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The Brussels Post, 1916-12-7, Page 2""'"' ""'' ""'" 11111111111111g 11111 IIIIi11111111111111l1111` "a'm'ur . e�icker-Etasier More Comfortable Are you taking advantage of ALL the modern methods of saving time and trouble? Are you up-to-date in your shaving as well as in your work? Are you using a Oct e .ii.aafzeg In its own way the Gillette is as quick, efficient and convenient as your milker, your binder or your telephone. It compares with other razors as these modern inventions compare with the things they have replaced. Without honing, stropping or fussing, the Gillette will give you the easiest and most coinfortable shave you ever enjoyed, to five minutes or less I It makes shaving an every -day pleasure instead of an irk- some twice -a -week job. "Bulldog", "Aristocrat" and Standard Gillette Sets cost $5.—Pocket Editions $5 and $6— Combination Sets $6.50 up. You can buy them at Hardware, Drug; f �;uel y, Men's Wear and General Stores. Gillette Safety Razor Co, of Canada, Limited Office and Factory t Gillette Building, MONTREAL, gill111111111111111 til MINI II L - { FAMINE IN BUDAPEST. Food in Hungary is Now Practically Nott -Existent. The Hungarian Government, fright- ened by the spectre of famine, is seek- ing toappoint a food dictator, but can find nobody to undertake the job and dictate with regard to food which has no existence, writes a Swiss cor- respondent. Ile says the commonest sight in Budapest is that of little crowds, mainly women, who wait wearily outside the shops for food which they cannot get. Mr. Tabody, in the Pesti Napolo, tells that "women have to stand one or two hours to get a few potatoes; from two to three hours if they want a bit of sausage, from three to four hours for a quarter of a pound of sugar and from four to five hours for a bit of lard or fat. A. woman who wants to get something to eat i for her children every day must spend at least five or six hours waiting in the queues." People in Budapest are tired of grumbling about the prices of neces- saries. Within the last month they have again risen fromrn,,fifty to one hundred per cent., butTven the prices; would not matter so much if only the food could be obtained. Budapest is Iike a town besieged, and the people will soon have to follow the example of the Parisians in 1870 and eat rats and mice. The principal trouble is that the Prussians are taking away nearly everything, and what they leave is seized by the Austrians. The Important Question. "Oh, papa, Jack says my love for him makes him feel strong enough! to move mountains."' "Yes, but is he strong enough to go to work?" Mother's Idea, "Did you meet any nice men while! you were away?" "Yes, mother. Lots of them," "Lots of them! There aren't that many in the whole world." THE LAPSE OP ENOCH W NTWORTI 13y ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of " The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER XXVI.—(Cont'd). "Yes; I s, but should uld not have g even if you had been well. He given ` Cordelia' to Miss Embury, English girl, He says she will it beautifully. We are to open h on the twentieth of October, T whole company has been ro-engag Mr. Oswald said he did not beli you would care to make any ehang There is only one new member Helen Capron will play 'Mrs. Est brook.' Miss Paget went to Land three weeks ago."' Dorcas did not raise her eyes wh she spoke. The silk thread had kn ted and she sat disentangling it w her needle. "As soon as you are able to tra ave are going to bake you away sou where. The city is hot." Enoch stared out at the wind "Who is 'we'?" he questioned. A wave of scarlet crept across girl's face. "Andrew Merry has offered to h care for you until you are qu again," she answered with raising her eyes. There still were gray shadows his face and wan hollows and wrink about his mouth. His hair had w ened at the temples. Physically ratan had changed, but a new tr quility had begun to smooth aw lines of worry and care in the col less face. "And begin life aver again?" asiccd. "Yes," said the girl gently. A pathetic eagerness came into face; then it grew still with the gr ity of a man who had almost touch hands with death. Into the wrink about his mouth crept the old dogg determination, tempered by a bumf ty which Dorcas had never seen befo She flung her work aside, dropped her knees, and drew her brother's fa close against her own. "Derry," he said after a long silen 'when Andrew comes I want to s him alone." "He is downstairs now," she a swered. "Send him up, won't you—and you mind if he comes alone? Afte