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The Brussels Post, 1916-11-2, Page 6If You Want a Safe Investment Let us send you particulars of an investment that never depreciates and never defaults in dividend's, the new Compound Investment Policy in the Crown Life. With a Crown Life "Limited Payment Life Policy" you do root have to die to win. Your insurance is fully paid for during the years of your best earning power. Let us send you some new insurance facts. Crown Life Assurance Co, TORONTO. Agents Wanted In Unrepresented Districts, THE LAPSE OF EN CH WENT ORTI- L y ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of ee The Woman from Wolvertons " • CHAPTER XVIII,—(Cont'd), "Here's the whole situation, If Miss Wentworth and you do not fancy having me here as a—guest, no better word than that occurs to me now, Grant Oswald might be interest- ed; at least he might insist on paying the royalties to the—author. On I could get a fancy price for the story from a New York paper. I am told they pay tremendously on this side for a ripping sensation, This would make one, don't you say so yourself ?" "My God!" Enoch stared at her I th desperate eyes, Miss Paget rose, unpinned her hat and tossed it upon the table. She stood surveying Wentworth with a gleam of amusement in her eyes. Then she crossed the room and leaned out at the window. "Hi, there, Cab- by," she called, "wake up, Bring in the rest of that luggage." CHAPTER XIX. "There is another bit of baggage." Dorcas spoke to the cabman, who stood beside a carriage in front of the Waverly Place house. He lifted lit- tle Robin and set him on a seat with a grip beside him. Dorcas paused with her hand on the carriage door. "Wait," she ordered, as the man turned to go in the house; "here comes Jason with a valise." The cabman lifted it from the hand of the old negro and swung it up on the front seat. "Jason," said the girl, beckoning to him as she ran up the steps of the, house. The servant followed her. They stood under the dull gleam of a lamp in the vestibule. She laid her fingers on the nob of the inside door and held it as one does when in fear of an intruder. "Jason," she re- peated, "I want to talk with you for a minute." "Yes, Missy." There was a tremor in the old negro's voice. Dorcas stood gazing at him steadily, although a quiver in her chin belied the bravery, "Jason, don't ask me again to take you with me," she pleaded. "If you do I shall weaken. I do not know where 1 am going myself. I have nowhere to take you. I shall miss you terribly, you understand that. But you must stay here and look after En- och and the house and everything. You are needed here as you never were in your life before." "Fo' de Lawd sake, take me wid yo,' Missy. I'll sleep anywhar. A cor- ner in a cellar 'll do fo' me." "Uncle Jason, clo you remember the; story you have told about mother leav- ing you to care for Enoch and me? 1 Sometimes I think of that clay. You ; wheeled mother out un the piazza. electrictity the etie/ looked sordidly ugly, It was a strange contrast to her awn home. Tho house at Wav- erly Place had retained much of its. stately old-time dignity end its out- look upon the three -shaded square was quiet and pleasant, Upon Har- lem's sidewalk throngs of children romped and shrieked In the midst of a� city's din. A. balmy wind had been blowing all day long and had driven a wintry chili from the air. Knots! of women sat talking on doorsteps or they leaned out to gossip ,from ad- jacent windows. Ib was the hour for Sunday night suppers and a rush of business had begun in delicatessen stores, Strange odors crept in at the ripen windowa blend of garlic with stewed mea,ts, pungent pickles, and cosmopolitan cheeses. A. gilt clock on the mantel struck seven. Dorcas rose, opened the door, and stood listening. On the lower floor she heard a door slam. She was trying to separate insistent noises of the street from everyday household bustle. She heard Mrs. Billerwell give an order to a servant, then Julie laughed merrily, and a light footstep sounded on the stair. On the other side of the wall a servant was pre- paring a room for her. She heard the girl slam a window and begin to move furniture about, while castors squeaked rebelliously. Then she fell where the locust trees were in bloom, to sweeping, and Dorcas counted ab - and I almost believe that you did not sently each quick scuff of the broom. tell me, but that self." "Yes, honey." down the negro's lled to Lucy I remember it my- • The tears rolled wrinkled face. "She bring yo' out, Yo' wan't nutria but er little pink face en two doubled -up fists dat wan't ez big ez a cotton blossom," The olcl man paused to wipe his eyes with a red bandanna handker- chief. "And she said?" continued Dorcas. The girl was trying to smile. "She said. 