the anxs ions girl. "We can believe him," said with conviction. "Goodness only knows what it is, but no harm has come to your aunt.'I'll go with you." This proposal seeming to be agree- • (int mostion, "Nebody knewe what's I suiSt,Se P.PA happened—only as I've doped it Out, "Pc4 Wait till Miss FAX has had time to ,1 talk to her aunt, then we'll know whether Pin right or eot, She's quiet The Farm enough no% 1 persuaded the noigh" bore to go home, Fussy lot, believe me. Nothing ever happened an this Fai street before." A Few Pointers for Dairymen, A poor milker never gets the best results from a cow, A nervous ani- mal resents the bungling touch of a rough or inexperienced hand. Why not encourage the little peculi- erities of the well-bred dairy cow. She is simply a big milking machine and if her whims will produce more milk let her have them. If we are going to select a bull we would select the one with the worst temper, all other things being equal. Because temper and vigor show male characteristies which should not be ig- nored. A gentle sleepy bull that can be managed without a nose ring does not as a rule produce the best calves. It is downright cruelty to keep a bull in a small enclosure in the sum- mer, a victim to heat and flies—but many men who claim to be good dairymen, do this very thing. How could we expect a cow to keep in good health and give pure milk when she is confined in foul and ill - ventilated quarters, winter or sum- mer. A pair of horse -clippers can be bought for $1.50 and the use of these once a month on the cow's flanks and udder will make it an easy matter to keep them clean. How many cows on 'the average farm give milk containing more than twenty per cent. of butter -fat? Per- haps not more than one out of every 1 asked. 100. "Whet have you 'doped' out?" 1. Ns was impatient to know, "And why „ should Mrs, Fax have been 'scared 1..1.11 stiff' as you expressed It What 'ea her?" able I telephoned for a taxi, and by the time Miss Fox had donned hat, coat and gloves, andwe had• ed to the ground floor, it was waiting for us, She gave the chauffeur the street and number, and I promised him he would lose nothing by forgetting speed ordnances. We turned into First Street and had proceeded per- haps half a block when Mist; Fax looked back, My mind at the moment was to full to attach any importance to the act, and I thought no more of it until a minute or two had elapsed, during which rhe cast two more un- easy glances backward—as we mount- ed the viaduct across the Santa Pe tracks, and again as we climbed the acclivity along whose crest run Boyle and Pleasant Avenues. ante e my arm. "Look!" she exclaimed under her breath, "It is they!" "They?" I dully echoed, rousing myself from my preoccupation. "Who?" Her reply was another excited com- mand. "Look—quick!" turned barely in time to glimpse a long, speedy looking machine. It was about midway in the straight, level expanse of street stretchl-ng be- hind us, from the base of the hill to the viaduct, and hitting it up at a lively clip. They didn't mean to lose us, it was manifest, in the maze of winding streets of which we might now take advantage if ws were so minded. But I had no intention of trying to elude them. For there was no mistaking the car or its two muffled, be -goggled, un- recognizable occupants. It was the gray automobile. The last time she mechanically CHAPTER XV. Precisely at what point the gray automobile abandoned its pursuit of us I did not observe; doubtless after its occupants, whoever they were, had satisfied themselves as to our destination. It was more than likely, too, that the low shadowy car pro- ceeded to an advantageous position nearby, from which our departure might be noted and the chase once more resumed. I could not say. I -was too much taken up with the cot- tage Miss Fox indicated as being her aunt's home: Houses that people live in, to some extent at least, have a personality of their own, and they and their imme- diate surroundingstreflect the charaes See "Dunne what seared her, It might a -been worse than that if I hadn't come just when I did. You see, the inside door was open; just the screen was shut. I knocked a couple o' times and didn't raise anybody. Then I wslIced in—in a hurry, I smelt chloroform." "Chloroform!" 