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choose:, a^ USE Watga#ii's Ideal IDuil^Pen, â- THEPENc7/79/^HABlT-J THAT LA5T5 A LIFETIME Sold at the Best Stores. L. E. Waterman Company, Limited, Montroal t2.50 up Bioitel on Request V\ THE LAPSE OF ENOCH WENTWORTH By ISABEL GORDON CURTIS, Author of " The Woman from Wolvertons " CHAPTER XIV.~-(Cont'ii). Enoch shi-ugged his shoulders. "If t4iat is the way you choose to put it, vvfll and good. Setms to me a pity that you cannot drop this altoRether andâ€" forget. The future looks bright for both of us. We could easily go back to our old happy life if yoJ wculd." Dorcas moveil toward the door. "I cannot forget. I promise you one thing, Enoch, 1 will never speak of it again."' "Thank you," said the man brus- quely. "Isn't" it a pity, Miss Dorcas, there are only three of us, when there are four sides to a table." j Dorcas laughed. "I'll let you pick out a guest for us, Julie. Who shall it be? ' "Well, let me think." The child paused. "There's Dick â€" Dick wojld do anything for us. lie's only a call boy, but he's nice. Then there's Robcrt.son. He loaned us the chairs and table. Robertson's the nicest "Really?" "I have four hundred dollars in the banL ' "Four hundred dollars!" "When I have two thousand I am going tx) buy a little house out in the country. Mother and I picked it (yjt one day when Miss Dorcas took us driving. We will keep chickens and a pony and a cow, and have cherry trees and radishes and pansies in the garden.^' "I will come and board with you," .said Merry, "if I don't have to milk the cow." "Oh, Mother," cried the child im- petuously, "I never thought of keep- ing boarders before! â€" only we can't charge Mr. Merry much." "May I come too?" asked Dorcas. "Oh, that would be lovely!'' Julie laid down a chicken bone she held be- tween hei» fingers to elap her grea.sy little hands joyfully. Merry was tell- ing a ridiculous adventure which had once befallen him on a snowbound train when he was interrupted by a timid knock at the door. Julie rose to open it. She trurned to look back at her mother with a bewildered glance. A small, odd fig- ure stood motionless in the doorway â€" â-  a little boy with ;erioa.s, brown eyes. His straight, yellow hair was cropped in a fringe about his eyes, then it waved upward. He wore a black suit with long, tight trousers. A round jacket, over a white shirt, reached to his waist. In his hand he held a hat like a small saucer. "Hullo, David Copperficld, where did you come from?" cried Merry. "That isn't my name." The child had a soft English accent. "I have heard of David Copperfield, but I'm not 'David,' Sir, my name is Robin Tully." "Come in. Master Robin Tully," paid Merry, "and have dinner with us." The child stared at them steadily. but did not move. Dorcas jumped t her feet. "Oh!" she whipsered, "the poor little boy is blind!" The child stood moving his dark- ened eyes about as if to place her voice, then he came straight toward her, groping with both his hands. He "Of course, for you are just in time for dinner," said Dorcas. "We have lots of good things left^â€" chicken and tomatoes and ice cream." "His shoes ought to be changed," suggested Mrs. Volk; "they're awfully wet" "Nothing is wet but my goloshes,'' answered Robin. He bent to take them off. "When we left the train, George brought me here under an umbrella." (To be continued). ?4^ ON THE FARM Washing Milk Cans. The matter of washing cans by city dealers, while only a small pa., of the daily operations, Is a very important one. Many different methods are used by various dealers in caring for the cans after the milk is removed from tliem. Some of these melliods are as follows : 1. Returning the cans unwashed. Do ALL your preserving with Pure cane. "FINE" granulation. High sweetening power. Order by name in original packages, 2 and 5-!b Cartons 10 and 20-lb Bags lis Book of printed and gummed labels for fruit jars. f if you will cut a rcil ball trade-mark from a I.anlic bag or carton and send it to Atlantic Sugar ReGneries, Ltd. Power Rids., Uoutrcal 95 stalled a modern washing machine had : large farm is practicable where one ; some tests made by his bacteriologist has his own outfit. On a medium siz- on the results obtained. From the pre- ^ ed farm where the threshing is hired I liminary tests made loss than 200,000 out, it could not be done in the case bacteria were found to the can and no of grain hauled directly to market undesirable typos. Before the machine when the grain is stored on the farm I was Installed, counts from the old one before hauling, cleaning is prncticable which had a much ioss efficient steam- ^nd advisable. The really practic- I Ing device, ran as high as 20,000,000 „u]„ ^„„ f„_ ..