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Show 5 a3 STORY &3 MARCH THE WHITE GUARD By SIR GILBERT PARKER 19U2, oy li. F. Ketmo Carscallen. he made the sign of the ..me back from Saint ilia' Gabrielle. SBd that's next to the Book If he's alive he'll with a Papist come.' " "Perhaps be will." CarsVallen And (Toud-ithe Sky ?" "He's still there. and comes in and smokes with Jeff Hyde and me, as he used lo do with you, sir; but he doesn't obey our ordeivs as he did those of the Captain of the White Guard. He said to me when I left, tell Mm 'You see Btrong-bsr- Co.) CHAPTER X Continued. Jaspar Hume looked steadily into the eyes of the man who had wronged him: 'Remember. Varre, you begin the world again. I am going now. By the memory of old days, good-by,and he held out his hand. Varre Lepage took it and rose tremblingly to his feet, and said. "You are a good man. Jaspar Hume Good-by!r The turned at the door. "If it will please you, tell your wife that I saved you. Some one will tell her; perhaps I would rather at least it would be more natural, if you did it." He passed out into the heat of sunshine that streamed into the room and fell across the figure of Varre Lepage, who sat and said dreamily, "And begin the world again." Before Jaspar Hume mounted, almost immediately after, to join the White Guard now ready for the journey back, Jacques sprang upon him and pushed his nose against his master's heart. And once again, and for the last time that we shall hear it, Jaspar Hume said, "It's all right, Jacques." And then they started for the north As they were doing so a again. shadow fell across the sunlight that streamed upon Varre Lepage. He looked up. There was a startled cry of joy, an answering exclamation of love, and Rose Lepage was locked in her husband's arms. A few moments after and the sweet-facewoman said: "Who was the man who rode away to the north as I came up, Vane? He reminded me of some one, but 1 can't think who it is." "That was the leader of the White Guard, the man who saved me, my wife." He paused a moment and then solemnly sai.d, "That man was Jaspar Hume!" The wife rose to her feet with a "He saved you! He saved spring. you! Jaspar Hume! oh, Varre!" "He saved me, Rose!" Her eyes were wet. "And he would mot stay and let me thank him! Poor fellow: poor Jaspar Hume! Has he then been up here these ten years?" He face was flushed and pain was struggling with the joy she felt in seeing her husband again. "Yes, he has been up here all that time." ' He has not succeeded in life, Varre!" and her thoughts went back to the days when, blind and ill, Jaspar Hume went away for health's sake, and she remembered how sorry then she felt for him, and how grieved she was that when he came back strong and well, he did not come near her or her husband, and offered no congratulations. She had not deliberately wronged him. She did not know he wished her to be his wife. She knew he cared for her; but so did Varre Lepage. A promise had been given to neither when Jasp.ar Hume went away; and after that she grew to love the successful, genius who became her husband. Even in this happiness of hers, sitting once again at her husband's feet, she thought with a tender and glowing kindness of the man who had cared for her eleven years'ago; and who had but now saved her husband. "He has not succeeded in life," she repeated softly. Looking down at her, his brow burning with a white heat, Varre Lepage said, "He is a great man. my wife." "I am sure he is a good man," she added. Perhaps Varre Lepage had borrowed some strength from Jaspar Hume, for he said almost sternly, "He is a great man." His wife looked up half startled at the tone and said, "Yes, dear: he Is good man and a great man." The sunlight still came in through the open door. The Saskatchewan flowed swiftly between Its verdant banks, an eagle went floating away to the west, robins made vocal a solitary tree a few yards away, troopers moved back and forward across the square, and a hen and her chickens came fluttering to the threshold. The wife looked at the yellow brood draw Ing close to their mother, and her eyes grew wistful. She thought of their one baby asleep In an English Hut thinking of the words of grave the captain of the White Guard, Varre Lepage said. We will begin the wofM again, my wife." She smiled and rose i(! kiss his forehead as the hen and chickens hastened away from the door, and a clear bugle call sounded in the square. "Yes, dear," she said, we will begin the world again." " " Sub-facto- ; ' for- " his glass with Jaspar Hume raised smiling never lie good Indian How! get. and and Cloud-in-the-Sk- "To who never eyes: thoughtful all forget!" he said. CATCH THE LICE. How You Can Make the Roosts Lice Proof. Lfse ihai hide by day and come out to feed on the fowls by night some times get quite numerous before tht owner suspects, then it takes time