1 ejaculated in amazement. "Yep, chloroform. I had a hunch I'd better not waste any more time knocking. And I wasn't any too soon, either. Found the old lady on the dining -room floor with a towel over her face. Towel was soaked with the stuff. I got rid of the towel; nobody but me got wise to the chloroform." I could only stare in wonder and wait for him to continue. "I was just going to hunt a doctor when she come to and see me. Then rhe went from one fit to another, so I rustled the neighbors and phoned you to get the young lady home." It all seemed such an incredible proceeding that I could only slowly realize Struber's words. In this emin- ently respectable and quiet residence neighborhood the occurrence of vio- lence of any description was incon- ceivable. The time was broad day, the immediate setting the most mod- est and quiet of all the houses, the particular victim of all others the one least easy to reconcile with the appa- rent outrage. "Was it robbery ?—burglary ?" I "Well, you might call it both," Struber slowly admitted. "Somebody wanted something of the old lady's mighty bad to take such a chance.' What's she got that's worth the risk? I've mixed with all sorts of crooks 1 in my time, but never crossed ropes with one that'd a -pulled off a stunt Ilike this unless he knew it'd put him on Easy Street the rest of his life. I'm waiting to find out what they was after, and whether or not they , copped it." We moved together up to the porch, where Miss Fax almost imme- diately joined us. Her aunt was ly- ing down, easy now except for a nausea that was the natural after ef- fect of the drug. In a low voice she suggested that we go over to a couple of lawn seats. She was deeply troubled. "Mr. Struber, do you know what happened?" she asked as soon as she sat down in the bench facing the one Struber and I chose. "Only what I've guessed, Miss Fox," he replied. "I was honing your aunt could tell us about it." ; The girl shook her head decisively.1 "She can't tell much. She was busy in the kitchen when she was attracted by a slight noise at the front of the house. At first she paid no attention to it, but when it was repeated she came to the front door to investigate. All she saw was what she took to be a Chinese laundry man's wagon standing at the curb. It wasn't right in front of the house, but down a way, toward Mrs. Falk- ner's, next door. "But you know the Chinese habit of svalking right into one's house without knocking. She thought of this and turned to look into the front room; then she was seized from be- hind. Before she could scream or I struggle, she says, a cloth was press- ed over her face, she was dragged back away from the door, and knew nothing more until she came to and ssire naevsterransLe, iTmarnattoilinj a7earni.r. "That was me she saw," Struber explained. "The cloth was a towel and it was soaked with chloroform." Good gracious! exclaimed the girl. Struber pursued: "I made a quick search of the house before the neighbors got here, but it didn't look torn up any. Of course I couldn't'tell if anything was missing. Then your aunt didn't see anybody?" Miss Fax again shook her head. "No, nobody at all, except you. She was not given an opportunity. But I have discovered what they were after —what they took." We waited expectantly. "The little ivory box," she added soberly, her eyes on Struber; "the one you came here to see. (To be continued.) I saw a small cottage—a very small cottage, I might say, for it could not have owned more than five or six rooms—fairly smothered beneath a welter of gold of ophir roses whose myriad blossoms shone like newly minted money. The thick, tangled growth had clambered clear across the roof and back to the ground again on the farther side. All along the street the sidewalk was shaded by fine old pepper trees, and where you turned into the walk leading up to , the cottage two uncommonly lofty 1 Lombardy poplars stood sentinel- . like, forming a noble gateway. There was a well -kept lawn bordered by every conceivable variety of rose, most of which were in bloom. There were, too, beds of other flowers and some agreeably arranged shrubbery— loquats, guavas, oleanders, privet But I was most forcibly impressed, and the like. first, by the homelike air that hung , about the place, and, next, by its de- tachment, as if it had withdrawn from the rest of the world to pursue' a placid, unruffled existence independ- ent of the quiet neighborhood envir- onment. Was it an atmosphere of secretive- ness? Perhaps not. But the thought came to me. It seemed impossible that any jar- ring note from the outside alien world could intrude here to shatter the serenity; yet, if Struber were to be believed, this was exactly what had happened. 