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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-9-7, Page 2THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By. [SAM., GORDON CURTIS, Author of " The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER XL--(Cont'd). "I don't blame you," Oswald smiled. "I can't imagine why we made such a blunder, Merry puts it just the way you dm" "Thank you, Mr. Merry," Dorcas turned to the actor with grateful smile, "I am ready to go with you any time to see Mrs. Volk." Dorcas had a new insight in Mer- ry's character when she found how his friends held him in esteem. There was not a touch, in Mrs. Billerwell's greeting, of hero worship or deference to the man who had won fame. It was merely a droll blend of loving de- votion and motherly tyranny. Merry jumped to his feet when Mrs. Volk entered with Julie clinging shyly to her gown. Dorcas felt instantly a throb of sympathy and warm friend- ship. Merry had told her something of thenpitiful story on the way up'. town. "You said once, Miss Dorcas," he reminded her, "that you were never so happy as when you had some one to mother. Alice Volk needs mothering doubt if she has a friend in the world except Mother Billerwell and znyself. Mrs. Billerwell is pure gold, but Alice needs a woman like you." Half an hour later they waited on the platform of an L station for downtown train. They had scarce spoken since leaving the Harte house. Merry realized how deeply t girl's heart had been stirred. The entered the brain and took a seat t gether in silence. She sat gazing the city below. Then she turne suddenly. "Little Tulle is to begin rehearsa to -morrow morning," she said. "Th mother made only one condition; the are to be known under another nam She is in terror lest her husband find them.' "That's all right, but do you thin the child can play the small 'Corde Jia'?" asked Merry anxiously. "You can do anything you wish with that child. She has a soul and ;sweet- ness, and she understands. There is something in her—we call it magnet- ism in older people—which will reach across the footlights and grip every man and woman in the audience. The child will help me veonderfully. Now I won't have to create anew 'Cordelia,' when I come op the stage. My 'Cor- delia' is simply the little girl grown older and wiser, with more love for her father and a larger knowledge of life." "You understand perfectly." "You and I ought to understand • 'Cordelia' if any one could." Dorcas sat in silence while they rushed over the lighted city with its insistent glimpses of sordid life, Mer- ry saw her chin tremble once and her eyes grow misty; then she spoke sud- denly: "She must have lived through awful experiences." "Alive Volk has seen the very depths. She suffered more than mis- ery and neglect; there was actual brutality. I knew her before Volk came into her lite. She played with the first New York company I was in. She was the gayest little creature then you can imagine—a whimsical, laughing, care -free, happy child." "Gay!" Dorcas spoke incredulously. "The gaiety has gone." "It has been wrung out of her." "I never had a real woman friend except the sisters at bhe convent," said Dorcas. "I think Alice Volk and I will be friends. We can help each other." 'Each other? I had not thought of it in that way. Your friendship will mean a great deal to her. It is like reaching 01.111 a hand to some one who is drowning.' 'Alice Volk is different from any one I ever met. When little Julie ran out to speak to you, I followed her. The mother laid her hand on my arm, drew me back into the room, then she closed the door and kissed me. She did not say a word. Any other wo- man would have kissed me while I was saying ‘Good-by,'—before you and Mrs. Billerwell. She does unexpect- ed things that cannot help drawing one to her." "Poor soul!" said Merry, The conductor entered, shutting the door behind him with a crash. "Twen- ty-third street/I" he called. "Let us get off and have dinner somewhere," suggested the actor. "I want bo talk to you—for hours," CHAPTER XIL Dorcas and Merry paused for a rno- ment before a flight of steps which led up to what had once been a fine priv- ate residence. Its exclusive days were past; it was beckoning with all garish blaze of lighb to every passer- by. Through the open door came strains from the overture to "William Tell." "What a queer place," said the girl" "You can't realize its queerness un- til we are inside. The crowd that: gathers here is as motley as any you find in New York." Dorcas ran lightly up the steps. The cafe, shabby and weatherlbeaten out -doors, was bizarre inside. At the farther end a daub of painted canvas attempted to create the illusion of sunlit fields. Againsb it rose a