t. clear them out of the house. If tin ..II HI HI! General Method of Living W Declared to Be Wrong. There certainly is good reason to suspect that our entire general method of living, so fat as differentiation of waking and Bleeping hours is concerned, is wrong, but it does not seem as yet to have occurred to the learned men to make the simple experiments requisite to the acquirement of exact knowledge, says the .North American Review. Any one, of course, can do it to his own satisfaction, but the individual result of an unscientific test would be far from conclusive. An effort by any of our own societies to determine whether there may not be in this siniple revolution of hours a panacea for American nerves, would seem to be in order. We would not. of course, anticipate any immediate effect, whatever the result of such experimentation, because human nature is obstinate and long well-know- He Saved You! world has been kind. went down to see your boy, Jaspar, at Clifton last week. It was the 13th, his birthday, you know, ten years old, and a clever, strong-mindeHe is little fellow. As he is my godquite contented. child again claimed the right of putting a thousand dollars to his credit in the bank I have to speak of dollars to you people living in Canada which I have done on his every birthday. When he is twenty-onhe will have twenty-onthousand dollars quite enough for a start in life. We get along well together, and I think he will develop a fine faculty for science, in the summer, as I said, 1 will bring him over to you. There is nothing more to say except that am as always, "Your faithful friend. "JASPAR HUME." A moment after the letter was finished the servant entered and announced "Mr. Late Carscallen." With a smile and hearty greeting the great man and this member of the White Guard meet. It was to entertain his old Arctic comrade that Jaspar Hume had declined to be entertained by or club. A little while after, seated at the table, the said: "You found your brother well. Carscallen?" The jaws moved slowly as of old. Ay, (hat, and a grain! minister, d 1 e e 1 "He wanted yon to stay in Scotland. sup)ose." "Ay, that, but there's no place for me like Fort Providence." And you are "Try this pheasant. Sub-facto- r now. Carscallen!" "There's two of us Jeff Hyde and myself. Mr. Field Is do much work, iyid old and can trade is heavy now." "Yes; I hear from the Factor now and then. And Gaspe Tonjours?" "He went away three years ago, but he said he'd come hack He never CHAPTER XI. Eleteu year.; hate. ..one since that did though Jeff Hyde believes he scene was enacted at Edmonton and will. He sas to me a hundred times Sub-factor- s I Oh, Varre!" evenings by the fireside are notoriousOne effect, generally ly agreeable. considered highly desirable, we suspect, would be certain. Almost surely such sleep would be less dreamful and, consequently, according to both the learned men and experience, more restful physically and more recuperaRut here again practive mentally. tice will encounter the serious obstacle of disinclination. Dreaming either by day or by night is one of the great- est luxuries. It is not, of course, a physical necessity, since we all know many persons who never dream at all and yet continue to be exasperat-- ! ingly healthful. Rut observation teach- es us that such persons invariably are most uninteresting. They may and often do possess in a notable degree sweetness of disposition, but they are so devoid or imagination as to be out of touch with the fantasies of I Cap-lain.- Jaspar Hume! Congratulations. Male Friend i My heartiest congrat- I read in ulations. Fraulein Meier. the paper the announcement of your betrothal to Inspector Mueller. Fraulein That wasn't 1, but an-- i other Fraulein Meier. Friend Oh. I'm sorry, but, between ourselves, you can be glad that you didn't gel such a fool as Mueller. Figaro. It Might Work. "I don't Hce much hope." said ihe counsel. "Oh. I dunno." replied the prisoner. "I'm a member of a labor union, you know." "Well?" "Well, 1 though! niebbc we might get the jury to go out on a sympathetic strike -- Philadelphia Press. prisoner's Mere Practical. "What's the difference between talent and genius''" "Talent, makes mTuiey oftener than genius does ' - Detroit Free Press. Ho-gan'- s -- A Simple Lice Protector. supports of the roost are set in little cans of oil, or water coatetd with oil, aa shown at a. the hens will be sate, and the lice can be kept in check by ordinary care, says Farm and Home. Low level roosts with large, round or fiat slats are best. Pod-horsk- BEES AND GRAPES. A Mistaken Idea That the Little Insect Punctures the Fruit. An Illinois reader wants to know if is any way to prevent the bees there from sucking the juice out of grapes. It is commonly supposed that the bees break the skin of the fruit and then remove the juices of the pulp. This is a mistake. If