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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-6-22, Page 2tiro Sugar is packed by axatomatic main.•rtt ery in strong white cotton Bags and cartons at the refinery.. Tliie is far safer and snore sanitary than . sugar packed by,hand in a weak tumor bag ' which breaks at a touch. No hand pouches LANTIC SUGAR until you open It your. i self. Just cut oft' the corner of the carton. and pont out the sugar as you steed it. 2 and 54b Cartons 10 and 20 -ib Bags rrTho All -Purpose Sugar"' -.aslt �: Ix+' .r, :tin kx%.: ,r its e • re? tere L THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWOR,TH Ly ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author off " The Woman from Wolvertolas " CHAPTER IIL—(Cont'd,) !people. The girl and her father ale "Ani I worth the trouble?" he inter- I living on a little farm. Her lover eupted. "Worth the trouble! I don't believe you know yourself yet. You have a wonderful imagination and such knowl- edge of human nature. You could write ay, many ofsibly, a Yout know men andh omen. sky glowed in red, gold and purple. comes, having searched for her every- where. She tells him the story. Ile marries her and takes the father home with them." Merry paused. The sun had dropped below the horizon and the western You have Iaid have the souls of some 1 "When," cried Dorcas in a flush of of thein when you talked with me.1 enthusiasm, "when will you begin to After you bring a being into life, I write?" think how you could make him live 1 "At once, tomorrow, I'll go away' again on the stage!" i somewhere; I can't do it here." Dorcas jumped to her feet. "An- I "Go to Enoch," she said. "He will drew Merry, go to work! Show them be delighted. }re has such faith in what you can do, if for nothing elseyou and he loves you. Besides, you'll, than to please me and prove that I have his sympathy. Poor Enoch, the 1 haven't made a mistake." • I one ambition of his life is to be a 1 tIiss Dorcas, sit down." 'famous dramatist," The girl looked at her companion curiously. "Let me shake bands on a bargain," lie laughed. "That's a foolish little No?" said Merry incredulously. "Don't tell him yon know it. I dis- covered it by accident. I was tidying ceremony* I used to go through with his desk one day. I came on a pile of mother when I was a boy. If I prom- manuscript. There were dramas, ised faithfully I would do anything, I comedies, tragedies, even comic shook hands on it." Dorcas held out her hand cordially. Her clasp was magnetic, "Sit down again and Iisten," he begged. "For years and years and years I've had a play crystallizing in my mind. It's all blocked out. Let me tell you about it," "My hero is cashier in a bank, a young fellow, of good family joyial, happy-go-lucky, generous, democratic, He has married the bank president's daughter, who is exactly his opposite —cold blooded, haughty, selfish and fond of luxury. There is a sweet, tender little 'daughter. The love be- tween the father and the child is beautiful. The man, trusting to luck to see him through, steals for years, 'covering his defalcations in the clev- erest way. He had to get money, ••for his wife denies herself nothing. The father-in-law discovers the crime, exposes it to his daughter, then drops dead. She gives her husband up to last evening hero?" public justice. His trial comes de "I imagine so. You go to New and he is sentenced to twenty years. Haven next week, don't you?" . The child is told that she is frtther- Dorcas nodded. less. The wife takes her father's' "Think of me working with all the fortune and goes West. When the., courage and energy you have awak- aecond Set opens she has divorced the cued. When the play is written I will husband and married again. The ! bring it straight to you." child is a lovely, true -hearted woman. There was eager anticipation in her She is engaged to the young mayor of eyes. "When you come I will ask a the city, and preparations are afoot favor. May I play the daughter of for the wedding, when she receives a the convict?" letter from the one man who remain.- "Fou " Andrew stopped and looked s ed loyal to hr father—an old janitor down at her intently, "You—you— h at the bank. He tells her the story dear child, you sweet, gracious wo- which had been hidden from her, The man!" e father, penniless, broken down, hope- Dorcas lifter her cool hands to her fess, is to leave prison in a few weeks. blazing cheeks. She confronts her mother, who denies "Listen! You don't think I could do the story, but later confesses. The it. I could. I have loved Shakespeare girl breaks her engagement, leaves since I was a little girl. I know Juliet f home, and goes East. The old janitor and Des•lemona and Rosalind, but I've t takes her to live near the prison until lived with Cordelia, I've loved her I've s her father is released. Every day seen into her soul. Your girl is Cor- I sh watches the convicts at thier lock- della. I could play the part even if