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HAPTER VIII--(Cont'd). lowered 'the carriage wine gazed out. Oswall watch- The girl's face mirroredher' igs so keenly he could feel what as passing in her mind. Her lips gered and tears hung on her lashes gould not trust herself to speak. hall never forget how that piti- e appealed to me the first time it," the man continued, "al- I had known the poor of Lon- boyhood, This homeless, orderly column, growing rrow to holil a place or me. ' I stood watch- it from Hit " he pointed gs the street, "night 'alter night. 1 [to try to help, In afew casesl jafiage o put a man on his feet. 1 was generally hopeless, ex- that I could satisfy the hunger moment, During hard winters w York I have seen the line till there were hundreds in it. imes it goes down Tenth street ound the corner." cas turned to look at him. Tears in her eye and her Yps gaivs- funiderstand," he 'went on. | *You 'wondering why we, well clothed, fed @nd sheltered from the wind,' dre herd, and they are--there. I do not know. It is a problem as old as' the itself. All we can do is to help individually, man to man." Dorcas' gaze went back to the bread line : Oswald sat in thoughtful silence n't think me sacrilegious. Mr. Osvgia, ? she confessed; "but when I see Such misery it makés me wonder if the Eternal himself has a con- science." She sat watching the line of patient, pallid men. Stragglers crept up to join it from every direc- tions "I simply cannot imagine a God who--Mr. Oswald!" She grasped his 'arm with a half-stified scream and laid her trembling hand upon his, "What is it?" asked her companion, rising. "What frightened you, Miss Wentworth?" He stared past her out "Into the street. The block of vehicles had begun to move. They were again driving slowly down Broadway. "Nothing," she answered quickly, "nothing but a chance resemblance, I thought I--saw some one whom I once knew. It must have been a mis- take." The Englishman glanced at her cur- ioasly. She began to chat about the play and other things. A She was try- ing 'to forget whatever had startled her. . She said "Good-by" at the door of her home. Oswald realized that she Was eager to have him go. As he drove away he tried to recall anything which could have happened. A wom- an of her poise would not be disturbed by a trifle. Dorcas shut the street door and ran upstairs to her brother's study, where _the 'phone stood. She searched dis- tractedly 'through the directory for : the address of a livery from which occassionally she called a cab. The name had escaped her. She stood ¥ a moment trying in vain to re- call it, then she rang the bell Her wait seemed eniless before the old lervant Appeared. , Jason," she cried impatiently, Wentworth's "livery With eager sympathy. 5 4 you'd think some of them we 'the way they eat--ther: i {only thing is--T wish to do it as dtm eats pe Cb tall: -- "Stay here a minute," 'she said ds she paused for central's answer. Then she s to the 'phone. "Send a cab, Blase, to 26 Waverly place; immediately." She turned again to the old servant. "Jason," she asked, "you have waib- ed on Mr. Merry. when Enoch brought him here--sick--haven't you?" "Deed I has, missy. Many's de time Marse Enoch en I's donc all sorts ob waitin' on him, when he's done been sick, puffectly missuble, missy. di Yo'-all Adom't know. how. missuble.' 4 "Can you help to-night? 1 may bring Mr. Merry back with me--mis- erable." / # "Deed I can," cried the old man, "Yo des leeb him to me. Lawdy! I tink ez much ; ob Marse Andrew mos' as I do ob yo'-all. He's been mighty good to me." "Thank you," said Dorcas grateful- ly. "I am not 'sure 'whether he will come, but in case he does, be ready for 'him; ) and 'supper... Have a cheerful fire; it is bitterly cold outdaors.' She" turned" and™ rand = Hownstairs when on the Street helow. "Don't yo! want me to go wid yo', missy? suggested Jason. "Hit's powerfu' late fo' a lady to be goin' roun' New York alone." "No; I would rather have you here waiting for our return." "Tenth and Broadway," she direct- ed; as the cabman shut the door. He pulled" up at her "signal opposite the bakery. The place was closed, the bread line had dispersed, and the quiet gray of early morning had be- gun to creep over the street, Occa- sionally a cab dashed pasb of a trolley went on its clamorous way, but there were few stragglérs to be seem. Here and there a man on foot, walked briskly, ds if a'shelter waited him somewhere. On the sidewalk stood a tall policeman. Dorcas studied his face for a moment, then she beckoned him. He came instantly to the cab window. "Is this your beat every night?" "Eevery night this week," said he man in blue. "The men in the bread line wave dispersed. Do you know where they go?" 'Where they go, lady?" The police- man smiled "I couldn't tell you no more where they go than if they were rabbits scurrying to their holes." Dorcas shivered. "Are they abso- lutely homeless--on such a night as this?" "A good share of them are." The man spoke with little interest. The misery in the streets of New York was an old story to him. "Do the same men come to the ling night after night?" "A man has to be mighty hungry when he stands an hour or two wait~ ing for a hunk of bread. If his luck turns he drops out, Still, I've seen the same faces there every night for a month, Are you a settlement lady?" he asked respectfully. "No." The girl's face flushed. thought to-night when we were pass- ing that I saw some' one in the bread line I knew, somebody we can't find." "That happens many a time." "Do you think," Dorcas asked ea- gerly, "there woul be any chince of his being here to-morrow: hid "The likeliest chance in the world. If a man's wolfish with" 14 § wolfish p of comfort, in ¢ even a Mouth bread and a cup 5 of coffee. hd 1 should oe morse night : up give you any help you want" said the officer kindly, as Dorcas hesid | tated. © "I don't believe Pli-want He 'may want" a hot bath she heard the rattle of wheels |. RR, el left mo address missy, ! stantly to when she "Jaso! "Yo' missy," arms into the wide it to please you, Jason-- at" not eh m colds py she added, "don't get nefvous' 11 be quite safe, Mr. Merry will: Have everything as cosy and cheers ful as possible. And--Jason--I've got my key. I'll ring when T want you.. Don't bother about opening the doors" The girl's intuition told her that: Merry>might have fallen to such low _ state that it would hurt for even the bld servant to see; thimg i The ne- gro understood. "I'know; missy, I'll do dea ez yo' say --but fo' de Lawd's sake do take care ob yo'se'f. What could I say to Marse Eno¢h if anyt'ing happened to mis- sy?" "Nothing's 'going to happen, good old Jason," cried the girl, as she ran down the steps. The officer was waiting at the cor- ner. He beckoned the cabman to pull up where an electric light would not shine into the carriage, ,then he stopped for a minute at the window, "I'll stay near by and kee p my eye on -you. When you see your} party, signal me, I'll give your ¢abby the order, and he can drive around a block or two and take you up Tenth street. - Then slip out and get your--your--friend that way. There ain't- no ghance of him seeing you come up behind, as he would if you crossed the street." "Has the bread line begun to guile er yet 7" she asked. Yoon stragglers hangin' round. Them that come first get the first chance, of course, only it's a nasty'night to wait outdoors with an empty stomach." (To be continued.) atl a ay MORE WOMEN THAN MEN. Expected That Theré Will Be a Majority of 1,750,000 in France. The latest statistics of the French Labor Department show that while women outnumbered men in France before the war by 766,682 (in a total | population of 89,602,268), the war will probably decrease the number of men at least a million, giving the women a majority of 1,760,000. The additional million excess = fe- male population will be obliged, in part at least, to support themselves, increasing considerably the percent- of female wage" earners, which, according to statistics of® the year 1912, was one-fourth of the total pumber of employed in commercial ment. - 'Never Too Old. Miss Plain--May. says I'm too Miss Pert--"W all, you won't bo by | young to marry." | the time you get a proposal" TE RE TI 0 i s aft hourior two before Treturn. | sila come back with me to-night, I know | "Hardly, ma'am. There's a few |. was on the 'wrofig cl 'hub he: "had | $3 less. "Farmer: "A% _one-lot of steers which received an .average. daily ration of 37.6 pounds of age; 4' pounds 'of alfalfa hay, and 5 : pounds of oil 'meal sold for $9.65 per owt., while another lot received an average ddily . ration of 16.3 pounds of silage 8.9 pounds of alfalfa . hay] and 16.8 pounds of shelled corn; sold] Jor $9.76 per ewt. .In other words, e steers getting no co but a lar, dou Hor 1 Five and alfalfa have sold within 10 Fifer EE ag # day." These high {] acutally sold 6 cents higher per cwt. than" another lob which received an average daily ration of 17.5 pounds of silage, 8.7 pounds of alfalfa hay, 15.6 pounds of shelled corn; and 2.6 pounds of cottonseed meal. ;1t is interesting to note also that the steers receiving the larger amounts of silage did not shrink any more than those receiving the smaller amounts. ' The dressing percentage was almost but not quite so high inthe cast of the low silage ers, "The Missouri experiment, When very strongly thab the beef cattle men have finally reached' the point where they are almost compelled to rely on large amounts of silage. For years, the. Englishmen and Scotmen have fed their average steer 70,100, or -even 120 pounds of roots, together with not ore than eight or 'nine pounds = of n, "Silage is a little more concentrated than the roots used by Englishmen and Scotchmen but it looks as though the corn felt feeders had at last been driven to adopt the methods of the feeders across the waber,"' These Fall Pigs Were Profitable, Fifty-seven fall pigs fed at Univer- sity Farmy St. Paul, last winter and marketed recently, left a margin of $4.66 a head to cover cost. of labor, risk, interest, profit, ete. bandry: division at University Farm, 'began a series of tests two years" to determine whether raising il pigs is profitable in Minnesota, 'The margin of nearly five dollars a "is the result of the test. Eleven sows farrowed fall litters for the tests, and the pigs were wean- ed Degernber 16: 'They feeding' "tests two da records kept. cove by sows and lit: and industrial shablishpenta subject ead to inspection by the La The total cosb of feed for the kows| time Dignan te to weaning a total cos taken in connection with Iowa and |" Pennsylvania experiments; indicates |! R. C. Ashby of the animal hus.| Bead |. From weaning time to'the| | marketing the f food sous AIRES 2 le treatment for cht stroke are the same. Remove the mal to 1 avo, quiet, well ventilated place and permit a stream of cold bes to flow over the horse and, if posible, apply ice packs to the head. If fice is plentiful apply it all over the body. --S. O'Toole, North.Dakota Ex- pefiment Station. : Farm Notes. ot With good gow olf 'Hist bb. cal she is getting old. Every ive the good old cow a little better u : 1 fk youl " AND PRESERVES \ That i 2 te end a] te sealing process vj when ih: kame labor wi with pre Te