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The Brussels Post, 1916-11-9, Page 2tie= •.oaavgoo�.1sONNIONS"'.\\NAI o.S.�trrr r?II Men Wanted for the Navy The Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, wants men for imme- diate service Overseas, in the Imperial Royal Navy ,. Candidates must he sons of natural born British subjects and be from 18 to 38 years of age, 1t A v $1.10 per day and upwards. Free Kit, Separation allowance, $20.00 monthly. Apply to the nearest Naval Recruiting Station or to the Department of the Naval Service, OTTAWA. THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTh By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of " The Wornan from Wolvertons " CHAPTER XX.—(Cont'd), "Months ago. He has kept his promise until now. I know he has The strange part of it is, the woman herself hates him. She says vile things about him." "To you?" "No, not to me!" cried Merry quick- ly. "She never speaks to me. We acquaintance." have reached the freezing point in our Dorcas rose and walked to the win- dow with her hands clasped tightly together. There were grave ques- tions to be decided and burdens to be lifted—strange, unaccustomed burd- ens. She began to speak in a strange, toneless voice. "I don't know what I'm going to do. Ever since I was a little girl there was Enoch. I never had anybody else be- longing to me, only I never missed them, for I had him." She stretched out her hands as a child might have done and raised her face to the man beside her as if in appead for help and guidance. He took her fingers between his own with a swift grasp, caught her in his arms, and kissed her. "Dorcas, tell me, tell me the truth. Do you love me?" Their eyes met, and the girl under- stood. A bewildering happiness "Yes," she whispered. "Listen, don't answer for a minute. I want you to understand. I would not be satisfied unless I have every , thing. I want you to trust me, to be -1 lieve in me, and to love me as a wom- tan like you could love a man. One i. night, months ago, I had it in tny, heart to ask you this. That night I felt like a man who, lonely and cold, 1 tramps through the streets of a city! looking into firelit, happy homes. That night I wanted your love, year; faith—yourself. You know the night I mean, when you pulled me out of ! hell and set my feet on the high road, Then you might have given ma pity, (perhaps—" Dorcas interrupted him. She put up her hand and pushed aside the lock of hair which had strayed over his forehead. "I do not think, then, it would have been pity—alone," she crnfe sed. He took her in his arms again. "A man ought to have pride and mandi-, ness enough," he said passionately, "to' want his wife to love him without one touch of pity. And yet, I have want- ed you so long. I have not a host of friends, like some men. I am lonely, !Life has been so empty fur me, I want a home, where a wife is waiting to welcome me—and little children,' "Nor sir; we're watching for him, Nobody has seen him." "Ask him to come here as soon as he arrives," None of the employes of the Gotham recognized a man beside the stair of the tipper gallery, where a steep iron railing jutted out upon the side street. The rain fell softly and be was muffled to the chin in a drab overcoat. A. felt hat was drawn over his eyes. He emerged suddenly from the shadow to lay his hand upon the arm of a boy who went springing up the grated star. Here, do you want to sell your ticket for a dollar ?"she asked "Surd," cried the boy emphatically. "Say, mister, why don't ye buy one fer yerself? They're fifty cents, if yet git in line at the window," "I don't want to stand hi line." The boy thrust the slip of paste- board into Wentworth's hand, seized theemooey, and fled to take his place at the end of the line which straggled round the corner from Broadway, Enoch waited until a throng began to press its way up the steps, He pulled his hat down close about his forehead and the rim fell to his eyes. When he reached out his hand to the attendant at the door, the man did not look ab him; he was trying to stem a tide of human beings and make cer- tain that each one had paid his way. Wentworth moved inside the door and glanced at the gray coupon then he passed to an end seat in the third row. He laid his hat upon the floor, pulled of his damp coat, aed waited for the curtain to vise. Although the clatter of voices about him was insist- ent, he heard thein