f step tramp and sees her father. The closing of that ant, when she meets him leaving prison, can be tremendous in human interest." He torneid to look at Dorcbs. "Go on," she said. "The last act is laid in a New Eng- land village, among simple country operas. lie has been writing that sort of thing for years and years." "Queer he never told me! What were they like?" "Don't think me disloyal, but they are awful! Some day, when he gets , a great plot, he things lie will suc- ceeds He won't. It was cruel to tell him so. He's nothing but an expert newspaper man." "Dear, good, generous old Enoch." "You will never tell him—never?" "I won't," said Merry. They sat for a fe'w minutes in silence" The flush of the sunset began to fade from the sky, Seagulls wheeled above their heads. "We must go home," said Andrew. "Crossing these rocks in the dusk would be perilous." Dorcas rose and followed him, clasp- ing his outstrtched !rand. When they leaped down from e sea wall to the beach, the girl asked: "This is our and it is so different from, anything you know," Dorcas Spoke impatiently "Enoch said that. If I should go on the stage I would be no different from what Im a to -day." "Let us go home. There's Mrs, Hutchins' supper horn," They walked on in silence, That evening Merry sat for half an hour with an idle pen in his hand. At last he pulled a sheet of paper toward him and wrote in feverish haste: Dear old Ener --Send me $100 to the Broadway to -day, please, Don't ask questions, don't try to find nle; I'll turn up when I've finished some work. Your slave, Merit', CHAPTER 1V. Enoch Wentworth sat before a table littered with sheets of manuteript, when a knock sounded on the library dooIr•. n a, second!" he cried, Then he tried to gather the pages together in numerical order, "All right," cried a cheerful voice. "Lord, it's Merry!" whispered Enoch. He swept the sheets of paper into the drawer of his desk, then he rose and opened the door. Merry stepped into the room with a dancing light-hearted gaiety that Enoch had seen him don with his stage garb. Still it was accomponied by a dignity of manner odd to the comedian, a digni- ty which had self-respect,behind it. Wentworth put an arm about him af- fectionately, "Have you come into a fortune, boy?" he asked with a laugh. "Better than that—I'm on the verge of making a fortunt." "Good!" Enoch pushed him .into a comfortable chair and stood looking down at him. "Let's have the news, boy." I wilI," answered Merry slowly. "I've got to—I want your advice and help, I need it as I never needed it in zny life before. Only—I'm not go- ing to trot out a word of it until we are sure of a couple of hours clear, I can't stand a solitary interruption— to-day." Wentworth shut and locked the door, then he opened a small cupboard. "What'll you have?" he asked, lift- ing down .a couple of glasses. "Nothing.' Andrew pulled a large encelope from his pocket and sat down beside the fire. Wentworth faced him with an expectant look upon his face, "You never guessed, I suppose, that I'm an incipient playwright?" "Never!" Enoch's tone was em- phatic. "Well," Merry laughed hilariously, 'well, I am, I'm the coming dramat- st" "I take off my hat to yon, boy," Enoch swept him a pantonine hew. "Wait a minute." The comedian's face grew unusually resolute, "Wait, old man, you've got to take this seri- ously, or I won't tell you a blessed woad about it"' Merry rose and laid his hand on Enoch's shoulder with an imploring gesture.. "Dear old man, I want your help and guidance. ' I'm such a blamed unbusiness -like chump. If you hadn't been head and right hand and mother, father and brother to me for years, as I the ell as the truest friend a man ever had, I'd have been in the gutter. Enoch," Merry's face flushed, "if I win out, it means more to me that fame or wealth—it means the happiness of a ifetime." "Andrew! A woman at last." The actor nodded gravely. "Yes, a woman at last." "Not Drusilla?" "Oh, curb your curiosity," he laughed lightly; "you can't have evry- thing at once.Now I'm going to read." Wentworth lit a cigar, leaned back in a leather chair, and turned his eyes teadfastly upon the man opposite im. Merry was a singularly dram- atic reader. Across his face flashed ach human emotion as he put it into words. Enoch forgot the outer word when Merry leaped into the words with which he had clothed a daughter's greeting to her outcast ather—a father disqualified, hopeless, imid, stumtei•, dumb after the long eparation from his fellows. Wentworth's cigar went out and he orgot to light another. He sat in utter silence, a silence which was half critical, although at moments he was deeply stirred, partly by surprise, partly by unconscious emotion. Ile breathed a half -stifled sigh. This task, such a splendid achievement, had cost one man a month's labor! Ile remembered the years of ardelit toil he had agent on what, as he re- alized sadly, was poor. It was worse than poor—it was futile, Even Dorcas had sadly