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The Brussels Post, 1916-6-29, Page 2THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By iSABEL, GORDONCURTIS, Author of " The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER VI, -(Cont''.!,) "Now, old man," Andrew jumped to his feet and began to Paco the room impatiently, "I wan/ to mile,it on the stage—quick! Quick, I seer: Hecht will take it, I know." "I suppose you'll play the convict?" "Good God, what else could I play?" Andrew stopped suddenly and looked down at Wentworth. "You'll kill your reputation as a comedian." "Perhaps you'll be interested in knowing that I've thrown up my part in 'The Left -over Bachelor.' No more doddering idiots forme! Why, it will be easy sledding to get this on." "Andrew, you're a steam engine." "Did you think I was a steam rol- ler?" "Well, it's waked you up. That's dead certain. Who did it?" "The woman—I told you." Merry turned aside and stood with his back. to Enoch ,ruining his eyes over avol ume he had lifter from a bookshelf. "Say old marl," suggeetee Went- worth, "leave that with me over night. You've given me a lot to think about. I want to read it again—when I'm alone." The closely written sheets fell re- luctantly from the comedian's hand. He fondled the paper as if it were a beloved child. "Youll be_ careful of it, won't you,- Enoch?" he said anxiously. "It's all I have. My first draft was a garbled, dirty mess; I threw it away." "Bless your soul, Pll be careful, When I've finished I'll put ie in my safe. Pll have it typewritten tomor- row." Merry laugher. "Good night, old pard; I'm grateful for your faith in me." "Good night, boy.'" Enoch gripped his han•1. "Pm terribly glad to have you make good. Your play is won- derful," Merry went down stairs whistling. A few seconds later he turned back• He put his head in at the door and said is a melodramatic whisper; "Rush the business, my lord, I'm ow-, ing thee a hundred and much else. It shall be paid with compound interest! from the first night's returns." Then! he laughed and shut the door. "A hundred!" whispered Wentworth. He .dropped into the chair beside the fire and covered his face wtih his hands. The room had grown dark and! it was so silent that when a cinder fell I from the grate it made him start to his feet. He searched 'for a small brass key on his ring, hurried into the, library, and unlocked a drawer in the! desk. He took a slip of paper from! a yellow envelope and stood staring at it for, several minutes. His brows ! whinkltii and a curiously startled ex- pression came into his: eyes. He drew along breath, put the paper back in the envelope laid it in the drawer, and turned the key in the lock. He walked to a window, which looked down on the square, and stared at the life of, the city. It was a habit of his He has solved many a knotty problem with his eyes fixed unconsciously upon the busy street The thought -spell lengthened out indefinitely, then ended abruptly. 'He hurried to his den, lifted Andrew's manuscript, and seated himself before the desk. Frani a lowr drawer he' took a heap of paper filled the ink -1 well almost to overflowing, and tried several pene before he found one that suited him, Then, swii ehrng on the electricity under a green-shadedbulb, he began will steady laboriousness to copy Merry's play, Tht clock struck three before his task was ended, He gathered the manuscript into two neat piles. One he placed in his safe, the other he locked in the drawer which heli! the bit of paper he had studied so intently. He returned to his chair beside the ghost of a fire, laid his face between his palms, and fought a battle between two antagonists, his conscience and temptation. He felt as if .his saul was in shackles. CHAPTER V. ""Yee' never guessed, Andrew, that your ambition eves mine?" PHnoeh did not lift his eyes or pause for a reply, "For years and years and years I have dreamcii jest one dream only one.— that some day I might produce a great play. See how.I worked!" Ile swept the manuscript into a untidy beep, There were thousands of sheets 1 -Ie had written on paper ; like .onion skin. It looked like toil—one had a feeling of years of toil—after a glance tee the laboriouely interlined and reconstructed sentences. Went- iveith ere cd •it mercilessly into loose bunches and began to lay the' pages by handfuls upon the reviving afire. A little flame climbed up and. kireeed them into a wavering blaze. { "'here, here, Enoch, old fellow,' cried Merry, "don't!" There was a. thrill of compassion in his voiee. "day, don't—this is a winked thing to do." Wentworth paid no heed to him. He gathered the sheets together with quiet deliberation, crushing them as one'would crush some hated, despised living thing, and burned them with stond satisfaction. "That funeral's over," he said all - I raptly. "Now I'm in a moa•1. for— business." He turned to his desk. Merry's eyes followed him. They were dim with unspoken sympathy, but he knew the man well enough not to put it into words. . Wentworth pulled out his key -ring, opened a drawer, and took the slip of paper from the yellow envelope; He stood staring at it for a mama. A wave of