love them. He has noble Impulses Such a man can be appealed to." "Mrf. Hamilton, you are the one to make the appeal." There Is a reserve "Oh, I cannot. letween us that no words of mine can By MARY R. P. HATCH bridge. When in his presence I for get everything but that he has rob Author of " The Bank Tragedy " At other times bed me of happiness I can think of him as unfortunate .x. bf Uc and Shrparrl Copyright. and to be pitied." "I will talk with him. then, for you. and do what I can." said1 the minister CHAPTER XXII Continued. he'd git the case. But. Lor' sake! Much had been said "Oh, thank you, thank you!" she regarding the tncre ain't no justice in the land." "I sometimes think said, gratefully. motives of his client, but Mr. Stevens r hi re was never so unhappy a worn contended they were manifestly as CHAPTER XXIII. an as I. Torn from my husband, and great on the part of the defendant. forbidden to mourn, because the beThere was no doubt he had become Undercurrents. hus-enamored with his brother s wife and That evening the Rev. Arthur Ham-merl- lief is general that he js not my I, And to be called unfaithful and. he had decided to possess her for sat by his study table trying to hiR own. He had repeatedly urged fix his mind upon the sermon he was the mosi faithful of wives!" it is, indeed, hard," said the minismarriage, but not until after the writing, but it would wander in spite ter. "Whether right or wrong in your i.eath of Lenora, who had been of, himself to the scene in court. I know your heart is true." belief, to remove so dangerous a witone to of his sensi peculiarly trying "Your faith in me Is a great comness to his past. When he became bi!i;ies; for he could but pity the convinced that the workman called pale, shrinking woman whose trials fort," she said, lifting her eyes earnPrimus Edes was no other than the were laid bare to the public gaze, estly to his face. "You 'will see him true Vane Hamilton, there was but tnd he could but pity the one who :.nd do what ;ou wi'1' "Yes. I will see him, and do what one course open. He must renounce had lost the suit, whether guilt;- or his claims or remove the true owner. innocent, for his heart was a merciful I can." And then Mrs. Hamilton left the He chose the latter. The shot was one. So when a timid knock came to either fired by his own hand or by his his ears he welcomed it as a diversion si tidy, and the minister thrust his rom troublesome thought, and wheel- - sermon one side and bent his head emissary, Solomon Marks, who was a fit tool for any such emergency. ;n deep thought. Ad from the table just as a lady en How could he touch this man, if he The judge was very impressive in tered in response to his invitation, were the impostor. Mrs. Hamilton his summary of the case, which he it was Mrs. Hamilton. said was different from any other on The minister arose and bowed hast- eoneeived him to be? Could he do it? Could any one? He doubted it. record. He not only reviewed the ily and in some confusion. evidence on both sides as usual, set"Can I do anything for you?" he Still, he would try. It was not .ate; barely nine o'clock. He would ting forth the claims of each and ex- said, earnestly. "I will, if I can." go that very night. plaining corroborating and collateral "Oh, I don't know, I don't know!" Changing his dressing gown for a he cried. "I came to you for I have evidence, but he spoke of the gross charges which would be made after- no one else to go to. I want some one coat, and making some other trifling wards of forgery, perjury, and per- to advise me who is very wise and alterations in his dress, he set out on his errand, andf soon reached the haps murder, against the person who good, and I know of no one but you. He rang the sustained defeat. He solemnly charg"I am not very wise nor good," he Hamilton residence. ed them, therefore, to deliberate long said gently, "but I will do my best to tell and was admitted Into the hall, which held a few boxes and a trunk. and wisely before deciding, that the ail you in any way that I can." "I don't know that you oan aid me, Mr. Carter and Mr. Hamilton came to gravest conviction of duty and justice called upon the best and wisest or that any one can. I don't know greet him, and the former said, as he faculties of the human mind to aid what to do. 1 have been so terribly stepped over a box: "Vane is going to the hotel, for he them in a decision like this, upon shocked the past week. I have heard which rested such great and unusual such dreadful things said about my wttl not keep Constance from her issues. It was not alone a question of conduct, and you may think me very home any longer. He is a noble felproperty, but of family and of life wicked. But indeed I am not. I have low, Mr. Hammerly." The minister felt a chill creep over and death. Therefore, let them delib- tried to do just right," and she lookerate well before deciding. ed up piteously as a child might into his resolution, but only for a moment. Two nights and a day passed :he minister's face. Never before had Whether she was right or not, he a decision was reached, and then he seen her stirred from her usual would kep his promise to Mrs. Hamilit