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*i f- â-  « THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of ♦' The Woman from Wolvertons " ;5^ I stand by you," she whispered, night." i "Good (.'UAPTEU IX.-- (Continued). | " Yes. ho told me. only It seemed bo j strange, no hard to believe alter oufj talk that day at the point, that some- how I cannot understand It." Merry watched her keenly. He was throttling a temptation to tell every- thing that had come between him and the suusliine of existence. He felt I sure of the girl's sympathy ; he knewi she would understand. He liad begun 1 to realize his own dependent nature. "How CHAPTEIl X. . : 'â- 15o you mind if I am atrociously frank with you ?" It was Grant Aswald who spoke. Pliioch Went worth and he sat far back in the darkened orchestra at the Goth- am, watching a rehearKal. Wentworth nodded, but turned a .startled glance upon the man beside him. "Simply because I know how power- ful your play is, I want to suggest a touch that will make it stronger." "What ?" "Understand, this is not criticism. who believes in you â€" who cares a First there had been his „>other,"then! K"-"", .f^"' '"^ ><>" ^"<^ """"* y"'"' '"' for years he had leaned upon Knoch's I '"''^ • Btrength and friendship. When he was Merry spoke gently. "Miss Dorcas, left alone it was outer darknes's. Every ^ I'm afraid you are mistaken. There is fiber of his being Ignged not so much , not)ody In the world to care." for redress as for understanding and I She rose to her feet and, leaning on Oh !" cried the girl agbast. you have altered "" "I have." Merry spoke In a hoarse whisper. He returned to his chair by If you don't think well of It we'll never the fire and bent to warm his lingers mention it again." Oswald approached by llie blaze. There was another long the subject diplomatically. He had silence. Dorcas was tli<' first to break begun to discover a strangely uneven K I temper in Enoch. There were days â- â€¢Even if it were against your Incll- «hen he stood upon the heights of nations, would you do something to triumphant anticipation, then came make some one very happy, some one "'"'rvals when everything and every- body were at odds. ' sympathy. "Miss Dorcas, I will begin at the day when I left you andâ€"" Suddenly he realized he could not tell the story of Enoch'.s disloyally to her. "Miss Dorca.s, 1 need your help â€" terribly." "I am ready to help you in any way I can," she answered quietly. She knew he was nerving himself to a con- fession, and she understood what an ordeal it was to tlie man. She cros.scd the room and laid a paper before him, pointing to the bold headlines stretched across the top of the page. The words fairly leaped at .Merry. TRE.MENUOUS SURPRISE Enoch Wentworth the Coming Drama- tist. He read on down through the col the mantel, glanced down at him with eyes from which embarrassment had suddenly fled. "One person cares very much. I do. I have set my heart on your suc- cess. Vou have a great futureâ€" won't you work for it ? Ilesides, I am self- ish." Her eyes shono with eagerness. "1 want to play 'Cordelia.' Mr. Os- wald has offered me the part. I have studied n. I could play it to morrow If you would be my teacher." Merry turned with a quick ge.sture as If to push temptation away from him." "Don't !" he cried. "Ah, Miss Dorcas, don't go into stage life !" "I shall go into it sooner or later." She spoke with a (luiot determination. "I feel sure I can play 'Cordelia ; ' be- sides, It would be so much easier to "What did you think of changing ?" "It is not changing," Oswald spoke thoughtfully. "What I have in mind is elaboration. You have made 'Cor- delia' a loyal, tender woman, but the mother ought to be more of a foil to her. She is cruel now, vain, selfish and deceitful butâ€" she is not bad enough. When It can be done, 1 be- lieve In choosing an actress who has something in common with the role she is to play. Character conies out every time, even in acting. Don't you agree with me ?" I "To a certain extent." | "Of course, in cases of downright genius it is different. There is Merry.] If we accept tragedy, I believe he could portray any character from gay-' est comedy to intense emotion. I pre- dict for your sister's 'Cordelia' a suc- cess that will stir New York to enthu- umn. Feilowr journalists had banded make a beginning with Enoch and Mr. together to give Enoch a royal Intro- Oswald and you." duction. Merry's name was not men-; Merry rose and paced for a few tioned, though there wa.s