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The Brussels Post, 1916-7-27, Page 6THE LAPSE OP ENOCH WENTWORTH By ISABEL, GORDON CURTIS, Author of "rhe Woman from Wolvertons" CHAPTER VIII.-(Conbel), Dorcas lowered the carriage win- dow and gazed out. Oswael -watch- edeher. The gb•I's face mirrored her feelings so keenly he could feel what was passing in her mind. Her lips quivered and tears hung on her lethes She could not trust herself to speak. "I shall never forget how that piti- ful line appealed to me the first time I saw it," the man continued, "al- though 1 had known the poor of Lon- don since boyhood. This homeless, famished. orderly column, growing as one man after another comes creep- ing from his burrow to hold a place was too much for tee. 1 steed watch- ing it frem that eerner." he pointed across the Street, -right, after night. 1 used te Tr". te :eel?. In e few eases 1 d(d menage e tee a man en his feet, The Melt Yeas gene-re:y hopeless, ex- cept thee I ceule .s.3%ies the hunger el the reesmeree Paring bard winters aa Ne -i Yerls I have seen the line g,r,sw tr.. se -ere were hundreds in it. Sometimes it goes down Tenth street and ersered She meter." Derest gee -reed to look at hilO. Tears stood in her eyes and her lips [ply- ered. "I unlerstand." he went on. 'You are -wondering why we, well elothed„ fed and sheltered from the wind, are here, and they are—there. I do not know. It is a problem as old as the world itself. All we can do is to help individually, man to man." Dorcas gaze went back to the bread line. Oswald sat in thoughtful silence "Don't think me sacrilegious. Mr. Oswald," she confeased, "but when I see such misery it =lees me wonder if the Eternal himself has a con science." She sat watching the line of patient, pallid nfon. Stragglers crept up to join it from every direc- tion. "I eimply tannot imagine God who—Mr. Oswald!" She grasped his arra with a half -stifled scream and laid her trembling hand upon his. "What is it?" asked her companion, rising, "What frightened you, Miss Wentworth ?" He stared past her out into the street. The block of vehicles had begun to move. They were again driving slowly down Broadway. "Nothing," she answered quickly, "nothing but a chance resemblance. I thought I—Strev some one Whom I once knew. it meet have been a mis- take," The Englishman glanced at her cur- iously. She began to chat about the play and other things. She was try- ing to forget whatever had startled 1 her. She said "Good -by" at the door of her home. Oswald realized that she was eager to have him go. As he drove away he tried to recall anything which could have happened. A W02/1-. an of her poise would not be eisturbed by a trifle. Dorcas shut the street door and ran upstairs to her brother's study, where the 'phone stood. .She searched dis- tractedly through the directory for the address of a livery from which occassionally she called a cab. The name had escaped her. She stood for a moment trying in vain to re- call it, then she rang the bell. Her wait seemed erielees before the old servant eppearad. "Jaeon," she cried impatiently, "who is Mr. Wentworth's livery i man?" 11 leesMEINereMeeiV! - es&ereMeteeMeMtee "Costello, missy." "Stay here a minute," she said as she paused for central's aesteer. Then she stooped to the 'phone. "Send a cab, please, to 26 Waverly place, inunediately." She turned again to the old servant. "Jason," she asked, "you have emitt- ed on Mr. Merry when Enoch brought him here—sIck—haven't you?" "Deed I has, nrisey. Many's cl time Marse Enoch en I's done all sort air waitin' on him, when he's don been sick, pullectly missuble, missy Yo' -all don't know how missuble." "Can you help to -night? 7ma hie face towards fame, happiness, and an honorable life. Not a thought of love—the love of a-evonran for men—stirredin her heert. she had forgoten her brothes question. There was something singularly childlike about Merry, With his magnetism was blended a strange dash of childish dependence which a few men never lose. It had appeal- ed .to the maternal instinct in Dorcas the first time they met. From morning till night she, evaitecl anxiously for news from her nether, but none came. She realized that he was on the wrong ,clue, but he had left no address, and Dorcas could merely wait, After her walk she lay down to rest on the library couch, A few minutes later she was sleeping peacefully as a ehild, When Jason came in he closed the shutters noise- lessly and covered her with an afghan. The city lights were ablaze when she woke, She waited impatiently for the e hours to pass, The policeman had told her it was of no use to come to s his corner until eleven or later; it was past midnight when the bread was dispensed. The clock struck eleven when a carriage Dorcas had ord.erecl Y stopped at the door. Jason hovered - anxiously about, her. "You raus' put on yo' big fur coat, missy, please." He was tryiug con - b /dandy to manage her as he had done when she was 0 little girl. b "Jason, I don't need it; I'm perfect- o ly warm." 