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^m THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of *♦ The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER VII.â€" (Cont'd.) Before the middle of October all the parts were in rehearsal except two. An Englishwoman, Zilla Pajjet, was crossing: the Atlantic to play "Mrs. | Estvrbrook". Oswald refused obstin-l atoly to give "Cordelia" to and actress' Enoch as ho had been a month ago, with the man who had aged suddenly, who was growing morose, fretful, un- conimunicative and impatient over trifles. Day after day she saw less of him. His plea was hard work, so the girl was left to her own devices. She hail few friends in the city. She that Wentworth suggested. , . .u <• n i • i "We must close with somcbmly '^P';"' '''^''/"" '•»y» '"'""»' ^-''tary ,.., ,^„ walks, anil her mind dwelt constantly mighty quick,'' said Enoch, when Os- wald had turned down Kathcrine ,. , ,, jjgjji^ I tioned the play to hei "Miss Dean is not even t» be'°^ '^ '" ^he papers, thought of," answered the Englishman ! decisively. "She's btnutiful, but: Where's her feeling, her intelligence?' I sat wat<-hing her faceâ€" the light fell strong upon her while you talked. There's absolutely nothing to her but | l)eauty." â- â-  I "She can act," insisted Wentworth. ' "I've seen her act. It isn't acting; we want in 'Cordelia.' The woman who plays 'Cordelia' must have feel- tender, compassionate understanding, dignity, with a young faceâ€" not a face into which youth is paintid." " 'Cordelia' must have beauty," "We may get both.'I am not search- ing for 'Cordelia' among the stjars; I have hopes of finding her among the unknowns." "That's a risky proposition," said Wentworth impatiently. " 'Cordelia' .w a big part. Why, it's almost lead- ing business â€" it ought to be in rehear- sal now." "Wait a few days,'* suggested Os- wald. "Now, till me, when is Merry to .show up? He should have been here a week ago. Can't you wire him to-lay?" on Merry. Ilcr brother scarcely men- She re;id news Through them came th« information thatj Enoch had rclinquishe 1 journalism and was work- ing on the production of a new play by a new author. She drew a long breath of relief over that announce- ment. She felt sure Enoch would do full justice to MeiTy when the tjime arrived. She was too proud to iin! questions. Her brother had always taken her completely into his confi- dence; she was certain he would do so (jgain when the toil and worry were over. Wentwort'h watched her closely. He realized how she felt his reticence and change of feeling; her every glance told it. He won/lered frequently what the thoughts were that she did not put into wonls. In eveiy woman he had admired for beauty, intelU'ctual or heart qualities there had been imper fections which were temperamentally feminine. Dorcas was different. Some- times he fancied it might be caused by her seclusion from t<he world dur- ing girlhood. Then he remembered a few of her girl friemis he had met. In each of them he had seen some petty deceit or frivolity which, n.an Private Prince Henry Who IS His Majesty's third son, and a Hshman, with a thriU of "It's the bread line, seen it before?" "No. Who are the men? "God knows!" aaswered Had you never Helping Out Grass Feed. 2. Prom the results of t)he thre* Natural grass pastures provide the ' years' work, it is evident that low-' cheapest and best feed for all ani- ' grade grains may be made to bring;' mals,. except horses that are expects ; the producer a higher price per bushel ed to do heavy or fast work, but an sold through steers than will high- ad(Jition of oats, bran or even more graide grains sold through the eleva- concenbrated feed will "bring paying | t»ra- results in nearly all cases and most j 3. Hay, green feed and straw amy decidedly when big production of milk , be profitably fed at home. or quick fattening is desired. ! 4- From experimental work conduct-' All cattle, from the calf to the i *** ""^^^ ^"'" P'°*8 ^^ *^^^ station, » steer ready for finishing, need forcing | valuation of the manure produced to keep up with the demand of t,he | trough feeding cattle at $1 per ton present day. Lambs may be satis- | aPPl^ed 's warranted. The fertile factorily finished on pasture if clover j ^oj' o^. our We.stern jirairies will not and raps are a.'Jde dto the natural grasses, but better speed can be made if a iitt)le grain is added to the ration. It is doubtful if any of the recent milking records have been made on pasture alone and most of the good dairymen use soiling crops and grain or millfeed to keep up the milk yield of the whole herd. retain its fertility indefinitely without a return of at least) a portion of the constituents drawn fro mit in the pro- duction of crops. 5. It is not necessary to provide an extravagant equipment) in order to be able to undertake the satisfactory feeding of steers for the production erf beef in this climate. 6. Bankers consider the lending of I'll do it right away." Wentworth!".''^' ^« accounted a typical feminine tossed his hat on his head and left the office. He drew a long breath, when he stopped out) on the sidewalk, and looked anxiou.sly up and down Broadway as if hoping to see Merry approach withh is nonchalant stride. He paused for a moment to light a | cigar, then started at a brish gait liown the street. He was accosted hi're and there by a friend. Each one offered congratulations. He was in no moo<i for that .sort of thing. A block further ahead he saw Phillips of the Herald in the moving throng. There would be no escaping him. He jumped on a downtown car, and a few minutes lab r ho was at the Battery. He stepped off and crossed the square. The tide was coming in and a stiff breeze blew off the ocean. He seatifl himself on a bench and watched the spray da.sh over the pier. Throngs came and went, but Enoch did not see them. His mind was cen- ticred desperati'ly upon one anxiety: Merry must be found. He had felt vice. Dorcas w^as different in heart and intellect. She resembled stalwart men he had known. He sat) with his eyes fixed on an ocean steamer moving majestically up the harbor. When her whistle shriek- ed in response to a salute, Went- worth rose with a start and glanced sharply about him. He felt thab some one was watching him. His eyes met the gaze of his sister. She sat on a nearby bench staring at him, a news paper in her lap and her hands clasp- ed listnessly over it. "Why, Dorry! How long have you been here? Did you call me?" "I did not speak to you," she an- swcrol quiebly. "When I laid down my paper a minute ago you sat there." He did not offer to take a place be- side her, thdugh she moved to make room for him. His face flushed hot- 1 ywhen his glance fell on the head- lines of a paper that lay in Dorcas' lap. e "Have you seen the .stjoty about private in the Eton O.T.C., the rein- carnation of the old Eton College Volunteers, for which O.E.'s who were in them in those primitive days had a pet name that was more expressive than polite. Prince Henry has also recently elected to pursue the amphi- bious existence of a Wet BA>. We do not know whether the ancient mariner who used to rescue aspiring oarsmen from the watery depths of Father Thames is still alive, but we hope so. His nom de guerre used to be " Gin- ger," so far as memory serves us. Hogs, have as a general thing been ' c i.i. e r j- a. bhe Eng- denial pasture to too great an ^^.[^^''^^V ^f f'^ Purpose of teeding c»t- compassion tent, some people refusing to let them „** J ,*"' . , . , "They are a lot of have a run^n' grass evL for ^^^ ' '•,/''"" ^^^ '''^r ^''T''^ . half -frozen, starving, human wreck- cise; but the other extreme should not ^'""/T'"",'*'".'"" ^^? '""t^*'' ^ age, who have been waiting there for be jumpd to if best results are desir . * ° market his pro- an hour to get a loaf of bread." led. Hogs at all ages may be kept j ''"'^* '" finished condition. in his voice. i« (To be continued.) __ <• on pasture to their advantage, but "kept" must not be taken t-o mean maintained, or improved. A run on o • «»• . J .„. . clover or rape plus milk and some Russian Officer. \^ed Thirteen, Wears grain, will grow the animal satis THE LITTLEST LIEUTENANT. to do. I would say 'yes' if I could talk it over with Andrew Merry." "I have told you point-blank you are not to go on the stage." "You know how I feel aboub it." Dorcas spoke quietly. "You remem- ber, I told you it was the only work I ever care<l to do." "When did Oswald suggest this?" "Several weeks ago. He has talked with me about it more than once.'' Two Decorations. " I should have put him down as ten, but an officer'* word is not to be doubted." So wrote a correspondent of the London Times who recently shared a factorily to within a few weeks Requirements of a Good Aiiimal. An animal is like a machine. A good machine requires that each pari Qf be of good material and just the right butchering, when they should be pe ned, not too closely, and finished on good hard feed. At present prices for hogs, a great deal of wheat can be ^ , fed to advantage in the pro duction of railway compartment with Lieut. Mis- ! P<"''^> l^ut judgment must be used re- ha TUrukhanis, aged thirteen, wound- j yarding the size of each feed. Ground 'oo^^'ig at. it. However, the make ol ed in the shoulder, wearing two de- '^''hent alone cannot be considered a ^^^ machine is the guarant)ee as to its corations for valor, and on his way to ! satisfactory grain rabion for hogs; as P<^ssessing or lacking quality. I.ike- Petrograd to join his mother â€" an \ \\ '^ likely to bring on digestion trou- '^'^® '" ^^^ animal a good deal can b« army nurse â€" because the orders were weight and strength. The good ani- mal must have its parts developed in the right proportion ta make the type desired. The adaptability of a ma- chine and the proportioning of its parts can largely be determined by that " all women and children serving I in the army " were to be mustered j out. ' " No smoking here I" In the crowded station, awaiting the bles, but mixed with other grains it ' determined as to its type by looking at gives good results. > '*• ^ts real quality, however, can not be debermined in this way. To get at this it becomes necessary to go further back. The quality was put into the animal by its parents, its so certain that the actor might appear yurself in the Times?' at any moment that he had allowe.l ""^ '•""•'se I have," answered Enoch Oswald to think he knew where he , >'npat''ently- "It was not my doing. was. lie reported him half-sick, try- ing to recuperate, and hating the worry of a lawsuit with an ngry man- ager, which Oswall was trying to settle out of court. He assured him that the come<iian was latter perfect in his part; ail he needed was to ap- pear at late rehearsals. The strain, however, was telling on Wentworth, He had grown nervous and irritable. Oswald saw traces of it, but laid ib to anxiety over the preparations for his play. Dorcas realized the change in her brother and felt it keenly, She con- trasted the care-free, generous, gn;. The best sugar for the sugar bowl is Lantic Sugai Its purity and yme" granulation give it the highly eweetcn- ing power. It dis- solves instantly in your teacup or on yourbreakfast cereal. 2and5-lb Cartons 10 and 20-lb Baff 8 I O.swaJd insi.stetl on it. Every paper is clamoring for news. We repro- duce the play the first week of Decem- ber." "The paper speaks of you alone. Merry isn't given credit for even sug- gesting bho plot. His name is not mentioned." Wentworth's brow wrinkle<l into an Ugly .scowl. "Hoiw could he bo men- tioned ? He can't be found â€" any- where." "Mr. Oswald said yesterday he wa.s in the Catskills, ready to come on at a moment's notice." "I wish bo Go<l he were!" cried Wentworth desperately. "Why don't you tell Mr. Oswald the truth?" "Dorcas, you're a child. You don't understand that I am up against a harder proposition bhan I can meet." "It seems to me, Enoch," said the girl slowly, "if yon had not â€" " She did not finish the sentence. She had turned her eyes away from her brother and stared at the multitude or craft in the Iwiy, jostling each other as vehicles do on Broadway. "Had not whiit?" he insisted. She met his ryes calmly and they wavered before her own. "I mean if you had not made a false start â€" if you had gone into this hone.stly â€" everything would have come out hap- pily." Wentworth did not answer. "I can't feel, Enoch, that Merry has had fair play." The man stamped his foot impa- tienbly. Horses and colts at pasture make their best and quickest growth when ' some grain is fed with the pasture grass and it is generally understoai start, the correspondent saw a big that the colb should be encouraged to j ^a^'^PareAts, its greatgrandparents, Cossack drop his cigarette and come , eat oats, preferably crushed and nrtx- ^t<^ Th's makes it important to hastily to the salute. | ed with bran, early in his lifetime. 1^^°'^ ^'^at all these parents hail qual- " The order, shrill, incisive, seemed ' VVhen it comes to the feeding of '*'^^ that would contribute to the to come from somewhere near my el- | horses that are at hard work for long making of a good animal of the type bow, and, looking down, I saw beside hours as are farm horses during near- ^'anted. A predigrce is a scheme for me on the crowded platform a trim 'V the whole of tAie summer season, 'seeping track of th eparents of an airi- little figure in the uniform of a Cos- 't is necessary to increase the amount !"al. Ib is a guarantee of what ia sack officer. It was not much more of grain fed, to double or more than ' "^\'^^ °^ 'he animal, of what has con- than four feet high, and its boots double the amount fed for ordinary ; tributed to its make up. It is this seemed to come nearly up to where, ' maintanence. The amount prescribed ^act bhat makes the pure-bred ani- on its breast, two Geoiiges glimmered in such a case by the Dominion An- i '"al valuable. â€" North Dakota Eperi- in the sun. The station gong struck ; 'mal Husbandman, is l^^i pounds per ''^''f't Station. getii swung back on its pole and twice ; the voice shrilled again, ' 100 lbs., of horse, of a mixture of 85 things begin to run without constant^ • Come, children !' The burly Cos- per cent, oats, and 15 per cent bran, switching, 1 11 return to the old rou- sacks who had been lounging about To keep the work horse in good health tine. Have a little faith in me. 1 the platform climbed into third-class it is also necessaiv that he be fed a have nobwly in the world except you." carriage, and as the train began to bran mash at rv.'gular intervab Sat- "Ile might have taken me into his confidence," snarled Wentworth. i "He knew how you felt about it.' Besides, Enoch," the girl's voice' trembled, "besides â€" lately I have not known whether you cared anything about my affairs." Wentworth did not answer until they turned into the quieter region of Waverly place. l "Don't sit in judgment on me, Dorry," he pleadctL "When the trol- ley Windbreaks Pay Dividends Windbreaks are usually more or less ornamental on a farm, and add to the 1 admitted that "It's a bargain," she answered. Dorcas flung away the paper which move, the amazing little person swung urday night being the time best suited ! not ™«Mv I .l^l' â-  u " ,'^ she was carrying and tucked oi.. hand, himself aboard at the tail of the pro- ; for this, on account of the day's rest ' „,'f„fii" „ ^ J^ 7 . * wmdbreaks into her brother's arm. \ cession and followed his 'children' into that follows. ' aitualiy pay dividends. "It! s a bargain?" he asked, looking their stuffy quarters." Turning out the work hor.se down at her with a smile. \ He was travelling with his " child- | grass, on Sundays, work all righb .. ^^ agricultural crops and that 'b bhe trees and their shade «r..ii with ho-. , tu ,' 'â- *"''«''â-  a strip of ground on either are given to sto^ki" gr^?h:rLJt'r ' ^ul.f Tef ^s J^'^'^.h"'^- the stall for long after hard work, but ^^^^^^^^ J,^,^ 'SlwL^Z such a condition should by rights be n,ore good than evil. '""°'*'"^' **"» made impossible by a treatment fcr The windbreak reduces the velocity The idea of \ of bhe wiivl, and, conso.ii.ontly, tho It must b- w-indbreaJcs occupy to space that could be profitably devoted ..,, , , , , ren- because they liked to have him the grass is noi too soft and'.f the ' toots^'S"""""' "°'"' ""^ *^' About Cordelia,' Dorry. do as you with them ; but later he visited the flies do not trouble the animal. This j please. I cut loose when father first-class cnrriage in which were the 1 scheme works planned my future, and did what I correspondent and some ladies, wanted to. A girl, I suppose, has tjie' " For all his dignity he was of quite same rights, e.«pecially if she's a girl a friendly disposition, and ho was who can be truste<lâ€" implicibly." i soon free of all the compartments in When ho unlocked the door, Dorcas our carriage. He knew his world, too, the benefit of bhe blood passed in before him. As he shut it ""^ the iron hand of discipline that behind him she threw her arms about had been in evidence on the platform j working horse over night, should not irnm tho â- T'^^^^ *â„¢'" evaporation his neck and kis.s«>,l him. Wentworth of tho way station was now appro- [ be considered, and it is a question if LiT,.,"! r^ll'; *^° and from the held her for a moment in a close, af- priately concealed in the velvet glove. | he does as well oul.^ide, as in the ditinn„l r^infnll i, ' ♦ T.'/^ , n' '" ^^' fectionate grasp. On the hall table The sweets an admirer gave him he stable, even if -fed his full rabion be- 1 ed i?a d.T/r ^«1 •' if '*""»'' f^^" lay a nobe addres.sed to Dorcas, also duly handed to ' ladies first.' Only in fore being turned out. With this ' the^reater vLw of fi.lH .l ^t^*'"'/'^' a telegram for Wentworth. He tore the dining car he was a little per- last mentioned practise there is also ' ^les S^l *he nrotllti^^ £^ it open an.l stood for a minute deep in P'^^""! ^y tho variety of cutlery. But the extra work and time of the beam- 1 SbTeak is eLu^h tnZ^pnf ^ thought. j he would not resort to natural weap- ster to be considered, and tho horse is ' farmer .nDTan?r/windrr.7kf '^ "Enoch, I have an invitation here' »"»• »"<* ^hen I ventured to come to likely to get better treatment- during ' Morrill in Farm anVnX^ from Mr. 0.swald to see Nazimova to- *"* 'â- Â«Â»<^"« °" the pretext that his the work if the man who drives him I ^' -W.J. night. Do you mind if I go?" No. Give Oswald a message from wounded shoulder put him at a dis- advantage in the struggle with a stub- me. I sha'n'b have time to see him ^°'"" ''rumstick, his ready abandon- before I leave." | ment of the unfamiliar knife to mo "Leave for vvhere?" | betrayed no consciousness that any- starts off in tho morning in a satisfied frame of mind. A cool, clean stable, screened so as bo keep out flics and regularly dis- infected with a wholesome-smelling "For Montreal. I put a detective on °"® '"'^^'^ suspect the possibility of wa.sh, will make the horse more com Merry's track. He has almost laid another reason. fortable at night, than will the aver- hia hand on him. Tell Oswald I will ',"®..,"^ ,] ,?" f";!'"" '," °°'a"'^' age pasture field, bring Merry back with me in two days at the latest." j "Oh!" cried Dorcas radiantly, "then everything will be righted!" | "Everything will be righted," le-' pented her brother. CHAPTER VIIL "Miss Wentworth, what does 'Hilda and with a child's facility had mas. tered Polish so well Ihiil he was able to give lessons in that lait^uage to the colonel of his regiment. This at- tainment gave him a decided advan- tage over his brother officers with the ladies, chiefly Poles, in our train." From Misha himself and the other officers the story of the two Georges on the boy's breast was elicited. Tho Points in Cattle Feeding At bhe end of the third year fattening steers in the open air Lacembe, Alberta, Mr. Hutton, of at the draws the following "Tlte Att-Pnrposa Sugar in 'The Master Builder' mean to you ? asked Grant O.swald during the first ing and clever esciape from six uhlans I luU of quiet they met after leaving who had taken him prisoner while rc- ,.,, , « , L- u m,.! I the theatre. Their cab had been held connoitring. He had shot one of Help me to And him then. Tilings up in a Broadway blockade and the them, searched his clothes, and cap- will straighten out if he puUi in an, e|ti-eet became suddenly still. "She tured important dispatches. The appearance Come, let us walk home, means something. Ilvsen, first, last, second medal ho obtained when he led It g too chilly for you to .It here. I and all the time, deals in parables, a forlorn hope in the taking of a re- Dorcas rose am foMed the paper six people, have six different inter- doubt, and was wounded in two places, which lay on her