1 Our machine stopped, and I was given a fresh demonstration of the detective's adaptability cto his calling, which this time was his facility in effacing himself from observation. I did not seehim at all until he detach- ed himself from the trunk of one of the poplars against which manifestly he had been leaning, and approached to open the tonneau door. Before my companion had time to voice her anxiety, he announced: "The old lady's all right now, She's alone." And at that moment I be- came aware of a covert surveillance from every house along the street. Truly, curiosity must have been ram- pant. Miss Fax hastened up the narrow - gravel walk and disappeared in the house. I lingered to hear the particu- lars from Struber. That worthy also watched the graceful form until the screen door closed and hid it. There was a queer expression on his narrow features, and his crooked beak wrinkled with excess of inward emotion when he turned again to me. Pushing the fin- gers of one hand up along the back of Ms head and tilting his derby for- ward, he ruffled his hair in perplex- ity. 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No Nightly Visits. Burglar (just acquitted, to his law- yer)—I will drop in soon and see you. Lawyer—Very good; but in the daytime, please. Half -a -guinea is the daily pay of quartermaster in the leading British cavalry regiments. Up to date, at least 1,700 men of the London Police Free are serving with the Navy and Army, whilst a further thousand have been drafted out of the metropolis for the protec- tion of dockyards and military stas tions in the provinces. The separator should never be al- lowed in the barn or near it. A half dozen window sash, glazed, will make a dust -proof box in which the dairy vessels can be sunned and kept absolutely clean. Any enterprising farmer living near a town of 5,000 or more can sell every pound of his butter at full re- tail prices or little above, the year round. For several years we have bought farm butter from the same farmer, at two cents above retail market -price, every month in the yeas and glad to get it. Never attempt to keep summer but- ter for early fall prices, because it will not keep. All milk should be aerated as soon as taken from the cow. This can be done by passing it through the sepa- rator, but it is not as good as a de- vice which divides the milk into many fine streams and then allows it to flow over a wide surface in thin sheets with plenty of ice to keep the sur- face cool. If nothing better can be had, milk may be aerated by placing the cans in a trough of cold water and dipping the milk with a long -handled dipper and pouring it back into the can until it is thoroughly cool. Never cover . milk while warm, in the cans, as it will produce a musty odor. The milker who will thump a cow for squirming under the attack of flies, ought to be hoisted out of the barn on the toe. of the dairyman's boots. Need not expect cows to keep up the milk flow during the tail -end of summer, unless you have plenty of soiling crops to feed. Dead grass does not produce milk. The Value of Cow Peas. They can be grown as far north as Dent corn can be grown and on land so poor that clover would not catch at all. They are called "the poor man's clover," because you can get such quick results. A crop of cow peas can be grown in three months, and it will be fully equal to a two years' crop of clover. You can sow the peas any time from May to Au- gust and can get a good big'crop "fol- lowing an early crop taken off in June. Plowed under after the fleet frost, they will leave the ground in elegant shape for a crop next year. The seed costs about $2.50 per bushel and should be drilled in at the rate of one half bUshel per acre. Ration for Chicks. A simple grain mixture is corn, wheat, and oats, a little more corn as the weather gets colder and less dur- ing the summer days. A little buck- wheat and sunflower seed added to this mixture during fall and winter months is. beneficial. Green footle, such as alfalfa, cabbage, sprouted oats or mangles should be fed freely, Fresh green cut bone or feed scraps and charcoal should also be supplied at all seasons of the year. Inventors' Fortunes. It is not always the greatest inven- tion that brings the largest financial reward. Roller skates are said to have brought their inventor $3,000,- 000, while nearly half a million was realized by the man who first devised boot laces.. The inventor of the safety pin, who took the idea from a repro- duction of a Pompeii:in cameo, made $10,000,000. On the other band, Charles Beurseul, who discovered and described the principle of the tele- phone in 1855, died poor; Michaux, the inventor of the bicycle, ended his days in the utmost penury, and Fred- eric Sauvage, who is credited with the invention of the mew propellor, was imprisoned and died banlerupt