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THE LAPSE OF,
FNOCI-I WENTWORTH
By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS,
Author 0 "The Woman from VVolvertons
CHAPTER X.—(Conidel). the suggestion I made about. the sec-:
Wheworth. aelsed, turning to, Fent
he climbed the end uneven steps "V." he
.of the sidewalk the world hail grown ;
sunnier; there was a future before "We were discussing it when you!
him, fame, riches., and the appletre of =Tie
millions. Ile reached Third Avenue, "What do you think of it, Merry ?"
ran ep the entire to the elevated. aril, "I really have not. had time to give
puffing slowly 'at a cigar, gazed on the it n thought." Andrew looked nnin-
melt of life belew. He VMS !ie'- terested. "Besides, you ynow i do
ing how it was to approach Merry not come into that act, and I have
on the subject of changing that second scarcely seen it rehearsed." He pick -
act. Oswald was a keen critic, and ! ed up a towel and began to wipe the
Eno ell had seen the necessity of it make-up off his face
hime.ell; it was the one weak spot in ! i•It is simply this. 'Mrs. Esterbrook'
the pley. From the moment when he is an utterly heartless woman. Dead
burned the labor of half a lifetime he to conscience as she is at the begin-
reeilzed his own ineapacity fir play- ning, she collies out of her life's trag
inng. He himself couid do nothing edy, ealleueed beyond all redemption.
to the drama. but be felt a chill of It strikes a false uote to have her re -
terror at the thought of speaking to pent for even a. second. She does not
Merry on the subject. ! know what mother -love or love or tiny
CFIAPTER sort means. With her last exit she
ought to leave an audience hating and
A eity's electric lights were begins her. NQw one feels a
liing to blaze through the twlight ; den touch of sympathy. She must be
when. Wentworth knoelied at the door irredeemably bad. Then, too, it is not
of Merry's dressing room. only true to the women's charatiter,
"Come!" cried the aetor sharply. but 'Cordelia' Alines whiter against
As Enoch entered he felt a throb of
longing for the old warm friendship. jerry nodded. "You're right, I
Andrew's face paled for a moment as fancy, Wentworth has only to change
he looked up at his vieitor. He nodded a few lines to throw the whole thing
but did not speak. Kelly, who acted plumb. You can do it in half an hour,
as Merry's valet daring his prosper- old chap."
ous seasons, lifted a heap or garments ! When Oswald tamed to Wentworth
from a chair and set it before Ewell) he caught a look on the =We face!
who took it in silence. Andrew sat that puzzled him, a flash of importent
staring into a mirror while he ex- rage, hate, and apprehension. Enoch
perimented with a make-up for the realized he had revealed his soul for
broken-down convict in the third act. 1 a moment. He picked up his hat and
He dashed line after line int e his face, ! spoke brusquely. You two finish
blending each lighely into the grease ' talking it over, I have a thousand
paint. Name!: spolte—even Kelly • things to tend to."
seemed to have fallen under the spell ; "Is Wentworth—is he touchy? Did
of quiet. He knelt on the &or polieh- he feel that I was criticizing his
ing slues with stolid helustry. Enoch ph?" asked Oswald anxiously when
. wondered curiously what the keen old the door closed with a hasty rap.
Irishman was thinking. He had known I "I don't think it's that." Merry
nothing between them but a most fra- spoke slowly, then he dashed to an-
ternal friendship.The silence became other subject, "I want to consult you
oppdessive. At last Wentworth spoke about changing one of the people in
"Are you going to be alone soon, the cast, little Katie Durham."
Merry? I want to have a talk with "Oh, the child in the first act?"
you aiiaut business." "She's a bright enough youngster.