wards I wants you." The girl hesitated. "Of course. B do you think you are strong enou I to visit much?" "I spoke to the doctor this mornin and he said talking would not hurt u less I got excited, Andrew isn't a exciting fellow." "You're looking uncommonly we for a sick man," said Merry when h entered the room a few moments lax "So do you, Boy!' Enoch's ey crinkled with a smite "You look ha py—tremendously happy." "Of course, I am tremendously hap py. Why shouldn't I be bremend ously happy? I never saw a inor glorious day; I have you back, we and strong, the same staunch old filen you always were; I've signed a con tract for next season in figures whic have given me dizzy spells fiv years ago, and.—" "And—" A pathetic eagerness cam into Enoch's face. "Why, bless my soul, isn't that en one has an play ere he ed. Merry did not speak. He sat watch - eve ing Enoch's washed fingers search es, through a mass of papers in the little drawer. He lifted out a bankbook, er- and a yellow envelope, then he set the on drawer aside and laid the leather-' ile "That is yours," he explained. "You; ot- I will find there every cent of royalties j ith ; tram 'The House'. It was banked! 1 apart from my private account. It! vel' grew amazingly during the spring. You are a wealthy man." e - Ii the live long enough to --make restita tion, I can't make full res itation, It seems to me as if I had been living on the brink of hell for li'alf a life- time. Let me come back," he plead- ed, "back—so I can look decent people' in the face again." (covered booklet upon Merry's knee, ow, Andrew opened ib and glanced' through the pages. He looked bewil- I dered for a moment, the "Jehul What can I do with mach money? I swear, Enoch, I do alp care a picayune for being a wen uite man except—" out Wentworth did not answer. was staring at a slip of paper he es • drawn from the yellow envelope. " les remember this, Andrew?" he as hit- . abruptly. the' Merry nodded. He caught a glim an- of Wentworth's name and his o ay upon the flimsy thing they had cal or- the bond. Enoch leaned back agai the pillow and began to destroy ' he Paper with slow deliberation, teari it across and across until it was duced to a heap of flakes which his bred down into the hollow of ay.' gaunt palm. He shook them into ed envelope and handed it to Merry, w les took it without a word and slipped ed between the leaves of the bankbo li "If you can trust me, Boy, until re. right time comes and I reach the ri on place, I will make full restitution ee fore the world." "Don't, old man, let us bury th ce, • now and forever. Good God! isn't ee` restitution enough to have saved my I life?., n.1 "No," Enoch spoke with swift pa sion "no, it isn't restitution, Don do stand in my way. You have to hum r- sick men, you know. Besides, I ova Ito lay my soul bare to you now, ut drew. Had I been a Catholic gh should have done it to a priest lon ago, I suppose." rig CANA WANTED FORiA THE�p� ROYAL NAVY Y i Two thousand Canadians are wanted for the Royal Naval Can- adian Volunteer Reserve towards manning the new ships of the Imperial Royal Navy. Immediate oversew service. Only men of good character and good physique accepted. Pay $1.10 Mininium'per day—Free Kit $20.00 per Month Separation Allowance Apply to the nearest Naval Recruit- ing Station, or to the Dept. of the Naval Service OTTAWA sof sweetheart, he might have commuted n't murder if a weapon had been at hand. The third time a gun lay close to his lthy+ elbow." Andrew Merry did not speak, but ]Ha sat Walt.thing Enoch with bewilderment Y in his eyes Iced I ,_"I am going to tell you about two c„ons which occurred in my own life. PSCThere was a third—you know about he runs to his cabin and barks or that one yourself.” paws at the door. led' Across the pale face of the invalid nit swept a wave of scarlet; then he be - the grin to talk slowly and hesitatingly. n ' I was in a Southern academy the first g, time it happened. I must have been re -seventeen or thereabouts. Prizes were flet to be given for a public oration and he! people were coming from everywhere ho to hear us. The governor was to ad - it dress us. My father was a lawyer, one of the big lawyers of the states. °k' He went to this school when he was a the boy, and he had carried off the oration Dog Is GlobetTrotter, Mitch, a Scotch terrier, was rescued from the sea three years; ago by Capt. Haines of the steamship Somerset. Since then the dog has been around the world twice, through -the war zone and the Shadow of the revolutions of Mexico and Haiyti. Whenever he sights a vessel, if his master is not on deck, prize. His heart was set on my win- ( ning it. I toiled and toiled over that speech; it was about the death of is Julius Caesar. I can temesnber, as I st lay awake nights staring out into the chess, how the speech came throb- bing in my brain. I could never write, ,t: though, as I declaimed it to myself in or the still dormitory. I used to go out lit into the woods and try to write. One An- day I gave up. I sat huddled against I a stone wall which ran down the hill, dividing a pasture from the forest. g There was a tall pine over my head g ; ' Go, ahead, Enoch, I'll listen," h a.' said gently. n Wentworth turned In bed an Iclasped Isis hands around one ben 11 knee, "Years ago," be began bru e quely, "I was wandering about in t er. Tennessee mountains on an assign es meat when I fell in with a chap wh p. taught psychology in Yale. He wa nothing wonderful, bat his science wa - fascinating. Time and again, sine - those days, I have planned, if I soul e' find the leisure, to go into psycholog 11; and study the thing out. Still, an d ' man who knocks about tate world - I have done learns to puzzle thing h ; out for himself. There must be some e' tiling alluring, though, to be able t reduce the promptings of one's own e soul to a science and then to work ou I a problem in yourself. Don't you! think so?" "I should imagine so. Still, it's an 1 unopened book to me," Merry admit- ted. "We used to sit and talk every night around the campfire. I remember once this young MacGregor explained, British Plantation Rubber Is Saving Canada Millions Low Prices of Rubbers and Overshoes Due to Britain's Control of Situation Here in Canada many of us have fallen into the truly Anglo-Saxon habit of considering the "Mother of Parliaments " slow and a bit behind the times. The present price of rubber, when its cause is revealed, affords one of the many proofs that such an opinion is away off the nark. Thanks to great rubber plantations established, in the face of criticism and ridicule, many years before in her tropical Dominions, Great Britain at the out- break of war held a firm and tightening grip on the world's supply of raw rubber --a grip reinforced by her dominating navy. Frotn 60% in 1914, the production of these plantations has grown this year to 75% of the whole world's output, leaving only about half the requirements of the United States alone to come from all other sources. The result has been that the needs of the Allies, enorinous though they arc, have been plentifully sup- plied, while Germany has been reduced to registered mails and the "Deutschland" in desperate attempts to mitigate her rubber famine. Neutrals have been allowed all the rubber they want, at prices actually' lower than before the war, so lying as they prevent any of it from reaching the enemy, while Canada and other parts of the Empire have an abundant supply at egttaily favorable Government regulated prices. VI this foresight rind generosity of the British Govern Ment Iles the reason why rubber alone, or all the great staples,. Inc not gono up in rirlce......why rubber hoots, rubbers and overshoes are as inexpensive ;is ever, vans leathrr shoes aro casting several dollars a pair snore. Wenncig rubbers or over- shoes through this winter to pi -Meet them,, expensive shnsa Or rubber t r f,rm Ola repines sham to r r ,lase n t tltt is n a ria ro than practical seal thrift—it !. e grateful lpatriotism, ray in nom saving leather g h,r ave malts it easter for f" • i a o h. ,ole i .r,.e rat fu e<* • s u e the absolutely to w.• r .ty our try supplies of this alarmingly scarce material fur our soldiers. Both Thrift and Patriotism Point to Rubbers! ea and the crows were calling from the el top of it, I can see the place yet." d; Enoch lifted his eyes and turned to meet the steady glance of the man who sat beside the bed. s i "Do you want to hear the story he_ out?" he asked bluntly., "Yes—if you are bound to tell it." 0 "It isn't an easy task to set the s stark-naked soul of man before wroth- ! er's gaze, especially when it's a mania- °' own soul; but I've been over this, d step by step, during these bedridden rnY' days, and I'Il feel better when it's out as of my system." sI (To be continued), of A man may wake his first baby just to see it laugh, but he never disturbs t the peaceful slumbers of the second. ough to set the average human ,m transcendental stilts?" "Andrew, you're half angell" cried Wentworth. There was a quaver is his voice. "Half angel, you ridiculous old mud- dle head!" Merry smiled in his en- , gaging way. "There's no surplus of angel fiber in any man—angels are feminine." The comedian's eyes be- came grave for a moment. "Still, I might have been gadding about on wings to -day if it hadn't been for you, Your courage—" "Courage!" Wentworth started as if he had been struck. ,"Andrew, never use that word about me again! Ib wasn't courage that made me snatch You from death. Oftentimes men who in cold blood are utter cowards Ieap forward and rescue some one from death. That isn't courage!" He paused, as if a word had escaped him, "It is blind, instinctive impulse—the natural impulse you find even in a savage." "You're too weak yet to argue." Merry's voice was conclusive. "Only —one thing is certain," he turned his thumb toward the floor; "I am here instead of—there," "Andrew," the sick man's face flushed, "take these," He pulled a bunch of small keys threaded upon a steel ring, from under his pillow. "Won't you unlock the little drawer at the left of my desk and bring it to sae." "Don't go in for any sort of work now Enoch. Your duty at present is to lie there and get well." "I want that drawer, now," Merry stared at him for a moment, then be obeyed, and returned to the roomwith the drawer in his hand, d. "Do you think," the actor paused again and asked anxiously, r o You think that you are strong enough yet to at- tend to 'rosiness?" "This isn't business." Znoch's face grew peremptory. "I'm strong en- ough for this. I'es ant a praying man, Andrew, but, I lay in the dark last night thanking God that he had let ! to me why a man we had both known committed murder. He killed his wife first, then, horror-stricken, shot himself, It's a common enough story, you read it in the papers every day ' of the week, but it came close to us because we had both known the fellow 1 well, He was a decent, quiet, cheerful citizen, with a genial, kindly way about him. Isis taking off seemed a mystery None of use had even seen him angry. Suddenly he turned into a flaming fiend, a murderer, and a•sui- cide. Nothing bat insahity or the Yale man's theory explained it." "What was his theory?" Wentworth paused for a minute with a haunted look in his eyes. "IIe claims that the morals of every human being are molded during the firsts twenty years of his Life. Into a fairly decent career there comes occasionally—for the life of me I can't remember his technical name for it—I should call it a moral lesion. Some sin which a man has committed, and you might say lived down, before he was twenty, crops out again years after and it conquers him. Each time he may repent and turn over a new leaf. The world looks on him not as an Admir- able Crichton perhaps, but as a toler- ably good fellow. Then suddenly, without the ghost of a warning, even after he imagines ho has outgrown the tendency to that particular sin, there comes a temptation, and he goes under as if his backbone was gristle. Ile falls i a s as quick cItthat!" as th l Wentworth paused for d a moment meat and snapped his tine "Curious, pP fingers. .,urious isn't it?" he added. ' "It certainly is curious," agreed Merry, "When the career of this murderer was brought to the light of day, they found that moo when he was a school- boy, and again, when a friend Qtolc his PAINS AFTER EATING WIND IN THE STOMACH—ACIDITY, HEADACHES—CONSTIPATION ARE SIGNS OF INDIGESTION. Indigestion—the complete or partial failure of the digestive processes—fre- quently throw -out of gear the whole machinery of the bony. You can't enjoy the vigour and vitality of good health unless your stomach, liver and bowels do their work regularly and efficiently. r-.: ■ SYRUP ON THE FARM Breed to Improve the Herd. From the appearance' of many Herds the owners have for years been work- ing along the line of least resistance. They have placed sires at the head of the herds, and there has been an in- crease in slumbers, but a lackof a definite ideal. The individuals in many herds are little better than their ancestors were twenty-five years Age. This is indicated by the very slow rise in the average production of milk and butter -fat per cow. Not over an Increase of 1,000 pounds in that time looks like slow improvement. How- ever, alongside these average herds are some that were similar in type, conformation and production 25 years ago, but to -day the net returns are mare than double that of the aver- age cow. Why the vast difference in production? It is largely due to the one breeder having an ideal and ever breeding bo reach it. Bulls that had the Jlesired type and conformation and were backed by producing ancestors Were placed ab the head of the herd. The result has been that the progeny was generally superior to the sire and dam.