'Yo' do, sure ez yo' breathin', missy," he pleaded anxiously. "Hit's 1 grown bitter col' fo' November. Yo' -all '11 freeze ef yo' done" right," laughed the girl, and ; she slipped her arms into the wide sleeves. "Just to please you, Jason— remember that not because I'm cold. Now," she added, "don't get nervous if it is an hour or two before 'return. I shall be quite safe. Mr. Merry will ' come back with me to -night, I know Have everything as cosy and cheer- ful as possible. And—Jason—I've got my Icey. I'll ring when I want you. Don't bother about opening the door." The girl's intuition told her that Merry might have fallen to such low state that it would hurt for even the old servant to see him. The ne- gro understood. "I know, missy, I'll do des ez yo' gay —but fo' de Lawd's sake do take care ob yo'se'f. What could I say to Marse Enrich if anyt'ing happened to mis- sy?. "Nothing's going to happen, good old Jason," cried the girl, as she ran down the steps. The officer was waiting at the cor- ner. Ile beckoned the cabman to pull up where an electric light would nob shine into the carriage, then he stopped for a minute at the window. "I'lI stay near by and kee p my eye on you. When you see your party, signal me. I'll give yoers cabby the order, and he can drive around a block or two and take you up Tenth street. Then slip out and get your—your—friend that way. There ain't no chance of him seeing you come up behind, as he would if you crossed the street." "Has the bread line begun to gath- er yet?" she asked. "Hardly, ma'am. Theee's a few stragglers bangle' round. Them that come first get the first chance, of course, only it's a nasty night to Wait* outdoors with an empty stomach." (To be continued.) MORE WOMEN TITAN MEN. Expected That There Will Be a Majority of 1,750,000 in France. The latest statistics of the French Labor Department show that while women outnumbered men in France before the war by 756,682 (in a total population of 39,602,258), the war will probably decrease the number of men at least a million, giving the women a majority of 1,760,000. The additional million excess fe- male population will be obliged, in part at least, to support themselves, increasing considerably the percent- age of female wage earners, which, according to statistics of the year 1912, was one-fourth of the total number of employed in commercial and ieelustrial establishments subject to inspection by the Labor Depart- ment. bring Mr. Merry, back with me—nris erable," " 'Deed I can," cried the old man with eager sympathy. "Yo' des lee him to me. Lawdy! 1 t'ink ez much ob Marse Andrew mos' es I 60 o yo' -all. He's been mighty good me." "Thank yo," said Dorcas grateful ly, "I am not sure whether he wil come, but in case he does, be ready for him. He may want a hot bath and supper. Have a cheerful fire it, is bitterly cold outdoors.' She turned and ran downstairs when she heard the rattle of wheels on the street below. 'Don't yo' want Inc to go wid yo' missy? suggested Jason. "Hit's powerfu' late fo' a lady to be gob! roun' New York alone." "No; I would rather have you here waiting for our return." "Tenth and Broadway," she direct- ed, as the cabman shut the door. He pulled up at her signal opposite the bakery. The place was closed, the bread line hwi 61 perseri, and tile quiet gray of early morning had be- gun to creep over the street. Occa- sionally a cab dashed past of a trolley went on its clamorous way, but there were few stragglers to be seem. Here and there a man on foot, walked briskly, as if a shelter waited him somewhere. On the sidewalk stood a tall policeman. Dorcas studied his face for a moment, then she beckoned him. He came instantly to the cab window. "Is this your beat every night?" "Eevery night this week," said the man in blue. "The men in the bread line have dispersed. Do you know where they go?" 'Where they go, lady?" The police- man smile:. "I couldn't tell you no more where they go than if they were rabbits scurrying to their holes." Dorcas shivered. "Are they abso- lutely homeless—on such a night as this?" "A good share of them are." The man spoke with little interest. The misery in the streets of New York was an old story to him. "Do the same men come to the line night after night?" "A man has to be mighty hungry -when he stands an hour or two wait- ing for a hunk of bread. If his luck turns he drops out. Still, I've seen the same faces there every nightfor a month. Are you a settlement lady?" he asked respectfully, "No." The girPs face flushed. "I thought to -night when we were pass - ng that I saw some one in the bread inc 1 knew, somebody we can't find." "That happens many a time." "Do you think," Dorcas asked ea- gerly, "there woul he any chance of his being here to -morrow night?" "The likeliest chance in the world. If a man's wolfish with hunger—and you'd think some of them were wolfish the way they eat—there's a heap of comfort in even a mouthful of bread ' mei a cup of coffee' "If I should come to -morrow night Ripe Cherries and make delicious and economical preserves Order LANTIC 8170Ali by name in original packages 2 and 54b Cartons 10 and 20 -lb gag PRIZERVINE I.AIttLS TR pea hat trnAnortnrl, tot hunk at 05 plan t4,1 gummed label, fo Atlantic Sugar Refineries Ltd. 5',0eAtoYlirbril 40 ValktfetiliriaBitelirdalirigAiratigm.