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The Brussels Post, 1916-12-14, Page 2It has the reputation of nearly aquarte .° of rei, century behind every packet 504-- Black—Green—or 04.®—Black—Green-- r Mixed -- 13204 THE LAPSE OF ENOCU WE T ORTH By iSABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of " The Woman from Wolvertons " CIHAPTER XXVI.—(Cont'd). "Are you sure?" Merry spoke gent ly. "Yes, sure." Tho reflective tone had gone from Enoeh's voice. it was em phatic. "Out there in the sunshine,' he continued, "I realized what defea Meant. I knew my oration was mere- ly a babble of senseless words; there was not a throb in it. Besides, I knew that I could not make it better. Suddenly, on the quiet hillside, I heard a voice close beside me." There was a long pause. Wentworth turned his eyes from Merry and stared out at the window. A trumpet vine climbed over the back of the Waverly Place house and one scarlet blossom hung vivid between him and the sun- shine. I came to me. I leaped over the wa _sand held before Dave a new twenty- dollar gold -piece father had given me ' that morning. It bought his ora- tion." ' i Wentworth parsed as if in an em -1 t barrassment of shame. Merry watch- i ed him in silence. , "1 feel—even now—the reluctand grip with which Dave held on to those !sheets of blurred foolscap. I never' gave a thought to what I had done. 1 ! Every moment for twenty-four hours was needed to commit Dave's speech to memory. My father, proud and : happy, gave me another twenty -dollar ; gold -piece. I carried it to Dave. He refused it, turning his back on me Iwith angry scorn. Twenty years lat- er I met him again. He had gone to congress and was blasting his way up- wards towards fame. I was assigned to interview him. He remembered me. instantly. For a moment he stared ; at me from head to foot, then he turn -1 ed away without a word and never touched the hard I offered him. My God! how that hurt!" A shiver went through the man's body. "That happened twenty-five years' ago," said Merry hesitatingly. "You can't lay up a boyhood sin against ai man. He changes—he's almost an -i other human being." "No, he isn't," answered Wentworth (e doggedly. "I want to show you that the psychological fellow was in the I right. That was my first fall from s grace; but there was a second lesion. It was worse even than—than what I, e did to you, Merry. I was out in the s Balkan mountains where the blamed a barbarian Turks go tearing at each e other's throats once in so often. The s world looked on, waiting for a story of "Say, old fellow," said. Merry in a low voice"you and I are friends, closer friends than we ever were. What's the use of raking up old mem- ories if they hurt, The story of some- thing you did when you were in swad- dling clothes doesn't count. Drop it!" "It does count," answered Went- worth stolidly. "I tell you it does count. It is the only thing that ex- plains what I did—when you called my bluff. I have lain here—I've had days and nights with nothing to do but to, think and to analyze things. Why,: old man, I haven't had a chance like this for years before. Let me tell you my story; it's interesting even if it isn't much to my credit." "All right, have your own way." I "I sat there in the shadow of the wall listening. It was young David Ross practising his oration. Dave came of what the niggers called 'po' white trash,' but he had ambition end genius and was working his way' through school like a man. He had chosen the death of Caesar, as I had. I crouched there, scarcely breathing; I was afraid he would hear me and stop. His speech was great! As I sat looking out over the valley I could see the Roman warrior while he stood there in the Senate, down and out, hooted at and reviled, yet haughty and defiant, facing the enemies who had once been his friends. I began to sob as a boy does in a shamed, husky,' choked fashion. Suddenly a thought We were in the very heart of a battle, and these savages were climbing over the rooks with their cutlasses flashing. They shrieked like maniaes, the bul- lets went flying about our heads, T crept back to the hole among the rocks where we had spent the night, I couldn't see what was happening; I didn't want to see, Death shrieks echoed all around and above me. It was the most hellish din of battle I ever listened to. I had turned cow- ard. I lay there with every tooth in my head chattering. A nice confes- sion for a man to make, eh?" asked Wentworth with a grim smile. Merry half rose then dropped back into his chair. "Hold en, Enoch, I swear you're not fit for this sort of thing! Your temperature will go up, then the nurse—" "Damn the nurse, I'm fit enough; keep still. I want to finish my story. Forsyth, the intrepid young fool, went creeping along the face of the cliff. He had never seen a battle before. I called to him to lie low, but he never heeded me. Through a crevice in the rock I saw him stretch his head over the chasm and crane his neck, then plunge down and begin to write as if he were mad. Once I sneaked out and tried to drag him in beside me, I Iie fought like a wildcat, so I went back to shelter. The bullets