crimson swept across his face, then his mouth straightened into a cruel, inexorable line. Merry's eyes were still. fixed on him. Enoch did not speak, but crossed the room with the paper in his hand and laid it on the table beside Merry. Andrew's eyes took it in with one sweeping glance; it was the bond he had signed when they played that last hand of poker. "Do you remember this ?" asked Wentworth abruptly. "Of course. Say old chap, what has that to do with our business? Oh, I know." He lifted his eyes with a relieved glance. "Of course it's an understood thing you're to run things and as for money, Lord;. I don't care for money. Take all you want of it. Its fame my heart's set on; I've a grand ambition -and a thirst for great- ness—as I told you—but it runs in only one direction; to win a name as a dramatist, a name that will live when my capering days are over. I want a halo; not such an aureole as Shakespeare's," his eyes sparkled and —I demand a halo. I11 be satisfied withenothing smaller that a cart- wheel." He rose and went prancing buoy- antly about the room on his toe tips, humming a fantastic waltz from "The King at Large." Wentworth sat with a grim, brooding look' in his eyes. An- drew stopped to stare at him. "Why so mum, sweet Sirrah?" he asked blithely. "Merry," Wentworth spoke in an through—carefully. Read it alour." The actor picked up the sheet of The telephone in Enoch Went - worth's room rang insistently. He had gone to bed three hours before, and he struggled to shake off sheer, stupid drowsiness. He lashed to the telephone. Its ring had become peremptory. "Hullo," he called beisl iy. "Hullo old chap," Merry answered him gaily. "The top o' the morning* to you." "Good morning," Wentworth's alert- ntes died in a second. Something flashed back to his mind, something unpleasant, and an ugly frown corru- gated his brow. "Grouchy. this morning?" cried Merry with a laugh. "Or say, did I wake you from your beauty sleep?" "You certainly did." "Old man, I'm sorry, blamed sorry. Some day I'll show you I'm grateful. I couldn't sleep last night, I lay think- ing of something I can do for you when my production begins to pay. I'm going to drag you away from the everlasting grind. We'll go to Switz- erland next summer and carry out , your dream. We'll sit on mountain tops crane our necks over the edge of ia crevasse, and skid down a glacier." "I'd rather go back to bed," growled Wentworth. "Your lazy old duffer, you may go in a second, only I want to talk to you about the luckiest sort of accident. Lase: night I ran across a fellow who's rolling in money. He's crazy to get in on a theatrical venture. We can catch liim, I know. I want you to have a big share, to manage the thing and make all you can out of it." "Did you tell him it was—your play?" Enoch's tone was brusque. "No, I thought I'cl break that gent- ly. He thinks now I'm a devil of an actor; he might imagine I couldn't have so much versatility; that my play might be of the brand some actors out." "Good," cried Enoch, warmly. "You have more tense than I gave you credit for•.'' "Really? Now, old pal, go back to bed, But tell me first when I can see you. I wane a long talk with you." "Make it four. I've a pile of work to do before that time," "All right, four o'clock. Good-bye," Wentworth hung up the receiver and passed a hand across his forehead; it was cold and damp. He did not re- turn to beds ituF dressed hurriedly, pausing once or twice to stare at him- self in the mirror. His face looked unfamiliar. It seemed to have aged There were lines about the clean-shav- en mouth he had never noticed before. At four o'clock Enoch sat in his library, He was so absorbed that he did not hear a step in the hall. When he lifted his eyes Merry stood before him. Wntworth stared for a second! before he took the outstretched hand. 1 Merry had changed. He looked I young, hpncl.rmme and vivacious—het was better groomed. A few stems of Roman hyacinths sat jauntily in his; buttonhole. Itis trimness seemqodd i in contras;. to the old whimsical care-' lessnets, as if he had alrtady achiev- ed fame and was living up to it, clress-1 ing up to it. These were the thoughts that flashed through Wentworth's mind while Merry took his hands of-' fcctiunately between his own. An -1 drew was only a few years younger! thanseEnoch, but occasionally he fell' I into fond, demonstrative ways which were boyish. Wentworth drew his' j hand away suddenly a.nd pointed to the low chair opposite. Itis friend sat down half perplexed, half anxious. "Say, old man, aren't you well ? You look groggy." "Pm well enough." "You're working too hard,. you al- ways did!" Wentworth slid not answer. His eyes were studying a pattern in the rug beneath his feet. "Say, Enoch, you're going to tend to the whole business, aren't you?" The newspaper man lifted his eyes. "Yep .I'm going to tend to the whole business. 1'!! make it the finest pro- duction that New York has seen in years. 