like a dull jargon. Once he rose to allow two girls with their escorts to pass, then seated him- self again with his body hunched for- ward, watching the musicians clamber through a low door below the stage. The leader lifted his buten and the overture began, A man who pushed unceremoniously past aroused Enoch from his listless mood. He turned and stared at a girl who sat beside him.' The lines on her wan face were etched, I not by the years she had lived, but: by a girlhood spent in airless places, He sat watching her with an impas-1 amid the roar of machinery. sive stare, A dreamy look crept into her face. The orchestra began to play an inconsequential thing in which t there was the trip of dancing feet and t Into Enoeh's memory leaped a scene long forgotten; Upon .the edge of n battlefield, after a bloody encounter, he had once been pressed into hos- pital service, Anesthetics were not at hand and he had helped by main strength to hold a mutilated soldier while the surgeon amputated a shat- tered boue. The agony of a groan, which the man tried to stifle haunted Wentworth for months. Some time in his life Merry must have heard snob a sound and was repeating it. Then the woman upon the stage laugh- ed. "Damn her!" whispered the lad, who sat holding the girl's hand, Wentworth smiled absently. He watched Dorcas make her entrance. Something stately and high-mettled, like an unconscious hauteur, had been added to the dignity which was his sister's great charm. This dignity constantly put Zi1la Paget ata disad- vantage; she was coarsened by it, brutalized, and cheapened to a degree The contrast dawned quickly on a gal- lery audience. "Ain't Miss Wentworth sweet ?" whispered the girl by his side. "Sweet? repeated her escort "She's a peg higher 'n sweet. She's game, game clear to the spine. The peroxide liddy's a bruiser. I'm ach- ing to bat her in the snoot." "You hold your hands off her, Char- ley." answered the factory girl with a giggle. "She could lay out your runty little carcass with one swipe." Enoch started at the rest of the play through moody eyes. When the cur- tain fell on the second act Zilla Paget appeared on the stage alone to meet uproarious applause mingled with jeers and hissing. Wentworth grip- ped the arm of his chair as lie watch- ed her sweep the house with a triump- hant gaze. A brand of hate which has the red of murder in it tore at his heart. He rose, tossed his coat across his arm, groped beneath the chair for his hat, then he slammed down the seat and went out. On the stair he met an usher. "Mr. Wentworth," cried the boy. `I've been looking everywhere for you Mr. Oswald wants to see you in his office about some bookings." Enoch descended without answering him. He passed once to push his arms into his coat, but he did not en- er the office; instead, he turned and tvallced down Broadway. The rain ad ceased the sl 1 and he sta 1 T9IG, wholesome, nutritious loaves, of delicious nut -like flavour, downy light- ness and excellent keeping qualities. PKo 4 a z o ?' nt sr "YIb�J For Breads -Caked -Puddings �a s'tii.e ra zralmi '• aramN ...a•H nzmau mem • pected, since buckwheat has a thick, fibrous hull which the hog cannot di- gest. Ground wheat showed an ad- vantage of only about 8yz per cent. over ground buehwheat, and the wheat mixtaae an advantage of 0?¢ per cent. over the buckwheat. Feeding of buckwheat to sheep and horses does not seem to have been !tried to any great extent but there would no doubt be safety in its use ie small quantties if mixed with oth- Ier grains An account of the expert - once of feeders who have used buck- ; wheat as a feed for all classes of live stock would be greatly appreciated by many who have a stock of this grain , on hand. Lengthen the Life of Machinery. i Fall is here again and it will not be many weeks until the cold winds from the north will be carrying snow -flur- ries acrose the fields. The leaves will soon drop from the trees and make them, like the fence corners, a very bare shelter for the farm implements and machinery The life of useful- ( ness of any machine depends more on ,the care taken of it than upon the work done. Farm binders and mow- ere are too short-lived and it is not (always the fault of the manufactur- er. Too ofben the machine stands in the field from the time it is last used in haying or harvest until after it freezes up and in some cases even on through the winter. Snow makes a good