-*— "I'll give you any help you want," said the officer kindly, as Dorcas hesi- tated. "I don't believe I'll want help. The only thing is—I wish to do it as qui- etly as possible, 15 is altogether a family affair." "1 understand, You'll find me here." "Thai* you, ' Good night," said Dorcas gratefully. "I didn't bring Mr. Merry to -night, Jason," she said, when the old servant opened the door for her; "bet to -mor- row night 1 think he will comel" The eollowing Islay seemed to Dor- cas the longest she had ever lived through. The weather was crisp and cold, She went for a long walk, tread- ing for the first time a tangle of strecto in the vicinity of the docks. It was a part of the city which belongs to the wry poor, She searched everywhere far one figure. Poverty, famine, and hopelessness seemed to create a family resemblance among nice, women, and ehildree, Still— ehfound nowhere the man ler whom she looked. When she reached home et noon she felt tired physically and remit/illy. She had spent an almost! sleepless night. As she recapped tie in a drowse she dreamed of finding Merry, of bringing him back to the world where he belonged, ef setting Never Too Old. Miss Plain—"May says I'm too young bo marry." Miss Pert—"Well, you won't be by the time you get a proposal.), ---ets14 "TAR AND FEAtHERS." -eosericion Czentene • ON THE FARM Silo a, Paying Proposition. It is safe to say that more silos will be built in Canada this year than in any Previoue year. Corn silage has Proved. to be superior to roots as a succulent feed for dairy cattle, and when it is realized that a ton of corn can be grown for anywhere front thirty cents to one dollar more cheap- ly than a ton of roots, it is ap- parent thab the man who keeps cattle and has not got a silo is not making the 'best of his opportunities, says the Canadian Countryman. If growing corn instead of roots ef- fects a. saving of half a dollar per ton when eighteen or twenty acres is reserved Inc succulent feed each yea (which is by no means an excessi acreage), by growing corn, over $15 would be saved in the season's cro This is enough money to put up silo. Although far mazy years silage has been regarded as one of the best succulent feeds for dairy cattle,it is only comparatively recently that' ' it has received proper recognition as a feed for fatbening steers. Some ex- periments carried on in the States re- cently show that cattle that are fed as much as fifty and seventy-five pounds of silage per day sold for almost as much as those' fattened chiefly on grain, while the cost of making one hundred pounds gain was from $2 to $3 less. We quote from Wallace's Farmer: "At the Missouri Station, one lot of steers which received an average daily ration of 37.6 pounds of ' silage, 4 pounds of alfalfa hay, and 6 pounds of oil meal sold for 0.65 per cwt., while another lot received an Average daily ration of 16.3 pounds of silage 3.9 pounds of alfalfa hay and 15.3 pounds of shelled corn, sold for $9,75 per cwt. In other words, the steers getting no corn, but a large amount of silage, together with oil meal and alfalfa have sold within 10 cents of those getting 15 pounds of corn a day. These high silage steers aeutally sold 5 cents higher per cwt, than another lot which received an average daily ration of 17.5 pounds of silage, 3,7 pounds of alfalfa hay, 15.6 pounds of shelled corn, and 2.6 pounds of cottonseed meal. It is interesting to note also that the steers receiving the larger amounts of silage did not shrink any more than those receiving the smaller amounts. The dressing percentage was almost but not quite so high in the cast of the low silage steers. "The Missouri experiment, when taken in connection with Iowa and Pennsylvania experiments, indicates very strongly that, the beef cattle men have finally reached the point where they are almost compelled to rely on large amounts of silage. For yeaes, the Englishmen and Scotmen have fed their average steer 70,100, or even 120 pounds of roots, together with not more than eight or nine pounds of grain. "Silage is a little more concentrated than the roots used by Englishmen and Scotchinen but it looks as though the corn felt feeders had at last been driven to adopt the methods of the feeders across the webers" These Fall Pigs Were Profitable. Silver Gloss" THE CANADA STARCH CO. Li NI ITE g9NTREAL, CARDINAL, RANTFORo FORT WILLIAM. More Blouses, Lingerie and Skirte—more Table Linen — more Sheets and Pillow Cases ---marc Curtains --are starched with "Silver Gloss", than any other starch In Canada. Your