'The House of Esterbraok' is going to win money and—fame." "Goa!" Merry jumped up and flung his arms arouer, the shoulders of the older man, "Sit down," said Enoch,. "We're go- ing to talk business" He rose, walked to his desk, and emptied•a di'awful of papers on the table. Mdery watched him with a puz- zled cxpreesion. Issmszwomomnvora • I Thorough mixing is what . makes cake delicate and tender antic Su•+ a1� makes the best cake be- causeit creams quickly and thoroughly with, the butter which is the bardestpart ofihe!nix- ing. Its purity and extra '`fine" granula- tion make it dissolve. at once. 2 and b-Ibb. Cartons 10 and 20 -Ib. Bags 4 rr The All -Purpose Sugar" paper and react it with dramatic ges- tures, bowing almost prostrate at each pause. To Enoch Wentworth. I hereby pledge myself to you until death—to do your every bidding—to obey your every demand—to the ex- tent of my physical -and mental ability —you to furnish me with support. Andrew Merry. (To be continued.) A little girl, being lost, was taken to the police, -station, and the .officers in charge tried unsuccessfully to find out her name. "What name does your mother call your father?" said one. "Why," replied the child in- nocently, "she don't call him any names; she likes him!" T the request of the leading manufacturers. and dealers of the Dominion, the Guaranty Securities Corporations has established its Canadian office in` the National. Trust. Buildin0, Montreal. Look for This Emblem in the Dealer's Window Sign no purchase papers that do not bear the Guaranty Emblem. The Guaranty Plan provides a private, dignified and standardized system of credit, fully safeguarding the banlcing `proprieties, and offers accommodation to responsible and worthy persons who can'afford to own and maintain' cars, but desire credit in their purchase.; The Guaranty Plan is free from annoying red tape—a' direct and simple business transaction, giving—"Time for the Buyer—Cash for the Seller—Safety for All." See the Local Dealer in the car in which you are in- rterested. I Ie should be fully equipped With full instructions and the simple form of purchase contract which you will sign. If, by any chance, your dealer is not equipped with !this information, write us giving his name and address, and the make of car .that: he handles. Also ask him to write us without delay. We will see that your requirements are taken care of promptly. _ / The Guaranty Plan is applicable -1n the purnhase of a' number ofthe best known cars, produced by permanently established concerns who maintain Canadian service organi- zations adequate to meet the demands of pnachan ,owners., A description of the Guaranty Plan,- and a list of the/ ,cars recognized, will be : sent, upon request, but see. your, ,Local Dealer first. Guaranty Securities Corporaticsn. National Trust Building ,Montreal. C2-336 Feeding the Hog. While almost any man can make substantial profits in feeding hogs at Provided where possible. If it can't present prices, an intelligent consid-. be secured, some product such as eration of cost and management win tankage, which can be obtained from tend to greatly increase them. the large packing houses in Toronto Every stage in the hog's development should be given in the proportion of should be carefully studied, the object one part of tankage to eight or nine being to get maximum results at min- Parts of meal. For pigs under twelve imam cost. weeks, the..oat chop should be passed over a coarse screen to remove the • fat. It is also palatable and eaeilydi- gested. Skim milk should always be. Great care is particularly necessary at weaning time to get the pigs safe. ly over this crisis of their lives am well started without any serious set- back. Very often the profits are sacrificed from a batch of pigs be- cause of lack of shill at this time. A hulls and it lightens up the ration, stunted animal of any kind is always preventing the meal from lying in unprofitable and this is do•_h:y true of too close and solid a mass in the stom- a pig. The feeding period in his life ach. is too short to recover the loss due to Green Feed Half the Ration. a setback at weaning. As the pig grows older, roots, cloy - A common error which must be er, rape or some other kind oe green avoided is that of feeding a strong food, either in the form of pasture or grain ration to compensate for the soilage crop should be gradually in - loss of the mother's milk. If pro- troluced, until they constitute about, perly managed the pigs will be eat half of the ration by the time the pig ing so freely at the trough as nearly is three months olce In whatever belle. The very best rsults• will be. obtained if a quantity of branis ad- ded, equal to that of the oat hulls re- moved. The bran is more palatable and more easily digested than the oat' to wean themselves. About the only forum the .green food is given it has change to be made in the ration is to been proven that it enables gains to give them a sufficient quantity of skim be made much more cheaply. In On: - milk and it is better to do this be- tario the practice has been to pasture fore the removal of the sow, as the the hogs. Owing so present labor loss of the dam's milk, small though it conditions this practice nodoubt will b may have become in quantity, is be rather extensively followed change enough at one time. A good year. Experiments conducted at many farmers make a