fretiuent rcf- minutes about the room, then turned erence to a famous star, who had the to the window and gazed out at the leading part In consideration. Oswald deserted city. The sleet of midnight was referred to as a newcomer in the had changed to a raging storm. The ranks of New York managers. His wind drove the snow in sudden flur- lavlsh production of Wenlworth's ^ ries, piling it in drifts across the drama was described in figures ap- square. proachiug prodigality. Merry read It "Miss Dorcas," he said, "come here." thrcuKh to the last sentence, then the' The girl crossed llie room. "Why, paper fell to the floor and he buried his face In his hands. While Dorcas watched, her heart ached for "him. It was hard to hold in chfck the soothing touch she would ha"e given to a woman or to a child she cried, "it Is a fearful night !" "Yes.! It's a fearful night for the homeless. Do you know where I might have found shelter tonight If It had not been for you ? Perhaps there's a hallway somewhere that I "Oh !" she .said in a piteous whisper,' could have slipped into, and for an "It was such a mislali.-." I hour or two the police would hav I-ift He did not answer or lift hl.s head ' me undisturb-d. I might have found from his hands. siasin, but she could never play any- thing but a sweet, true-hearted woman. No nmtter how hard she tried, she would fail in the part of a false, un- scrupulous adventuress. Do you see I what 1 am driving at ?" ! "I think 1 do." I "When you read your play to me and "John Esterbrook's' wife took shape before my eyes, Zilla Paget came to my memory. 1 asked you then I to reserve the part for her, because, I If I can judge human nature, she Is I the woman's prototype." I " Miss Paget must be a fiend Incar nale If 'Mrs. Esterbrook' ' I enough for her." ! "I'm not as merciless as that " me tell you what I judge her by. Sea- son after season she was cast in Lon- don companies ^r women of the lower type or of bad morals. Sometimes she was a cold blooded, scheming adven- turess, or a creature so cruel, so heart- less and unwomanly that she seemed I a defamation of the sex. Miss Paget s not bad Let "I pleaded with Enoch. 1 told him It wa.s all wrong, terribly wrong, for him as well as for you ; that when you returned he must set thing straight. I told him it was not even collabora- tion ; it was wholly and distinctly your play, yours alone " "Collaboralon ?" repeated .Merry, perplexedly, raising her eyes. "He told nif cveiytlilng," cried the Kin hurriedly. She was trying to save him the full confession of bis down- fall. She did not wish to listen In it. "Everything "" rfpcaled .M<'rry In- an etnpty bench on a ferryboat, or .^^^ ^^^ ^ _^^^_^^,^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^,,,^„ the liowery missions iir" open ; only I before one can make up his mind to seek a lodging Ihiie, they are lllled to •^ulllcallon." I llonas shivered. \ "If 1 had known during these weeks that anybody cared or believed In me perhaps I should not have gone so far down the hill. I did not dare even lo liope ihal you thought of me again." "Andrew,' said the girl, "I care so much that 1 cannot tell you. Some queer strain in my nature makes me j liappiiHt when 1 have some one to care an idiotic manager cast her as a sweet, reliiH'd. home loving woman. I never sal through such a pitiful failure. She played it for Iwo nights, then she was thrown aside. She liad a long run of hard luck. Managers forgot how re- markably she had played bad woman. Tlie failure us a good woman was laid up against lier." "I tl.ought she had a tremendous succcB last winter." (To He Continued). credulously. "Yes. overylhiiig. Oh " if you iiad for. (iirls at the convent used to come (jack only two or tre.' days ago come lo me in all sorts of dillicuities ; thluiis would have been dlfferc**.." He rose abruptly and crossed to the window. "Mlsi! Dorcas," ho did not turn to look at her, "what was the worst thought you had of me when Enoch told you -what happened ?" The girl paused for a minute before 8he answered "I thought you were â€" weak." ' the ones I loved licst were the ones wlu lird me most. They called me •Liltli' Mother.'" "i,llll«" Mother,'" repeated Merry; then he laughed hus.kily. if the girl had known men slif would have seen absolute famine for love, for sympathy and human unilcislanding In the eyes tlial were bent upon her. "1 taki> back wlial 1 said a lew min- utes ago, Miss Dorcas, aliout the stage Women like "Weak " The man repeated the word as if trying to comprehend Its ^ being no place for you meaning. you are needed there." "You should not have allowed Enoch I "Thank you," she said wilh a happy to stand as the author of your play, ' smile. "Won't yo1i come back? Such no matter what the clrcumslancs an opportunity is waiting for you. were. He Is not happy over it today. Hesides. I could never play 'Cordelia HOW COINS WEAR OUt. LosB of Weight That Occurs Is Doubt- lesH Caused by .