there is no rupture of the skin of the grape, this bees will not bother the fruit. Since they attack only those berries which are broken and which will. doubtless spoil, they do no material barm to the fruit. If the vineyard is a small one. one of the best remedies is to go through it and examine the bunches and remove all fruit on which the skin is broken. This fruit ran be used in making butters, jellies and wines and at. the same time the temptation is removed from the bees. in some small vineyards the growers resort to what is called "bagging." This is done about the time the berries are the size of small peas. paper bags are used, slipping the bunch into the hag, which is slit for an inch on opposite sides of the sack, near the top. Draw the top of the bag up to the lateral to which the bunch is attached so that it passes through the two slits made in the bag. Then bend, the paper over on either side bo no opening is left, and wrap a little fine wire around the lateral at either side of the sack. Leave this till the fruit ripens. This not only prevents bees and ants from gen ing to the fruit, hut also protects it from birds. Just what causes the fruit to crack open, is not quite plain to our station The writer has no experimenters. ticed, however, that fruit grown on rich soils has a greater tendency to break open than that grown on pool soils. If the soil is very dark colored, the probabilities are that it contains a great deal of nitrogen, which may cause the fruit to crack in the way mentioned. Manures should not be applied to the vineyard, especially fresh manure, says Journal of If the soil is naturally rich, it should receive a liberal application of hard wood ashes to which has been added a little ground bone or pulver ized rock phosphate. These materials should be worked Into the surface layer of the soil a few feet surround ing the vine. Two-poun- d 'He Saved You! The reports from eastern "Washingstate that the moving of the wheat bus crop has taken so many cars of all George A. Rommel animal bandman of the I'nited States Depart- kinds that it is found impossible to sement of Agriculture, reports: cure rolling 'stock to snip the lumIn response to requests, the Animal ber. Husbandry office of this bureau hat It was expected that indictmeuts recently collected information regard would be returned against certain offing the relative proMirtions of the icials of Goldfield who were charged two sexes of pigs at birth, with quit with grafting in the red light district, interesting Jesuits This information but nothing was done in the matter is not to be obtained from the herd by the grand jury. books for the reason that while tht William Sulzer, of New total number of pigs farrowed is usu Yo-k-Congressman . in an interview at Seattle upon ally given, the number of each sex :iis return from Alaska, announced Is given only for the pigs raised. will introduce a bill at the next that he Reports were received from eighty session of congress to prohibit seal two breeders, located in twenty-thre- t years. states and two territories ( Indian Ter burning for twenty-fivJames Hogan. a miner, was instantly ritory and Oklahoma i. Eight breeds were represented, as follows: Herk killed at Goldfield by a cave-In- . body was-- covered by many tons shite. Chester While. Duroc Jersey of and rock, and was not recovearth Hampshire. Large Yorkshire. Ohio lm until late in the afternoon. The ered Poland Chester. China and proved Tamworth. In a few rases the record accident occurred In the new shaft beof litters of grade and mixed breeding ing sunk in the Little Florence. was Klven; these are included in tin Seventeen indictments were returned by the grand jury of EsmerahU results. The number of sows whose litters county, Nevada, last week. They inwere reported was 1,477. The numbei cluded George Gibsou, the deputy of boar pigs was 6.660; the number ol sheriff who "shot and killed Eugene sows, C.625. and the total i:!,285. Tht Maunsell, the mining engineer, in the average per sow was as follows: Sunset cafe, and Ah Mow, a Chinaman Boars. 4.52: sows. 4.48 ; total, 8.99. who was Indicted for the killing of a The figures are mainly for litters far cointryman. towed during 1906. In 49 cases sec A strong effort will he made to save Bad litters during the year were re Jack Hines, the slayer of Count ported for the same sows, which some from the death sentence, some hat raises the average per sow. of the best legal talent in the state Hoars are seen to be slightly more having been engaged. Hlnes delibee numerous than sows, but for all prac ately shot. Podhorski to death in tint tical purposes the sexes may he re- Sunset cafe, at Goldfield, a famous retarded as equal in number at birth sort in the tenderloin, on Ihe evening The relative proportion was found tc of March 21. be 1,005 boars to 1,000 sows. Ex James Cahill. a contractor's