Andrew did not look up while he an- She tells me she once gob a hundred
swered carelessly, be alone in a ° dollars a week in vaudeville as a toe
few minutes. Kelly has an errand to dancer." Merry laughed. "A toe
do at the tailor's. You may go now," dancer scarcely fills the bill for the
he added, nodding to the valet', small "Cordeliai."
there s no hurry about the shoes." "She struck me in rehearsal this
When the old man shut the door be- morning as lacking in something."
hind hire Andrew did not tarn his "She is lacking in everything. She's
gaze from the mirror, The reflection a stilted, grown-up, little brat; there's
of Wentworth's faee was close beside nothing childlike about her. When she
his own. He could see that his visitor clings to my neck shrieking, 'Father,'
was 111 at ease. in that ear-splitting baby pipe of hers,
"Well?" he said interrogatively. she jars every nerve in my body."
"Can't you turn round and face me "Let her go. Only it is a problem
while we talk?" asked the elder Irian where to find a sweet, natural stage
impatiently. child,"
Andrew wheeled about and his eyes I can lay my hands on one immed-
met Wentworth's calmly. "Certainly, diatoly," said. Merry quietly. "It's a
I can face you." youngster who has never been behind
The red surged into Enoch's face, the footlights in her life."
then hard lines wrinkled about his "Could you do anything with her in
mouth. His mood had changed. He ten days?
spoke with brutal consciseness. "I should like to try. She's a gen-
"Oswald and I have decided that tie, refined, sweet -voiced little girl;
there ought to be a few changes made besides, she has dramatic blood in her
in the text of—the play." —that always tells. Do you rememb-
"Of your play," corrected Merry. er George Valk?"
"There is one weak point in it," "George Volk! Why, of course,"
Enoch went on deliberately. "Mrs. cried Oswald after a moment's hesita-
Esterbrook' draws on the sympathy tion. "What ever became of the man?
of the audience for a few moments Did he die?"
when Cordelia! leaves her. A woman "Nobody knows." Merry's voice
of that caliber could have no such feel- had a bitter tone in it. "Better for
ing." some people if he had died. This lit-
tle Julie I want a chance for is his
"No." Wentworth repeated the wore child."
almost furiously. He began to twist "Where is Volk?"
his hands. "I .can't tell you. If he's alive he
"I suppose that act ought to be re- must be far down by this time. He
written." was a wretched sot when I saw him
"Not rewritten, simply elaborated. last."
Strike out some lines, put in others." "By Jove! what an impetuous stage
"Why don't you do it?" lover he did make! I saw him in a big
"Why don't Ido it?" Enoch jumped production the first time 1 came • to
pulse of rage. "That's a nice question America, then in London. He was the
to his feet shaken by a sudden im- handsomest man that ever stepped on
to ask me." • the stage."
"It has never seemed to me there "A handsome piece of beef! Ten
was anything' particularly nice in the years ago he married one of the
whole situation." Andrew's tones sweetest, most loyal women I ever
were on a calm level. knew. She was on the stage, butt she
"We'll leave that out of the ques- never won much notice. Her work
tion—altogether," growled Went- was so quiet and delicate that she, ap-
wor.th. "I should never have intruded pealed bo the few. She was in a
upon You but for this reason. You company with me for two seasons.
can see the exigencies of the case. How Volk made her suffer! The
You've got to retouch the play." beast!"
"I will not lay a pen to the play." "Is she alive
Andrew turned as if the conversation "Yes.. I hadn't heard of the Volks
were at, an end. and began to pencil for years. I was going home last
careworn. wrinkles on his cheeks. night when a woman touched me on
Enoch tipped his chair back against the arm. She was dame and looked.
the wall, put his feet on. the rungs, ill. A little girl clung to her. I did
and began to think. Nobody knew so not know her. `I'm Alice Volk,' she
well,ae he these, one faced a barricade said. I put them in a cab and took
witt Merry in a doggedly obstinate them iip ito Harieria to, the best old
mood. Inwardly he was at white woman in elea world."
heat; the blind groping hope for re- • "Aie they in want-" asked Oswald.