\brasion. In the latest report of the Uritish mint, Sir Thomas K. Rose, a well- known metallurgical expert, calls at- tention to the elTect of grease derived from the sweat of the fingers, or from other sources, in accelerating the wear of coins, which is usually attributed entirely to abrasion. Sir Thomas says that the fatty acids of the grease have a corrosive action upon the metal. Copper in particular, even if present only in small (luatitity as an alloy for gold or silver, is converted into an oleate, stearate, or other salt, llaagen Smit of the Utrecht mint, found by analysis that the dirt on a lironze coin His nature seems lo liuve changed, with anyone but you. and you must ''« , j.„nt„int.,l thirty-six per cent, of cop- He Is liot easy to live with even. Oh, I wii-h II liad never happi'ncd." Mf riy waited In silence. "Things must comn right, even If this He has been told." She pcjlnled at the paper which lay at her feet my leadier. Merry did not answer immediately. Dorcas liad grown accustomed lo the long pauses in their conversation and wailed quietly. When he looked up llielr eyes met his pleaded with her per in the form of powdered com- pounds of the fatty acids. When the coin is handled the dirt is in part de- tached, and the coin undergoes a loss of weight. Cold or silver is not read- ily converted into salts, Imt removing 'There is one way. You can play the during one speechless moment for RH j);^ ,,„ppi.r leaves the less easily at convict so wonderfully that people bis shorlconilngs, for shirked lespon- ^jj^.^,,,, rn,,tj,is in a spongy form that must reallz"' that you yourself created 8ll)llltb's and failures thi! part " I "Mis Dorcas," hi- said, "when a man "I shall never play the cimvlct." has lost hope, ambition, his faith In Merry's voice was slow and resolute. ! human nature and ev.'rything that "Oh!" cried Dorcas, "who can ? niakrs life worth while. If he has gone Why, I thought your heart was set down Into lli(< depths and still has the on the character." "It was once." "I cannot understand." The man did not allempt an (-xplana tlon. "Andrew Merry," she hesitated as If desire come lo lake up life again, la there any (|uality left lliat will help him?" "Yes," Dorcas moved as If by sud- den linpulso and laid her fingers upon the man's arm ; "he has limior. So offers little resistance to abrasion. In new coins the rapid loss of weight that occurs is doubtless caused at lirst by abrasion, but when the rough edges have been removed, chemical action may prove to lie of the tirst import- ance in the sueceedinK deterioration. Beareblng for words which would not | '""K »« '""• '« " '""" "' ''"""i', there wrong her brother, "did Enoch do you ^ '» n id of a chance" any any injustice ?" She walled for an answer durliiK an Infinitely long silence, so tt seemed to hor. Then the actor spoke abruptly. "No. As I look back on It now, I went Into It with my eyes open. 1 sim- ply learned that there Is no way to KBiige human nature." Again lliero was silence. Dorcas was trying to imderstand, trying to be loyal to her brother, even while her heart, aching with unspoken ayniimlhy, turned to Merry." "Why don't you want to play '.lohn Esterbrook ?' " she asked qiilotly. "I don't suppose I have a dnceni rea- Bon. except Ihal when i gave up Ihe p'vy I loHl all Interest in It. 'John Fsterbrf.ok' Is no morn to me today tl ;.M 'S::u» llegg."' Oriental (Courtesy. A year or two ago, says Pearson's Weekly, a distinguished European diplomat paid an otTicial visit to the Sultan of Morocco. A man of honor." As be repeated I "">â- '"« ^h" audience the diplomat ! the words his face paled suddenly. It i ""ticod wilh some surprise that not was the same altribute which Enoch , one of the three clocks in the audi- I had accord.