was in favor of the present incum- nueenly bearing, and the sight moved ton, and as soon as Mr. Carter left the room, excusing himself on acbent of the Hamilton estates, who was him as nothing else could. "I know it," he said, soothingly, count of some duty, Mr. Hammerley declared to be the true and legal owner, Vane Hamilton; and an order for "you have tried to do just right. But oroached his errand. do not say, Mr. Hamilton, that the arrest of Henry Ashley, alias Pri- may you not have been mistaken?" I am not mistaken. I am "No. mus Edes, was filed by the order of you are not what you seem, but I came simply at the request of Mrs. Hamilton, who really believes that vou are not her husband. It is her solemn conviction, and it is cruelly unjust to rank her with the many unfaithful wives, some of whom might make pretences such as have been ascribed to her. You, surely, do not think her capable of such baseness?" "No. I think she is sincere in her belief. She is a noble woman, incapable of such an act. It was not my wish to have her name dragged before the public as it was, but one cannot do as he would at such times." "Mrs. Hamilton is convinced that you are her husband's brother, that you have been led almost without volition of your own to wicked courses which are at variance with your real nature. She thinks, with different environments you would have been a different man." "What else does she say?" asked Mr. Hamilton, as the minister paused. "She wished me to appeal to you to give her back her happiness. She "A brother's curse will rest upon you to the end!" is very miserable; very much chang-from the happy woman I first the judge, upon the charge of forgery, more firmly convinced than ever. I know he is not my husband, and nothknew when I came to Grovedale. She perjury and embezzlement'. When the decision was made known ing shall induce me to say otherwise." is a rare woman; one among a thou "How can you be so sure?" it would have been hard to tell which sand." "How can I be so sure? You never lace was more pallid of the two men "You are right. She is one among the one who had just been declared 'oved, or you would know. I should a thousand. Would you give up such guilty or the one who had gained the know my husband's soul in any body a woman?" if he claimed me. I did not know at suit. "I?" The minister's hot face flushFor a moment they turned to gaze first because he did not recognize me, ed with emotion. (To be continued.) into each other's faces, while a shade but when he did I was sure. I tried of acute regret passed over that of not to be precipitate, but all the time Victor Herbert and Fritzi Scheff. the one declared to be Vane Hamil- I knew knew." "But the other man looks more like Victor Herbert, composer of 'Mile. ton, but on the other a look of teryour husband." rible anger rested. Modiste," in which Miss Fritzi Scheff "Ah, but his soul is a stranger to is appearing, has an assistant, whose in thrill"Do not think," he cried my soul," and she looked up in an :ame is Carl Fritzie. It is Mr. Frit-zie'- s ing accents, "that you will ever be wild almost earnest, manner that to posduty to look after the music, allowed enjoy your play In the orchestra, and act as an Our mother's spirit will touched him greatly. sessions. "Do you mean to appeal for anassistant to the composer. prevent that. Yon will never know a other trial?" curse During a rehearsal of "Mile. Momoment's peace, and a brother's "No, it would do no good." diste" Mr. Herbert wanted his assistwill rest upon you to the end. Re"Then what can be done?" ant and called loudly: "Fritzie! Fritmember my words. As for justice," "I don't know, unless you appeal zie! Where are you. Fritzie?" covlooking about the court room and to him." Miss Scheff was in her dressing ering with his gaze the judge and "I appeal to him?" no such room, but she heard Mr. Herbert's thing." iurymen, "there is "Yes, to the man who has fraitdu-ientlcall. A moment later her maid ap-"That will do," said the judge, coldgot possession of our home. to eared on the stage and said lo Mr. of," have complain nothing ly, "you You are a good man and might know Herbert: "Miss Scheff 's compliments and the prisoner oecompanied the of some way to touch his heart. You if you please, sir, and will you please sheriff from the court house. " not address her by her first name in Mrs. Hamilton, leaning on the arm are very persuasive, very eloquent. "But If he Is such a man as you the of Mrs. Fry, went to the latter's house, presence' of the company?" him?" Mr. Herbert has therefore decided for she would not enter her house think "Still, there is some vulnerable to call his assistant "Carl" to avoid while tenanted as It was. There was no doubt, thought Mrs. Fry, that she place in his soul. This is in every future misunderstandings between I think. To doubt it would be Mr. Fritzie and Miss Fritzi. really did believe that the man now a one, to doubt the good Father. Would he. prisoner was in reality her husband do you think, allow any of his erea-ture- s had had her herself Good for Headache. the good lady but to be so depraved that hey mental faculties so played upon at Johnny Ray. who Is starring with the trial that it almost seemed as if could not be redeemed from sin? his wife In "Down the Pike," lives In This man must be the twin brother Cleveland, owns a large ;imonnt of Fhe herself were another person. 