conciliation was at an end; still he "They were starving, in rags and
,knew if he were to precipitate a shoeless. The child pulled at my heart
storm, Merry was capable of flinging 'etring. She isn't quite seven and
over his engagements at the, lab V/0111.. small for her age, but the way she
cares for the poor, crippled lifrtle
"Let me explain," began Went- mother -a." Andrew laid a gray wig
worth laborionslse A. tap at the door upon his knee and began to brush it
interrupted him. It was opened and 'vigorously. "I don't want to throw
Oswald etepped in. He seated him- this Durhazn youngster out of a job,
self on the edge of !a,trunk, thoughoeimply because I caret endure
"Have yeti mentioned to Mr. Merry her. She's common as dirt, but she
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can't help it. Have you seen the
mother?"
"Yes," said aelvaid gravely.
"What fertzes me is how we could
delude an audience into believing- that
this sharp -nosed. uncanuy-looking
shrill-tengeed little ape could develop
into Miss Wentworth's 'Cordelia.'
They're different breeds entirely,"
"You're right." Oswald's voice was
emphatic, "I don't know why I did
not see it, Perhaps because the child
has little to do except to follow her
father about."
"It's that following the father about
which I mean to make the strongest)
point in the first act."
"Engage the child emmediately."
"I'll have to tio diplomatic work x'.
get her."
"How ?"
"Alice Volk would rather starve
than let her child go on the stage. She
has been hoping we might find a
small part for herself which she could
play—crippled."
"Poor eoul."
"I hinted that we might give the lit-
tle Julie a chance. She snatched the
child away as if she thought I meant,
to kidnap her. When a woman has
seen the seamy side of life as she has
—you understand."
Oswald nodded gravely. "We must!
find a. way to get around her,"
Merry sat writing a letter in the
manager's office the next afternoon
when Oswald entered, accompanied by
Dorcas.
"I want you to tell Miss Wentworth
about the little Volk girl," said the
Englishman. "I have enlisted her
sympathy. If the mother felt that
some woman here 'would be interested
in the child she might change her
mind."
"Pll do anything I can," said Dorcas
heartily. I am glad you are making
a change. It will improve the first
act wonderfully to have the child
sweet and real. Then the girl laugh-
ed in a half -embarrassed way, "did
you ever look at a picture of yourself
when you were at the tadpole age and
wonder if it could have possibly been
you ? That has been ray frame of
mind since I laid ,eyes on the little
'Cordelia'."
(To be continued).
ON THE FARM
Spraying Stables.
! Even in Summer there is a certain
enteunt of disease in herds of cattle,
and oftentimes contagious diseases
have to be overcome, which renders it
essential that stables be sterilized.
To secure reliable results, the work
must be done throughly, as half mea-
sures are of no use. The following
method, gle-en in the Cape Than (5
A.), should prove effective in mos
cases:—
In the firet place, remove all man
ure, litter, loose, rotten boards an
other things, and serape the floe
clean. Sweep the ceilings and board
and walls free from cobwebs, dust an
dirt. Wash the feed boxes, mangers
bails and partitions with hot wate
containing enough lye or washing
powder to move the dirt. 5crub al
3btlzeit stiff
places vigorously with a
II Then spray the walls, ceilings and
floors with bichloride of mercury soi-
1 ution (1-1,000) or 5 percent. carbolie
solution (not crude). Flush the floors
!with a saturated solution of iron sul-
phate or a solution of chloride of
lime (1 lb. to 3 gallons of water).
Spray the interior of the feed boxes,
mangers, bails and partitions with the
5 per cent. solution of carbolic acid
This is done for the reason that there
is danger of poisoning the animal if
the bichloride of mercury is used for
a spray upon those structures which
the animals can lick with their ton
gues. The carbolic acid is absolutely
harmless if used in a 5 per cent. sol
ution.
A whitewash applied to walls, er,11-
lugs and partitions, will add to the
cleanliness of the shed. To make a 5
per cent. solution of carbolic acid use
one part by weight oi pure carbolic
acid to 20 parts of water. Add the
carbolic acid to a gallon of moderate-
ly warm water, stir vigorously, then
add enough more warm water to make
up the amount. The solution can be
applied by spray pumps, sprinkling
cans, or with a brush.
