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ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. < HAPTEK II. (Continued). ''I wi'iiM run v\<-r for the Sun- day. |M<rh:i|>s, that, would be as inuc-h as 1 could manage, but Frithi- of will U- tbrrr u take care of you. What tlM.ui !<] y<,u want with a care- worn old man like me, now that he is at horar. ;ip.i:i] |" "You fii.fi for vompliments, lit- tle father." said .Sigrid, slipping her arm within tiis and giving him >ne of tin** unite caresses which are so much more eloquent than words. "But, quite between our- sehes. though Frithiof is all very well. 1 thh'n't enjoy it a bit without " "Yes. \H, father, dear," said Swanliild. "indeed you must come, for Frithiof he will be just no good at all. In- will be sure to dance al- ways with the pretty Miss Morgan, and t<, row her about on the fjord all day. ju-t us ht- did those pretty girls at \< rhcnm,.nd and Faleide." The ir.mx-cnt earnestness of the UM'B t.n, mad*- them all laugh, uiul Fritiuof vowing vengeance ,,n her f t ,r I round and the room ; it seamed to Sigrid that a nameless shadow had fallen on their sunny home. She was for the first time in her life afraid, though the fear was vague and undefined. "But there, little one.," said her father, turning toward her agaJn. "You must not he worried. 1 get nervous and depressed, that is all. As I told you, I am growing old." "Frithiof would like to help you more if you would let him." naid Sigrid, rather wistfully. "He was saying so just now." "And so he shall in the, autumn. He is a good lad. and if all 'goes well. I hope he will some day be my right hand in the business, but I chaed her round the garden, their , laughter floating back to H Falck and. 8ignd as they entered the. h'jiiM "The halt Falck. in.iix!' said H-rr iii in- ntly she said it too. I don't think our boy is such a desperate flirt, though. And as fur as 1 rcmciiiLf r there was noth- ing moi' than an it of boy and Rirl friendship at <>ithi-r place.." "Oh. n..,"' t-awl Sigrid. smiling. ntlii< f was IIM- in tit- h of a st-hool- l"i.v. (\\ory <,IK liked him and he liked every om I don't think lie is the sirt of man to fall in hive e.'is'K . " "Xo; Lut- win n it docs come it be a -Vjuii h ,-iffair. 1 very inueh wM. t<- nc !:im happily mar ried." "Oli. fatlrt.r ...i, !y not yet. He is so yet." < an t spare him Heir Fai<-k thr< himself hack in r, u,n<! mused for a f*.-\v his arm minutes. "Om IK <*l 1,1, necessarily lose him." he r-piie<J. "and you kin>\v, Si^ri*!. I urn inarriajrrs at lean will IK, i nay to*, much about you, little \M,m;tn. for. a% a matter >f fa<-t. I don t, know how I should ever span you ' "Don't Ite- afraid, little father; you may Iw? very sure. I sha'n't ,t, reasonable chance than I am at homo have a few months' And there is this one wish him to holiday first. thing, Sigrid, which I can tell you, if you really want to know about my anxieties." "Inde,?d I do, little father," she said, eagerly. "There are many matters which you would not understand even could I speak of them ; but you know, of course, that I am agent in Norway for the firm of Morgan Brothers. Well, a rumor has reached me that they intend to break off the connection and to send out the eldest son to set up a branch at Stavang.-r. It is a mere rumor and reached me quite accidentally. I vo.ry much hope it may not be true, but there is no denying that Stavanger would be in most ways better suited for their purpose ; in fact, the friend who told me of the rumor said that they felt now thai- it had been a mistake all along to have the agency here, and they had only done it because they knew Ber- gen and knew me." "Why is Stavanger a hctte.r place for it!" "It is better because most of the salmon and lobsters are caught in the neighborhood of Stavanger, and all the mackerel, too, to the south of Bergen. I very much hop,., the rumor is not true, for it would be a great blow to me to lose the Kng- BOVRIL renews the blood, creates nervous builds up muscle. energy, healthy F-MZ carefully devised a thoroughly Nor- wegian repast. "For 1 thought," she explained afterwards to Blanche, when the two girls had made friends, "that if I went t j England I should wish to see your home-life just c..