and insane. This Advertisement may induce you to try the first packet of but we rely absolutely on the inimitable flavour ' and quality to make you a permanent customer. We will even coffer to give this first trial free if you will drop us a postal to Toronto. B113 GERMANY'S IGNOBLE BACK - DOWN. By Chas. M. 13ice, Denver, Col. After Irma "crimination and re- mune:Axon" between the govern- ments of the U. S. and that of Ger- many, the Kaiser has at last yielded to the Anicrican d submarine depredations. Some people eall this a diplomatic victory for the Yankee nation; but others are equally insistent that Ger- many has yielded only because "the waters were made too hot" for her by the activity of the British naval force. Whatever may be the real cause of Germany's acceding to America's de mend, the result is equally glorious and reassuring. Regret, disavowal and indemnity are all conceded by Germany, with the assurance that the Teuton will hereafter be good, We are assured that the Kaiser's or- der to his submarines has been made so drastically stringent that the re- currence of incidents similar to the Arabic and Lusitania cases is con- sidered out of the question. At the outset of the negotiations Germany asserted her right in unmis- takable terms to continue her original submarine policy, and stated in its first note that "the Geripan Govern- ment is unable to acknowledge any obligation to grant indemnity in the matter, even if the commander of the submarine should have been mistaken as to the aggressive intentions of the Arabic." But, in the note a month or so later, we were informed by Count Bernstorff, that Germany is willing to negotiate concerning the amount of the indemnity to be paid for the disaster, and this is expressly stated, whether the submarine com- mander was convinced or not, that the Arabic intended to ram the submar- ine; and Germany has gracefully yielded to the testimony of the Bri- tish officers to the contrary. The Imperial government, in the same note, assured America that "the at- tack of the submarine was under- taken against the instructions issued to the commander," and that "the Government disavows the act and has notified the commander, Schneider, accordingly." We have some recollection of a "war zone" decree, and the liberal dimensions thereof, as set by the Ger- man naval officials, but all this is now a mere reminiscence, it seems, and we are to hear no more about it. This is a signal and surprising vic- tory for the whole world, for it fixes the limits of submarine activity for all time, and demonstrates how illy founded were Mr. Bryan's direful ap- prehensions that found expression in his resignation as a cabinet officer. What a chance for immortal glory his evil genius induced him to throw away! This is not merely an American vic- tory. In principle the U. S. has been defending the rights of all neutrals, and all will rejoice over the success of American diplomacy. The result will make it easier to broaden and strengthen the code of international rights when the present war is ended. Force has bowed to rectitude, and morality has dominated power once more. President Wilson's statesmanship, inflexible will and lofty courage have again triumphed, and though harassed at home by the impatient, and heckled by Teutonic sympathizers, he deserves and will reeeoept.ethe adoration of a grateful p Certain papers in this country that stand for America's preparedness, however, aro disposed to belittle the achhcvement, and claim, if there is a triumph, it is naval rather than diplo- matic, for, say they, "Germany has abendonad her submarine warfare against merchant shipping and the rights of neutrals because the British fleet has made the submarine question a dead issue," What about the Lusitania? demand these papers. That question is still unsettled. But Germany's answer in the case of the Arabic, and the concessions therein made, and principles enunci- ated, should easily apply to the Lusi- Janie when the time comes to settle that dispute. It is enough to know that the weapon she relied upon has been struck from her hand, and that ends it. The President got nearly every- thing he demended, bit by bit, and the American public kept its head and backed the President. The war-toot- ers and peace -at -any -price fawners, and the angry hyphenated citizens have had their day in court. The public has had enough of them. Whe- ther the President "muddled through" in the diplomatic controversy, as some claim, or not, we have escaped the danger of being dragged into an igno- minious war. Never judge a woman by the com- pany she is compelled to entertain. The First of ALL "Home Remedies" 4ATASELINE," in its many forms with their innum- erable uses, is the foundation of the family medicine chest. Trade seline Petroleum Jelly It keeps the skin smooth and sound. Invaluable in the nurs- ery for burns, cuts, insect bites, etc. Absolutely pure and safe. AVOID SUBSTITUTES. In- sist on "Vaseline" in original packages bearing the naine, CHESEB ROUGH MA N U- FACTURING CO., Consoli- dated. 