theat- rical apple tree. A hundred electric lights blazed inside crimson apples on its widespread branches. Under it, a at a huddle of tables, people were din- ly ing vociferously. The place shriek - m ed its antagonism to bhe civilized he ceremony of feeeing. Humanity dug Y its elbows into one another while it 0- handled knives and forks, and scream - at ed its conversation. The rooms reek - d ed with a hundred odors of highly - seasoned food and tobacco smoke. It is was a bewildering blend of light and , e smells and noise. Dorcas followed Y Merry through the labyrinth to a' e. small table in a silent corner, hedged k about with palms. "I come here time and again," eon- fessed Merry after they were seated. "I love the place; the crowd is so in- teresting. People Int themselves loose in a coop like this; they enjoy life frankly," "I should think they did," Dorcas laughed gaily. Across bhe room a party of college lads were humming a ragtime song in utter inharmony to the orchestra's music. Corks were popping amid the rattle of dishes and silver while laughter in a hundred tones, and the languages of all the old Latin races, were blended in the strange babel. "It's a droll little world," said Mao - Dorcas pulled off her gloves and sat smoothing bhem between her fingers. "I remember," Andrew gazed about him in a reminiscent mood, "one sea- son I was tied up with a summer pro- duction, and it was horribly lonesome in New York. There was not a soul in our company I -wanted to fraternize with. Enoch was West. I used to come here night after night and work myself into a light-hearted mood. I had a part I hated. did not go on until the second ace, so sometimes I stayed here until half -past seven. The place waked me up. I got into a queer humor while watching people. Before it wore off I used to dash to bhe thea- tre, as one acts when you are over- powered with sleep, and try to get to bed before you go wide awake again. Usually I don't have to hammer my self into the disposition for work. When I am cast for some role that makes one fairly snort with impa- tience, it is horribly hard to feel like it If I get a human character, I love it.' 'Like 'John Esterbrook?' " "Yes, like 'John Esterbrook'. Miss ' Dorcas," Merry went on eagerly. "I went tramping yesterday—alone. I found myself within sight of another state before I pulled up. I was— heaven knows how many miles from anywhere. I thrashed things out with myseln. I'm going bo make 'Sohn Es- terbrook' the biggest thing that has struck New York in years," "Dorcas laeghed. She felt foolishly happy. "I am so glad," she said. "It's up to me to do the best I can; 0.1410, lir 411urm Ili R. L-4- , • ItEtP *VOUg .S1-10gS. NEAT F, F. CALLEY CO, OF CANAbli, LTD,, HAMILTON,' OANAOA '..emzeirestlrersordemarammemoirmanamicormaenlutsmettalmeramatos. towe it to yell,"ithere was rha dee ermination1»Meeryal voice; "to nog and Oswald, liefe a prince of aped faint; now: Alice Voile and the child Come into ite" And youreelf," - "Yes, myself. If I succeed, it meane retieving more than you imagine." "And you will confess you Wrote the play ?" "Note—yet." "Miss Dorcas," Merry's voice had a tone of entreaty in it. "I want to ask one NI' , of you. I ask it because your faith in me in so great and lip lifting. Drop the authorship of th play, I cannot explain, I cannot fie! the thoughts you have of mo. Yo said once, believe, in you,' Do yo remember?" Dorcas looked at him with stead fast eyes and nodded. "Go on believing. It's the kindes thing you can do for me, and—fo E nTohc eh" r eyes made a compact thougl no word was spoken. They lingered over strange dishes that enure and went rood seemed merely a circumstance, an excuse for being alone and together. They felt curiously isolated, for the noise made a retreat for them as silence does. A sudden hill fell on the babel of sound. The orchestra, which had rested for a few minutes, began again—not one of its long overtures, but a prelude to the florid mesie in an Italian opera, Through the murky atmosphere a evoraan's voice shrilled out With rare sweetness. Dorcas rose to her feet for a sec- ond, searching for the singer. then she seated herself with her back to the table. The crash of dishes, the . rattle of silver, and the popping of corks continued, but tongues were stillecl except for one voice, It was singing the tremendous aria from "Frnani." The girl drew a long breath as the last note died away in- to silence then she turned eagerly to Merry. "Who is she?" "I'll tall you in a minute." She turned again to look at the singer, who stood crushed into a nar- row balcony which was crowded to discomfort by a piano and four mu- sicians. The woman was absurdly fat and absurdly gowned. Years ago, in the palmy days of a