grocer has It Makers of "'Croon Brand" ana "Lily Mite Corn Syrups, and Ranson's Corn Sunk. 233 '1,11,1$414cM-14,,A• 'sewsate et' Stan rays of the sun falling upon the skull, A horse so affected may die suddenly as though stricken with apoplexy or he may have a graduol ,pnralysis of respiration. The symptoms which usually present themselves are rest- lessness, pawing, spasmseand a mark- ed redness of the MUCOUS membranes lining the cavities of the head. The 7 temperature in sunstroke may not ve rise above normal during the whole 0 course of the disease. P• Another eonclition very similar to a sunstroke is that known as heat stroke or heab exhaustion- This is brought about by over-exertion and ipsuffici- ent heat elimination. The direct rays of the sun are not responsible for this effection, which very often occurs to an animal on a cloudy, sulbry day. Some of the more prominent man - toms of heat stroke are weariness, profuse sweating, difficult breathing, an'extremely high temperature, and a rapid pulse, which gradually grows weaker and upon the approach of death muscular tremors will be notee, The treatment for sun stroke and heat stroke are the same. Remove the animal to a pool, quieb, well ventilated place and permit a stream of cold water to flow over the horse and, 11 possible, apply ice packs to the head. If ice is plentiful apply it all over the body.—S. O'Toole, North Dakoba Ex- periment Station, Fifty-seven fall pigs fed at Univer- sity Farm, St. Paul, last winter and marketed recently, left a margin of $4.66 a head to cover cost of Jabot, risk, interest, profit, etc., R. C. Ashby of the animal hus- bandry division at University Farm, began a series of tests two years ago to determine whether raising fall pigs is profitable in Minnesota. The margin of nearly five dollars a head is the result of the test. Eleven sows farrowed fall litters for the tests, and the pigs were wean- ed December 16. They were Put on feeding tests two days later. The records kept cover all feeds consumed by sows and litters from farrowing to weaning and from the time the act- ual feeding test was begun until it was finished. The total cost of feed for the sows and pigs up to weaning time was $186.81. From weaning time to the time marketing the feed cost $577.88, making a total cost of $13.42 a head. Tho feed was counted at these prices: Shelled. corn, 75 cents a bushel; ground barley, 65 gents a bushel; shorts, $26 a ton; tankage, $55 a ton. The pigs averaged 19114 pounds when sold May 6. They were sold at $9.65 in South Sis. Paul, a price equi- valent to $9.40 at home, The sell - price of $17.98 left a balance of 64.66 each. No account of manure is taken in these figures. The pigs were fed in five Iota, three lots from eelf feeders and two lots fed by hand. Those in She iota in which the self feeders were used did better than therm in the other lots, The corn -fed lots required abolut seven bushels of corn, forty pounds of tank- age, and from thirty to forty pounds of alerts for each pig from weaning time to the close of the test, The pigs were fed grain alone. They -were given no milk and did not have trecese to the cattle yards. Mr, Ash- by thinks that whet milk is available or when the pigs can pick up after tattle the margin will bo correspond- ingly increased. Heat and Horse& Sun'rtroke is caused by Ote direct Farm Notes. Don't turn a good cow off just be- cause she is getting old. Give the good old cow alitble better care. Every calf she gives you will more than repay youfor any extra care. If you show fight with a balky horse the jig is up. Keep cool, and ten to one the home will cool off in a few minutes, too. Unprofitable cows and unprofitable acres keep a fellow all the time think- ing about the poorhouse. It isn't very pleasant either. Too bad that a horse should ever be galled, but if ib occurs have a pinch of powdered annin ready to sprinkle over the raw place. It is soothing. ani heals it almost immedi- ately. A little wheat bran, or some mix- ture of grain in the feed box at even- ing milking time, is a good plan to bring the herd promptly up to the gate. Irregular milking time is a damaging practise. The mare thab is to become a mother must have considerate treat- ment and good food. Avoid any that may be musty, drive reasonably and, if drawing loads, let her stop oc- casionally to get breath. If we watch hogs closely we may learn many lessons from them, They know their needs better than we do. When they are out of condition they will cem doctor theselves, if they have a chance, It is easier to keep a horse's shoulders healed up than it is to make them so afbar they have once been sore. Some horses have thinner skin than others and it breaks through eas- ier. Watch every spot that is likely to be chafed and pad the harness to protect it. 4444 .