-d to him. ; enco chamber was going. Very dolic- I Dorcas watched him Inlcnlly, her calely he mentione.i t)o the Sultan that : eyes full of nager nnllcipation. She his clocks had all stopped, an,; hinted ' could see him undergo some si range that he would like to present him j menial struggle. When he looked at [ with one that would be more reliable. her, his face bad changed, instead of ^ The S.iU'an thanked him. aimlliy there were lines of grim deter- 1 "Hut my clocks are CKiellent tijme- ' minallon about his moulh. I ".Miss Dorcas," he said I "make 'Cordehtt' Ihe woman you are , fore you came; but I had them all I yourself. I am weak and broken now, . stopped, us I did *not desire, during I as '.lohn Esterbrook' was; still a Your Kxcellency's all too brief viaitt, chance came to me at the end. I will | to be remind©! of the flight of time!" ' do tlin best I can If you stand by me." I Dorcii,. stopped tor a second. With | Mania^o in indeed a failure when a caressing touch she swept Ihe lock )ove glows coV. before the btide gets i troin hl» forehead. "1 prenils'! to .,.]! the rice out of her hair. ! keepers," he added with a smile, slowly, ; "They were all going; until just l>e- The Value of Underdrainage. What has struck me most of late is the valiue and importance of tile drainage ,and how little farmers avail themselves of the opportunity of im- proving their laroJ in this manner. I will quote a few particular instances of the effect of tile drainage that I have come across. Our farm has a certain amount of tile-drains where they are most need- ed, but has by no means a thorough system. They were put in before my time at the Vat» of about one drain a year. A field we had in corn last yeai- was always wet on the south side when the rest of the field was fib to work, and consequently was sel- dom worked up well, and, on account of this and its low-lying condition, never raised more than half a crop. A few years ago a five-inch ilrain was pub through it, and although this did not drain it thoroughly, this part of the field always raises one-third bet- ter crops. Last year was wet and we had the field in corn. At one time, on such a year, there would have been practically nothing on this strip but the tile did the business, and ib went 100 bushels to the atre and the rest of the field about fifty. Another field was in oats last year an i seeded down to alfalfa. Thert, are several drains running across the ] field, bub at quite a distance apart. ] When I mowed the field I received an ; object lesson. A few rods on each side of the tile drains there was a fine, thick crop, but farther away, the alfalfa was badly winter-killed and | hardly worth cutting. If the fieW had been thoroughly under-drained it would easily have yielded two loads per acre. As it was it barely went a load to the acre and almost all of that> came from over the tile drains. We intended to put two fields in oabs this year. There were both good fields and of similar soil. One is well undenhrained, the other has no drains in it. The drained field was fit early, worked up nicely, and was one of the first sown in the vicinity. The other field was wet and sbayed wet until it g-ot too late for oats, so we decided to plow it and planb it in com. The weather suddenly change<l to the other extreme and became hot and dry. We were finishing anoth- er corn field and by the time we were ready to plow bhis field it was too hard and remained so until it was too late for corn. So in this instance lack of tile drainage meant the loss of a crop. These arc just a few of many similar personal experiences in bhis line. Now, I may be wrong in making such a general as.sertion, but from my personal experiences tile-drain- age means at least one-third better crops, or an increa.se in production of 33 per cent. Now by a recent law in Onbario a farmer without sufficient funiis can, 1 believe, borrow up to $1,000 from the township for the pur- pose of tile drainage, and be charged interest on it in his assessment, to- gether wibh his other drainage taxes, at the rate of (5 per cent. If he can invest this money at a profit of 33 per cent., and only pay 6 per cent, for ib what better investment could he desire? Why is he so slow to avail himself of this goldeit opportunity? â€" Reginald Jukes, in Farmer's Advocate. Cow Comfort In Summer. How stables have been generally de- signed with the ol)ject of keeping cows comfortable in winber only. This may have been all right in the past, l)Ut conditions are rapidly changing in the dairy industry, anil it is becom- ing quite as necessary to proide for sbablc comfort in summer a.s in w nter. The practice of milking in the liarn is now common, and will become more so us the use of the milking machine in- creases. Instead of throwing green feed over the pasture fence to the cows we now have the summer