'Promise me, Jason, ez long ez yolives, to care fo' my baby, my sweet little gal baby, she'll never remember she saw her mother. Take care ob her, Jason, ez if de Lawd his - self had gib her in yo' charge.' I promised, honey," the husky voice died away in a sob; "I called de Lawd to witness right Char dat I'd look o fo' yo' all my life, ez well ez an darky could do." "You have done it, Uncle Jason." Dorcas took the sooty hand betwe her palms. "If mother could kno how faithfully you have filled yo promise—and somehow I feel, Uncl Jason, that she does know—she wo say that you have the whitest so God ever put into a black body.' "Oh Lawdy, Missy, can't I come w yo'? I don't need no money. Y needn't pay fo' me anywhar—" "Jason, you blessed old saint, it ism money I am considering, I have plen of money. Mother left Enoch your care as much as she did m You have told mo that." The negro bowed his head solemn. "Won't you sbay with him?" Jason pointed to the inner door the vestibule. "Honey, what's a-goi to happen? Do yo' reckon dat Mars Enoch's a-goin' to marry dat--pu son?" "Jason, I don't know, Only yo must stay here." "I will." The old servant spok Once the maid dropped it and the stick fell on the floor with a startling rap. Occasionally her dragging foot- steps clattered across a bit of bare floor or she paused to thump the pil- lows vigorously, •Dorcas was roused from her reverie by the imperative call of the telephone. She listened while Mrs. Billerwell answered it. Then the doorbell rang and she heard Merry's voice, She began to grope about the dim froom in search o£ matches to light the gas. She was still in darkness when he tapped at the door. Andrew seated himself in a shadowy corner beside the window. A glimmer of light from a street lamp fell upon the girls face. In her eyes- was an appealing loneliness which he had sever seen before, "Miss Dorcas," he began with gr..� ut gentleness, "what can I do for you? i oI, You know me fairly well. There is' nothing heroic about me. I doubt 111 I could fight a duel. It makes me en shiver even to touch a pistol—but I W am ready to stand up to be shot at if ur it will make things easier for you." ole. e "I believe you would," said Dorcas with an unsteady laugh. "I swear I would," he assured her with simple gravity. The girl felt P gr y id deeply moved. • "There will not be any shooting, and I don't know exactly what you can do ,t for me. I don't even know what to t , ask you to do. I thought of turning int to Mr. Oswald at first, I didn't. I felt e• I could come to you mare easily." "Thank you for saying that." An Y• eager happiness flushed into the man's face which seemed to warm each fea- °ture beneath the surface. n' Dorcas stood before him trembling e and irresolute. "It is so herd—lovin s -i m 0 u y y brother as I do—to sit in judgment n him or to discuss him, even with ou. You love Enoch, or rather—you id once?" she asked quickly. Merry nodded. "Since things went wrong between h you," Dorcas hesitated for a moment, m "since that time be has changed; you a cannot realize how he has changed, n Still, we were together and alone, and I kept thinking that the old happy days would come back." a She stopped short and Merry's e with slow impressiveness. "Fore de Lawd, I will, Missy." She ran down the steps. Jason fol- lowed to close the carriage door when she entered. As they moved away, Dorcas leaned out to glance at the home which had been hers since school days ended. She caught glimpse of Enoch through the dusk He was leaning from the library win stow. The room behind him gleame Give the "Kiddies" IIIIAU1111111111111111111u!41IIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIII!Illlluifiillllllllllll!IIUIIII11111!11111/U(1111(((p All They Want of, CROWN CoRrdYRuP It is one of the delicious "good things." that has a real food value.. 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Seven different kinds of mechanical milkers have been operated under varying conditions for periods of 1 from six months to five years by Prof. Larsen, of the South Dakota Expert ment Station. The results of hi experience are summed up in the fol lowing nine points which contain man valuable suggestions, both for user of the milking machine and for thos who contemplate installing them, 1. Before the milking machine is installed, cull out the cows having very uneven quarters, and teats that are extremely small and extremely large. Even though the milking ma- chines may have a large range of adaptability in this respect, uniformly shaped udders and teats are advant- ageous. 