^ ,.,i,„i» ....„„h.„ ,„., J^ Rinsing with water (either hot -, Wt_e_rl. .0 U.^can^and^^^^ JT ;tt%h:'£.S 3. Rinsing out by means of with either hot or cold water. This^Q^ rapid work, but the main result tojj'* is quite common at some plants but f,g obtained is a clean, sterile and dry! k„„ ^,.- ^, ,. is not satisfactory. | ,,«„ regardless of the machine used I - "^"^ "^^inary threshmg machine if hose''''":^^^^ °^ '°hTM'"; "m!, '^'^^' °"*fi<^ â- â- '»">"'d include a grain clean- hose ,„„3t bave a machine that will do good i„g attachment, as many of them now a sheaf loading machine. 4. Rinsing out with hose and then r^e main means to accomplish this is steaming with live steam. thorough cleansing with washing pow 5. Washing the cans out by means | jj^ and water, rins'ng, sterilizing with of washing powder and. hot water and jiyg gteani, and rapid drying, then a hand brush, then rinsing. 6. Same as 5. with an additional ' rinsing with boiling water or steam- ing. i 7. Cleansing by means of machines of various kinds. One of the simplest of these ma- chines is a jet machine, by means cover the can and Iceep it from con tamination.â€" U. S. Dairy Division. fitted with proper screens and care- fully operated is capable of removing many of the smaller weed seeds that now constitute a considerable percent- age of elevator screenings. â€" Seed Branch, Ottawa. Dairy Notes. It is hard to make some men realize itt- _ . „ . J u .u n ;„;/M., '^^ great influence of a good, pure- . Screen'nffs isrued by the Dominion â-  â- , . . , , â€", ^. '. of ^>^'^^«^"-"i'=' 'f '^ ^^_\ ._:,„.! :_ bred sire in aherd. The sire is more Cleaning Grain at Threshing Time. In a bulletin entitled "Grain which sprays of cold and hot water Department that the lo s entailed in ^^^^ j^^,^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ .^ and of steam are successively forced dipping Western gran, uncleaned ^^^^^ ^^.^^ .^j^^^.^^ ^^^^ j^.^ in.„ ,h„ ...., ^, ..,„„' „ ,„ amounts to consuierably more than > „, , i,„tf„,. *.„;.„ good butter traits. Sires should be selected from fami- Into tlie can. Some of these simple , ._ .,,. , ,, mu <• n • machines also have dryer attachments, half a million dollars. 'The following __ by means of which a draft of dry air a^o^^t of an experiment by a West- , jj^g ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^.^^ records. is forced into the cans. Another type ern grower .should oe of value m con- ^ g^^j ^^.^^^ ^^^ ^ superior bull is of machine is the brush machine, by "ection with the problem of eliminat- ' nj^ney well invested. The difTerence means of which the cans are brushed ing the waste due to the shopmcnt of between the price of a strictly high- man in the Gothamâ€" almost. We could ; had tucked the small, flat hat beneath CHAPTKR XV. When l4ie curtain dropped on the last act at a Saturday matinee, Dor- cas pauticd on the way to her die s- ing-rooin and glanced out at the stage door. Rain was lashing the street in furious, wild-blown torrents. The few-people who braved the storm bent their heads against it and plodded on with determination. Neitrby a .street organ was whf ezing the "Miserere" in pitiful appeal to a hoe<lless crowd at the theatre door. Dorcas returned bo her dressing- room. It wa.s a delightful cozy re- treatâ€"Mr. Owald had seen to that. Alice Volk sat repairing a gown. "Wh'jre's Julie?" Dorcas demanded. "She's asleep in our dressin.c'-room." The girl seated herself in front of the mirror and began to remove her make-up. A.t intervals she glanced over a bjnch of letters which lay on the dressing table. "1 used to wonder how it would feel to be famous. Of course I am not famous yet." .said Dorcas quickly; "1 am merely one of ho people you hear of in pu'sing. Still, I cannot grow accustomed to the ii'.ieer experience of seeing my name blazoned on every housetop when 1 ride on the L, or finding my picture in papers and mag- azines. People stop on the street to stare at me; occasionally they whis- per my name to some one who u with them. A girl 1 went to school with wrote the other day and asked for sixteen autographed portraits to give as favors at a party. She was a rich child, and at school she snubbed me unmercifully." : "Its the way of the world," the 9ther woman answered. "A little of it came into my own life." "It's a queer way," Dorcas contin- ued, "and somehow already I feel blase. The love and trust I have from Julie and you is something worth while." Mrs. Volk rose to hang up a gown she had been repairing. As she pass ed Dorcas the bent and kissed her cheek. The girl looked up with a grateful