silo and feed them in the stiiblc. As I dairy methods improve the fly nuis- l uncc claims more attention, and evei"y ' one knows that flies l)other the cows j less in a cool, dark place than in bhe open sunlighb. On most good dairy farms the cows are kept in for at least a part of the day in the warm months, and this shoull not be lost sighb of I when stables are built or remodelled. I The chief consideration in provid- ! ing for summer comfort is to have a ! ciuitinuous stream of fresh air pass- ing through t'he stables. The pie- vailing wind in this country is from west to east. In order to catch the most of this bhe stable should lie north and south, with the winilows in the east and west side. This ar- rangement agrei's with bhe winter de- mands for lots of sunshine. The windows should be entirely removable. Ventilating shafts an>! feed shutea shrould be made so that they will carry off a maximum nmounb of warm air. The stable fixt ires should be such as to offer the minimum ob- struction to the free ciic'ilntion of air This is one of the chief advantages I SCO in mobil stable fixtures. At night when the cow.s are out cvery- thin.'C : hould be kept open so as to provide ior a complete cV.'.^ge of air before they are put in again the fol- lowing lay. Cows kept in a cool, well venbilated stable for a few hours each day during the hut summer months will show their appreaation in an increased milk flow. â€" "Dairy- man" in Farm and Diary. To Prevent Overheating. Horsemen will soon need to be on their guard against overheating. Mo.sb cases of overheating can be pre- vented by keeping a few simple things in minrl. Give at least a pailful of water to each horse about 10 o'clock, and agrain at 3 or 4 o'clock on a hot day. Be very careful with a horse thab is a little out of health, if you are work- ing him on a hot day. Look out for a horse that after sweating freely suddenly sbops sweat- ing. Put such a horse in the shade as soon as possible and give a moder- ate drink. Do not put a horse not in good con- dition for hard work, in the centerof a four-horse team in hot weabher. Work carefully on a hot day when the atmosphere is moist and heavy. A horse can hardly get too hot to waber, but one must regulate the The Secret of Flaky Pie Crust It's In our Reclpo Bookâ€" with « lot of otherroclp«»for making eood PIo«. Butâ€" we're rolnr to tell yoa right ._ hsre how aluxiys to hare tlio top 8cru3t fine «nd (l»kjr-and how to have the under crust |u»trl»lit, OTen when nslnt (resh fruit. Just use part BENSON] XORN STARr i Instead of all wheat flour. Try II, and proTe It. Get a package of BENSON'S at your erocer's. and write to our (Montreal Office for copy of our new recipe book. "Desserts and Candles" that tella how. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED MONTRCAL. CABOIMAl, BRANTFOno, 218 ^fOBT WILUAK. BMBSRi A NOTED ECCENTRIC. Earl of Sandwich Believed He Pos- sessed Psychic Healing Power. The death of the Earl of Sandwich has removed an interesting figure in amount by the temperature of the wa- English life. The Earl, who wasi **â- â- â€¢ I Hearing hia seventy-seventh birthday, In case of an attack of overheating ! ^^^ known for his eccentricities. He the horse should be taken to the ! believed he possessed psychic healing shade as soon as possible. A treat- i ^^^^^ ^nd had been able to cure mcnt of the surface of the body, parti- , ^ ,^^^^^^1 ^^^^ physical illnesses, cularly of the head, with cold water , ^^^^ ^j^^ g^^jj African war he should be given unbil the temperature ^^^ ^^^ ^-^^ wounded officers is within a degree or two of normal. ^^^.^^^^ ^^ ^^ j^^^^^ ^^^^ ^e serv- Stimulants such as whiskey or , ^^ ^^^ . ^^ ^^^ ^^,„^ ^^^ brandy, well diluted, should be ffiven ; ^^j announced that he waa as early as possible. ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^j,^ ^„^^^,^ ^^ ^^bained. In most cases it is better to plan bo " . . avoid over-heating than to plan to treat the horse for it. â€" M. H. Rey- nolds, University Farm, St. Paul. His patients ranged from dwellers in palaces to those in the lowliest walks of life and included a Hindu monk, who was treated in his monasbery; a Mohammedan, who was treated in the mosque he served, and a Hindu princess, who was brought 600 miles by her husband to Lord Sandwich. He announcetl the possession of GUNS ON SNOWCLAD PE.