2. The operator should know how each cow in the herd gives down her milk, and how she milks mechanically, and adjust the work of the milking machine according to the individual cow. 3. The cows that gave only a small amount of milk and habitually re- lease their milk little by little are not best suited for mechanical milking. '-'-.r ^i not be attached until the cow has giv. en down her milk, 7. With some cows, and near the end of the milking process, the teat cups will climb upwards, The low- er part of the quarter is thus wedg- ed in to the upper part of the teat cup. This may shut off the flow of milk. The operator should gently pull down y on the teat cups to release this grip s or pressure before the machine in en- c tire]y detached. If this bothers much, a weight may be suspended from the lower part of bhe teat cup during millring. By gently lifting and pressing the halves of the udder in the latter stage of milking just pre. vious to detaching, it will help the ma. shine to milk the cow dry, 8. If the above points are observed, many cows need no stripping. The operator soon Iearns from the amount of milk, and from the looks of the cow's udder whether the cow is milked clean. However, to he sore, the opera- tor should try every cow by hand. This should be done at once after milk- ing. It may be accomplished by shutting the vacuum off and stripping directly into the teat cups, holding the cups in the left hand and stripping with the right; or it may be done by stripping into the pail. 9. The different parts of the milk- ing machine should be kept sanitary by thoroughly cleaning, and by keep- ing the parts in a disinfectant solu- tion between ntilkings such as pre- viously described, Deep Stirring v. Deep Plowing. Deep plowing is not so much f preached now, since the bringing up t of the substratum to the surface is 11 not altogether wise. Deep stirring, o however, is anther thing—and this is p encouraged to give air to the roots, hence the success of dynamiting. At t the same time, as pointed out by the t e r 4 .Breed and raise cows that are adapted to mechanical milking by, first, selecting a herd sire that comes from ancestors having good udders and teats and that milk well, or select a tried bull that is known to pat good udders and teats on their daughters; secondly, by not raising the daughters of the cows that have abnormally shaped mammary organs and that are known do give down the milk irregul- arly. 5. The operator of the milking ma- chine should understand how to ad- just the parts and the workings of the milking machine to the different cows. Ile should have a mental picture of ow each cow in the herd releases the ills, and how the work of the machine nd the cow must work together and of at cross purposes. 6. The operator should take time to prepare the cow. Hes hould see that the teats are all in normal condition. With most cows, the machine should brows wrinkled into lines of perplex- - ity. "What has happened? What can d I do to help you?" "Yesterday," she began hurriedly, • "when I went home after matinee, ° Jason stood waiting in the vestibule d for me. He did not say a word, bub white wth a blaze of electricity. Be fore the mantel mirror stood a woman Her arms reached above her head t pin back waves of shining yellow hair The cabman pulled up his horses an ooked through a window in the roof 'You didn't tell me, lady, where you want to go." Drive me to the Gotham Theatre," said Dorcas; "then I wish you to take this little boy to Harlem." CHAPTER XX, That night, when the certain fell poll the third act, Dorcas turned eag- rly to Merry, "You are my friend ?" he whispered. "Miss Dorcas," the actor's voice was profoundly grave, but his eyes miled, "I would bestride the whirl- ind or set my foot upon a cyclone for ou." The girl lifted her eyes with a swift lance. She remembered the line-- was one the actor used to speak in The Ring at Large." "I believe you would." Her voice as low and impetuous. "I need a lend, a strong, patient, wise friend, I never did in my life before." "Miss Dorcas, you make me wish is moment that I were a Samson d a Solomon. I am not strong very wise, hat I am patient, and ere is no task upon God's earth that would not try to do for you. You lieve me, don't you?" The crimson blood flushed into her ce.. "Yes " 1Ter voice was scarcely aud- 1,le, The curtain began to ascend 1 an encore. "Come to Miss Bil- well's to -morrow night. I am go - g there to stay with Alice over Sun. y. I need your help." Ile regarded her curiously for a omen. "I will come," he answered gravely. .ten he took her hand and led her wn to the fooblights. On Sunday evening Dorcas sat star - g down into a crowded street 01 arlem. Under the vivid glare of E or - S KES Ira GS 'MIES Tbeonly flour publicly and unreservedly gun,anteed not bloated. not blended. u 0 la Is I !y it w fr as th an or th 'z be fa 1 1 fG f let l in da m dT0 11 Grapes green or ripe, in jelly, spiced con- serves, or simply preserved in light syrup, make a delicious and inexpensive addition to your winter supplies. because of its purity and FINE granulation, is best for all preserving. 