smile. "Suppose," Dorcas suggested, "we have a little spread right here. 1 can order n hot dinner sent in. It's a wretched nightâ€" What do you say?" "If I were to speak for Julie, you know how she would enjoy it." " 'Phone to the Beauclerc for • menu. It will be fun.'' Half an hour later the dressing- room looked like a small banqueting hall, for the property man had put everything he controlled at their dis- posal. "Listen," paid Dorcas to the waiter, who stood ready to take their order; -i'bring us consommo, boiled salmon, celery, cucumbers, and sliced toma- toes, potatoes, string beans, roast chicken, leH^ce, almond meringue pie, coffee, andâ€" *a that all?" she asked of Julie who stood peering over her shoulder. "Ice cream and cake," suggested the child. "Of course," cried Dorca"; "it's so long ago since I was a little girl. I had forgotten that ice cream and cake is much more important than rcip." Julie turned to gaze at the table. have had Brunton, but she's just go- ing out. Then there's Mr. Merry. I I believe," she added decisively, "I I would rather have Mr. Merry than ! anybwly." I Dorcas bent to rearrange a knife and fork. I "How do you know Mr. Men-y is !in?" I "He is," crie 1 Julie. "He called me into his dressing-room when I pas ed ; and Rave me these." She unclasped her hand to show three caramels sciueezcd into a .sticky lump. j "Would your mother like to have I him here?" Julie did not wait for her mother to answer. "Of course. Mother and 1 love him.'' "Well, you may be our messenger. Tell him he is invited to dine with three ladies. Dinner will be served in ten minutes." Merry returned with Julie clasping his hand. "This is unexpected! When the young lady tapped at my door, 1 was debating whether it was worth while going to cat in the storm." It was a gay little party. Dorcas ordered the waiter, to set the dishes on the hot radiator, then she sent him away. Julie took her place delight- edly. "You're a clever waitress," said ; Merry. I "I used to plan to be a waitress when I was grown up," said the child, while she gathered plates neatly on a tray. "That was before I went on I the stage. Playing the little 'Cord- ' elia' is nicer than being a waitress." - "It means getting rich faster," said Merry gravely. Of course," agreed Julie. "Still, one arm. Dorcas lifted him to her lap and laid his cheek against her own. "Mother," he whi.-^percd as he drop- ped the hat and cla ped his arms tightly around her neck. "Dear little boy," she said softly, "I am not your mother. I wish I were." out with washing powder and water ffrain subject to a dockag« on ac- and then rinsed They may be steam- eount of screenings, ed after washing by a spray of live' A monitor cleaner and a five horse- Bteani. Some of the largest machines power engine to run it were purchased are fitted with powerful pumps, and and both mounted on an extra strong the cans, in an inverted position, are wagon gear. A 15-foot ordinary grain run through tlie niathine and sprays elevator was attached to the elevator of soap and water, rinse water, hot wagon or bin. Another box wagon class sire and an inferior one is made up in the first lot of calves. Keep the old bull that has proved his merit. Fill the silo as soon as the corn ii fit. When the kernel begins to glaze is the right time. The more ears there are on the stalk the better the isii; A and forced into them under considerable pn a^j shrunken grain). The cost of I A silo is one of the best investments pressure. After being thus washed t^g entire outfit, including operation, on any farm. It means the succu- sterlllzed they are also dried In repairs and interest on capital, was , lence of pasture all winter. . , n„rr.»a I , , . u . ... $1,195- The grower calculates that I This means an increase in cream his soft fingers over her face. Dorcas | i„ justice to the farmer the dealers ^e saved on his SO 000 bushel crop 1,- and milk production at less cost. 600 bushels of broken and shrunken Now is the time to turn off unprofit- , . , , ,. I-----. --"c --â€" • " wheat worth $9(;0, freight on which to able cows. If after a good trial any him between her kisses. ; the cans are allowed to go back â- â- "- ... ... . i He loosened his aams and passed I (ije modern machines. In Justice to the fan pillowed his cheek on her breast and ' should give considerable attention to whispered tender, foolish things to ^ this question of washing the cans. If ^heat worth lOCO, freight on which to ! able cow's.' un- Merry took one of the child's hands | washed to the farmer it is a very dlf- the terminal elevator would have cost ^ cow is below the standard in capacity, between his own. "What is your mother's name?" he asked gently. "At home her name is Mrs. Tully. 