forepressed in another way, the proportion was shot three times and fatman, is 100.53 boars to 100 sows, which ir lowest terms of whole figures is 201 ally wounded at Seattle by Larry an elderly mining man. Tha boars to 200 sows. men quarreled and Cahill slapped face. Later Cavanaugh met FAT ON THE HOG. Cahill in the Spokane saloon, cursed him and shot him three times, inflictOnly Put It on When Fitting the Ani ing fatal injuries. mal for Market. For ninety days the body of a man The hog that is to be kept on the has been dangling from a tree on the farm for breeding purposes does not side of one of the lofty peaks of the need much fat. The more fat he has Crazy mountains, fifty miles north of the more expense of muscle and en Livingston, at an elevation of 2,000 ergy there is required to carry It feet above the surrounding hills. The around and the more food must there body was discovered by two boy huntbe expended for that purpose alone. ers, and proved to be that of a sheep The hog stores nothing on his body herder who had suicided. C. L. Maxwell, the man who was except what may be used for some other purpose than to please the shot at Helper, Utah, and slightly inIn fact, the butcher Is not jured was an officer in Goldfield during butcher. looked out for by Nature. The object the stirring times following the murNature has in storing up fat is to give der If Silva, the restaurant man, by a surplus to be used as fuel in the Preston and Smith of the I. W. W., lungs. This fat is to be burned up in March 10th, and came near having He the creating of energy to keep the trouble upon several occasion's. machinery of the body in motion and was known in Goldfield as Jim Bliss. in the creating of heat to keep up the The secretary "f ln1 Interior has d- temperature of the body. Then' is kcided in favor of the state of Washing therefore, no reason for putting on ton in the case of that state against the back of the hog a lot of fuel foi a large number of settlers, Involving him to carry about with him till the about. 50,000 acres of valuable land. time he needs it. It would be like There were several classes of claimpiling onto the lender of an engint ants, but the secretary held against more coal than could be used in a all except those who had settled on single trip. The extra weight would their lands before the state's seleclie carried for nothing and would only tions were made. be in the way The hog that is to be The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone kept should therefore have only a company met defeat in the effort to small amount of fat on hi in at any prosecute two striking employees, of time. This will make it more natural A. E. Edwards and R. Clayton, Helena, for him to exercise and the exercise for grand larceny from various removwill improve his health. Bell instruments from various of al The fat on the hog that is to be Bold houses. Judge John Doran declared and in the market worth is money the state had failed to present that should be put on freely. The hog and he disshould not, however, have so much fat convictingthe testimony, two men. charged when that he is likely to go down of Sheridan, William F. Brittan. on the journey to market. The buy who was nominated by the presWyo., but to fat have like of ers hogs, hogs ident during the last session of conthey do not want them too fat. An overfat hog on a hot day has a good gress for the appointment as register Wyo., chance to die before reaching the end of the land office at Buffalo. who was confirmed by the but of his journey. senate as Wesley F. Brittan, has had the difficulties connected with his apFOR A COOL STABLE. pointment removed by being given a recess appointment. Gate Which Will Keep Stock in and The thirty-firs- t annual session of the Let Air in, Too. University of Wyoming, at Laramie, which will began Its fall term on the 25th with A simple arrangement a larger attendance from outsidn allow stables to be kept thoroughy several years. Among aired and kept cool on hot days Is points than for the states represented in the list of new students are Wyoming, Utah. Colorado, Nebraska, Ohio. Michigan and Wisconsin, one student being present from Sweden. Detectives in the employ of th I loldfield Consolidated Mines companv have just recovered 187 sacks of Mohawk ore, at Coaldale. south of Tono-pah- . The ore was found in the cellar it a hut occupied by several Italians, and the fact that the canvass containing it had almost rotted to pieces shows that the rock had been stolen several months ago. Senator Clark, of Wyoming, according to a Washington dispatch, says the west desires Roosevelt for pfsal dent, but if he declines, Taft is the is a surheir apparent. He says Mr-rfor Knox prisingly large sentiment The Door Gate. among the miners and other working men of his state. shown In the sketch. Make a light Two Jurors, "Diamondfleld" Jack