2 and 5-1b Cartons 10 and 20 -Ib Rags "The All -Purpose Sugar" PRESi0ViNG LAnELS 18155 04 g<,mmad and printed lelrele for n red ban trademark. $ond le Atlantic Sugar galleries, Ltd. I'oteer Mag., i)Yos,trear) 60 i vi2fie i l I knew that something had happene I pushed him aside and ran upstair I could think of nothing but tha Enoch had been taken ill. As I pass ed the hall rack I noticed the quo umbrella Liss Paget carries, It ha a tiger's head for a handle—you re member it? Even in my anxiety thought how strange it should b there. When I reached the librar she sat beside the fire, reading magazine?" Where was Enoch?" "In his little study, with the doo locked. He came out when she began to talk to me." "What did she want?" "Andrew," the tears sprang to the girl's eyes, "that woman has come to live in our home." "To—live—in—your—home!" Mer- ry's voice bad an incredulous tone in it, "Enoch has not—married Zilla Paget?" "I do not know. I cannot under. stand. I think that Enoch hates her," "Then why is she there?" "I do not know." "He didn't explain?" "No, He looked like a thunder- cloud. She talked. She said she had come to live in our house. Her clothes were unpacked. She has tak- en the spare room. Her things, a lorgnette, and a scarf and gloves were scattered about the library," "Enoch must be—insane!" "Ohl" cried Dorcas, Sudden horror flashed into her face. "Oh! you don't think—that?" " INTo. I'm a beast to have frighten- ed you. It is not that. Enoch is as sane as you are." "Then what has changed him?" Her eyes searched his face with a piteous scrutiny. "You know. Won't you tell me?" "I think it Is—" The man hesitated for a word which would not hurt, "Yes, ho has changed, Ile Is not the same old Enoch, I cannot /Moonlit for this, He romlaerl me faithfully to drop heron keeps," ('To bo continued), Our new recipe book,"Desserts and Candles", will show you how to make a lot of really delicious dishes with "Crown Brand". Write for a copy to our Montreal Office. terestirtg, and may even be a little puzzlinn, to note the influences of the varying depths upon the crop. The best return both of grain and straw was obtained from the 6 in. furrow, the deeper furrow being a good sec- ond, while it was evident that 41 in. was an insufficient depth for that field. The only point in favor of bhe shal- lowest furrow was that the crop rip- ened rather earlier than on the other portions. This advantage, however, was gained at too big a sacrifice of quantity and quality of yield. All the samples gave the same weight per bushel, 44 lbs. of dressed grain. The returns of dressed grain were seventy- one bushels, 8 lbs.; eighby-five bushels 5 lbs.; and eighty-three bushels, 4 lbs., per acre, respectively; of light grain, 170 lbs., 155 lbs., and 130 lbs,; and of straw and chaff, 43 cwt., 451/2 cwt., and 43% cwt, The soil is described as of a sharp black. gravelly nature of a good depth, but whatever might be the result of deep stirring, it is evident, that no imme- diate,objecb is to be served by ex- ceeding on it a 6 in. furrow. Saving Pastures For Next Summer. In order that the live stock which have been doing well on pasture dur- ing the summer months may maintain their gains, and for the sake of sav- ing the pasture for another season, the farmer should take care that his ani- mals are brought in and started on winter feed before the season becomes too late. Cattle and horses, more es- pecially the latter, if left out in Octo. her and November are very likely to crop the pasture so close that there will not be sufficient winter protection for the roots of the plants, and in spite of their efforts to secure suffi cient nourishment by this means, wil go back in flesh. Milch cows are particularly suscep tible to the action of cold or wet weather, and one or two nights of rost while they are lacking the shel- er of the barn will set back the milk ow to such an extent that the work f restoring it by extra feeding will rove very costly. The best results Prem added feed Call always be ob- ained when the animal is kept up to op notch all the time. If the land is. firm enough late in he fall to allow of the stock being turned out without doing damage to he surface, then the plan of turning ut during the warm hours of the day a good one, but in this practice pro- ision must be made for feeding of a lentiful ration of green feed in the arn, as the pastures after a heavy rost has occurred are not to be great - depended on for feed._ • Draining Belgium of Men. BEAUTY BEHIND THE PRISON BARS WOME,iy USE SUBSTITUTES FOR ROUGE, Corsets of Cell Grating and Face Masks of Bread and Milk. " You might very reasonably think," said a prison chaplain to a writer In London Answera, "that vanity could, not long survive In th° atmosphere of a jail, but 1 can assure you that it flourishes Within the walls of a cell and behind iron bars as breveiy as to my lady's boudoir in the haunts of fashion. But you may ask what opportunity there is for indulging vanity in a prison ? Really there seems to be none. But you may be sure of this, when a woman wishes to make her. self attractive, she will end the materials somehow. "The artifices and ingenuity of the woman prisoner would be very amus- ing if they were not pathetic, She wtl1'coIleet any odds and ends of red stuff, and steep them in water to im- part the coveted 'rose tint' to leer cheeks. She will scrape the white- washed walls of her cell and chew the lime fragments into a paste