1 have a letter for her, George, who brought mo here, told nie to show it ^ t'o somebody, and they would take me i to her." He put his hand in the inside pocket of his tight coat and drew out a , smeared envelope. Merry read it aloud: "Miss Zilla Paget, Gotham Theatre." | Dorcas turned to look at Merry with unspoken pity in her eye:*. "Your mother is upstairs. We will take you ' to her in a few minutes.'' ' Julie crept close tx) Merry. She I flcult and often an impossible task for him. with his facilities, to clean fheni. Even a rinsing witli cold water Is better than nothing, though of courso It is not satisfactory. It does not matter what method Is used, so long as the cans are well cleansed and sterilized. The drying of the cans is also an important factor. Not only does this leave the can in a i v.ieh bet- ter condition, but it will also preserve Its life, as it helps to prevent rust. It Is also important tliat the cover be thoroughly cleansed and sterilized as well as the can. It is not a good plan to put the cover onto the can until the latter is dry. When the covers are not put back on the cans immedia- $220, and haulage to the local elevat- or $04. He thus has a profit of $49. The out fit paid for itself in one year and he says is as good as when It started. This experiment, it is argued, proves that cleaning the grain on a send her to the butcher. Feed windfall apples, with the grain ration, and watch the results. Don't lat a single apple go to waste; there is feeding value in every vegetable; get the gofKl there is in it Little things help to round up the profits. stood by his side, gazing curiously at ! tely. the cans should be kept in a clean the blind child. j place where there is no dust or con- "I dill not know Miss Paget had little boy." she said. "Neither did I. Run upstairs, dear, and ask if she is in her dressing- room, but nob one word to her or to any one al)oJt this boy." Roblin laid his creek against Dor- cas' face. "I wish you were my mother," he murmured. You may have me as your friend." it must be delightful work to be a The girl kissed him softly, in response waitress. Before we found you, Mother and I used to go mornings to a little restaurant to get hot cakes, and 1 loved to watch the waitresses. Some of them. They had lovely hair and cunning little muslin aprons." Merry laughed. "You were wise to decide on 'Cordelia.' " "I know that. I would be quite happy to be 'Cordelia' with you, even if I didn't get any money for it. Of course, though, it's lovely to get my salary envelope once a week, and to have nice rooms at Mrs. Billerwell's, and all we want to eat, and clothes and shoes. I am growing rich I have a bankbook?" to which his chin trembled "Does your mother know you are coming?" asked Merry. "No, I'm to be a surpri-e. George mid I'm a sort of Christmas present." Merry's eyes turned anxiously t o Dorcas. He .shook his head, and there was a perplexed frown upon his face. Julie came in. "Miss Paget is not in her room. Kmiline says she is out taking dinner with a gentleman." R(d)lin jumped to the floor and be- gan to grope about for his hat. Merry lifted it and put it in his hand. "You must stay here till your mother comes in." tamination. The covers should be placed tightly ou the cans before they are returned. Some of the large dealers who oper- ate country stations not only wash the cans In the city, but also rewash and sterilize them when they arrive at the country plant. This is owing to the fact that the covers may bo removed from the cans during the trip back to the country and thus the cans may be contaminated. Considerable experimenting has been carried on by the Dairy Division | in regard to sterilizing cans. Hacterlai counts were made from cans receiving ordinary washing and rinsing. The re- sults showed that the cans contained from 300,000 to 18,000,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter, with an average of 4,600,000. To 10 gallons of milk put Into one of these cans there would tie added more than 100 bacteria per cubic centimeter, as an initial contamination from the can alone ; that is to say, that is the least number that would be added. With a little steaming these same cans could be rendered prac- tically sterile. One dealer who had recently In- Underwear T^HKRE are certain words in our language uliith sum up a number of quAlitie.'-, ;irul expfcss them tersely. "Cla.M " Is one, "liffi- ciency" anothi-r, " I'eiimHiis" Mill anotber. This la;,t one when fc(ipliod SHOE POLISH E BLACK • WHITE • TAN ^££P YovR Shoes Neat \i^^ I''- t'. D«ll<y Co- °f Can.Ja Ltd., Himdton. Can.d. X OC <