pinged on the rocks all round me. Suddenly I heard a low, gurgling awful cry and somebody called my name hi a hoarse shout. It was Forsyth. I crept out. Ile stood on a cliff above nie, clutching at his throat, then he toppl- ed and fell. He came plunging clown over the rocks until he reached my feet. He was dead, stark dead, when I pulled him into the cave. His note- book was clutched so tight in his hued that I tore a corner from one page as I took it from his fingers, I buried him right there. "After a little while the battle fiz-! zled down to a stray shot or two.' That night under the gleam of a sput- tering little torch I read Forsyth's story. It was tremendous—perfectly tremendous—perfectly tremendous! It read like inspired stuff, I had never. dreamed the fellow had such a vocab- ulary. And he lay there close beside me, asleep—under the damp, warm, soft earth. I had a fit of the horrors. I put out my light, stuffed the pages of writing in my pocket, then went doubling and twisting down those wild mountains, dodging the enemy's camp-, fires and their infernal bullets, until • I reached the miserable little town in e the valley we two men had our head-; quarters. I hurried to the telegraph - ffice to send out Forsyth's story to the Tribune, with the news of his death. was waiting to get the wire when; omebody handed me a cable. I look -i d at it half -dazed. It came from my own paper, crazy because I had cut them no story; they were hungry s vultures for news. As soon as I ould get a wire I sent out Forsyth's tory." taste, His palate dictntos what he will eat. There is n men] palate, and if you go on slaking your eppctite, there's weakening of the moral tis- , sue'. Isn't that what your psycholo- gists call it? If it had not been for Yon, Enoch, I might have been worse than dead to -clay." Merry uttered the last sentence in an undertone. "I have a feeling, though, that T can never go so low again, because--" He sat silent fora minute. Went - worth's eyes were fixed upon him like an insistent question, "BecauseEnoch," he went on in a steady voice, imy"becausewife," Dorcas has promised to be "Ohl" cried Wentworth quickly, "Oh, thank God for that!" CHAPTER XXXVII. It was a wet night in October, A line of carriages moved slowly over the shining asphalt to the door of the Gotham. Grant Oswald stood in a corner of the foyer watching tho throng pour in. "This beats your first night in Lon- don, doesn't it?" queried a. newspaper man who stood beside him. "Yes," acceded the Englishman. "the first night or any other night." "Wentworth's escape from death was a great ad—if you look at it that way, He had a close call." "Yes. Oswald spoke absently. That morning he had arrived from London. Although he was the least curious of men, he felt as if the peo- ple from whom he had parted four Months ago were living in a different atmosphere. Before the ship docked he had discovered a group waiting to welcome him. Dorcas was there, her beautiful face glowing with happiness. He watched her untie a gray scarf from her hat and wave it. Merry stood beside her, but the girl's hand was clasped inside her brother's arm. Wentworth was wan and thin. Across his temple, gleamed a wide red scar. Merry lifted his hat when he caught sight of Oswald and the wind tossed down, almost into his eyes, the wavy ock of long fair hair which proclaimed his calling. Alice Volk stood in the group, with Julie jumping impatiently b eside her. Little Robin clasped her and, while he searched for the ship with his. sightless eyes. wWith a courteous "Good night" Os- ald left the man and walked into the eatre, where a gay, chattering crowd treamed past him. The throng was h th o dense that he was pushed into a orner. When the overt:a is began he: moved toward the rail and took his lace among a group of men who had of been able to buy sea; A. Ire found ingleton, of the Times, at hie elbow. I.. (To be continued). "Under his name?" asked Merr quietly. "No," Enoch lifted his head, Tooke at his friend with guilt and shame 1 his eyes, then he turned away. "No I signed my own name to it. I sen war. I had none to tell, nothing hap- y pened but a skirmish or two once in a while. There was nothing a man could make into a story. It was a wretched campaign. Young Forsyth, of the Tribune, and I hung together through it for months, living like stray dogs, sick to death of our job, and ready to throw it up at any mo- ment. One morning at daybreak we were awakened by shooting. We scrambled from the cave where we had slept and looked down into the valley Rubber Supply Steady While Leather Gets Scarcer This Explains Low Price of Rubber Foot- wear in Spite of Increase in Cost of Chemicals, Fabrics and Labor. The war is using up enormous quantities, both of leather and rubber. At the same time it is seriously restricting the output of the former, much of which carne from Russia—while rubber production keeps pace with the demand. Prom the great plantations now reaching maturity in Britain's tropical Dominions will came this year 150,000 tons of raw rubber -75% of the world's production, and an increase of over 40,000 tons over last