gate of railings and hang It Just inside Davis of Goldfield and Jack Hart of of the stable door so that It may be Mlna, were peremptorily challenged used when the door Ih open. This per in the Hlnes murder case at Gold-fielmlts the animals to be in the stable the former by the state and the without danger of their getting away latter by the defense. "Diamondfleld" and also with plenty of sunlight lack Davis was himself convicted of murder at one time. Be Good to the Cows. The ore production of Goldfield last Do not excite the cowb or expose week consisted of 6,890 tons, of which them to sudden change In the weather the Consolidated Mines, leases and Feed them liberally with fresh, paint mill, produced 2.062 tons, and the Moable feeds. There is nothing made hawk Jumbo lease on the Jumbo Exby denying the cows all they will eat tension, adjoining the Mohawk, 1,118 In addition to this allow them all the tons. It was one of the biggest week; water they can drink It should be In the history of the camp. George A. Pettibone, defendant In pure, but not too cold. the murder trial of former Governor Frank Steunenberg, whose case was Separate Them. Separate the cockerels from Ihe pul- set before Judge Wood last week, has lets at once for both will make better taken a relapse at 'lie llolse jail, and his congrowth II they are on separnte range, fears are entertained that dition Is very grave. He was oour-atsot In sepaiate yards on for ulcerated liver. e I FOR SLEEP AND DREAMS. NOTES Nu- ton THE END. HOURS NORTHWEST Boars Seem to Be Slightly More merous Than Sows. Cloud-in-the-Sk- d ' SEXES OF PIGS. CroCI - OF (Copyright. the curtain rises for the last act of that diama of life which is connected with the brief history ol the White Guard. A great gathering is dispersing from a hall in Piccadilly. It has been drawn together to do honor to a man who has achieved a triumph in engineering science. As he steps from the platform to go he is greeted by a fusilade of cheers. He bows calmly and kind tf. He is a man of vigorous yet re- served aspect; he has a rare Individuality. He receives with a quiet cordiality the personal congratulations of hhl friends. He remains for sometiine in conversation with a royal Duke, who takes his arm and with him passes into the street. The Duke is a member of this great man's club, and offers him a seat in his brougham Amid the cheers of the people they Inside the club drive away together. there are fresh congratulations, and it is proposed to arrange an impromptu dinuer, at which the Duke But with nlodesty and will preside. honest thanks the great man declines. He had He pleads an engagement. pleaded this engagement the day before to a society. After his health is proposed he makes his adieus, and leaving the club, walks square. In away toward a West-enone of its streets he pauses and enters a building called "Providence Chambers." His servant hands him a cablegram. He passes to his library, and standing before the fire, opens it. It reads: "My wife and I send congratulations to the great man." Jaspar Hume stands for a moment looking at the fire, and then says simply, "I wish my poor old Jacques were here." He then sits down and writes this letter: "My Dear Friends: Your cablegram has made me glad. The day is over. My last idea was more successful than I even dared to hope; and the WOMEN AS POULTRY RAISERS. Why They Are Specially Adapted to the Business. Poultry raising Is one kind of stock raising that is adapted especially to women. Drains count for more than muscles In this department of the farm, and every expense (,f brain force is rewarded by Increased revenues. The women on the fartn have it in their power to make as great a success of poultry raising as their husbands make of the raising of horses, cattle, hogs or sheep. There are thousands of women engaged in the raising of poultry on a commercial scale and there are thousands of women on the farms that have brought the science of poultry rals ing to such a perfection that the bus! ness Is every year paying them a large income. The education of most women has been In the direction of cleanliness in the house and tidiness about the premises., This same kind of eduea lion la what Is most needed in the poultry establishment, says the Farm im's' Review. It has often been solely the lack of this that has caused losses In the poultry yards. The women on the farm have all the advantage of the woman In the village In the way of poultry keeping, for they have the raw material for the reeding of the poultry, all of which the village poul try keeper has to buy The Growing Chick. growing chick represents an In vestment. If It is well cared for and develops into a profitable fowl, the be profitable If Investment will through neglect or bad Judgment It does not develop into a healthy, vlg oroiiH specimen, the Investment is a failure. A 51 d |