„zRmvis WAM • ry- zfrirtgaWr '"ItA*** S. • t us BLACK -WHITE -TAN - KEEP YOUR SHOES NEAT F. F. DALLEYCO. OF CANADA, LTD., .11AmiLT0t4, CANADA r "h, " .4, ' e, 14511 That is the end of the sealing process when you use Parowax. No papers or strings to bother with—no irksome labor with jar tops. Just pour over your jellies artd,they will be kept absolutely air -tight. No molil—no fermentation—and no trouble. FOR THE LAUNDRY See direction!. on Parowax labels for its 580 10 valuable service In wathing, At grocery, department and general stores. everywhere. THE IMPERIAL 011, COMPANY Limitod BRANCHES IN ALL • CITIES FROM. SUNSET COAST WHAT THE WESTERN PRPPLB ARE DOING.' Progress of the ',Great West Told In a Pew Pointed Paragraph. Tho Vancouver Company of AA 196th Western University Hattallorl, left last week for Camp Hughes, Manitoba. The Social Service Department of Vancouver is going to open a "no* station next month to supply puto milk to babies. /rine a Was the last clay on which the jitneys might ply for hire in the Esquimault municipality, according to a recent by-law. Thomas Gibson, 9/god 30, was struck by a fog at the International Lume ber Company's jam in the Campbell river and instantly killed. A third attempt is to be made to float the Japanese steamer, Kenkon Meru, No. 3, ashore on the Belle Chain Reef since January 12 last. Word has reached Victoria of the death, In his 84th year, of Mr. John Ferris Ryder, of Cheam, Eel, one of the real pioneers of the Interior. Mr. Aaron Lewis, who was born in Victoria 56 years ago, died last week at St. Joseph's Hospital, after an ill- ness of three months' duration, Lieut. J. A. Jackson, of the 20th Battalion, who recently won the Mili- tary Cross, is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Jackson, of Chilliwack, 13,C. Mrs. Vera Hansen of Vancouver, has been sentenced to one year's impris- onment for picking up a little girl and' throwing her down with such force as to break her thigh. Sentence of death has been pro- mulgated against "Betsy," the mas- sive black bear which nightly visits the headquarters of the 6th Field Company C.E., at Vancouver. Frank Picknel, an old-time fisher- man of New Westminster, plunged into the swift current of the Fraser River and rescued a child. An 18 -year-old Japanese girl, of Vancouver, died from injuries re- ceived by a street car. Giant timbers are 'being cut at Hastings mill for keels of British Columbia ships. A firm of Denver contractors -wins a suit of over half a million dollars from Foley, Welch & Stewart, Van- couver contractors. Dr. Gilbert Hartin, a physician of Nelson, is taking first vacation After 21 years of hard work. NEW FRENCH CANAL. It Connects Marseilles With the North Sea. The report of the,, opening of the canal connecting Marseilles and the River Rhone is an important piece of news from France that does not re- late primarily to -war although, inci- dentally, 15 13 a testimonial to the apirit of the French and the stability of their industry that work on the canal has been kept up despite the war. The importance of this canal which was begun in 1904, and which is sixty miles long, is that it connects Mar- seilles, the principal seaport of France, with the North Sea. A delta at the mouth of the Rhone makes pass- a.ge in and out of that river difficult for large vessels, and heretofore Mar- seilles, the great French Mediter- ranean port, about twenty-five miles from the mouth of the Rhone, has been cut off from the inland waterway sys- tem of France by a ridge of hills. Tho canal bores through this hilly barrier five miles of the canal being a tunnel beneath a hill. This tunnel by the way, is aeventy-five feet wide and seventy feet high, dimensions that make it the largest tunnel interior in the -world, according to despatches. By the completion of this work, which has cost about one hundred million francs, vessels up to six hun- dred tons displacement can go by water from Marseilles to Havre and the North Sea without passing through the Straits of Gibraltar. Mar- seilles has now direct water communi- cation with inland cities like Lyons, Avignon and Valence. Incidentally, the canal will probably be useful in time of war, for through it small fighting craft, like small destroyers and sub- marines, can make a quick nal be- tween the Mediteeranean and the Eng. lish Channel. CLEVER PLANTS, Begoniae Pick Out a Suitable Place for Tendrile. The cleverness of some plants ig indisputable. A !mildew, or fly -eater, deceived by n piece of chalk, seized ft in its tendrils, but upon discover- ing the fraud hernedietely withdrew them, A fly, held just out of its reach, did not attempt to 1110110, but as S0011 RS it was brought a little nearer the plant prepared to take possession of it. Darwin showed that a begonia had a habit of Benching for a hole to insert its tendrils into, and even of withdrawing the tendril to insert it in another hole if the first proved onsultable, Nor is this power of selecting con- fined to any particular cls. (Ana). ere like the lianas will refuse to coil round e. branch 005 strong enough to bear ite weiged, 4