year. Thus, thanks to the British Government's foresight in encouraging these plantations, the Allied armies have been abundantly supplied with all the rubber products they need—Germany and her allies have been cut off—and the price to the world at large has actually been reduced. Meanwhile leather has been getting scarcer and more expensive—$0% higher than in 1914 -and the end is not yet. Ai normal prices a pair of good shoes cosi about four times as much as a pair of rubbers—and would last twice as long if rubbers or overshoes were worn to protect them. Or a pair of heavy rubbers for the farm cost much less than heavy shoes,: and would stand much more wear in had weather. So even before the war rubbers were a mighty good investment, to say nothing of their prevention of wet feet colds and doctors' bills, ' Now, leather ts R6 foneurtithe vg from wng rubber footwear so outstanding that no 000 who believes in thrift will think of doing without rubbers, overshoes, rubber hoots, or whatever kind of rubber footwear best sults his needs, Nor will he who Is anxious to help win tho war, for by wearing rubber he conserves the leather that Is so scarce, yet so absolutely necessary to the boldters, Wear Rubbers and Save Leatfiej' fox; our Fighting Men] A7 ON 'Fri FARM d I Cereals. el Seed Grain.—Early attention should be given to the seed grain which is to t; be sown next spring. If no special it to my own paper. I wired the new of Forsyth's death to the Tribune." Neither of the men spoke for som minutes. When Merry turned, Went s, fields for seed purposes were grown last summer, next season's require - e I ments may be met by very careful re- _ ) cleaning of the main crop harvested worth lay staring at him with a pray er for pity, comprehension, and for giveness in his eyes. "I want you to understand one thing," pleaded the older man. "When you called my bluff that morning and I wrote that bond, I was innocent of any thought of injury to you. I don't know what was in my mind. It was nothing in the world but an idle fancy. I told you so at the time. I did not dream that you could write a play. If anyone had told me you were capable of turning out 'The House of Ester - brook' I should have laughed at him. Then that day, when you came and read the manuscript—I had just given up all hope, as I did with the oration on Caesar. I had been toiling for years and years on a play. There was one—it had seemed to me like a great plot—but I had begun to realize that labor does not mean everything. You want inspiration, or genius or art —or something, and I didn't have it." Enoch paused, wrinkling his eyes as if in an attempt to remember some- thing.' "I was trying to think of something Ellen Terry wrote on the back of a photograph she once gave me. It ran like this: " 'When am I to be an actress? Well, after fifteen years' labor, per- haps, Labor! Why, I thought it was all inspiration. No, labor and art are the foundation; inspiration --a re- sult.' " "Terry wasn't altogether right, La- bor alone won't land the prize. You've proved that, Boy.:" "I don't know," said Merry vaguely. "I do," The man's pale face flushed. "When you dropped in on me, eager as a young victor for a laurel wreath, I knew as surely as if a judge had passed sentence on me that my years and years of toil meant nothing but waste paper. Then, suddenly, as temptation had clutched at me twice before in my life, came a revenous de- sire for fame --the fame that another man had labored for an—" "I understand," cried Merry, There was a thrill of compass!onu in his voice. "Now, deur old man, let's forget ft, The one thing I can never forget is that you have raked me from the depths more than once, 2 might lave been worse than dead to -day if it iadn't been for you. " "You never descended to the depths I did," said Wentworth abruptly, "Sin—my variety, of it or yours --is last autumn. One can never afor _ to sow weed seeds, and one can seldom afford to sow grain more or less mixe with other types. The fanning mil should furnish plump seed free from j weeds. If other grains are present such as oats in wheat, or barley in oats, et will be necessary; and quit I worth while, to hand-pick two or three i bushels during the winter so as to have a field of an acre or two to fur- nish pure seed for the following year. !Hand-picking may appear too labor - i lolls to any one who has not tried it, but by devoting to it an hour or two at a time a great deal can be accom- plished in the course of a few weeks and without undue strain on the eyes. It there is any doubt about the vital- ity of the seed, a test should be made before the winter is very far advanc. ed. While the laboratories of the Domin- ion Government are' always available for farmers who desire to have an of- ficial report on their grain, any one can make a test for himself without delay by placing about two hundred seeds between layers of, blotting paper or cloth, and keeping them damp for a few days. An ordinary dinner plate is very handy for this purpose, with another plate set on it in reversed position, The grain after being moistened must not be allowed to become dry, and must not be exposed to frost, After about six days the sprouts from the seed of strongest vitality will be sufficiently developed. Seeds which take an unusually long time to sprout generally give weak plants, If less than about ninety per cent of the seed produces strong sprouts, it will be necessary to sow such an increased quantity as will bring the strongly vital kernels up to the usual number per acre. Change of Seed.