small trough in the Ontario Agricultural College have the pen, protected from the mother, in proven, however, that much cheaper which the young pigs are fed. If gains can be made when the ''gr•een this is done there should lie no set- crop is fed as soilage, cut. and fed in back at all when the pigs ata weaned. the pen. In every case the hogs should Build Frame, Not Fat. have access to earth where they may The very young pigs require a ra-• take plenty of exercise. This will ,tion that is easily digested and that' is bring them through in a vigorous and rich in protein, that is to say in flesh healthy condition and there will be and blood forming material 'The mis-:no trouble with paralysia or with pigs take must not be made, however, of going "off their feed." over -feeding, Before the removal of In the experiments with soilage, . the sow just as much feed should bel aforementioned, it was found that given as she and the litter will clean while green food was fad in the pen it up at each feeding; whet' the sow is only took 395 pounds of meal to. pro- : taken away the pigs should receive' duce 100 pounds of gain, whereas just whet they will eat with relish. If when hogs were turned on pasture.it food lies in the trough the weanlings, lock 525 pounds. The meal ration in missing their dam, are tempted to. each case consisted of two parts Jovertax their digestive system and ground barley to one part middlings, Count Plunkett, !read of 111 -fated the partial remaining in the trough by weight. The inside pigs were fed Trish Family. I is apt to ferment and become foul. in all the green food they would eat, re - either case di t' t b] will ' I ceiving tares until August Gth and rape after that date. The outside hogs were pastured on these sam crops. After the hogs were killedit was found that there was no difference in the quality of bacon produced. HAS BUILT SEA TERROR. Startling Innovations on New British War Craft. While some of the newspapers in England are making a great display over the New York reports of a Ger- man submarine service between Ham- burg and New York, the general atti- tude is one of skepticism ,on the as- sumption that Germany's shipbuilding yards are more likely to be employed in the -construction of vessels of an' offensive type instead of "mail -car- riers." Naturally what is being done is Kept a profound secret. Strict pre- cautions are also taken in Great-Brit- ain reat Brit- ain to prevent news of British naval developments from reaching enemy ears. - That these. developments particu- larly- in the matter of construction, have been extraordinary is the gen- eral belief. The following story will indicate surprise by some of the things accothplished. In British waters there now floats a certain ship which embodies many novel features of extrema "import- anco, So cartfully were these sec- i rets guarded while she was being built that the vessel, while, on the stocks and during the period of her equippment, was known by all work- ing upon her: as H.M.S. Hush. Then came her launching, when she was christened, H.M.S. Rampageous, (This, this -le ges roe rou es m- , Count Plunkett is a well-known 1 evitably follow and these, if not fatal Irishman, he and his family having to the pig, are disastrous to the 'own - figured prominently in the late Irish errs chance of profit. The ideal Rebellion. Joseph Plunkett, son of method of feeding would be to feed at the Count, was executed in Dublin re-' regular intervals as much as the pigs cently for his share in bhe pi•oelama- s will clean up in a few minutes after Hon of Irish .independence. The feeding. While it is not often pos- Count's two other" sons, George and sible to make our practice conform John, were senteneed to ten and five { fully to this ideal; it should be kept years, respectively,in prison, for in mind that the nearer We can ap- their part in the plot, and it is re-' prone!' to it the greater will be our ported that the Count; himself is now snccesa, in prison The Count's title is a Papal' A mixture of middlings and chop- one, having boon conferred on him as ped oats has given very good results. an appreciation by the Church. Ho This is rich in ash and protein los- the and his family ore v'cll cducnted, cul- nourishment of the growing bone and turgid, and refined, and very popular muscles ihua enabling the pig to build throughout Ireland. a strong frame rather than to lay on the way, is not her real name ie the navy list. the censor might ob- ject to the publication of her real name.) Now, after she has been the cynosure of all British naval eyes for some time, her novel characteristics are found so startling that she is commonly referred to by the navy men as H.M.S. Outrageous. Live and Learn. The 'aesthetic householder, whose nostrils had been offended by the odors arising from a torn -up street went out to remonstrate with the workmen wile' were digging under his' dining room window. "I shall complain to the utho'i- ties," he said. "1 havt never been used to such smells." "Never mind, governor," said the overseer, "You'll•,., have plenty of time to get used to ,them before we have finished." For the LaunE r c.r For nearly 60 years, Edwardsburg "Silver Gloss" has been the standby. In one pound packages and six pound fancy, enamelled tins, ' THE CANADA STARCH CD, LIMITED 236 MONTREAL, CARDINAL, BRANTFORD, FORT WILLIAM. Makers of"Cronin Brand" and "LUs, White" Corn Swope and Benton', Corn Starch Silver r Gl® Ss Stare From Erin's Green Isle NEWS . BY MAIL FROM iltl'7," LAND'S SHORES. Happenings, in the Emerald Is] e of Interest to Irish- men. Lance•Corporal 14. 