'I wouldn't resk any case at court, of my husband, and be must have leal estate there and is sr cnthusias His prom.esf possesnot one single minute,' she said to good In his nature still; for his par- tic horseman. Dan. "One lawyer gits up an' proves ents were good people, and wicked sion is a string of trotters, hietading cannot quite change, fentinel Belle ard Naneo. When in It all out that his man Is Vane Hamil- environment ton, so you see It is all jest as easy i.uite pervert, a noble nature, can It?" New York this fall Rav met an actor not. Btill you cannot on Broadway who looked a long way "Perhaps as print. Then another lawyer gits conceive of over an' the difference between "down on his luck." bucket the kicks and up "What's wrong, old man?" queried proves that the first is all a turrlble good bringing up and the reverse. BeI came here I was engaged In Johnny; "up against It?" He, though he's master polite about fore "Hard." it. His man is Vane Hamilton, an missionary work that brought me in "Been playing the ponies?" he explains It all out Jest as plain contact with the most degraded peo"Worse! I bought one!" and easy as t'other "did, only dlreck ple. They actually had no conception "Wfcat was the piker s name?" contr'y. It's my private 'pinion them ff goodness, no belief In a better life. "Menthol." ;urymen didn't know no more 'bout IIIf people seemed good, they deemed hypocrisy. They would laugh to "flood for headache, fh?" It than I did: 'fenny rate they looked "Fine! Dropped every cent I'd saved puzzled as COnM be after Mr. Stevens scorn any appeals to conscience, for 'Fore they literally s emed to have none. for a year on him. My had hasn'i got up and spoke his piece. then I M purty sure Wei had the Such people deserve the profound-es- t stopped aching yet." pity " worst Out, bill WM dreffle sorry for showed "But he Is not like tba' He Is A Mr. Stevens merely fnitn eremy may rise 'Itn, but after I one he is cu'.-.- l !e of affection; my again, but th" Is truly out how that Aebley came. an'jest ' '" ;. was Jest sure cnlhlren lov bin: h" appears lo vanquished. how It all I f THE BREEDING YARDS. THE MISSING MAN 1 mur-cere- d - 1 j be-or- e i y ; I edu-iate- " i Suggestions as to the Raising of Strong Chickens. Some THE WOMAN, THE AND THE PRETTY regard to the number of females the breeding yards, that will de- In in pend in a. measure on the vigor and age of the male bird, and also upon the size of the houses and yards. SPRING CARE OF APIARY. If you have houses 10x12 feet, and 25x100 feet, or larger, with a yards The Precautions Which Should be good, matured cockerel, it will be safe Taken to Protect Bees. to have 15 females, hens or pullets, of the sizes, and 20 if Leghorns Bees will do better if tb.-- are pro- or larger any of the smaller laying breeds. tected in some way after being set For a cock bird do not put in inort CpMH the cellar Winter cases have than 12 or 11 females. been recommended for this purpose, In the yards of the American clas-o- f and they are good, but expensive. Rebirds, or larger, not more than 15 cently, however, tarred building paper should be kept for each cockerel, and has been used, with very satisfactory 15 for each cock bird. And there is results. In some cases the whole hive, no better time than right now to pick except the bottom, has been wrapped out your breeders and breeding yards in the paper, but It makes it neces- for the coming spring. sary to remove the covering every So many persons sell off everything time the hive is to be opened. have, they can and then mate up their yards therefore, devised a different way of with what they have left This is the wrong way to do business, and such breeders will never make any improvement in the quality of theii stock. The birds intended for next spring's breeders should be chosen now, and if they can be separated from the rest of the flock so much the better. y 1 I 1 lls H 1 Paper Overcoat for Hive. using building paper, says a writer in Farming. cut a piece of the tarred building paper so that it will be as wide as the hive is deep that will be nine and one-hal- f inches for Langslroth hives-a- nd long enough lo cover all four sides of the hive and also have the ends overlap several inches. The first fine day after the bees have been put outside, I take an em pi.v hive bouy and fasten to it the bottom board with double-pointecrate Staples. Then lay the hive body on Its side and fasten the paper at one corner with a thin strip of wood-m- ine was sawed out of dry goods box boards. When the first corner is fastened it is an easy matter to wrap the paper and tack 'on the rest of the strips. Atter the hive is fixed and set on ihe place of one containing bees, I remove, the combs and bees from that hive and put them in the hive that has been protected by building paper. I then shake all of the bees out of the hive from which the combs have beer, removed and wrap it with paper, and proceed thus until all of the