In the mixing and application of bi-
chloride of mercury, it must be re-
membered that this disinfectant is
extremely poisonous when taken in-
ternally, not only to cattle, but also
to man. All of the buckets, tubs,
pumps, etc., which have been used in
applying the solution should be thor-
oughly scrubbed with soap and rinsed
with clean water before being used
for any other purpose.
The mercury solution must be used
with caution about the feed boxes,
mangers and stanchions for fear of
the cattle contracting mercurial poi-
soning by licking the spots covered
with it. For this reason it is advis-
able to use the carbolic acid solution
on the feed boxes and mangers and
the bichloride of mercury for the
walls and ceilings.
To make up the bichloride of mer-
cury solution (1-1,000) use one-eigth
of an ounce of corrosive sublimate to
a gallon of water, or one-haif ounce
to four gallons. The addition of a
small amount) of sal -ammonias will
cause the corrosive sublimate to about
one gallon of moderate sublimate to
dissolve more easily. It is advisable
also to add the corrosive sublimate bo
about one gallon of moderately warm
water containing the sal-animonaic.
Stir thoroughly, and after all the
d
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TORN FROM THEIR HOMES.'
Inhabitants of Northern France De-
ported to Germany.
Poignant deails of the deportation
at an hour and a half's notice of 25,-
000 citizens from the French towns of
Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing by the
Germans last Easter, are given in a
French Yellow Book.
The Germans' orders were for the
people in certain districts of these
towns to assemble in readiness for
departure at their front doors, and
none was to leave the house before
8 aan. The orders stated that "all
protests will be useless and any one
trying to evade deportation will be
pitilessly punished."
The victims in all cases were
chosen arbitrarily by the officer in
charge of the deporting party.
The Yellow Book continues.:
"The measure caused the greatest
anguish and despair among the popu-
lation of the notified districts, while
in some cases it led to madness.
"Men especially suffered torture
at seeing their wives daughters and
children of both sexes over the age
of fourteen led away.
"The protests of mayors and other
officials went unheeded.
"At Roubaix the Prussian Guard
refused to participate in the raids
and the work had to be done by the
Sixty -Fourth Regiment from Verdun.
"A large proportion of the young
women taken belonged to the ser-
vant class. When those deported
were conveyed to the railway station
and loaded into the cattle trucks
they kept crying: 'Vive la France,'
and singing the '1Vlarseillaisee "
The Paris Temps affirms in sub-
stance that it is now up to the neu-
trals to insist upon the observance
of the conventions signed by them
and by the belligerents.
Many a girl has given up an easy
job at a good salary for the sake of
working all the rest of her life for
her board and clothes.
The average amount of milk suppli-
ed to calves at this eeason is by no
means enough to quench their thirst.
See that they get water besides.
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7 47.
Win. Against the Hessian Fly
TO Escape the Main Attack of the FIy
▪ —sow.your wheat late. The early brood is most
destructive to young wheat and provides for future
broods. Your own Experiment Station will tell you
this.
THE Best Wheat Yields collie from plants
I that enter the winter strong and vigorous. Your
own experience will tell you this.
TO Win Against the Fly, seed late, feed
• the crop with available fertilizers which will
hasten growth to overcome the late start, and secure
vigor with consequent resistance to later broods.
Use 200 to 400 pounds per acre containing at least
2 per cent...of ammonia. Acid phosphate alone does
not give the necessary quick growth and resistance
to the fly.
In Farmers' Bulletin No. 640, U. S. Departmeta of Agricul-
ture, fertilizers are recommended to give vigor to late sown
crops and rekistanco to the Hessian Fly.
Write for our map showing best dates for sowing wheat in
your locality also aur Bulletin, "WHEAT PRODUCTION,"
both mailed free.