covering but a poor preservative for such machinery. The careless plowman leaves his plow in the ground at the end of the field when he nn - hitches at night, and one night the frost comes hard and the plow is there till spring. The cultivator, the har- rows and the disk are often found in the corner of the field where the fall wheat was put in and are left there till. the snow flies and somebimes un - till spring, and the owner, when he wants to use them next spring, finds them so rusty that they do not clean, and decay sometimes has set in in the wooden parts. Rust rots the metal just as quickly as decay con- sumes the wood. We venture to say that the lifetime of farm implements and machinery could be doubled were they always driven to the implement shed and put under cover when the: day's work is done or when the parti-; eular job at which they are used is completed, and when put away were looked over to see that all nuts were tight and parts in place, and all those parts which are liable to rust covered! with oil and the wooden parts kept; freshly painted. We saw a wagon a few months ago which was so old that the owner, a man well past middle; age, could not remember exactly how I old it was and yet largely by good care in being kept under cover and washed frequently and also treated to, a coat of paint annually, it was just es serviceable and _ looked as well as it did when it left the shop. Put away the implements and machinery as soon as through with them this fall. I1, is a good way to save.—Farmer's Advocate. a sway of Ilius bodies. Ile could see the lines smoothing out in her care-, worn face. Her ungIeved fingers beat 0 time to the music with perfect rhythm. t Then her hand went out in an uncon-) b scieus caress to the thin, shabby lad It who sat beside her. He duped it and t turned to her with an eager smile. Wentworth sighed, - Tho curtain rose. People who sat.t close under the roof listened with al tense tilln1ss, which was never die -I turbed by the rustle that eceasiunally'1 ran through the orchestra. The story t of the play had grown aid, threadbare s and uninteresting to Wentworth, but: it moved these men and women to tile . through deer," He lifted her hand and kissed quick. During the filet act the girl through her heart and body. Merry's de., "You would think me a foolish: beside him turned to her sweetheart face wed stransfiinous, hred, sieyes ens abrupt one, he fellow if I confessed the dreams I have i and spike in a tremulous whisper: had. I have dreamed of you opening; •.She's a cruel devil!" moment, f r mwath manlyvitality. visionary to a the door of our home, of you coming, IIer eyes were bent with hatred and man—alive heard the moments ticked to meet me with a smile and out scorn upon Zilla Paget, who trod Dorcas out by hs little gthe lock on the man- stretched arms. I have dreamed of looking down at Merry. His guilt had feeling your kiss upon my lips, of been discovered, IIe sat beside a _ tel. Time diel not count. The world holding you close to my heart as I do table with his face hidden in his out-' had changed. She realized what hap- now. I have been dreaming foolish, stretched arms, while the wife hurled' Buckwheat for Live Stock. 1 pined ass meant, a a door upon epiylintolerant thing dreams like these,'' he laughed tremul- uponhim a torrent of hitter nnteume-'dos- Many gfarmers in Ontario sowed in the payshe had simulated, night ously,"since that night in November, ly.: Once his body :hook wrist u half- more than their average of buckwheat after niht, the joy 01 a woman as and have scarcely dared to hope that: stifled sob. Little Julie clasped his.this year et account of the tin -' she met her lover. She had spent: you even believed in me." i hand, but her terrified eyes were turn-' tof puto£ getting on the Iand in time days in working up that semblance of Dorms smiled into his eyes. "I have' en upon her mother. Wentworth had n their usual grain crops, and always believed in you. I never lost s n the woman in a towering pas -from reports received to date it ap-, radiant gladness. She had playedpeers that there will be a the scene many times to an outburst faith in you or in your genius for one sten; now she threw herself into the good sup - of applause, now she smiled, it seemed moment. And,"she paused as if fury of her role as she had done in ince making this grain throughout the prow so pale and ineffect to her seeday, making