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make restitution, 'He will never, never do such a thing as this 1" "Listen," she heard Merry's whisper| clearly through the din. "Dear, it does not matter. 'What does anything mat- ter ? The play is a success. You be- Heve in it. 1 did it--for you. What 'do 1 care about the people out there 78 They are nothing to us." "Oh!" cried Dorcas, "oh, I will go and tell them myself. - They 'must know 1" . She darted toward the edge of thé drop curtain, then she stopped. A 'silence had fallen, not only upon the house, but behind the scenes. Stage hands who had been dragging proper- ties. about stood motionless. . A shiver rrept over the girl. She felt Merry lay his hand on hers with a steadying clasp that seemed to quiet her. She could hear Enoch' speaking. He had a strong, vibrant voice. Every one ber hind the scenes wads listening and un- derstanding except herseM. His voice brew blurred as faces in the audience had been. She turned to glance at Merry. Once a look of consuming hat- red fitted across his face, and his lips grew pallid as gray ashes, Dorcas pulled away from his clasp- Ing hand and ran to her dressing-room, Bhe was 'choking with sobs. She felt her fingers tingle where Andrew had touched them, and there was a look of terror in her eyes. Alice Volk sat waiting for her. in the dressing-room. - Little Julie jamped to her feetpwhen Dorcas entered. The girl did not speak, but clasped the child to her bosom. "Alice," she whispered, "help me to dress as soon as you can. And Julie, ask Dugald to get a carriage. 1 want to go home." The woman kissed the girl's neck as she unblttoned her gown. It has been an awful strain, I know all about it--but Miss Dorcas, your future is made." The child returned in a minute. "Mr. Wentworth has a carriage ordered. Dugald says will you go with him ?" "No," cried Dorcas ; "tell Dugald I'l, be ready in ten minutes, I am going home alone." Merry stood waiting at the stage en- trance when she went out. He had 1a prouder ol darky in New York den ] | Uncle Jason." 1 Dorcas began, to laugh and ery at once, "J don' wonder yo's_all done up. Missy. I's got de fines' supper ready 0' yo' yo' ebber see." Dorcas was too unnerved to eat. She ywed a cup of coffee and nibbled good things Jason had prepared. ~Jes she went 'upstairs and to undress. She brushed her hair, lait ed it in two long braids, and slipped | 8 into a gray kimono, which folded it- self about her in sheeny waves, The coffee: had driven sleey away. She tossed a shawl about her shoulders and ran down through the silent house to the library. Wentworth often read there until long after midnight, and a coal 'fire was burning brightly. She pushed an armchair 'close to the hearth and dropped into it wearily. She realized that she was very tired. She had not thought of nerves or body during the long weeks of rehéarsal, with the incessant study, the multi- tude of detail, and the strange irregu- larity of life. She began to live over again the last few hours and drew a long breath as she remembered the strangling terror which laid hold of her before she made her first entrance. When she heard her cue she felt dumb, crippled, almost blinded for one moment. The smile on Zilla Paget's face, as she stepped from the wings, stung her into action, There was scorn in it, and cruelty smoothed over by a sweet, beguiling perfidy, which aroused in the girl a sudden hate that she had never felt in her life before. The hatred made her forget everything except her part, The recollection of a bit of gossip had flashed to her memory : Zilla Paget had prophesied that her "Cor- delia" would be a dead failure. Be- fore the end of that second act the in- tense loathing and scorn which Merry had put into her lines became real. The woman understood. She shrank with a terror which was scarcely simu- lated during the girl's denunciation of a mother who had lost all claim upon a child for love or respect. Seven "times the curtain rose and fell upon the two women. Once a volley of hisses was hurled at Zilla Paget, and ' she smiled in happy triumph. Oswala heard Julie 'deliver the message. and Merry stood in the wings watching "Good night, Miss Dorcas," he said. "Sleep well. Remember, everything is all right. I owe it to you, I owe you! the act, The intensity which Dorcas threw into her part stirred both men [ strongly, as it did the audience. They i more than you understand. You made had anticipated womanly sweetness good to-night ; the papers will tell you 80 in the morning. Good night. God bles you !" "Good night." The girl shivered for a moment. It was intensely cold, and she drew a fur coat close to her chin, The cabman drove quickly, for the streets were emptied of vehicles. Along Broadway the theatres were dark. Jagon stood waiting to open the door when the girl ran up the steps. Mis dusky old face was one grin of de- light. He had just returned from the theatre and was growing impatient for the triumph of a homecoming. "Missy," he cried, "yo' cert'ly done us proud. My soul! I couldn't er Plieved de baby I toted yeahs en yeahs pga ud ebber a' lived to act ez fine ez yo' dome. 1 used to play I was yo' black mule. 1 reckon yi' don' 'mem- ber, honey, ridin' mule on ol Uncle Jasons back, do yo ? En dar yo' was, honey, a-workin' me up till I 'clar to goodness I mos' cried my ol' eyes out. When Marse Enoch come out en made eo oe and tenderness, but they had not gauged her emotion to the depths. "I never dreamed she could do any- thing like this," said Oswald slowly. Merry did not speak. He had caught Zilla Paget's