5, Robinson, eon of Mrs. Robin`sen, Curra.gh, has' been awarded the D.C,M, for gallantry in the field. A veteran Ulster Belt! marshal has-. pawed away in the !oath of Bir Chas, Llenry 13rownlew, G,C,B„ at the age or 86 years: Belfast publicans and grocers have resolved to increase the prices of the half glass of spirits and bottles of beer and stout; by one cent. The death Is announced at. Dublin of Miss Margaret Thcrry, daughter of the late Mr. Commissioner Therry, of Castle Merry, Cork, at the age of 104. The Town Tenants' Defence Assn - elation is snaking great ° progress in Belfast, and there are now eleven branches of the organization, and a large membership. The Athlone Town Council have adopted a resolution calling for a. substantial increase in the salaries of Irish teachers and the monthly pay• ment of salaries, An appeal is being made. to the. citizens of Belfast to clear off the adverse balance of $10,000 upon. the working of the Royal Victoria Hos- pital for the past year. = The death has occurred' of Mr. Adam Turner, at the ago of 71 years, the oldest auctioneer in Belfast: He was one of the pioneers of the taxicab in ,Belfast. Owing to the large number of chil- dren unvaccinated in Athy Union, the Guardians have decided to direct the otnolals to issue summonses. against a number of the parents. The Meath Committee of Agricul- ture are agitating for some action to be taken to bring railway facilities nearer to coalfields in Ireland, and to find out where coalfields exist 1n Ire- land. At the meeting of the Athy Boned of Guardians, the clerk reported that aegirl head been admitted from an out- lying district to the hospital, where she died, suffering from spotted fever. The Mount Bellew District Council leas decided not to introduce the di- rect labor• scheme into their district Mtn after the termination of the war. It is stated that its introduction will mean an extra expenditure of ;10000. At the meeting of the Newry Urban Council it was agreed to ask the local constabulary authorities to allow some of the policemen to practice with the Fire Brigade, so that they might assist the brigade when called on for service at fires. The death has occurred of Capt. William Charles Cogblan, 7.P., Drou- nor Co. Waterford. Captain cosh - tan, who was 86 years of age, served In the Crimean War, and was a mem- ber of the Waterford County Council end Board of Guadians. Dr, T. P. Coulon, It.M,S., Monaghan Asylum, in his annual report etatos that at the close of the year there were 23 more patients in residence than at the close of the pL•evlous year. and that the number restd�nt was 14? in excess of the accommodntlUi1. ex e The war has caused a alrortage of supply of two products, both of which are abundant on the shores of Ire- land. One is Cariageen or lid^,h moss and the other Is the staff the com- mon carweed. At the meeting of the Committee of Management of the Trim joint school, It was stated that of the largo num. ber of pupils who have enlisted, nine have been killed, several wounded and one was a prlsoner of war, WREATHS AND TROUSERS. Incident of the Fighting on the Italian Front. How near tragedy and comedy are in the happenings along the battle line is shown by this incident of the fight- ing on the Isonzo River front, which a Vienna correspondent tells: A Capron fighting aeroplane that had gone, up from the Its}lien side was hit by the anti-aircraft guns and fell within the Austrian lines, Phe pilot was killed, the observer WAS some- what scratched, but otherwise unhurt. His trousers, however, wore ripped "from 'A to Z." • Captain Amegliano, the captured flyer, was inconsolable, and to an. Austrian officer who sympathized with him he said: "My poor comrade will lie buried and I cermet oven pay him my last respects not in this gear." 'If that ie all," refnarked'the Aus- trian, "we'll' 'nor mend that" Anti after obtaining permission, he want up in his Fokker machine and threw a letter into the Italian line, acqunint ing them with the fact, and requesting "a pair of new trousers for Captain Amcgliano.' Sure enough, an hour or so later there was an Italian machine high in the air, and apackage dropped that contained a laurel wreath for the dead and a.: pair of trousers for the living, • That's So! The expression: "Seeking safety in flight" demist seem very sensible when we remember how man aviators have been lilies!. "flow is your wife Jolsn?"! John (the waiter)—"Well, 1 don't know, miss. When the sun doesn't shine she's miserable, and when it does she says it fades the carpet." Mislrees (to servant) ---"New, !:ilea, considering that you aro quite ready to tike the advice of any Idiot who oifei a it to you, 1 can't think wily it is that you willnevor listen 10 5110,"