\KS Difficulties of War Preparations in Mountain Regions. A description of the difTiculties | healing powers before the University which have been overcome by bhe Ital- , College of London two years ago. At> ians on that part of the front wuere the time he said he had never failed the fighting takes place on mountain in his treatment of sufferers. He said peaks coated with ebemal snow is | he could not e.xplain his power, but given by a correspondent of the Lon- knew the results and expressed the don Daily Mail. belief that many persons possess the The villages in the lower ground be- : same gift without being aware of it. hind the front have been aroused from ! The Earl was fourth in descent their accustomed appearance of sleepy from the peer, who, by orxlering a comfort. In their sbreets are swarms , writer to place a piece of meat be- of soldiers on their way to the front tween two slices of bread and bring or back from it for a holiday. Thous- , it bo him as he sat at cards, gave the ands are camping out in the neigh- 1 sandwich to the world, borhood of the villages or billeted on He was for long an ardent admir- bhe inhabitants. Constant streams er of Mme. Melba, and it has been said of motor vehicles rjmble through the that the singer could have been the villages on their way up the steep Countess of Sandwich if she had so road, bearing ammunition, food and desired. The Earl never married, supplies of all sortj to the batberies, I Some years ago in probest against the trenches and dugouts on the peaks, custom among women of wearing The road over which these vehicles ' their hats at luncheon he ordered his travel was before the war a mere hill i path â€" now bhe military engineers , have transformed it into a modem 1 servants to wear their hats while serving the meal. With the deabh of the Eail an ..in- road "graded, metalled and carried by erican woman, formerly Miss Alberta cunningly devised spirals and turns Stiurges, daughter of the late William three-quarters of the way up the Sturges, becomes Countess of Sand- mountains." j wich. Her husband, the new Earl, is Tile correspondenb says: George Charles Montafru, a nephew "It is a notable piece of military | of the late holder of the title. engineering, but it is not merely that. | * It will serve as an artery of com- j The cynic is a man who thinks n-.erce when it is no longer ne»ied for \ everything he doesn't approve can't bhe passage of guns and army service | wagons. There is nothing tempor- | ary or makeshift about it. Kocks ' have been blasted to leave a passage for it and solid bridges of stone and steel thrown across rivers. I "Because bhe Austrians started ' with the weather gauge in their fav- ! or, being on the upper side of the great ridges, it was necessary for the Italians to get their guns as high as they could. The means by which they accomplished these tasks were described to me. They would seem incredible if one had rot ocular de- monstration of the acbual presence of the cannon among these inaccessible crags. "There are some of them on the ice ledges of the Ortler nearly 10,000 feet above the sen level, in places which ib is by way of an achievement for the ' amateur climber to roach with guides ' and ropes and porters and nothing to j take care of but his own skin. ISut here the Alpini and Frontier Guides had bo bring up the heavy pieces, ' hauling them over the snow sio^v^s j ' and swinging them in midair across chasms and up knife edged precipices, by ropes passe.1 over timbers wedged j somehow into the rocks. 1 was shown i a photograph of a party of these ' pioneers working in these snowy soli- I tudes lasb winter. They might have i been a group of Scott's or Shackle- '> ton's men tailing in the AnUutic wild- t 1 erne''8." i ! By means of a aiiapension railway made of wire rope with sliding bas- i kets stvet'fhed n-roai chasms of ' great depth, oil, meat, bread and wine are sent up, for the soldier must not only be fed, but must be fed wlj-h I particular food to keep the blood eir- ' culnting in his body in the col,! air and chilling breezes of the snowdad peaks. Kero.sene stoves in great numbers j have been sent abfb to make the life of the mountaineer soldiers more comfortable. The cost of living can never go fo high that it won't seem worth it j t>o most of us. possibly be worth while. For many years past the populo- tion of Germany has been increasing at the rate of about 900,000 a year. In 1871 the population was -11 mil- lions, and by 1910 it had risen bo al- most 65 millions. Preserved Raspberries will keep their natural color if you use antic the pure cane sugar whioh dissolves at once. 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