subtle smile. He knew there . was more than acting in the scene. While Dorcas sat gazing into the red caves of the coal fire she went over each situation in the play, step by step. Once she buried her face in the folds of her shawl; her cheeks were throbbing hotly. She felt Merry's kiss burn upon her lips. There had been no real kisses at rehearsal. The trust and love and gratitude with which the broken old convict turned to his child seemed real for a moment ; she felt it when the actor touched her lips. Then she had fallen sobbing into his arms. She heard the audience sob with her. When she turned to glance aside through half-blinded eyes, she met the derisive smile of Zilla Paget, who stood in the wings, There was jealousy in her scorn. Her part was STYLES IN these days "of short skirts hosiery is a most important "of one's costume: Itis be- cause at a 80 very im- t most people : Pen s; for in so © they know they are | 'receiving 'maximum valiie in every way. PE Stat | Perunans that in a few hours the dreams lifetime should have come true. 'grown light. lieve it." le upon his lips. "Dorry, you're a ueer proposition. Any other girl would have had her head turned by]. the triumph to-night. Why, child, in three hours you climbed straight onto a pedestal that many women work half a lifetime to reach. Even then they often miss it." Enoch bent and lifted her face nl her eyes looked into his. "There were. minutes," he said fondly, "when ¥ actually questioned whether it was the little sister herself or not." Dorcas had never geen her brother so strangely excited. She wondered for a moment if he had been drinking, but she saw it was the intoxication of sudden success, not of wine. He paced about the library, talking, laughing, building a thousand plans for the future. The girl watched him cu- riously., It was a strange transition from the sullen silence of months. 'The Enoch of. light-hearted boyhood days had returned. "You have a' great future, Dorry." He stopped abruptly and his voice grew grave. "There is one thing I want to Don't," ie hesitated afd |, began to: 'pace the room again, as if choosing] his words carefully, "don't make a hero of Merry. He did well to-night. I have seen him set the whole town talking as he did in 'Esterbrook' then topple back and go down, away down." : Dorcas rose from her chair and tossed the long braids of hair over her shoulders. Her eyes and cheeks were blazing, WeiltWorths face grew in- exorable. "Enoch," she cried, "how dare you say such a thing--to me ?" "What do you mean ?" "You know what I mean !" Her saw her chin tremble. In spite of her anger she was on the verge of tears. "When people were calling for the au- thor, how did you dare to go out take the applause ? Have you no con- science; no honor left 7" "Merry got a8 much applause as one man could stand." He looked at her with dogged defilance. "That makes you none the less--a thief." Enoch did not answer. He pulled a cigar from his vest pocket, lit it, and began to smoke. He did not flinch be- fore his sister's gaze. "I should have been the happiest girl in the world to-night, almost fool- ishly happy." There was a pitiful quaver in her voice. "I feel now as if I were disgraced. ' Men have gone to the penitentiary for stealing--less than you did." Wentworth laughed scornfully. He tossed his cigar into the heart of the fire and turned upon Dorcas in sud- den rage. "Stealing is not a nice word." "It is nice enough for what has hap- penad." "Do you know," asked Wentworth, with grave deliberation, "what did hap- 'Pen ? Has Merry ever taken you into "Merry has never sald one word against you--to me." "Then reserve your judgment until he does. If you were to ask him, and if he played fair, he would tell you that it was a straight, honest bargain, a bargain bought and paid and signed for, Merry, with all his failings, is ne welcher." "Bought and paid and signed for ?" repeated the girl in slow bewilder ment. "How could you buy and pay man's brain and written by another man's hand 2" "That is my business, wholly," an- swered Enoch coldly. "It is an affair no woman would ' understand." ' He ir] laughed. 'Her heart had suddenly o "BEnoch, 1 cannot make myself be- he He stood beside her 'with a proud : his confidence about this transaction 7" | - for something conceived by another with An in itaresting saat on Presi- dent Wilson's 1 rk about the in the an- 'nual report of Dr, Wem of Belfast, one of the most h puted Irish alienists. Dr. presents a arkable picture. of the tosis value war. He says: " t since August, 1914, to say 4 ke Fi hog spr Po ; tress and agony of a Fh 50 rible as the present one must in a profound disturbance and alien- ation. Yet the fact is indisputable that insanity, like corns, has lessen- ed during the period of the war." Improve Health of Men. though - exclusively among women, we shall find a great diminution in those neurotic disorders that form a part of he mental abnormality ho on who "lite of 'have gone, to the front, been sub~ "They country's call they have flung from off them the spell of ancient inhabit- gi ations and long esta mprac-] ticalities and have 'gone forth to face wounds and death, Only when | honed oy Ton learned Tow i life have they ful life really is. The physical re- gime under which men are compelled. to live can have nothing but the best effect on those 'subject to its discipline. _ Women Learn of Life. "Especially significant is the change coming over the lives of wo- [attacked by rust. men of the middle classes. = These sheltered daughters of the merchant, | gra of the professional man, victim