confession, "I have loved you real life, pacing the floor like a cag Buckwheat i Andrew put his fingers ander her for a long time, ever since that night, ed tiger, She paused at Merry's side' chiefly as a is, a rule, considered chin, raised her face, and looked into the same night, when you came back half exhausted, Y poultry feed by most her eyes. and I was so happy" grains lacking in supply it will be "Think of the chiId," he pleaded', farmers nowadays, but with coarse "Dearest," he asked, "Inc you sure "That night," said Andrew, "was miserably, —sure that you love me?" 014 THE FARM Pears For clear, -white delicately flavored preserved pears use The ideal sugar for all reserving. Pure cane. "FINE" granulation. 2 and 5•llr ea7tons 10 and 20.1b bags "This All-PIi.rposeSlugar" rlthanvIgo r.sasas await, s4 i a ed and ttintod letele car a ted n 3 ,ell tude•mark. Send to Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Ltd. J'owurMalt , SXentrenl 70 the inheeele moment of my life." "Was it so wonderful as that?" she whispered. ' "When I think, dearest, of what you have stood fer to me, it is a miracle." "It is an everyday miracle!" "There are ne everyday miracles," said Merry, Then he kissed her again. ; Site t.errned away from him to stare out at the window again. On the side- walks the. rush of city life went on tumultuously. Half an hour before 'she had thought the street sordid and ugly. It had changed, The street lights, now clear and white, were cir- cled about by lovely halos. The voices of the children were sweeter and gentler Next door the servant, who wus still at work, sang a lilting Irish ballad. Through it ran a con - tart iteration of "My own sweet dad," 'Dorcas," Merry spoke hesitatingly, "you said you trusteed me?" "I do." The girl raised her head with a quick gesture, "I rennet explain now," he began. "I cannot ask you to be my wife un- til something which looks like an ut- ter tangle has been straightened out. Can you go on trusting, even if I can- not explain?" "Yes," Dorcas laughed. "I can go. on trusting you indefinitely." "Don't," he erred, "don't say ---inde- finitely. 1 want you now, darling, and —forever," CHAPT:iER XXL On the same night that Zilla Paget took up her residence in the Went- worth home Grant Oswald sat beside his desk, dictating letters to his see. retail. He listened while the tinkle of the overture coaled "Hes Mr. Wentworth come in yet?" he askedwhen an usher entered with a telegram. "The child --to perdition with the necessary to consider the possible child! FOR HEADACHES, BILIOUSNESS CONSTIPATION, I DIGESTION Nearly all our minor ailments, and many of the serious ones, too, are traceable to some disorder of the stomach, liver, and bowels. If you wish to avold the mis- eries of Indigestion, acidity, heartburn, flatulence, headaches, constipation, and a Bost al other distressing ailments, you must see to it that your stomach, liver and bowels are equal to the work they have to do. It is a simple matter to take 30 drops of Mother Seigel's Syrup dally,after meals, yet thousands of formtlr sufferers have banished indigestion, bil- iousness, constipation, Intl all the dice tressing consequences In pat ibis slttlp!Q Way. Pratt by thelr experleace, cls a digestive Mule and stomachic remedy, Mother Seigel's Syrup is unsurpassed, MOTH R 20IS SEIG SYRUP. Tan, tvawiree Sept eceseentae mess as linen ccTim ?last atzss ti6Ailbesetsterne rm crops as feed for stock. Buckwheat compared with , wheab as regards its composition stands as follows: Buckwheat, water + 12.6; ash 2.0; protein, 10.0; crude fibre, 8.7; nitrogen -free extract, 64.5; ether extract, 2.2;—wheat; water, 10.6; ash, 1.8; protein, 11.9; crude fibre, 1.8; nitrogen -free extract, 71.9; ether ex- tract, 2.1 The black woody hulls of buckwheat have little feeding value and are the chief objection to the grain as chop, but the portion of the grain that forms the middlings is rich in protein and ether extract, and has a high feeding value, "The feeder' may make liberal use of the floury portions of the buckwheat grain, well assured that they are valuable and that, usually, they are an economical feed," says W. A. Henry in Feeds and Feeding. Buckwheat is rarely used. in On- tario as feed for dairy cows, but is something of a favorite in the Mari- time Provinces, If ground and mixed With other concentrates it usually cheapens the ration and adds bluk. It frequently seems