—The best advice in regard to change of seed is this:— Change only when you are sure you are getting something super- ior to your old stock, The new grain should be true to variety and free from weed seeds. A very great danger in obtaining seed from a long distance is that it may contain new, and dangerous weeds, If you have reason to believe that. the returns front your fields are less than they should bo considering the character' and fertility of the soil and the time given to its preparation, it might be advisable to test some now variety of grain from the li 1 f 111 Bun nail ,,, enyr 0 r r The GRICTratGets A Smile a� because it guarantees unequalled service—from Christmas to Christ- rllias — over and over again — is Z•moo S•� = �- it's the "safest" gift you can select, for every man shaves, and knows that in the Gillette you are giving `him the best r equipment that money can buy. His appreciation will be SURE and LASTING. Christmas Gillette displays will be hi the windows of all the hustling Gillette dealers—Drug, Jewelry, Hardware and General Stores—everywhere—in a dozen t 5 IeS or more—priced from m$5to 2 $ 5. 225 Gillette Safety Razor Co. of Canada, 'Limited Office and Factory—GILLETTE BUILDING, MONTREAL. I. 0'40 Yat -"+�;yv' •�" VOAbpv[n nettanasir IIIU(Il1) OTUq(Ijlnaf0, r IIGunnhlI T 11 g g F. V 1 T A L QUESTIONS - pression in stomach and chest alter eating, wi:, Ate you full of cnorEY. vital force, and general constipation, headache dissihcir, are note d; m good health 1 Do you know that Eood digntipa ✓ of Indigestion. Mother Seigel's Syrup, the great is the foundation of good health; Pains and on- herbal remedy and tonic, will cure you. Aj TEF( NI EA LS TAKE Fn15 MOTHER AN D BANISH STOMACH TROUBLES' At all Druggiara,or direct on receipt of price. Sec. and 51.00, The large bottle contains three times Pi much as the smaller. A. J. Wntra & Co. LIMITED, Craig Street west, h entreat. varieties recommended for your dis- trict. For the first season the new sort should be sown beside the old, and a careful comparison made of their relative merits. Purchase of Seed.—If new seed is to be purchased, inquiries should be made early in the winter from those who have. grain for sale. No large pur- chase of seed should be decided upon ! without first seeing a sample and ob- i tanning a statement as to its germina- tion, and as to the quantity of other d grains present. To intending pur- chasers of seed grain the Dominion Cerealist will be glad to furnish in- formatipn as to possible sources of supply of the varieties they desire. e Farmers who have seed grain for sale are requested to communicate with vs. Free Distribution of Samples. A free distribution of samples of seed grain will be made from this Farm for the season of 1917. Farmers who 'desire to test some other variety than those they are already familiar with may obtain a free sample in this way. The quantity of seed supplied is 6 pounds in the case of wheat, barley and peas and four pounds in the case of oats. Only one sample of grain will be sent to each farm, For an application form, write to the Domin- ion Cerealist at Ottawa. No postage is required.—C. E. Saunders, Dominion Cerealist, Ottawa. Adding Fibre to the Soil. Everyone who has- had experience in breaking up new land has noticed how soon the rich black mould disap- pears after the soil has been brought under cultivation. The reason for this is that the vegetable matter in such soil has been reduced to humus nothing but the ci !Terence in a man's (of a very unstaple condition. It is readily attacked by bacteria and brok- en down so that soon not a trace of it is to be found. The exclusive grow- ling of grain crops, so general on new land and by which but little vege- table matter is returned to the soil, hastens this process of depletion. The !process is also most rapid in soils that are naturally rich in lime, a this neu- tralizes the acids formed by the decay of humus and provides ideal working conditie is for the organisms that bleak down organic matter. In restoring humus to the soil by the growing of legumes, the plowing down of green crops and the application of manure, vegetable matter of a more fibrous nature than that which is found on the forest floor, is added. This is not readily reduced to humus. It contains considerable cellulose or woody matter, which offers consider- able resistance to the attacks of the bacteria of decay. This fibrous'mat- ter, when added to the soil, provides a store of vegetable matter, which is broken,. down into humus and finally into available plant food very gradual- ly. Vegetable matter from this origin does not disappear from the soil as rapidly as tho humus found in newly cleared land. Permanent produc- tivity