but truthfully ac- knowledged its impossibility, When Merry Spoke the last worj,l and the curtain fell, he looked up with triumph and joy shining in his eyes. Then he waited in silence, as if for ardent hands to clasp his own. It was an actor's pause for the thunder when he knows he has won his audience. Enoch's fingers lay clasped together on his kziees, his eyes bent on the glowing caves of the coal, fire. As the actor spoke his voice had a chill, shiv- ering note in it, "Say, old man, isn't it good? Tell me --don't you lilts it?" "Like it?" echoed Wentworth. Ile turned his eyes straight on Merry's questioning face. "Why, boy, it's magnificent. You'll pull Broadway to its feet. with that. Merry, you've dune a tremenrlous piece of work. That will live for--i'ought, to live for years." , "Thanks old man, thanks with all I have never been on the stage. Be- sides I can work; oh, you ought to see how I can work when I hate to!" "It is not that," Andrew protested, "You could play Cordelia--we'll call the girl 'Cordelia' now—as no one I know. It is not that. It is such a hard life—the one you would choose, Doctor Tells How To Strengthen Eyesight 50 per cent In One Week's Time In Many Instances .A. Frce Prescrlptios. You Can Iiave Pilled anti Use at Ilomc. Philadelphia, Ps: Doyou weal glosses? Ars you a victim of eye strain or other eye Wealrlienscs? 1f so, • you Will Sc'tglad. to knew that according to lir. Lewis there is.. real hope for you, hinny whose eyes were fn111n� any NIPS' have hod 'thole eyes re - stare( through 1115 principle of this won- derftll free preserljUtlnn. 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The former can be readily kill- ed with Paris green in the proportion of eight ounces to 12 ounces to a 40 gailon barrel of water, or with arsen- ate of lead in the proportion of two to three pounds or 40 gallons of water. Paris green kills quicker than arsenate of lead but the latter ad- heres better than Paris green, -hence a mixture of both in the proportion of eight ounces of Paris green and one and a half pounds of arsenate of lead to 40 gallons of water will kill quickly and adhere well to the foliage The poisons mentioned will, to some extent, check the cucumber flea beetle, but in addition to them, a better pre- ventive is a covering of Bordeaux mixture, on the foliage. The Bordeaux mixture should also be used to con- trol the early and late blights of potatoes, the latter disease causing rot. These are two of the common- est diseases. To control the early and late blight of potatoes spraying with Bordeaux mixture should be begun before the disease appears and the plants kept covered until autumn. It is safer to start spraying with Bordeaux mix- ture when spraying for the potato bee- tles. The poison of the latter may be mixed with the Bordeaux, From three to four sprayings or more will be re- quired, the number depending on the weather. Taking the average of three years, the increase of yield from spraying with .Bordeaux mixture was at the rate of 94 bushels an acre. In some years it is much larger. The importance of keeping plants growing as late as possible is well il- lustrated in an experiment where the total crop of marketable potatoeg per acre when dug on September 1st was 234 bushels per acre, whereas in the same field the same variety yield- ed 353 bushels marketable potatoes per acre when left undug until Sep- tember 22nd, or in three weeks the crops had increased by 119 bushels per acre of marketable potatoes. Bordeaux mixture is made in the pro- portion of six pounds biuestone, four pounds lime and 40 gallons of water. Spraying mixtures should be used at I the proper time and thoroughly, if good results are to be expected, --W. T. Macoun, Dominion Horticulturist, Ottawa. Separator Milk For Calves. In writing of his experience in calf rearing and the value of separator skim -milk as calf food, in the "Jersey Bulletin," Prof. T. L. Haecker of the Minnesota experiment station says: I have made; calf rearing my busi- ness for over twonty years, and dur- ing the last fifteen have placed ley reliance on skim•nnilk. For growing calves I consider separator skim -milk at least equal to whole milk, though calves will not lay on as mach fat as they will when whole milk is fed; but they will make as good growth and be as thrifty on skim -milk. There is nothing in butter fat that a calf tan use in building body tissue. Butter and body fat, and nutriment for this purpose can be supplied more cheaply with flax meal, which contains from 30 to 35 per cent. oil. My system of feeding is very uni- form, When the calf is dropped I let it suck once and then remove it from the dam. If it is removed in the morning I give it no feed until the following morning. I glue from three or four pints of its mother's milk twice a day, 'immediately after milking the clam. A small calf gets three pints and a largo calf four pints, This I continue for about one week, Then for one week I give it whole