to, increase the flow of mills The Central Experimental Farm has reported two feeding trials in which buckwheat was fed against wheat, to pigs, In the first trial, ground buckwheat was fed against ground wheat, and in this trial 445 pounds of ground buckwheat were re- quired for 100 pounds gain, and 410 pounds ground wheat for 100 pounds gain. In the second trial, one lot of pigs was fed a mixture of one-half ground buckwheat and one-half mixed meal, and the other lot a mixture of one - hall ground wheat and one-half mix- ed meal, In this trial it required 405 pounds of the buckwheat mixture for 100 pounds of gain, and 880 pounds of the wheat mixture for 100 pounds gain. This is a much better shoes- fer buckwheat than might bo ex - Selection of Seed Potatoes. Thousands of farmers have suffered heavy losses at various times from fungus diseases attacking potato crops. Weak, spindly hills snake bleeding places for the disease which would never get started otherwise. These spindly hills are often cause by planting weak seed, the result o carelessness in selecting the bubers for seed. Like begets like, and thee sooner persons planting small or dis- eased potatoes realize this the better it will be for their crop yields. Remarkable results have been ob- tained by investigators in seed selec- tion work with potatoes. Intricate methods are not necessary to obtain marked improvement in the ordinary field crops. It is a good plan. to go over the field when the tops are about half ripened off and mark with a stake or twig the hills which show ex- ceptional vigor and resistance to dis- ease, to drought or to heat . At dig- ging time these hills can be kept apart for seed. Any of the marked hills not yielding smooth or superior pota- toes should be discarded. Farmers may think it too much trouble to save alj, their seed in this way, but en- ough can easily be selected to plant a special seed plot each year from which seed for the main crop the fol- lowing year may be obtained. If the farmer neglects to mark the vigorous hills he should, at least, note and keep apart the high yielding hills of smooth, uniform tubers for a seed plot next year. Potato growers will find that it is highly profitable to select their pota- toes for seed carefully and intelligent- ly, as it will mean greater productive- ness, vigor and uniformity in shape and size,—F.C.N. in Canadian Farm. The Effect of Sod on Yields. Practically all oe North Dakota was prairie or sod land for countless cen- turies befgre the while man came and overturned it with his steel plow drawn by oxen, horses or a tractor, according to the time and place. This state with a population of 630,000 people produced 152,000;000 bushels of wheat in 1915, or exactly as much wheat as was produced to the entire United States in 1860, the year fol- lowing the close of the civil war, when the population of the country was 35,000,000. The sod land had within it the elements of fertility to produce this big yield, years after it was first broken up, and the fine grass roots bound the soil particles togebher and prevented drifting or blowing. The , native clovers or legumes had the soil thoroughly enriched with nitrogen, a very essential element in hard wheat, and the decaying roots filled the soil with humus or vegetable material which makes it open and mellow. If+ land is cultivabed too long it loses these essentials of fertility. Every one who wants to keep up yields should plan to seed down the fields to grass and legume crops every few years, for these crops renew the strength and fertility of the soil. Such fields are also profitable when in pas- ture or hay and if the products ere fed on bhe farm and the manure resulting is used to further enrich the land.— By W. R. Porter, North Dakota Ex- periment Station. As it is Now. "Will you marry me, my pretty maid?" "How many cylinders has your automobile, sir ?" she said. From the Middle West BETWEL;i•1 ONTARIO A.ND tht*. TISU COLUTUTA. dents (',tont Provinces Where 'Many Ontario Boys and Girls Ora Living. A Vrrinnipeg man Ives released Froin jail in order to provide food for his wife and family, A number of cattle have died in the rural municipality of Willowdale, Sask., as a result of blackleg out- break. Drinking in a stable is a real of- fence, as two Regina men found out to their cost. One million one hundred and eighty- eight thousand • six hundred and sev- enty-five dollars has been