of mid-Victorian traditions of gentility, are now falling into line with sisters of the higher and the hum- bler social ranks, and are discovering t life is something greater than the latest novel or a game of tennis, or even the tepid gossip of the church sewing meeting. Idleness and ennui have lost their hold. Healthy and unselfish activity is now the prevail- ing fashion among wavr-enfranchised women. It has set them free from the benumbing conventionalities that threatened to stifle their psychic energy, and so far it has contributed to the soundness of mind and nerve among the mighty sociological forces which the present world conflict set in motion." LOSES EYE ON FIRST AIR TRIP. British Flier, Maimed, Shoots Foe, Lands, Cables Mother. An army medical officer back in Lon- don from the front reported the case|. of a Royal Flying Corps observer whose eye was_shot out. "A German airman got a shot at him on his first trip into the air over the German lines. "It sounded as if some one were playing a mandolin when the bullets came through the wires of our machie, he said. One missile gouged out his eye and embedded itself in the frontal bone, 'Despite the injury the observer let go his 'machine gun and drove off the enemy. The pilot brought the machine back| to the British lines and Delpad the ob- and to light another car ; the ho "sll injured walk 'station, where he server to caus Py a tha | his Rother be/ i informed hy ly re-| Typodoney gw 'never known what it is to live, but at the| poor Zavitz, of Guelph, their | ripening. 1 la as far as Common Barberry (Berberis vulgaris) and the Buckthorn (Rhamnus cath- artics) growing = in Ontario, Rast may cause serious loss in districts where these shrubs are not found, but, when 'they are present, they do un- doubtedly tend to increase the amount.) 2. See that fields on which grain is to 'be grown are well drai Rust is always 'worse on poorly- ed land. Such land remains der longer in the spring, and hence & ermination and early growth of : are retarded. In Biot sea- sons also grain ripens m son y-drained land. This. 'slow. de-| onl, ent of the crop and the exces. | Sk ve moisture provide the conditions | most favorable for the development | of. rust. 8. Endeavor o have the crop mature as early as possible. This can be done' to some extent by early seeding in a well-prepared seed bed. 4,' Avoid those varieties of grain which give poor returns and are also badly injured by rust. See table at end of this article provided by Prof. showing the ex- tent to which different varieties are velo "8: Do nob mix varieties of seed s, the following is th eresult of it ies of oats, but use only pure seed of one variety to secure uniform 6. Treat 'all seed grain to prevent smut, as plants infected with smut are very subject to rust, which may get started on them and then spread to healthy plants. 7. Sow only sound, pluinp grain. This can be secured by the careful use of the fanning mill. Shrivelled grain is very likely to have been produced by badly rusted plants. 8. On rich soils be careful in the use of manures containing large amounts of nitrogen, such as yanl manure and nitrates. © Such manures on rich soil produce an exces- sively rank growth, which invites rust. 9. Rotation of crops, proper man: uring, thorough cultivation, freeing the fields from weeds, and all such farm practices which tend to promote Healthy growth and the proper ma- turing of the grain lessen the chances of rust causing serious loss. In connection with the experiments conducted by. Prof. itz at the ally tasting Gi, lege in car differen ieties of poy beg "The ro | table gives the average of five years' results' (1910-1914 inclusive) in num- yield of grain per acre, and in per cent, of on the straw. of each of | eight varieties of oats, three varieties | of six-rowed barley, and ten varieties of winter wheat: use of a quick-act- ty | ing fertilizer on the fields in the fall, Bon the | just; al foun as goyeral infestation be. 8! as | comes apparent, with the fertilizer. ; re | hat "ton waters Ht. 5 move Holy to reduce the quantity of milk than hi wt impair its quality. 'Aherd ig feeding on watery grass in der were given two pounds of cotton seed meal per head per day, and their milk weighed and analyed. Some of the cows then had their cotton cals re- placed by 28 pounds of wet brewer's grains, a wabery food reputed to pro- duce a pious flow of milk of infer- ior quality. As a matter of fact, the change was found to have decreased the flow of milk and to have increased the percentage of butter fat from 3.38 per cent, to 3.46 per cent." The idea that water may be put into the milk by giving the cow a watery diet assumes that the cow is a mere machine, an assumption which is en- tirely ab Variance with all our know- ledge of the physiology of the secre- tion of milk, and with all the results of carefully recorded experience. A cow is very much a live animal; she makes or intends to make her milk for her calf and as a matber of fact she can be actually starved of food for some. time before the: quality of ther milk is seriously affected. -A- -PRS The Fall Hogs. It pays to. to keep a sharp loo} ] ; the fall lif kc p There is Herit in'the fall Titters"if they. are properly cared for; if neg- lected, they can be worse than a dont loss. Get the early pigs 7 mark et, n_ fruit with the 5" make rapid "Every pound 'gained now, costs less than when colder weather.comes, The price of bacon and all pork pro- ber of days § in reaching maturity, in : ducts should convince any one that iv does not pay to ect; Separate the pi eee