colonies arg protected. I have never known any kind of cover with which a hive could be closed so tight that no heat could escape from the cluster, yet some bee keepers use nothing under the cover to prevent the loss of heat. I use an enameled sheet, with the smooth side toward the bees, and on this pieces of old carpets or sacking, or pieces of building paper, cut large enough to nover the top of the hive, but not overWith an enameled sheet. lapping !arred paper would probably not be an injection to the bees, but as it might, it is better to substitute the kind of building paper used for houses; place it on top of the hive and, of course, mder the cover. Whenever a hive is opened in .ear! ?pring, heat escapes rapidly, which is t great objection, because some of (be irood may be chilled and the colony aven a great setback. Whenever manipulations are necessary during he spring months a quilt should be ised to cover the hive while it is ipen. Make it of several thicknesses if heavy cloth, and have one side dark olored and the other side light, and large enough to hang dawn several nches on all four sides. The side should be up during cold weather in spring; for if the sun Is ?hining some of its heat will be better lbsorbed. The side of the quilt is for use during the wu'tn season when it is necessary to manipulate frames while robbers are bad When a hive is opened, the quilt should be thrown over the top. Roll it back, and when a frame has been removed, cover up the top of the hive again. I d . -- HATCH CHICKS EARLY. and May the Best Months to Start Them. April We raised nearly every good chick We of our April and May hatches think it much better every way to hatch as many chicks as possible in March and April and would prefer none later than May. They always thrive better for us than later ones. The pullets of the larger Hocks are kept in colony houses with quite a range, fed wheat, oats and craoked corn, with mash once a day of gluten feed, mii:ed feed and beef scrap, wet with skim milk as much as we have to spare. The smaller mixed flocks are more closely confined, fed the same, except no oats, and supplied with pea vines for green feed, from a Held of Canada peas and oaits. We of find, writes the correspondent Farm and Home, the peavines a fine growing food. The cockerels are rather closely confined in movable coops and yards, are fed cracked corn and mash with a large part of corn meal added to the other mixture. HANDY DEVICE. Directions for the Construction Grit Box. of a cut four pieces an inch board like Fig. 1. Then board up using half inch stuff, as shown in Fig. 2, by boring two holes To make a grit box, From vGood Grit Box and Grain Feeder. in back about two inches from sides and one inch from top. This box can iie hung on two pegs or nails or Inside of poultry house and makes a rerj convenient and sanitary grit box. Three kinds of grit or feed can be kept separately to which the fowls have access at all times but cannot waste or foul It It is well to let the front board extend one and one-halinches below top of partitions by notching, to prevent grit from feeding Into the trough too freely. f dark--nlore- light-colore- CARE OF THE Be FOWLS. sure that a box of clean, sharp constantly within reach of the is fowls. jilt Cattle and sheep starve on boggy meadows, but geese thrive and are profitable. No fowls are easier to raise than geese. Nothing better than the fields. There's mony in 'em. Buttermilk Is a good chicken feed. Mating Poultry. It contains the necessary elements for of varieties fowls flesh and egg material, and the chlek-uno more than eight females should will eat it in preference to skim be mated with one male; In the medimilk. um weight varieties 10 to 12 Is about The poultry business does not make right; and in the lighter varieties, hard work, but everything connected like the Leghorn, as many as 15 usu with It must be looked after in seaOne drake son ally prove satisfactory. and everything kept clean. to every four or Ave ducks makes a Wglect means loss. satisfactory combination, but geese Feed laying hens too little raiher are usually bred In trios. When ban too much corn. It should bo 10 16 to females mating turkeys from overed with a deep Utter of straw are sufficient for one torn. Of them to scratch out. The busy 'ion Is the hen that lays. Hatch Early. Charcoal Is one of the best and In raising poultry for market, usu hoapest of Btomach purifiers. A sup ally the profit lies in hatching early, of It should always be where the pushing the chickens forward as rap :dy can get It, for It will greatly 'owls Idly as possible and marketing them ild proper digestion. chickens early. at spring Spring Kggs that have been kept two ot prices pay better lhan fowls sold late, brer- weeks will produce weak chirk on, when, though the fowls weigh ns. If they live to get their growth. more, there Is not only the lower will never be strong nor healthy hoy price, but additional feed for perhaps 'we or three months must be taken The germ of the egg becomes weak ned with age. Only fresh, new eggs into consideration. hould be set. 8uccess with Poultry. In making a success with poultry, a A Universal