in soil demands a supply of this fibrous material, The Ideal Citizen. "I neither argue politics nor re- ligion, but I'll tell you what I do." "What's that?" "I both vote and go to church." Some women are as flighty as some men are cranky. Men Wanted for the Navy The Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, wants men for imme. diate service Overseas, in the Imperial Royal Navy Candidntcc roust be vena of natural horn 13ritivh aubjecty Ord he from 18 to 38 yceri of age. pAv 31.10 per day and upwards. Free 1<11 Separation allowance, $20.00 monthly, !apply to the nearest Naval Recruiting Station or to the Department of the naval Service, OTTAWA. l SPY S PROD:CT OF PREF IIS ESPIONAGE AN ATTRIBUTE OF CHARACTER'. "liultur" Now Turns Its Attention to United States as Next Enemy. D. Thomas Curtin, continning his series of articles in the Lon oa Times on what he observed iuen mouths he spent in Germany, writs of `Spies and Semi -spies." He say - "Spying is Just as esseetia1 an in- gredient of Prussian ehurartor as conceit, indifference to the feelings of others, jealousy, envy, self-satis- faction, industry, inquisitiveness, cruelty, imitativeness, materialism and the other national attributes that will occur to those who knew Prussia as distinct from the other German States. "Prussian men and women hardly know the meaning of the word 'pri- vate; and as they have Prussinnized in greater or less degree all the other states of the empire they have insured to Germany publicity as to the state of a man's business and for- tune. Past Masters in Spying. "The British or. American boy or college student who spies or sneaks is not popular, and is apt to receive what he deserves. All this is re- versed in Germany, where an en- tirely mtirely different moral code prevails. With these elements in their char- acter it is natural that the Germans should be past masters of the art of espionage. It does not follow that they are equally successful in the deductions formed from their investigations of foreign matters. But they :are se egotistical, so fond of making re- ports, so fond off seeing things from only their own point of view, that while they may be successful in obtaining possession, by spying, by purchase or by theft of the plans, say, of a new battleship, they are unable to form an accurate estimate of the character and intention of the people upon whom they may be spy- ing. "Their military spying is believed to be perfect, but is marred occa- sionally by the contempt they feel for other nations in military mat- ters. I presume there is not much difference in the system of the vari- ous nations, except that German military spying probably is more thorough. , System of "Sowing" Abroad. "The system of 'sowing' Germans in foreign countries, es I have heard it called in Germany—that is, get- ting them to neutralize, was begun by Prussia prior to the war of. 1866 against Austria, and was so success- ful under Moltke and Bismarck that it was developed in other countries. Thus while comparatively few French- men, for example, are naturalized abroad, German residents go through the form just as suits their particu- lar business or the German Govern- ment's, double nationality being re- garded as a patriotic duty to the Fatherland. "There are as a rule three schools of German espionage in other coun- tries—those attached to the embas- sies, to the consulates, and those working individually. They have no connection with each other, but for- ward their reports direct to Ger- many. There is a fourth class of fairly well paid professional :pies, men and women alike, who visit foreign countries with letters of in- troduction and attend conventione of scientific, military and industrial congresses. They receive from $200 to $500 monthly pay. "Many semi -spies in the Carman commercial, musical and theatrical world are from their point of view honest workers, enthusiastic for Ger- man kultur. They recently fastened upon England because the Germans ` for nfiny years have been taught to regard this country as their next op- ponent. They are now as industrious in the United States as they were in England before the war, because those Germans who think the war leas been won believe the United States is their next enemy." The Farm Horne. A time will come when enlightened farmers will realize that the farm household is the source of all energy, enterprise aiicl intelligence that makes farming a success and life on the farm possible. It is the indefatigable farm- er's wife that'nnakes the farm home; altogether too often she makes it a real home in spite of her hunhand ratite er than as a result of his co-operation with her. He, to his shame be it said, too often has by fat a greater appre- ciation for hogs, cattle, grain and hay and their proper housing and care than the equipment and environments that make practicable the proper rearing of his own children. Yet he will complain that the young people will not stay on tho farm.—American Lumberman, Counsel Disdained, "You shouldn't allow the little things of life to disturb you." "I don'. know about that. A germ Is about the littlest thing I know of,",