\actly as it really is, and so I have ordered the sort of dinner we should naturally have, and did not, as Frithiof ad- viseil. leave out the romekolle." "Was that the stuff like curds and whey'!" asked Blanche, who was full of eage.r interest in every- thing. "Yes; it is sour cream with bread- crumbs grated over it. We always have a plateful each at dinner; it quite one of our customs, everything heie is very simpK lish connection. Still, it is not un- likely, and the times are hard now very hard." "And you think your palace in a believer in early ' cloud-land for Frithiuf would pre- <-JIK for my son ; I vent Mr. Morgan from breaking the. connection ?" But of course,, not grand as with you ; we do not keep a great number of ser- vants, or dine late, or dress for the evening; here there is nothing" she hesitated for a word, then in her pretty foreign English, added, "nothing ceremonious." "That is just the charm of it all," said Blanche, in her sweet, gracious way. "It is all s:o real and simple and fro-ili. and I think it was de- lightful of you to know how much j bi-si. we should like t<> Irive a glimpse of your real home-life in- stt.id < f itupid party. Xow mam- ma ca.-es for nothing but just to make a great show, it doesn't mat- ter whether the visitors really like it or not ." Sigrid felt a momentary pang of doubt: she had fallen in love with' lUanch'e Morgan the moment she saw he.r. hut it somehow hurt her to! hear the Knglish girl criticize her own mother. To Sigrid' i loyal na-j lure there was something out of tune in that last remark. "Perhaps you and your cousin would like to see over the house," he said, by way *jf making a di- \orsion ''Though I must tell you i; On the Farm 1 ''Yes; a marriage between the' tliat we are considered hero in ller- two houses would be a groat thing;' gen to be ratlio- Knglish in some marry till I w-< of being happie with you And when will that be, do you think He derly, l-r golden hair ten- Xm juHye.t, Hiprid, lotus hope. juvt, I u-H A* to our Frithiof, you of tbo palace in cloud-land 1 am l>uJding for him ,'" "\t that he- should marry the pretty Misc Morgan, as Swanliild it would make, this now idea, unlike ly if not altogether impossible, I am thankful that there, sce.ms now points. Tliat is because of my fath- er's business connection with Eng- land, I suppose. Here- you sej>. is some chane<> of it. Lot the two meet his study, he lias u real English fire- naturally niul learn U) know eoeh othor. I will not say a word to I-'rithiof, it would only do harm; but to you. Sigrid, I confess that my heart is set on this plan. If I could for one moment make you BOO the future, as I see it, you would feel with me how important the matter is." place ; we all like it much better than the stoves, and some day I should like to have them in the other rooms as we.ll." "lint there is one thing very un- F.nglish," said Blanche. ''There are no passages ; instead, T see, all your rooms open out of each other. Such numbers of lovely plants, hei '( ' H.HK! .Sitfrid, with a \ abruptly ended. At this moment Frithiof himself too, in eve,ry direction; we are not! entered, and the conversation was so artistic, we stand them all in ;ii the heart. \Vhy not? I hrar that bhe is a fbainiiii|i girl, both clever mid b'-ant.fii'. ami jiid'<-d it seems to me that Nr i i|ii,te disposed to fall in love with In r ,u lirst sight. Of course. w ;r < In- i.,,t proprrly in I'iw I should iM-ver wish him to iii.-irn. but, 1 own that a union be t '.- ,-eii llii tv;<. h< usi s woukl lie; a KM-nt [>U';iure t. me -a groat re- lief." He !>i|L'h<-<], .UK) for the firs) lime the ;III\'<MIH look in his eyes attract <J ' "Father, lem ' -he exclaimed, ''won't \.iii te.ll KM what is troub- ling jon '( Tlu-N- i< snineiliin^, [ lion!.. T.-ll me. liid- father." flusli >|,|<.;id IIM-I his hi- sji'ike IUH voii-< \\.is reay MI rin^. ''A businetw man often hatt anx- i. -lies which can tint be spukcn .,f, ' ir eliiUI. <!<) knous they wi-igh lili|]> i-n<,uf<h on hurne men ; I prim rows in a conservatory. This, "Well, Uavo you decided?" ho too, is quite new to me. What a asked, in his eager, boyish way. j good idea!" Ami she went up to ''Is it to be Ulvik or lialholm '!'