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The tablier, with front panel of lace'is made of the chiffon, the figured bor- der forming a wide band that droops slightly in the front, lifts at the sides and drops again at the back. Attach- ed to the chiffon is an insertion of lace, then a picot band of chiffon. The lace panel that extends down the front of the costume parts at the waist line and continues in two pieces up over the shoulders, permitting a bit of the Dresden design to appeal. as a tiny vestee. The sleeves of chiffon are unique. They have merely the short under - sleeve, which takes on the form of a square -cut shield, held over the upper arm by means of crossed bands of narrow chiffon. The ceinture is a silver cord. If you are thinirrng of getting a new blouse for your street spit select the same color as that of your coat lining, isthee said that this must be. effect is very pretty, when the coat is being removed. If your jacket lining is too gay aqd dizzy, then have your blouse of plaid or stripe, with one shade of matching. The humorous waists of the mo- ment have pantalettes attached to them, and the separate skirt is slip- ped on last Another new note is the narrow ruching of taffeta sewed to the inside of the hem of the skirt. The color may match the trim of the suit, or the blouse. When the creature walks or canters, little circular skirt whip and sways, and little ruching looks very bright and cheerful, fluttering about hither and yon. Small fur pastilles, always short - haired, soft -surfaced pelts, are used as decorations for blouses of soft fab- rics, and make stunning ornamental effects. They are appearing not only on blouses of satins, chiffons, crepes and silk veilings, but also on lingerie waists, which—to say the least—is a bitstartling.rti, squirrel, beaver—all the short -pile furs, in fact—are utilized in this manner. They are sometimes sewed on, but more generally are at- tached by means of tailors' gum. Perceptible length of life may be given to all embroidered edgings by running a straight row of close ma- chine stitching just at the head of the scallops or points. This is easiest done in the flat, but CCU be done on garments already made up, With this treatment the whole inside 'of a ruffle will often give way before the • edge. Judgment has to be used as to the size of the thread employer'. No. 50 is coarse enough for heavy em- broideries, higher numbers for finer grades. The stitching is not notice- able after laundering, WHAT'S IN A NAME? British and French Regiments May Meet as Old Friends. In the great struggle now proceed- ing on the Continent it is more than possible that British regiments will find themselves fighting beside French regiments of similar numeri- cal designations, and if oer 24th Regi- ment — South Wales Borderers — ens counter the French 24th Infantry of the Line, it will be like a meeting of old friends, for, many months before the war, the fficers of the former established a close friendship with. the officers of the latter, says Lon- don Answers. Our 24th Regiment has also ex- changed courtesies—and valuable presents—with the 24th Infantry Regiment of Austria. The latter ac- quaintance of course, was formed long before the present war was dreamed of; and if the British 24th ' should now by chance meet the Aus- trian 24th, it will no doubt give it a welcome of a much warmer character! It may be a welcome such as our 84th Foot—Border Regiment—gave the French 34th at Arroyo los Me - linos in the Peninsular War, when they hemmed the latter in in the nar- row streets of the village and captur- ed the band and nearly all the officers. It was at the crossing of the Bidassoa in the same campaign, that many of our wounded of the 51st Regiment, who were left behind, fell into the hands of the French 61st Regiment, and were Inost tenderly nursed and afterwards treated with true Gallic generosity because of their common numerical designation. Out of the Wrong Case. The Customer—See liere! These eggs you sold me aren't fit to eat. The Market Man—Certainly not. Why dide't you tell me you wanted • eating eggs? I thought you wanted eggs to lend to the neighbors: