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â- ^VEIH THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of *' The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER Vlll. â€" (Cont'd). . land beckoned Merry to enter he hesi- 1 ^ .1, v,„.„if,.i n.f tated, the blood flushing into his wan Dorcas glanced at the handful ol ^^^^ • men cowering in a shadowed corner. A sudden fear seized her, the feminine terror of midnight, streets. j '"-â- ..i'';^;;;'^;;';;','^ ,,ith you," answered ' "^l'^ night, on my way home from the Hrl. "Do get in, plea.se-out of . ^^^ ^^^i'^'-^ w.th Mr. Oswald our cab il . ~ .. ' stopped m a block, and it was opposite the ^torm. > - - - ^^ I silence after fcson had carried away the dishes. Their tiuiet was broken ! when the clock struck one. The man I started. "Miss Dorcas, you wanted me here bo talk, I cannot rob you of a night's sleep." i "I am as wide awake as a cricket. I \ slept all the afternoon." "First of all," Merry asked gravely, "how did you find me? Scores of men and women passed me day after day, people I have known for years. Not one of them, recognized me." "They were not searching for you." "You were?" Dor.^as nodded. "How did you find me?" he per- sisted. The Cream Separator. I !„ ^rder bo secure the best results lb io wondeif ul to reflect upon the | the separator must be worked at the progress that the cream separator has correct speed, which must be main^ "Wh'U' do you want. Miss Dorcas?" I he asked q'jjetly. "You don't imagine," she whisper- ed, "that I shall h;ive any trouble? It is possible 1 am making ami.stake in the man. Are they dangerous characters among them?" ,, .,, •Not exactly dangerous." sabl the | home with you officer slowly. 'If they're danger- ; ""'"'>• . ous it's from hunger. It ain't once | /•""''" ": ''"''Y; , , ''" l'"' r"'v'Jnt ' "^"""^^ ''^^''^ to-nigh^-jusb hoping." . crook in the broad ""« t^^re .s nobody at home except . ..^^j,^ .^ ^^_ Oswal.l?" asked Mer made during the la.«;t few years. There are now very few farms where dairy- ing is carried on that have not their separator, even bhough ths people running them may be antiquated in regard to their methods in other re- spects. It requires very litble demonstrating tained at a uniform speed until all the iiilk is separabed. Cows Need Mineral Matter. M.rry banded her in, then follow- ^y.^^'^J^^'^.V^^ °[ ">«" «t°"''- ^ ^'^a j "> convince anyone that a cream se- , ...... „ cd anil shut' the door. "I cannot go , ! ^ "'' *", !" *'}.';? " **?^ y"y P"" I P^^ator is a great saving over the oU ; of it is not so well known. he announced stub- down your hat. left me here I drove back to Tenth He's in Montreal' ^'J^^;-'' ^"' ♦']'« ""^'.'^"'l di>y>ersed. I [cent ! r.^., '''^"^ to-nigh^-jusb hopi Merry Jason and me. I have so much to say I abi-^ptly. she cried appeolingly. "We a year y«J find a < line Us too easy to .-ipot them, waiting as bhey do for an hour ^^ i'°j;''l-'Z:;i^'t{:Z^'l^'.tT^^^ "Don't you know? Haven't you been two in that light." "=«" ' f^ I, Liv^U •• I '•«^'''"^' the papers? Mr. Oswald is said the girl. She 0",f <^h a n,gh as th^s ^^e man who is putting on your plav." "Thank you," crouched behind a half-diawn curtain in the shadow of tlit- carriage, watch- ^ ing eagerly the gat-horing of homeless, i hungry men. They began to creep toward the bakery from every direc- tion, most of bliem with a .shambling step that told of ill-shud fecb or sham- ed reluctance to beg for food. The skies hal been lowering for hours, and jusb before midnight the fir.-it „ storm of the winter came down. It w.l try to forget you. began with keen, tiny needles of ice, \ M^'-y stretched out h.s hand Merry stared at her for a minute with dogged obstinacy in his gaze. "Won't you come?" urged bhe girl impetuously. Her color deepened and an eager light shone in her eyes. "There is so much I want to say. Wc shall be n-'ite alone. You can trust Jason. Aftei-war is you may go away â€" if you wish â€" and I will pro- mise never to atbampt to find you. I i That pigs require a considerable amount of mineral matter in their food is prebty well known but that cows will sometimes suffer from want Salt, of When Mr. Oswald j pan method of securing cream. A se- course, is always fed to the stock by parator takes up much less room in I careful feeders all the year round, bhe dairy than the setting pans, and it • The late Herr Kellner estimabed obtains a greater yield of butter from • that a cow giving twenty pounds of the milk used. Moreover, the cream \ milk p«r day should receive about from the separator is quite sweet, and three and a half ounces of lime per therefore the ripening of it is more I day. Many cases have been observed easily controlled than where pans are ' where cows had abnormal appetities employed, which develop a certain ' and developed the habib of eating amount of acidity or other ferments wood, etc., that when a sufficient due to bacterial acUviby while the amount of lime was fed the desire to "Your play," repeated Dorcas in a j cream is rising. j gnaw wood and eat filth stopped, quiet tone. "They have been search- | When the cream separator is care- ! In secbions where the water is soft ing everywhere for you to play 'John ! ^""y managed the skim milk should ' many good dairymen put lime in the Esterbrook.' Enoch is in Montreal i "°* contain more than 0.1 per cent, of now, looking for you." j butber fat, and thus the butter yield is Merry laughed harshly. I increased by 10 to 12 per cent, as com- The girl clasped her hands togeth- P^^i^d with the old pan setting system "My play?" Andrew dropped half-smoked cigar on the bable. his and but they stung and froze, for the wind drove them in merciless, piercing flur- ries. The loiK'ring men crowded to- gether and turned their faces sullen- ly from each furious cloud of sleet. Hunger was bitter eno.igh without the storm. Dorcas w%tched through mi.sty eyes. She wondered at the still patience of the th'-ong. Below her in a basement a warm red light burn- ed, and through an open door the wind blew the fragrance of boiling coffee across the street. She saw a man thrust a slim white-faced boy i into a shelter between the wall and ! touched her arm, leaning forward un- til his face wa sclose to her.^. "Miss Dorc.is, don'b say that. Since I left you that night on Juniper Point 1 have lived a lifetime of happiness and horror and remorse. One think alone has saved me from going over the brink of the precipice, simply one thing.' He lifter his eyes to hers. "The one thing," he repeated, "that i I could not fling away was the mem- ory that you trustc! I me, that you be- lieved in me. and were waiting for me to m:>ke good." "I trust you now," cried the girl, her er. "Mr. Merry, tell me, are you and Enoch no longer friends?" Andrew picked up his cigar and puffed it unbil the rclrl spark revived. Then he laughe 1 again. "We are not exactly friends. Has he told you anything?" (To be continued). O NATURE GUARDS SECRETS. Centuries of Study Yield Little Study Yield Moon. to This makes a considerable difference in the course of a year where good dairy cows are employed, and would soon pay for the separator. Wibh care a separator will last for many years anil it is generally through carelessness or ignorance that it breaks down. It is import- 9 Of Course You Need § BENSON'S lea Cream comes out of the freezer S wllh a velvety smoothnessâ€" and a K now dellclousnesaâ€" when It Is made B with BENSON'S. â-  And It is pretty hard to ask for any- Si thing more delJcIoua than a Cliocolato Blanc Mange or Cream Custard with Fruit, made of Benson's Corn Starch. Our new Recipe Book "Desserts and Candies" tells how and how much to use. Write for a copy to our Montreal Officeâ€" and be sure to tell your rrocer to send BENSON S, the standby In Canada for more than half a century. 1~ THE CANADJI STARCH CO. LIMITED 8 MONTREAL, CAROfNAL, 9 â-  RANTFORD, 216 FORT WILLIAM. K PUT IN LAYER OF MAGGOTS. German Baker Also Mixed Ants and Bug.s in His Cakes. The Berlin Vorwaerts says: â€" The water trough so as to make sure that ' unscrupulous manner In which the the animals vrill get enough of this ' preparation of various articles of food very importanb food constituent. The is being carried on has again been strikingly exemplified in Leipzig. A master baker, C. A. Rabitz. the owner of one of the foremost fashion- able establishments in Leipzig, has old saying that "a limestone coiuntry is a rich country" emphasizes the value of the lime, and it is a well known fact thab the bigest boned and thriftiest cattle are raised where the I been found guilty of the most shame- soil has an abundance of lime. less transgression of all existing laws Writing in Wallace's Farmer some and regulations. His worst practice time ago, Mr. C. H. Eekles, of the '' of all was to bake live maggots in . Universiby of Missouri, wrote: "The i his cakes, ant that the separabor bearings be j use of clover, alfalfa, or cowpea hay, i On an assistant showing him that well oiled in order to avoid friction [ in the ration vnll make certain that the dough was full of these vermin, and wearing out of parts. Before â-  this trouble (lack of lime in the feed) Rabitz contented himself with cover- starting to separabe all the sight feed ; will not occur. These foods are the '"ff them up beneath a layer of dough, lubricators should be full, and tested i highest in lime conbent of any which ' "No need to remove the maggots," England, observatory ' i°.*^® **'"* '''^''' y^'" '" ^^"'''''"K °'"<^e'"- we ordinarily feed. Com, on the . he observed, "people will oat the by Charle.s H. mainlv for ' j separated should always be sbart- ! other hand, is the most definipn*-. in cakes all the same." The maggot himself, "If I were sbarving I voice breaking into a sob. "I am still astronomers have in the intervening couldn't be ' waiting for you to make good. patient and courteous,' she thought. y«i come horn with me ?'^ ,,.;,. â-  â-  .- "The smell of fond would madden me, ^^^ '""'^ stopped in front of the been amenable to their mathematics Waverly Dlace home. Merry followed The astronomer royal, in his report of her reluctanMy up the steps. She the work at Greenwich during the last ; nau.sed for a moment while .she ad- ^ year, calls attention to the increasing- ^^^^ '^ should be warmed up to from were actually giving off more lime in P"sonment besides being condemned justed the key in the lock. ly big deviation between the calculated ^ ^^"^ ^^*^- ^- â- '"st before being bheir feed. Probably no trouble ,'° P*y * ^"® °' ^^^• "Would you mind seeing Jason ?" I position of the moon in the sky and 8*P^''»ted. The separator should be ! would have resulted except for the 1 * " she asked hesitatingly. "He can help its real position as shown by the washed immediately after using. If j 'act that the preceding summer had you with dry clothes. He will be as Greenwich observations. ; ' ^ for some time, as is often done, it h<?en dry and the grraas short, making glad to see you as I am." j This deviation has lately been in-; f'l^s the slime a chance to dry on the | it Impossible for the cows bo accumu- "Ring for him," answered Merry creasing in a serious manner, the er- ; '^'erior of the bowl, and then more late a reserve supply of lime." quietly. "Ja-on and I are oil pals." ror last year being more than 12 times ' *""* «n(i trouble are required to re- j Half and hour later Merry walked «» large as it was 20 years ago, the 7'°]'^ " ^han if the cleaning were ef- into the library where Dorcas was average annual increase amounting in I ^^"®" "^ ^oon as; the milk has passed ! *^hich of These is the Better 7 waiting for him. It seemed as if the two decades to half a second of j ^^'"""Kh [he ".acjiine. j Two men were leaning over the pas- the mere resumption of clean, com- i ""-c m longitude. The cause of the .'r""! • t ^ ? *'^'' ^^® "" ^^^ P^"^* ^^^ bars, fortable clothing, even though hunger f»''"'« of astronomers to make the ^'th ^^'h'ch the milk comes into con- "Yes, sir, that colt is for sale bub'^*'' still marked him, ha<l given the man •^""," """-'""We to their exact mathe- matics, based on the dynamical laws I would batter a door down." She started suddenly, then for a moment yhe scarcely breabhed. Down Tenth street sli>uched a tall, stooping figure. The man wore a shabV)y overcoat which covered his body al- most to the feet; its collar wa.s burn- ed high about his neck and an old slouch hat shadowed his face. Dorc.ts could KCe little between but a bristling beard. The keenest detective search- ing for .\iidrew Merry would not nav« glanced twice at the figure; Dorcas' eyes f«)llowed it with grave perplexity. She had been startled into recogni- tion the night before when the man ... pulled the shabby hat .lown over hi.s , ^'"^^ ^"'"'" •"'"'^ <l'ir-iity. face. She caught a glimpse of Mer- He laughed ner\'ously. lb is a re- ry's long, white, slender finger.s and â-  juvenation, isn't it? he asked as ho noted an impatient, peculiarly grace- ! P'»"^'*'l "* himself in the mirror, fill gesture which was characteristic j "J»^»" ".'jeu'-thed some duds I once of him. Dorcas had seen ib frequent- I ^*^^^ here. ly, sometimes when he was on the • Jason was an excellent valnt, and a ^ ^..^,.„^.. Stage, .Mimctimes while he had talked ^"^ ''"^^- '^ ^^'^'"'' ""'' ^'"''*'" raimenb j,^^,^ ^^,1^. seamen virtually independ- had made a man of Merry. The lock g^t of lunar observations in ascer- of fair hair which habifjally fell over taining their position in the trackless his forehead made him look almosb oceans. boyish, although his face was pallid j 4 and careworn. | No man is too poor to give advice. "I have eaten nothing since morn- I If a man doesn't marry a woman ing," Dorcas said. "I told Jason to because .'â- he is pretty or because she serve supper here, on a little bable be- has money, it's a pretty sure si<le the fire, where it is cozy and he is in love with her. Greenwich, was founded ^,f ^.tan^r, 1.. niamiy lur j 1 1 j " â€" the purpose of investigating the move- ' ^'J ^^'^ slowly, and the speed work- 'â-  lime of all grains ordinarily fed. A P*^**-' ^a* thereupon duly baked into ments of the moon in the interests of '" f^ "^ gradually, and no milk let into \ pouml of alfalfa hay contains practi- i cakes. navigation, but though generations of j ""*'' " '^ running at full ' cally the same amount of lime as 100 ' ^e}}nz had also prepared another speed. pounds of corn. i kind of confection, styled "dessert The milk should be separated as I "We found a herd of dairy catble i "^^ke," from ground wood and potato soon as it leaves the cow, as fab is lost I in this state suffering from a lack of ^"'^'^ '" which quantities of ants and in the skim milk when the milk is ' limeâ€" and on investigation it was dis- ®^^" ^"^^ ""^^^ present, skimmed below a temperature of 85 ' covered that the cows, which were ' '^'^ infamous specimen of the deg. F. If cold milk has to be dealt pro<iucing 35 pounds of' milk » '^"" ' baker tribe received five months' im- Won t i„,(, and a half centuries been working at the problem, the moon has not yet day, Kitchener Predicted Death. When Lord Kitchener was in France some three months ago, visiting the British fronb, he met his friend the naval Capt. Testu de Balincourt, then on ser^nce at Dunkirk, whom Lord Kitchener asked to be his special aid if he should need one later uuring the ,.,,,, - , ..o, =.,, vua, ^.„,t ,a lor saie Du» "^^^ ^*"''^ Kitchener bold his friend tact should be taken apart and washed : he belongs to my son in the fteu'von ' ^°^ * ^'^^"y ^^ell had burst close to with lukewarm water. Hot waber | der. You'll have to bargain with '*'''" ""^'^^ """ ^^'» ^''''- but added, of gravitation, is believed to bo some j should not be used, as it ca-ases part j him," said the farmer, motioning to attractive force of which we are at of the milk to cake on, and form a re- the boy. "He'll be here nresentdv pret;ent ignorant, though in all prob- j fufre for germs which taint milk. 1 and you can talk to him " ability one factor is the true shape | Arber this the parts should be wash- I "That boyl" ejaculated the Strang of the earth, which still awaits accu- ed in fairly hot water contaniing rate determination. Fortunately the ''ttle soda, and then be dipped chronometer and wireless teleijraph '' with her He pau.'icd before facing the glare of Braodway and pulled the hat brim carefully about his face; it might have been for shelter from the sting- ing blasts of .sleet or for better con- cealment. Then he seemed to gather him.«(If together with energy born of despair. He st'oppod quickly forward and took his place at the end of the bread line. A hundred men stood be- tween him and the beneficence of food. Others were closing in behind him. Here and there one man turnol to speak ti) another; the man Dorcas was watching stood immovable. He thrust his hands deep in his overcoat pockets his eyes were fixed on the whitening sidewalk beside him. Dorcas turned to the opposit'e window and nodded with an eager gesture to the officer. His hand went up. He .spoke to the cabman in a low voice. "Drive round through University placf t'j Tenth â€" then up toward BroB :way. PjII up half-way down the block." The man turned his horsa and mov- ed down the street. sign CHAPTER IX. cheerful." Merry dropped into a chair. He wondered if the intense enjoyment of the good things of life was pure sensu- oUFiiess. The oddor of hot coffee, the sight of a daintily set table, the ra- diance of a coal fire, the glow of red- shad(i|l lights, and the storm shut oub- doors brought a tingling pleasure which seemed like mere animal grati- fication. He shivered for a moment as he lii^taned to the storm. He won- dered what had made it possible for him to brave homelessness and hun- ger and squalor. Looking back on it he realized he had borne it as a man lives through pain under the power of an anesthetic. The misery of his mind had .killed the cordid wretched- ness of mere existence. To Merry that supper was a fes- tival, not wholly because it was the satisfying of ravenous appetite, but becau.se it was the crisis of his life. Dorcas sensed that if her own hunger scalding water, The creamy matter left in the bowl may be pub in the pig tub, and care must be taken to thoroughly clean the bowl of all the slime present after se- parating. The amount of slime In the bowl is a good indicaHon aa to whether the milk has been obtained in a cleanly manner or not. The dirtier the milk the more slime there will be present in the bowl. "that did not disturb me, for I know thab I shall die at sea." "Yes, George is seventeen and a hear him in debate. He can hold his end with the best of 'em. He raised that colt and the sale money saving for a coiuse in an agricultural Chickens Now $4 Apiece. The London Times Berne corres- pondent quotes an American from onclu.sion of thab city is outwardly little chang- ed; that the chief privation is the" ab- sence of news. Food commands ex- travagant prices, bread being thirteen Dorcas breathed a sigh of relief when her cab drew up beside the bread line. She had thought during ' was real, Merry would not feel tliat her brief drive around the block of | she was feeding a famished outcast. the possibility that the man might ; Jason beamed upon them in sheer en- leave his place; but there he stood joyment when he brought in full against the stinging eddies of sleet. | dishes and carried away empby ones. She stepped from the carriage and j Dorcas was light-hearted and gay, as passeil swiftly along the sidewalk be- j happy as they had been during their side the line of a city's poor. She first acciuaintance at the .shore. For hesitated for a few seconds when she ' a moment, while Merry drank his cof- reached the corner, then she stretched | fee, the memory of a few horrible out her hand and laiil it on the wet weeks intruded on bhe present sleeve of the man before her. He "Miss Dorcas," he began abruptly turnerl and sbared at her for one daz- I "Why did you--" ed moment He did not speak. In- j She stretched out her hand appeal- Btinctive courtesy reminded him that ' inffly. .'this was no place for a woman in a "Don't bring in why.sâ€" now. We are midnight storm, and his desire bo pro- so comfortable. I don't ask for an ex- tect her causes 1 the hunger to be for- gotten. He stepped quietly from the Bidewalk and without a word moved beside her down the street The movement caused a score of men to turn with quick curiousity, but sud- denly a cry ran down the line; "The door's open!" Everything else yield- ed to the march toward food. Dorcas swiftly led the way to the carriage. planationâ€" I don't want bo give any. Can't you see I'm in Happy Valley for a little while? I am so glad to have you here aj^ain." Merry smiled into her eyes. "I'll ohey you, bless yoxr gentle heart! ' The girl rose and reached to a shelf behind her for a box of cigars. Merry lib one, lounged back in j. cushioned _ chair, and puffed rings of smoke When she opened the door towards the red fire. They sat in collet, then nr j^xâ€"nd^iri::::? -'^l^j^^^ti^^ hell run the old farm. Here George, this man is looking at your two-year-old." The bargain was soon concluded, but no.t before bhe b.jyer had learned that the seventeen-year-old boy was a pound. Chicken.9 are from $2 to $4 apiece. Batter is a dollar a pound. There is much distress and even star- vation in the surrounding country. Madge (reading letter from brother went right through his hat without touching him." Old Auntieâ€"" What a blessing he had his hat on, dear." DAUGHTER OF LATE PRESIDENT CLEVELAND NOW EUROPE. Miss Esther fleveliinrt (lefO, a daughte time I'resitlent of the United States, as she 111 the Kuropeaii war zone. On the right â-  u-or. ted for bravery on the allied front. NURSc iter of the lute (Jiover t'leveiaud. o;,* he appears in the uniform of a imr.'s j Is Sister Pat, u nuiee who h.is hci.i a keen judge of horse flesh :.nd knew ' «' the front)â€"" John sayn a bullet the worth of his colt. " Two men were leaning over the pas- ture bars. "Yes, sir, tihem steers are as good as ever was raised in this town That boy over there calla em his, ami has fussed with 'em ever since they were calves. Hey ? Oh, that makes no difference when it comes to selling They were fed from my mov,-, and 1 reckon the cash goes inbo my pocket Boys are ungrateful nowadays. He keeps talking of quitting and I can't keep him longer than he is twenty- one. He might take bhe old farm and let me have a rest, but he will! not listen to that Well -it can'b be helpe-l as I see. Y'ou don't offer quite what I consider the «teers I worbh, but there's no use in feeding! 'em any longer. They're yours" Which boy made a succassful„ con- tented farmer, and why?â€" Western Farmer. HUNS ARE GLUTTONS. Eat Far More Than Other People, When Possible. Though the Huns are beginning to complain that they are being starved, yet what is starvation to them is plenty to most nations, say* London Answers. Before the war the Germans, both men and women, were the biggest eat- ers of any one the Continent The average German begins' with coffee and milk between sev«n and eight in the morning. About ten there is a meat breakfast at o«e o'clock a really heavy meal, as a rule about twice ai much as an English lunch, with beer or wine, or both. At tea, cakes; cho- colates and marzipans are invariably eaten. 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