. examine a prettily worked tiling What! You cre not eve-n talking ! fastened to the wall, and made to about that. Oh, I know what it I hold newspapers, was, then. Sigrid was deep in the j She was too polite, of course to discussion of to-morrow's dinner. [ say what, really struck her ; that the 1 will tell you what to do. abolish whole house seemed curiously Kim- Ihe, romekollo. and let us be Kng- pie and hare, and that she had ima- lish to the backbone. \o\v I think ' gim'd that one of the leading mrr- of it. Mr. Morgan is not unlike iij chants of Hergeu would live in walking sirloin with a plum-pud- 1 greater style, ding head. Thc.rc is your bill of- fare, so waste no more time." The brother and sister went off As a matter of fact, might, as Cyril expressed it, have bought the whole place for an old song, and though there was an. together, laughing and talking; but | air of comfort and good taste about the rooms and a certain indiscriba- bio. charm, they were evidently dos lined for use and not for show, and with the exception of some fine old Norwegian silver, and a few good pictures Herr V'alck did not pos- when the door closed behind them the master nf the. house buried his face in his hands, and for many mid a slight I ininutes sat motimiless. What trou- .ce, lint when , bled thonghts, what wearing nnxie- tieH filled bin miiul, Sigrid little guessed. It was after all surface difficulty of which he had spoko.n ; of the real strain which soss a single thing of value. Contrasted with the huge and ola- borate.lv furnished house in han- iliink I ;im growing old, Sigrid, anil | not say a \\oid to any mortal being was killing him by inches lie could | castor Hate with its lavishly strewn p.|!i,-!, I ('ki (hii as most mer havt- MI \i-r learned to tbougb now in his great misery he Instinctively prayed. "My poor children !" he groaned. '\Vlu. lattn r. you were only fit" j "Oh, (od. .spare them fruni this ty hi-t hiithdiiv \>n must not talk ! shame and ruin which hainits me! \ei ,,' gtowing old How do other men Ira in. i!<> \ ( n think, to take things lightlyV' ' Hy i< fusing N iis( ( .|| t,, < 1-,-ir nwn eoiiK.ien- ,a.<l Herr l-'alck, with si;l<l< ri v-h< riience. " Uy al- lowiug t hrmselvi i, to hold <un- -,|;in iliinl ,.;' iiiiin,r HI | i:\iitt- life and a x - iv different hlinidard in business irai'~iii t ii,io ( ih. Sigrid! I wmiid nivi' a great <l<iii U lind some, other opi-i'iiix d.r I' ill 1 ., .f. I dread the life fur b.m "l>ii \<.ii il.ini- ,: it reiilly -.,, hard to lie stiirtiy in i,. uilile in businesi life' And \-4-t it is a life that must be lived, and n .1 n.-t better that sucli a rii.-ui KH I'r.lii'uf hlionUI take it ii|i a n.. 'MI will. ,i<-h a high ^e.i^e lf lllllll.! ' 1 t i.i what hii i i "You men IIH Hrrr I'.,: h.mi-t t-een \>'ii u film' 1 iigaiimt," , r :nn.if is a said L | in li tfp64," ii.i a iKiHiitij' -' . eliild, v.i ,' i i fail )-><iiril yet heV >,* in our I have tried to bo upright and pru- dent; it was only this once that I was rash. (Jive me success for their sakes. oh, (rid ! The selfish and un- scrupulous flourish on all sides. (I'M 1 me this one snece--. J,et me not blight their whole lives." Hut the ne,xl day, \\hen he went Forward to greet his English guests, it would have been difficult to ro- cogni/e him as the burdened, care- worn man from whose lips had been wrung that confession and that praM-r. All his natural eourte.sy and bright ne^s had returned to him ; if he thought of his business id all In 1 thought of it in the m >st sanguine way possible, and the \|... .1,1 saw in him only an older edition of I'Vithiof, nnd wondered how he had manaued to prcsc,r\c .such buoyant spirits in the car"-* and uncertainties of mercantile lite. The two o'clock dinner pnyse/| iftff well ; Sigrid, who was a clever little housekeeper, had scouted f hair ami ji:ieed btsfj 4111 . i I 'rikhiof's suggestion as to the knickknacks, .it profusion of all the beautiful things that money cvwld buy, the Norwegian \illa sei'ined poor indeed, yet there was something about it which took Klanche's fancy. (To be. continued). THE GRASS YIELD. Farmers who content themselves with two tons or less cannot under- stand how yields of three or four tons, or even more, are obtained. There are, however, four chief es- sentials, a smooth surface, with even, steady grade, thorough pre- paration of the soil, an abundance of good, healthy seed and plenty of fertility and to which might be ad- ded the proper amount of moisture, writes Mr. R. B. Hushing. . Where land is stumpy or rocky, it may be considerable expense to remove them, but