collected in causer current taxes in Calgary this year. f Fire destroyed the home of Mr. Odegard, of Richard, Sask., burning to death three children and their mother. C. H. Noble, a farmer north of Lethbridge, expects to beat the world's record with his' 1,000 -acre wheat tract, Whilst the mother was using coal oil to start a fire, there was an ex- plosion, and the 11 -weeks -old infant of at Yorkton woman was burned to death• Mining men in Alberta are exer- cised over the new Dominion regula- tion which puts a stop to all mining development in the various Govern- ment parks in the Rocky Mountain region of Canada, It is reported that the Manitoba Government may call for a referen- dum on the question of adding, an educational test to requirements for voters in provincial elections. The Winnipeg Jitney Association made 300 little hearts very happy Last week when they took the orphan children out motoring all afternoon, Masters Fred and Gordon Iiolmes, little Winnipeg twins, have made quite a bit of money for the Red Cross and Patriotic Fund by singing and dancing in their little khaki uni- forms. Judge Ryan, of Portage Ia Prairie, has been appointed temporary judge i of the Dauphin, Man., judicial dis- trice. I! Judge Myers, of Winnipeg, last week signed an order for the ex- tradition of Charles Kauffman, who is wanted in Minneapolis on a charge of stealing 100 bags of flour from the Pillsbury flour mills, Charles Pearce, a young married man, well-known in the Indian Head district, died suddenly last week while working on one of the farms of H. F. Loveless, in the Wide Awake district. IIe was an his way with a butcher knife to still when he dropped dead. r*� •d Underwear UNDERWEAR should dJ be a lot of things, but above all vise dainty. A. little touch here and there on leenmans has accomplished this. Penmans underwear is chic, it's meant to be—we all tike pretty things —It's soft as fleece, and smooth as a kitten's wrist. That's why every Woman in the land tikes Peomans. Poemn,ae l.in,Iked Y r,a Alco Makers 1R�3calory Sviater Coats, TEACHERS' INFLUENCE. Foundation for Improvements May Be Laid in Schools. To the rising generation must wo look for many changes and improve- ments in our municipal conditiocs. The children of the present, under the influence of a bread -minded teach- er; will absorb lessons which will later be an enormous influence for good. A recognition of this fact, and of the 'great dependence placed upon them should be in ,ie mind of everyone en- trusted with the upbuilding of our youth. The extent to which this power to influence children for good is recognized may be gleaned from the number of appeals made to the school teachers for assistance. Every interest working for the betterment • of Canada and Canadians lays stress upon the necessity of seething the re- cognition and support of the children. To this already long list has been added a call for the influence of school teachers ie keeping of streets free from litter. To a large extent the children are responsible for this. Waste paper, chewing guns and candy wrappers are thrown on streets and sidewalks regardless of the untidiness they, cause. This litter is carried by the wind, and, blowing about the streets, frightens horses, causing many runaways and sometimes serious ac- cidents. Waste paper also collects in sheltered places, falls through grates into basement window open- ings, or accumulates against 'wooden buildings or fences; a lighted inabch or a cigar or cigarette stub carelessly thrown aside may fall upon this ac- cumulation of litter and cause a fire. All fires are the same size at the start, and it is the apparently small and harmless fire which sometimes causes the greatest loss, both of property and lives. The school teachers have it du their Power to inculcate in their pupils a spirit of pride in the appearance of the streets, and great beucfcts will accuse from this effort on their part, ---D, in Conservation u Geed Pay, Short (lours. A certain house in a western town improved so greatly in comfort and appearance that a visitor shrewdly surmised that the son of the hoes°, a lazy, good-for-nothing, had turned over a new leaf. He inquired about dt, "Yea, sil', my son's got a job nowt' said the amiiing,old mother. "Gets good money, too. All he_ has to die is to go twice a day to the circus tied put his head in the jtcers mouth, The i est of the tine he hue to himself." a '