` Those that were not were weeded out, . There was no place for boarders or "off" type animals in the herd.. The other breeder thought more ,of the dollar in the hand than of the far reaching influence of a good sire. . While. the herd increased in numbers the same as the neighbors there was very little improvement in quality or production. The one look- ed at the breeding business through a" long distance lens, and could see the results of always using sires thab came up to a certain standard. Ile aimed at having a herd averaging so many thoasand pounds of milk per year. It was considered too expen- sive to purchase these high produc- ing females, hence the desired results were attained by breeding the cows he had to the best sire available. It took longer to reach the ideal over the route chosen, but it was a satisfaction to know that each generation was bet- ter than the previous one. The breed- er who saw only the immediate oat - lay and returns still has an average herd. During the 25 years his ani- mals consumed as much of the same kind of roughage as his neighbors add now they cost as much to feed, but barely returna profit. The Right Sire To Buy. These same types of men exist to- day, but it is time that all stockmen realized the value of deciding on breed- ing one class of stock and constantly improving it through the sire used. It must be remembered that all register- ed stock is not necessarily good stock. There are cull pure-breds as well as ull grades. Along with the breed - ng must always be considered the ndividuality of the animal. When purchasing a sire to place at ire head of the herd it is folly to al - ow a few dollars to stand in the way o securing one that has the backing nd individuality that should improve the herd. Twenty, fifty or even a hnudred dollars extra for a bull of the ight stamp may Bay big dividends y the increased value of the calves reduced. It is almost impossible to stimate the value of a good.sire. He ither improves the quality of the herd r gives it a set back, not only for one ear but for years to come. Every reader should study pedigrees and now the points to look for when electing An animal to place in the erd. The price asked for a high quality ull may exceed the amount an indiyi- ual breeder cares to invest in one nimal. In this case the difficulty as been overcome by two or three readers intone neighborhood co-oper- ting in the purchase. The produc- on of ninny grade herds has been sired from between four and five thousand pounds of milk to between even and eight thousand pounds by sing only sires of the right type, uality and breeding, Breeders of rade cattle as well as breeders of ure-bred stock should pay more at ration to the selection of suitable res. --.Farmer's Advocate. C As a digestive tonic and stomachic i remedy, Mother Seigel's Syrup is esteemed in tens of thousands of homes, wherever the English language t is spoken. 1f you suffer much or little 1 from disorders of the stomach, liver f or bowels, try the effect of taking 15 a to 30 drops of this famous remedy In water, after meals, for a few days and note its beneficial effects, ASSISTS '°" u DIGESTION 0 The n,w1,00stse contain. !Ayer times as mud 3, as the trial the sold 5550eter bottle. a FZ ADS- CANES, • LACK WHITE TAN II 1 i, t, ` . , ( z [(tf 441/I 1 �1� i ��IIIIIU ' 11 III Ill iill 1 I I ills 11111 IEE, 'OU.5 OES NEAT tt, P. bAt.LizY co, OP OR ANADA, LTD., HAMILTON, -car4AOA JIQ k 8 h b d h b ti ri s u 1 g to si Horse Talk. With the inereascd price of horses more attention is being paid to the care of the growing colts. All i» tolligent farmers ere select. ing sires and clams to bring the .type of colt that the market demands. Don't cross types, or vzon will sanely get a misfit. Be sure that the colts are coming in- to winter quarters fat and hearty, A little grain every day in a box in the pasture will accomplish this end in a very eeonamicsi way. Cooling off suddenly is always more or less dangerous. Prevent this by using a light blanket when the horse is hot. A light blanket should he used on the driving and saddle horses now to keep their coats there. A good grooming every day will help to keep the coat short and also keep the horse healthy., 'Don't h+ t the breeding mare run h dos vncnsh short feed. It badss• for h eT and t bad for her colt. The weanlings thoitlrl have especial- ly good care as ::he cold weather comes, Sudcjee. changes front warm be cold are bit by the young things. Have the etebles nerdy fur them, and kccp them in during &d or wet night;, erpr.ei'i'y.