t0 pro- vide a substitute for powder. Queer Substitutes. "To keep the teeth 'pearly' she will use salt or chewed oakum, and pencil her eyebrows with a piece of wood reduced to charcoal over the gas iet. She makes her locks glossy with the fat of the meat supplied to her, and provides herself With curling papers by tearing pages stealthily at inter- vals froze library books. "As a substitute for a corset some women wind strips of cloth, torn from their skirts, tightly round their waists, and one ingenious prisoner actually constructed an efficient cor- set from the wire of a cell window grating, and it was only discovered when one day site fainted In chapel frotight lacing. "Another resourceful woman - - a terrible character, by the way --used to retire every night wearing a beauty mask made from the hot bread and mills provided for her supper, "Such are some of the ingenious ways in which women prisoners cul. tivate their beauty under difficulties ; and, as far as possible, the authori- ties wink at it for it serves the ex- cellent purpose of keeping then con- tent and amiable, Indeed, an appeal to a woman's vanity is often much more effective than any disciplinary method, as I myself have found more 1 than once. eld, London, the fact that deep cultivation is not always advantage- t ous should not be regarded as justifi- cation for going boo far in the oppo- t site direction, as unquestionably many o do. In this connection it is well to is observe the distinction between sleep • v Plowing and deep stirring, The p former is often a risky proceeding, b but the latter hardly ever, and the f nose s perseverer with the great- ]y d' er beccmes the rooting area and the s' cropping capabilities of the soil. The t, important thing to avoid, and which proved the undoing of the deep fur- s$ row theory, is the transposition of ]a top and under soils. As far as prac- ticable the latter should be kept at I the bottom of the tilled stratum until of a it is improved mechanically and Che- dl 1' mically through bacterial action, a promoted by tillage and judicious an The agony of Belgium continues, nd even deepens in horror. The test news is of the gradual evacua- on of adult men from Ghent and her Flanders towns and the villages ong the Dutch frontier, They are 'sported into Germany, there to be reed to work for the enemy states ; d a lesser aim, doubtless, is, to case a retreat, to leave behind no male pulation capable of bearing arms. manuring. of An example of the room that ob- t' tains for discretion in regarding the p° depth of furrow is provided by a simple experiment carried out in Morayshire in connection with the Ab - hi erdeen College of Agriculture. A field that had been two years in grass, chosen for its suitability for the pur- pose, was plowed at depths of 41/2 in„ 6 in„ and 71 in., and sown with oats, the treatment in every other way be- ing the same throughout. It is in - Not Guilty. Little Charlie had been spanked by s mother for stealing cookies, His cousin who was present, wishing to comfort him, said: "Poor Charlie; you have my sympathy." 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I have often been told that, you know 1' "And from that. moment I had no more trouble with het'." PROVE THEIR LOYALTY. French Colonies Render hhsthor Country Valuable Service. Few people, not even the French, fully realized previous to the war the extent and value of French colonial possessions. An editorial writer in a French newspaper recently admitted that his government would have been completely self-supporting in the mat- ter of materials for munition fac- tories if it had organized and develop- ed tate mines in its colonies. As a matter of fact, the war, which arous- ed the hearty Co-operation of the col- onists, has convinced France that she is a richer and more important na- tion than she thought she was. Even a brief resume of French col- onial aid is impressive, no ranks of the army have been reinforced by hundreds of thousands of Algerians, Tunisians, natives of Morocco and Senegalese, The war factories em- ploy 15,000 natives from North Africa and an equal number of skilled An- namites from Cochin China. Eight thousand Annamites are working in tate Red Cross organization, Natives of. Madagascar are enrolled as en- gineers and New Caledonians are at work in the mines. Indo-China recently added more than $2,000,000 to its budget for send - in g foodstuffs to France. North Africa has sent 1,000,000 tons of cer- eals to France and also to Grcnt Brit- ain and Italy. Algeria has supplied 2,500,000 sheep and 00,000' cattle, Mo- rocco has contributed a great number of eggs, Madagascar has sent meat and preserves, St, Pierre awl Mique- lon salted 'fish, the Antilles and Reardon more than 100,000 tons of sugar. Wool, rubber, graphite, nic- kel, chromium and many other use. ful matcriola have been obtained from French colonies, htal] a,,y Of the notes of a piano kern r,, down when sls ucic, it is g euro 61,;11 el tit. in;).