Soil Iraprovement Committee
OF THE
National Fertilizer Association
CHICAGO Dept. 175 BALTIMORE
- particles have been dissolved, sod en- The acidity and temperature of the
ough clear water to make the requir- milk should be the same as when ren -
ed amount. net extract is used. If rennet extract
To make a saturated solution of is available it is recommended to use
iron sulphate, as much of the sulphate half the usual quantity with half the
should be dissolved in the water as above quantity of pepsin, mixing the
possible. The copperas should be put pepsin before diluting with water,
in a barrel or some such thing, the Scale Pepsin of the same strength
water poured on and the solation. al- (1 to 3,000) may be used according to
lowed to stand for a day. The liquid these directions, and in the same pro -
above the sulphate of iron will be the portion. If either Soluble Powdered
1, saturated solution, which is to be used Pepsin or Seale Pepsin is of different
on the floors and gutters. strength the quantity used must be
Chloride of lime solution is used in varied accordingly. For instance, if
the proportion of one pound of lime the strength is 1 to 6,000, only half
tothree gallons of water, It is a very the quantity should be used,
good disinfectant for floors, gutters Great care must be observed tc
and partitions and can be applied with keep the stock of pepsin from the
a brush, sprinkling can or bucket. slightest dampness. Store in a dry
place and keep tightly covered. If it
Directions for Using Pepsin.
gets damp it will cake and become in -
Two drachms of Soluble powdered sotItuavbNa
le. and useless.—Dairy Division,
o
Pepsin (1 to 3,000 test) are sufficient
to coagulate 1,000 pounds of milk.
Dissolve the pepsin in water in the
proportion of three ounces of water If you want to make porkeheaply
for each two drachms of pepsin, us- make use of plenty of clover, alfalfa,
ing preferably a round -bottomed cup rape, or some other form of green
or bowl as a container. The water feed.
must be at a temperature of 105 de- Beef raising has coins back to its
grees F. When the water is added it own and the dairyman is not the only
must be stirred immediately and con- man who canshow a profit from his
tinuously, or ib will become a sticky farming operations.
mass, very difficult to dissolve. After This is an opportune time to keep
being thoroughly stirred it is well to all the good females for breeding pur-
pour the liquid from one vessel to an- poses. The outlook for live-stoek
other ta se that there is no undis- husbandry never was brighter.
solved pepsin adhering to the vessel. The man, or group of men, not
It is a good plan to add at first only showing enough interest in good stock
enough of the water to make a creamy to purchase and look after a good
paste. Stir until smooth and then pure-bred sire will not likely make the
add the full amount of water. A few best of a sire given to them for no -
drops of hydrochloric acid added to thing.
the water helps to dissolve the pepsin. Where sufficient -feed is assured for
Dilute the above in the same quan- winter it might be better to keep the
tity of water as is used with rennet stock up in condition by pasturing
extract before adding it Lo the milk. the second crop of clover on one field
It is advisable to dissolve the pepsin rather than let them down to save the
at least half an hour before using. crop for later use.
Live Stock Notes.
Here's the Way to Succeed in
Jam or Jelly Making.
lo—Use ripe but not over-
riPe fruit.
2o—Buy St. Lawrence Red
Diamond Extra Granulated
Sugar. It is guaranteed pure
Sugar Cane Sugar, and free
from foreign substances which
might prevent jellies from
setting and later on cause
preserves to ferment.
We advise purchasing
the Red Diamond
Extra Granulated
in the 100 lb.
bags which
'as a rule is
the most econo-
mical way and assures
absolutely correct weight.
3o—Cook well.
4o—Clean, and then by boiling
at least 10 minutes, sterilize
your jars perfectly before
pouring in the preserves or jelly.
Success will surely follow the use
of all these hints.
Dealers can supply the
Red Diamond in
either fine,
medium, or
coarse grain,
at your choice,
St. Lawrence Sugar
Refi
Many other handy refinery
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