lap. bhe kept up pretations of 'Hilda." lam curiwis to It was a record of which any sol- wilh her brother's long strides through know what she stands for to you." : dier might be proud ; but the ques- the crowd that thronged Bromlway. Dorcas turned her candid gi-ay eyes' tion of discipline still lurked in the After a few minutes' silence ho asked to his. j correspondent's mind, dc-ipite the "no suddenly. "How did you happen to "I see only one thingâ€" eonsoienco. smokiiiging " episode. lie ventured She appears when the 'Master Build- delicately to inquire : er', by one cruel, unjust, selflsh action,! " How do your men like your mak- is bound to go down bo tho depths.' ing them throw away their cigar- mo Nothing can save him but his con superintendent, deductions; 1. Three-year-old steers seem bet- , ter adapted to straight wheat feeding first George he had wonâ€" and with it ^ than are two-year-old steers his promotion â€" by a singularly dar- A Suggestion. . • A politician who was seeking th« votes of a certain community thought it worth while to make mention of his humble origin and early struggles^ "I got a start in life by serving In a grocery store at $3 a week, and yet I have managed to save," he announc- ed. "Was that before the invention of cash registers ? " Apply the Remedy. "I see you no lorger call your place Idle Hour." "Nope; that name seemed to attractive to tiramps. So I changed it to Woodpile 'Villa." see Mr. Oswald yesleritay ? " "He called at the house." "About what?" 'On business. He has asked to play 'Cordelia,' " | science. 'Hilda' is his conscience, of "It might have occurre<l to him to course." con.sult mel" | "That is my interpreUtion exactly. Wentworth stoppcfl for a second, u {g a wonderful play!" Dorcas was not looking at him -her "It is a wonderful play." She point- eyes were turned straight ahead on ed to a crowd on bhe sidewalk. "What the bustling street. j., that string of men?" she asked "Why didn'bhe speak to me first?" Their cab had been moving step by he persistefl. ' gtep for half a block. Again it came "I don't kp«M'. I c in't decide what to a standstilL ettes ?" " Well, you see," answered Misha, simply, " they couldn't be expected to mind a little boy like me if I were nothing else ; but 1 am sn officer." Simple Enough. "When do you think peace will come .'â-  "When some of the send it an invitation." belligerents Doctor Tells How To Strengthen Eyesight SO per cent In One Week's Time In Many Instances A I><'o I*i'cserl|>tlon Vou <'nii Have I'llled and Use at iromc. riiM idt'lptit.i, I'll. Du .Tim wenr (jlasacii? Ale ,M>ii a vli't'ni of pyo ntraln or otlior eye weiikiirs'ioH .' U 8o, you will hr glad to know tliHt luiordlim to llr. LpwIs thore 1h real liope for you. Many who'ic" ryes were fiilMiiK say they liiive had their evaii r*- Btoroil through tho prljvelvlc ot thla wou- ilerfiil free prrKi Hptlon. Oao uiaii iitys, nftor trying It: "I wan almost blind i could not Hco to read at all. Now 1 can road ovorylhinB wltbont any glas.iea ani] my eyes do not water any more. At nlyht tliey would pain drpadfulljj now they imX fliu- all tln> Itme. It wan like a miracle to me." A lady who used It nays: "The at moKphcrn Becmed hasy with or without ?:lasHv I, but aftoj using thU pre.icdpUou or Hfteen daya everything neenis elpnr. 1 can even read nn« print without glaasoa." it 1m 1ip1Iov»'1 that thonsuuds who wear glnsHca can now dlfirgrd thmn In a reiison- ablo time aui niultltudrn more will be able to strengthen their oycASO as to bi- spared the trouMe and expense of ever getting Slasse.i. Eye trouble* ot many Uescrlp- tlona may lio wonderfully beufOted by fol- low-lng the simple rules. Here U the pre- scription ; do to any notlva drug store and get a bottle of Hou-Opto tablets. Prop one Bon flpto tablet In « fourth of a glais ?. Ti'^J *"'' allow to dlsaolvow With thla lifinia bathe the eyes two to four times (Jnlly. lfou should notice your eves dear up perc(>ptlhly»rtffht from the atnrt and in- flammation wlTl quickly dlsappwr. If your eyes ore botherlnjr you, oven a Uttlo, taka Rtepg to save tbera now before It Is too late. 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