milk half and skim -milk half twice it day, giving it only from three to four pints. The third week I feed all separated .skim -milk, but put in the Milk a teaspoonful of ground flax, I gradually increase the- skim -milk and my heart. You can't imagine hot g v hard it was to wait for your verdict." "It's wonderful," oncicrfuln mused Wentworth "it's s1 corker!" (To be cot.tinu.,.) Il 1x meal so that, by the tusl of, the fourth month, It isreceiving ea heitl+- ing tablespoonful of flax ureal and ton pints of tni1ls twice a dee,. After the firat Moth it has access to at little early -cut hay and a little whole oats, or a mixture of whole oats and bran or shorts, The important points are strict re- gularity in time of feeding, quantity and temperature of mills, which should be from 98 to 100 degrees F. From the first of June the skin -mills should be pasteurized so it will not get sour. It hale been the general opinion Among farmers that separator skim- •milk was not strong or ilutritioes feed and that a large mess must he !given to make up in quantity what they supposed it lacked in quality, and the result was that calves were over- fed and indige&tion was produced, Which was followed by scours and bloat Deed the Young Foal, Are you giving that young foal the proper care? To become a strong, sound horse when matured the foal must be well nourished and given every advantage possible. At this time of the year mares and colts are allowed to spend at least a part of the time in the pasture. The foal should be taught to eat grain very early. By placing the feed box from which the dam oats her grain low, the foal, at about two- months of age, will begin nibbling with the mo- ther and will soon acquire a taste for the grain. A pen built in cite corner of the field made high enough to keep the mare out and allow the colt to pass under will make it possible to feed the foal grain with very little diffi- culty. 'Allow the mare in the en- closure with the foal for a few times, and it will soon learn to go in itself. Keep a liberal supply or grain, pre- ferably oats and bran, and perhaps sonic cracked corn, in the feed box. To induce the dam to loiter about with the colt, have the pen near a shrurle tree or the salt box, By weaning time the foal will have become thoroughly accustomed to eating grain and will wean very easily, beside being in better condition as a result of this additional feed. Try this plan this year and you will be surprise to find a sleek, fat, well -grown colt at weaning time.—C. S. Anderson, in Farm and Dairy. Dressing Percentage. The average dressing percentage of hogs is 75, while of cattle it is 53, and of sheep 48. Part of this differ- ence is due to the method of figuring.; In the case of the hog the hide, head l and feet are included in the carcass weight, while in the case of cattle -and sheep the head, hide and .feet are not included. Then the hog is very thick fleshed and hag a small digestive system. Cattle and sheep have large! paunches and -disgestive systems.I Sheep dress out lowest, due to the 1 wool and the rather light fleshing of; the carcass. The dressing percentage of animals; of each class varies widely, This is! due to the amount of flesh, especial-' ly fat present on the carcass, and somewhat to the thickness of the hide and size of the heajds and_ legs, and to the amount of fill or the amount of feed and water present in the diges- tive tract at the time of slaughtering. For the ]togs the dressing percentage varies from G8% to 859 with an aver- age of 75%. For cattle it ranges 1' 10 Of Course You Need 9. lte N Iso Cream cameo out of the freezer with a velvety smoothness—and a now deiictousneas—whop It Is made with. SENSOR'S. And It Is pretty hard toaskforany- thine more delicious than a Chocolate marc Mango w• Croar Cuolard tvnh Fruit, made of 6eitoon's Corn Storeh. Our new Recipe Book "Daaserig and Candies" tolls how and 11ow.much to Lt`7E1 use. Write fora copy to our Montreal Canada for more than half a century. 11Office--and bourn to tall your roear to send BENSON S, the standby In R Canada for more than half acentury, p„• 4 110 CANADA STAOCII COBWEB 50NTRCAL. CARDINAL,, saANTrORO, 216 FORT WILLIAM. from 48% to 70% with an average of 53%, and for sheep from 44% to 56% with an average of 48%.