concert bour, she had swept upon the platform in a robe of burnt orange velvet splashed gor•• geously with silver lace and scintillate ing embroidery. It had seen years of service, then grown tawdry, unfash- ionable, soiled, and grotesquely queer, It reminded Dorcas of the stately poor in the last tage of shabbiness. The woman's straw-colored hair was gath- ered into a ridiculous pompadour. Across the dining room, through mur- ky waves of tobacco smoke, the girl could see careworn wrinkles about the woman's eyes. The vivid scarlet of her cheeks was pitifully false, false as the whiteness of her vast, bare shoul- ders. Again she began to sing, some- thing which came thrilling from the e wonderful throat with perfect colora- tura. She threw back her head and' tilted her face till Dorcas saw only the profile. For ane momenh the gross lines disappeared; instead came a glimpse of beauty and picturesque - ON TIE FARM Growing Buckwheat. Buckwheat is the least common of the grains. Probably be.eauae of the fact that it has been overehadowed by other crops more universally grown, buckwheat has, until recently, been e given but little attention by experi- • ment stations and consequently the te crop has been quite frequentllyegrown • in a very haphazard way. Beat- a wheat has been called a "poor land" crop. It is true that buckwheat will e frequently produce a profitable crop onland too poor to produce either oats 4, or rye profitably, but it will do still • • better if given goo,1 treatment. In • fact, the New York Experiment Sta- tion finds that "buckwheat when grown en poor land responds well to moderate dressings of even low grade fertilizei, and many farmers who do pot use fertilizer on other crops find withpoiamtfi.,,table to purchase it for buck - Soil Requirements. I! well -drained soils, such as sandy and Buckwheat is well suited to light • silt loams. Ib needs but little lime, I growing well in acid stele without Ohne, where alfalfa and red clover could not succeed. The plant seems unusually active in taking plantfood : from poor and rocky soils. It needs alarger proportion of phosphoric acid and potash than of nitrogen, since t large growth of straw is not desired I so much as profuse bloom and early 1. filling of seeds. i When to Plant. . IUnder the most favorable cond I Nora' buckwheat will mature in weeks, but the average time is sbo 12 weeks. It does best when seed ' We, but js very sensitive to cold an is killed by the first heavy frost. The aim should be to bring the crop to maturity just before frost. In the latitude of southern New York this means that the crop should be plant- ed about the first week in July. Buckwheat should be sown on land prepared as for corn. It is an excel lent crop to sow where corn has been planted, but where a stand has not been secured. Best results are ob- tained where the land is plowed early, but fairly good results can be obtain- ed by sowing immediately after plow- ing if the land is well prepared. Buckwheat is usually seeded at the rate of three to five pecks per acre. If a drill is used and the seed is of good vitality, as little as three pecks may be sufficient" if the soil is fertile It is best bo use a grain drill, be good results can be secured by broad- casting the seed and harrowing it in. Three varieties of buckwheat are commonly grown—Japanese, Silver and Common Grey, the first two being the most generally ueed. Jap- anese has a dark -colored seed, while he Silver Hull has a smaller Beed, glossy or silvery in appearance. These two varieties are of about equal value, when yields are considered. Because of its plantfood require- ments and the exceedingly short sea "SILVER GL SS" DSUURG) (EDWAR "Silver GloeS" has been doing perfect starching In Canadian homes, for nearly 60 years. In one pound -packages and six pound fancy enanielied tins. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED MOniTti011.. ' OAROMAL, 13FIANTFORD, PORT WILLIAM. L.. tare Makers g "crown Brand" and "Lay Mita" Corn Syrups, and Benson`s Corn Starch, 235 • ,(4.64.15V0 4:;17.:11.4.101ANt9,1:gt.O.v.114i:iNg SNEEZE, BUT DON'T BLAME THE HAY CITY PEOPLE SUFFER mosr FROM HAY FEVER. Cauced Nearly Always From Rag- weed Pollen, Seldom From Goldenrod, • Exhaustive investigation and re. search has convinced us that the ilaY fever victim has one thing to be thank - fel for—he never need be afraid to . hit the hay. The only plant weed, oz' vegetable which never has been con- victed of causing pollinosin which is Greek for hay fever, is the hay itself. , Anything else ,that grove In Yon va- cant lot, from Rumex oblusifolius, or as 11 18 called, dock, to Plantago Ian. etiolate, which is a mean uppish way of saying Plantain, may account for I your particular case of "autumnal catarrh," or, if you prefer, "hyperaes- diode rhinitis," but never, never thno- t thy or clover hay, writes Dr, William Brady, In the New York Sun. About one per cent. of the Impala. tion of cities have hay fever. Most of these cases come in August and Sep- tember, but some cases develop in early summer—the ao-called "rose cold," which generally is not caused by roe pollen. Hay fever eymptome, in the milder oases, resemble those of ordinary coryza or "cold In the head," Indeed., the disecte may, be mistaken for a "cold." There Is sneezing, °ek- ing of the nostrils from swelling of the mucous membrane, serious or watery. running of the nose, itching of the inner corners of the eyes, ,and slight elevation of temperature at the onset and a tendency to subnor- mal temperature later. There usually The farmer need geeerally have no fear of bilis crop being damaged by either insect enecies or fungous die - eases, 08 the buckwheat plant is but little affected by either. It is an ex- cellent: crop for destroying weeds and for renovating and putting the soil in fine mellow condition, and when properly handled could be grown with profit on many more farms. Hot Weather Rules. 1, Load lightly, and drive slowly. 2. Stop in the shade if possible. 3. Water your horse as often as pos- sible. So long as a horse is working, water in small quantitibs will not hurt him. But let him drinlc only a few -swallows if he is going to stand still. Do not fail to water him at night after he has eaten his hay. 4. When he comes in after, work, sponge off the harness marks and sweat:, his eyes, his nose and mouth, and the dock. Wash his feet but not his legs. 5. If the thermometer is 76 degrees or higher, wipe him all over with a damp sponge. Ilse vinegar water if possible. Do not turn the bine on him. 6. Saturday night, give a bran mash, lukewarm; and add a table- spoonful of saltpeter. 7. Do not use a horse -hat, unless it is a canopy -top hat. The ordinary bell-shaped hat does more harm than good. 8. A sponge on bop of the head, or oven a cloth, is good if kept wet. If dry it is worse than nothing. 9. If the horse is oyercome by heat, get him into the shade, remove har- ness and birdie, wash out his mouth, sponge him all over, shower his legs, and give him two ounces of aromatic spirits of ammonia .or two ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, in a pint of water; or give him a pint of coffee Warill. Cool his head at once, us- ing cold wetter, or, if necessary, chop- ped ice, wrapped in a cloth. ' 10. If the horse is off his feet, try him with two quarts of oats mixed with bran, and a little water; and add a little salt or sugar. Or give him oatmeal gruel or barley water to drink • tis considerable general depression, due to the subnormal temperature and difficulty •of breathing through the nose, especially when lying down. In d some cases asthmatic trouble occom- panies the attack. The develOpment of the epidemic when hay was harvested each year led to the suspicion that hay pollen was a cause. Tho fact, is, however, that ragweed (ambrosia) is the cause cinastehse. majority of cases, and 111.1 more for a very small proportion of the conspicuous golden rod is to blame Ragweed to Blame. Ragweed will grow any old place, where nothing in particular is grown. It comes in two sizes—trial size and hospital size.. The trial size or com- mon ragweed is aim, mean, ordinary - looking -weed that infests the byways of civilization. It has ragged, thin leaves and spikes at homely green flowers at the ends ot the branches. The weed loves to spring up in fields vhere a crop of wheat, rye, or oats recently has been cut, and usually grows two or three feet high. The poi. en of ragweed is as light as smoke nd flies for a considerable distance n the wind. It Is so abundant during he ripening of the flowers that it will stain the clothing of a person walking through the field a yellow color. That the ragweed pollen is the specific cause of hay fever may be demons - tented In any case by freeing some harvested pollen In the room with the patient. It will bring on the symp- toms at once at any tame of year if it truly the cause. Various other plants than ragweed • ay produce pollinosis in certain astiS. A. popular idea is that hay fever ay be avoided by going to a high ele• ation, as in the mountains. This is sly relatively true. Ragweed and ther bay fever producing plants are neoramon above an altitude of 6,000 et, but In mountain resorts of or - nary elevation such plants abound nd hay fever is frequent. City folks suffer more frequently an country folks. The explanation. ✓ this is unquestionably a matte,/ acquired or inherited immunity— o dountry resident being exposed our infancy and the city resident be- g