to obtain the greatest amount of grass it must be done. The rocks must cither be sunk or hauled away and the sur- face smoothed so as to give a gentle grade. A little depression where the water can stand may cause a patch of grass to die out and a few patches will kill a hundred pounds of hay. The same with stumps or bush thickets her and there and they soon cut down the yield. After this thorough grading the land is thoroughly fitted. This does not mean just plowed and har- rowed in the ordinary way. I pre- fer the use of a cut-away disc, which does the work just the Ap- posite to the turning plow. The turning plow turns the fur- row slice over, leaving the hard up- per soil at the bottom. The har- rowing which follows simply works over the soil which has been turned to the top, while the surface soil remains untouched. The cut-away, on the other hand, tosses or throws the soil up instead of turning it over. At the first sight it means to leave the ground rough and in poor condition, but a little thought will show the obiect of it. We do not want to turn the fur- row over, for this leaves practi- cally half the soil undisturbed by the harrow and most of the weed seeds and grass roots are at the bottom, where they will not be de- stroyed by ordinary tillage. ; ThcT are, of course, hidden from view, but later will be sure^to grow and injure the new seeding of grass.' With the cut-away, the soil is tossed up again and again, thus letting the air and the sun into it while many grass and weed roots will be thrown up where the sun will de- stroy them. This continued working r>t the soil with the cut-away clears the soil of foul stuff and gives the new seeding n chance. The soil should be worked over with the cut-away and the smoothing harrow many times, not all at once, but continued through July and August. In this way, when ready to seed the soil is certainly as line as an ash heap. The seed then should be put on carefully and accurately, so as to have every square inch of surface covered, thus having two blades of grass where one formerly was. 1 see many farmers seem to be content with six quarts of timothy and four quarts of red clover to the acre, but I have found it most pro- fitable to use. from ten to twelve quarts of timothy and about the same of red top and six quarts of clover. The reason for RO doing is that often this intensive soil culture is so fine in result that everywhere that a seed can fall should be cov- ered, thus securing grass on every particle of the soil. The red top is added because it is a tall, slender grass which grows well between the salks of timothy and will add from one-half to a ton of hay to the yield. It would not pay to use this heavy seeding where the land was left lumpy or stony for unless every inch of the soil is well prepared a good share of the seed will be wast- ed. After the soil is perfectly fitted and the seed is thoroughly sown, YOUR BUARANTEE OF QUALITY on a sealed lead package of Ceylon Tea, is your safeguard and guarantee. "SAL AD A" means freshness, purity, exquisite aroma, delightful flavor. "SAL AD A" means purity, healthfulness, satis- faction. BLACK. GREEN OP MIXED 055 the question of plant food must be settled if it has not been previous- ly seen to, as it should have been before seeding. The thicker the seed the more plant food is re- quired to make a full crop. First, we must remember that five tons of hay will remove from the soil nearly 100 pounds of nitro- gen, 25 of phosphoric acid and about 130 of potash. A very good mixture of the com- mercial fertilizer is to use one third of each nitrate of soda, fine ground bone and muriate of potash. This, however, should be regulated ac- cording to the needs of the parti- cular soil. Some will need more of one and some more of another. The questioon frequently asked is : Why is the large amount of pot- ash necessary ? No one who has ever used fertilizers on grass need be told that nitrogen gives the grass a rich, green color and makes it grow very rapidly. I, for one, have never been able to grow merchantable hay without plenty of potash. The grass would grow, but it would not stand up so as to cut with the mower. Tin" potash gives the strength to the stems so that the timothy and red top do not lodge or fall down before cutting. 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