Experience. rreat deal depends on the pleasure It is the universal experience of one takes In feeding and care fie that while It Is com hem. Whenever attending to their iiratlveiy a simple matter to make a wants becomes a drudgery, It bad urge profit from a small flock. It Is ill te another thing to keep a large batter be given im. for neglect soon dock with commensurate results. follows, which brei In the heavier s - lOiiltry-keeper- ; s By KATHRYN BOOKS GIRL KNIGHT. The Pretty Girl looked mournfully into the box from which she had taken the last piece of candy. "Do you know," she said, with a disconsolate air. "that I'm tired of being frivolous and silly. I want to take an interest in something serious." "Or do you mean a serious interest inin something'.'" sympathetically quired the Woman. "The two are not exactly synonymous, and sometimes you get more pleasure out of being serious yourself." "Yes. there are those people who take an Interest in bugs. They take a real serious interest in bugs, but it often does seem awful silly. Now, take an interest in somewhy can't thing? I'm going to. I'm going to take an interest in china or old furniture or books." Then the Pretty Girl looked very Important, while the Woman listened In awestruck silence. Hut it's silly to have convictions if you don't back them out, and the Pretty Girl is not 1 slow. Let's go right around to that book shop the Hook Worm told us about and look at the books." The book shop was kept by a nice little man who spoke Knglish with an English accent, which everybody knows is different from an American accent. He was delighted to show the Pretty (iirl the books of which he was the custodian. They were were, "tooled" Ixxdis: the classics dressed up in handmade costumes that were perfectly beautiful. There was one set of tooled Shakespeare that was lovely. Radiant in a binding of red and gold, It fairly shone resplendent. "Now, this," said the custodian, "was done at our Knglish house. It is one of the finest specimens of hand work that we have." "Isn't it perfectly beautiful!" exclaimed the Pretty Girl. "It's just too sweet for anything." And then, in a burst, of confidence, "You know I am not really interested in this sort of thing, but I'm trying to be." The Woman, who had been trying to uphold the dignity of the personally conducted party by admiring an old engraving which she afterward found out it was wrong to admire, because said engraving had been colored, gasped. But the Custodian of the he Hooks did not mind; merely beamed upon the Pretty Girl and brought down some more !ooks which were utilized in her education. Somehow, everybody helps the Pretty Girl to do whatever she happens to want to do. Then a lovely volume of Tennyson was displayed. The binding was of dark brilliant green, and the golden edges and the binding met in what seemed to be a solid cover. "Isn't It too cute?" exclaimed the Pretty Girl, as she ran her finger along the smooth binding. "It looks just like one of those fancy candy Do yon know," turning sudboxes. denly on the Woman, who was admiring a copy of "Jack the Giant Killer," "he didn't send me any candy last week." "Mow inueh Is this?" gasped the Woman, picking Jack hastily up in an endeavor to bring the conversation hack to more intellectual lines. "Sixty-fivdollars. It is one of the most beautiful copies in existence. See, these engravings are exquisite and the type used resembles fine Italian writing The binding is splendid calf." I "What a mercy It isn't cow," broke giirgllngly from the Pretty Girl, who beamed at her own joke. And because the Prefty Girl made It for no other reason the Woman felt sure, the Custodian of the Hooks beamed too. which led the Pretty Girl to remafk as soon as she reached the outside that it was all a mistake about Englishmen having no sense of humor. "Do you sell many books?" was the next question the Pretty Girl thought to ask. "Well, no; but, you see, we have such expensive books that the majority of people don't buy them. We have a number of good customers, the kind of people who know Just what they want and who don't mind paying the prices asked. These are the people who already have splendid libraries and who are always looking out. for something to add to them." "I think I'll start, a library," soliloquized the Pretty Girl. "It would bo better than collecting furniture, I live in a flat and antlquo things are ho big and china get broken. I think I'll begin light nway; now, how much Is this?" picking up a tiny volume of Keats. "That's six dollars; a very artistic piece of work It is, too." The Pretty Girl pursed up her lips thoughtfully. "I wonder whether I II need a new pair of slippers to go to the dance?" and then she beamed on the Custodian "I believe I'd better wait to begin the library. Hut It's been so good of you to show us all the charming books; I've learned such a lot this afternoon, and If you'll let me I'll come back again." isn't It lovely to feel that you are really taking a serious Interest in something?" she dimpled as sh walked down the street "Or an Interest in something serious," said the Woman. "Oh, Well, either way. Let's go and gat a but chocolate. e be-cau-