--W. H. Pet- ers, North Dakota Experiment Sta- tion. WORK FOR WAR CRIPPLES. German Government Providing Teaks for Them. Germany's prompt and. continuing efforts to care for her war cripples are described in the Medical Record by Douglas 0. McMurtrie, editor of the American Journal of Care for Crip- ples. Mr. McMurbrie says that "the manner in which the problem is be- ing met is unquestionably sound," Care of the wounded was not dif- ficult to orgr;)nize on an adequate scale. The other part of the work was harder and a careful publicity cazn- paign was made throughout the coun- try to rid people of the idea Slat a crippled man was useless. Employers were urged for patriotic reasons to re-employ all crippled men possible. The government is setting the example by retaining cripples in the service of the State-owned railways. It has been pointed out that the government can go further and, in placing orders or awarding contracts, insist that a proportion of the work- ers ern/el-eyed be war cripples. The segregation of cripples i dis- couraged. They are returned as far as possible to their,, own communities and their own jobs. Where the crip- pling has unfitted a man for the same task he is trained for one as near like it as he can perform, the idea being to utilize the training he already has as far as is possible. Mr. Murtrie cites several examples. A young paperhanger, who had lost his leg, showed artistic ability and is in a trade school studying to be a de- corative artist,' 'His former employer will re-engage hint. • A baker, whose left foot was crush- ed, is being instructed in bookkeeping and commercial arithmetic that he may enter the grain trade and man- age the bakery of a dead relative. A young farmer, who lost one arm, is studying agricultural science and learning to write with his left hand. It has been arranged that he shall look after the business end of his bro- ther's farm. 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Cough- ing does the consumptive no good whatever, and does him much harm by exhausting his strength, breaking his sleep and increasing the danger of ulceration. If the habit can be stopped among the tubercular it is immeasurably more inexcusable among owan emplain of only an thordseinaryho colce d. Try Not To Cough. Ifyou have never tried it, • the next time you are tempted to cough or clear your• throat, see how well you can get along without doing so, and after a Little practice you will find your control complete. Coughing is for the most part a nervous habit, due to a tickling in the throat brought on by previous coughing, and also by a sort of unconscious imitation. Did you ever notice in a threatne or other place of entertainment that no- body coughs in a highly dramatic or otherwise especially interesting mo- ment? Did you ever notice that if one person coughs a lot of others do, and that the amount of coughing in a public place depends not on con- ditions of throat and lungs, but upon habit, tradition and usage? Annoyed Billy Sunday. The despatches relate that Billy Sunday expressed himself as decided- ly annoyed with his auditors at Syra- cuse recently because they coughed so much. He was entirely justified in this. This coughing was unneces- sary. It may have reflected alaanguid attitude on their part which they would not have experienced had he meds the occasion one of great theat- rical stimulus. But beyond that they had no excuse for disturbing him— except a bad habit. A Boston physician tells the story of a patient riding with him one day who coughed and cleared his throat incessantly. As the young Ivan had been learning to run a motor car, the physician offered him a chance to take the wheel. So intent was the beginner on his new job that for half an hour not one sign of a cough or throat clearing occurred. When at last a light rumbling appeared the physician remarked: "You must feel that you are now familiar' with the machine," and -.when the young man asked why, the physician answered by alluding to the resumption of something that only bore eviklonce of a mind not fully employed. Much the same thing is true of sneezing. If it could become recog- nized that to seug1r and to sneeze were each alike an unwarranted piece of self-indulgence, both as much un- der the control of the doer as the picking of his teeth—an equally dis- agreeable habit—we should not only get along without coughing or sneez- ing, but we would take a long step toward arresting the spread of winter maladies WHAT FRENCH REGAINED. Germans Have Been Pushed Off More Than 2,500 Square Mlles, Roughly measured, the territory re- gained from the Germans In Franco exceeds 2,600 square miles. Its popu- lation before the war was in the neighborhood of half a million. Within the redeemed area are some of the most Interesting places In France, notably Rheims, the place of coronation for most of the !singe of France since the beginning of the Capetian dynasty. The most famous ceremony of this character to take place here was the annointing of Charles VIL, after Joan of Arc had d&iven the English from before the city walls" It was here, too, that Clovis WAS baptized on Christmas Day, in 996. Before the devastation wrought by the present war the great Rheims •Cathedral was considered by many critics of architecture the most beautiful structure produced during the llicidle Ages. Amiens, with it population of ninety thousand before ileo war, is next in importance among the salvaged 011105, Ira cathedral, one of the most ilnpoe. ing piles of Thirteenth Ceutlu'y archi- tecture in 101110pe, was scarcely lees famous than the one at Rheims. 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