exposed only upon rare occasions. Hard to Cure. The pollen does not produce the aracteriatic irritation. The symp me of hay fever come on within a w moments after the patient has en exposed, as in driving past a Bold walking along a street where rag- ed may be growing. The treatment of hay fever is a ng the profesion never boasts out. Cures aro none too many. Op. ations on minor irregularities in the se and throat are seldom, if ever, ective. Sprays, douches, salve, wders, and internal remedies have air place and help to render the el- k endurable, but do not cure. A a voyage, of course, is an ideal iedy. Hypodermic doges of ragweed and denrod pollen have boon used with od effect. A. thorough cleansing of the nasal sages with simple normal salt so- ion (teaspoonftil of salt in it pint boiled water), or with boric aoid ution (a tablespoonful of powdered tic acid dissolved in half a pint of led water), or with one of the bus entente entieeptio solutions siderably diluted with warn] water, helpful, This must be done ra. arly night and morning, Havieg----Funith His Wife. My wife gave a reception yester- , Did you attend?" Yes. I played a practical joke on I got in line when gee was receiVe and before she knew it she was ling and saying she eves glad to see eDo 111111011 Government ' ness,a dignity which belonged to the es days of youth lied power, the royal ' days of a singer.b The room rang with an encore, then a came a shriek of command. "Dance!" shouted the group of students in a r corner. "Oh!" cried Dorcas piteously. "oh! how can they do it?" The musicians huddled themselves and their instruments closer together, e indifferently as if it were part of e' every night's program. The pianist struck a few bars of some tinkling ri thing in a musical comedy, then the m singer began to sway her huge body. g There was no space for her feet be move. She sang to the accompani- ment, but the physical effort made her pe wheeze. The orchestra dashed into ze a trippin horns d h iasm of the guests waxed high. Cheers were intermingled with laughter and screams of derision. "Oh!" cried Dorcas, "ohl the shame of iti" (To be continued), on of growth, manure has not been ound satisfactory as a fertilizer for uckwheat Fresh manure contains larger percentage of nitrogen than t does of phosphoric acid, just the everse of what buckwheat needs For most profitable results on stony and sandy soils under normal condi- tions about 200 to 800 pounds of a fertilizer containing one to two per- cent ammonia, ten to twelve percent hosphortc acid and two to four per- ent potash should be applied at time f seeding. On loam or other soils ch in organic matter, use less am- onia, Buckwheat, 'unlike other rains never straightens up after it nee falls. Potash makes the stalks trong and prevents lodging. Under esent abnormal conditions a fertili- e analyzing about one percent of ammonia, eight percent phosphoric acid rind one percent potash may be substituted or the potash may be omitted _entirely in which case the phosphoric acid should be increased somewhat. One grower says, "T like to raise buckwheat because it is the only grain for which I can buy fertilizer on a 20 -day note and pay for it out of the crop it makes.' Buckwheat blooms for three weeks longer and the grain ripens as evenly. This °free causes quite a s during a wet harvest season or m early frosts. Phosphoric acid uses grain to form and hastens Ina- ity, hence an available simply of s plantfood hastens ripening, thus eventing loss from early frosts and posure ordinarily caused during wet sons while waiting 105 all the ain to ripen. The farmer does not need man- e machinery for harvestieer the &wheat crop. An old-haehioned (Ile, although it requires hard la - does the harvesting well. The p reaper, however, is one of the et satisfactory machines for hare ting. Cutting is begun as soon as &at blossoms' have disappeared, often just before the first frost is ettod, Buckwheat will mature seed in a few days, if, after cat - g, the crop is Ion in loose bundles ere they are dropped from the die or reaper. It should then be up in email shocks and tied near top with some strangle of the aw bent upwatd froei the sides of shoeq. The mit buckwheat ie ally left in the field la the shoolte til threshing time, when ie awn and threshed either With the 1 or by Maelikiety, GETS SIG FAMILY PRIZE. Paris Woman Raises 19 Children -- Seven Soys at Prone Etienne Lamy, member of the or French Academy, has recently given un 5100,000 to found -prizes for the largest les families among the peasants of fro France. He has suffered more aria. ea eism for limiting his prizes to Catholic ,, families than praise for his generosity. 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