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Show "Perhaps," he acknowledged; "but kept my hat slouched over my face, and I put me on a wig, and loug cot:; you see it alters me somewhat ?" I smiled a babe could have seen through the trick. But no dotbt my enemy, he who had been Inatrumer.ral in my hurt, thinking me dead, did not care to molest him "At last, desperate, I asked the services of both Lady Felton and Mistress Gwyn they could ferret out nothing new," he continued, "and I was about at my end, when it Is hardly an hour agone I received a whispered word, 'Back alley, foot of Chune Street." Although I was after her like a flash it was a woman she escaped me; hid herself among the where wings or stage came near to being lost. As soon as I found my way out I lost no time In coming here." "It must have been Mag," Alice put I Mistress Rosemary Allyn By M1LLICENT Copyright, E. MANN LINCOLN lSOi. by LL'C'AS CHAPTER XIX Continued. do not know,'' she said, and shook her head. "I am sorry if Martin annoys you. sir: he is restless today I cannot quiet him," she added. "Poor devil," I ejaculated, as holding my heavy head tightly between my hands I was able to follow what he was reciting. '"Oh, God! Oh, God!' 'How woary, stale and unprofitable' 'Get thee to a nunnery' 'Alas, poor Yorick' 'He poisons him in the garden.' " a mad "Poor devil!" I repeated; Hamlet truly." Turning to Alice I said courteously: "I see in some way unaccount-tblto me I have intruded upon your hospitality I am waiting to know why?" "I will tell you if you promise to talk no more, only listen," she added. I assured her of my willingness to listen, and she began: "It is now going on the fifth day since Martin and I found you all unconscious dead, I thought but I will begin at the beginning. You eee, Martin and I were coming into London I know, sir, it is risky but I did so long to see the town before I left it never to return, for you must know we are on our way to Bristol to sail for America. I thought I could easily stay hidden here for a few days." "You mean to say that you will ourden yourself with a daft person in i new land?" I found myself asking. "What else can I do, sir?" she queried; "I could not leave him here alone he has no one else in the world save me it would be cruel to leave him alone." "Nothing else," I replied, not willing to spoil her fine charity. "We had not come into London yet. when a fog closed in upon us such a fog as London had not seen in many a day." she said. "We were "I e 01 had been struck upon the head and Before the unconscious. miscreants had attempted the dastardly deed, however, they had made sure of the identity of their victim, for I rendered remembered a light being swung before my face, and an unknown voice crying "It is he." Who had struck the blow? What was the object? I had been searched I saw from the wall where my clothes hung some of the pockets still lay turned out. For what? Not money, Alice was positive, for there was plenty in the pockets which had been left in their original position. For the paper given me by my father? I had told no one but the King of that. I bade Alice bring me my coat when I recollected that I had given the locket with the note still intact within it to Rosemary. For the other paper, perhaps? Well, I chuckled with satisfaction, if it was a paper they were after, they got not what they wished. "I thank you, Alice," I said; "but for you and Martin I might be by n.iw food for the worms. Again I thank you. for I honestly believe that I owe my life to you." "Oh, sir," she cried, tears starting to her eyes they seemed ever ready to flow upon the instant "I am not worthy to take it. Did I not steal from you and you so good to poor Martin and me?" "That is past and done, my girl," I said. "And as it happened you did I grasped her hand. no harm." "From now on I am your friend," I added. While speaking, for Alice, seeing that it made me more excited not to talk, had let me have my way, we had paid slight heed to Martin, who still spouted Shakespeare, now Hamlet, another. now Suddenly he came toward us; he strode with the stage glide of he villain. As he neared us he pointed to 1 gim-crack- Mm Latest Gossip of Gotham k HURDLING SHEEP FOR Economic Method Peas. Etc., What Will Mrs. Russell Sage Do with Her Immense Fortune 1 Heaty Sacrifice of a Society Woman for a Husband -- Thaw's New Counsel a Bridge Whist Expert. -- i FORAGE. of Feeding in the Field. There is considerable speculaNEW YORK tion as to what Mrs. Russell Sage will do with the fortune left her by the famous money lender Rape. of Wall - in. "Who is Mag?" questioned Gil. "The woman who rents these rooms and lets us stay here with her," she Hurdle for Sheep. replied rather tartly. one made of fencing lum'That settles it," said he. "Did I ber, either six ordinary four inches wide, or not say that all the mischief was conand one Inch thick, each panel being cocted by the petticoat army?" ten or twelve feet long, as desired. "You did indeed," I could not help The braces, says the Farm and "But they smiling at his manner. Home, are made of the same material, witness also perform good services, and when set upright the panels are what Alice did and would you have placed in the notches of the uprights whereas to been any the wiser my them and well lapped to prevent abouts if Mag had not informed you?" from out. slipping "What did Alice do?" he quickly These hurdles may be moved once asked. each day, preferably In the after"She dragged me here from where noon, so that the sheep will not she found me on Bow Street, and has gorge themselves on the fresh forsince cared for me," I said. "If it age while they are hungry, which had not been for her, instead of find they will do if it was moved in the ing a quick man, you would have morning. found a corpse, if anyone at all." RAPE FOR SHEEP PASTURE. "Em!" he muttered. "I care not I where serve best best paid. they must get you hence I will send for Nothing Better, Says a Huron (County) Ohio Farmer. Torraine and a stretcher. Who knows a be but it may trap?" I have never found any pasture on "Beast!" ejaculated Alice. "Know, which mean a sheep will do as well as rape. one do would no that Mag sir, I have sown it altogether as a catch trick," she added to me. crop and it has done wonderfully I reassured her with a smile. well. I sow it just before the last culwhom she The madman, Martin, had taken care of as a mother her tivation of corn, usually about tho sick child, came out of his corner at middle of July. Then the corn is so her raised voice, and laid his hand large that the cultivating has to be done with a single horse. The plants timidly on her arm. will make the greater part of their Alice "Pretty Alice Lynson pretty growth after the corn is cut up. "I know Lynson." he murmured, This seson conditions were favor where violets grow the color of youi able and I sowed July 6 and followed eyes rosemary, too, and fennel, and with the wheel cult! here's rue for you. Why do you cryl up the same day two vator and horses, making a short And some." he started I will get you It took three and job. easy complete for the door. hours to sow ten acres and the cultinot is she "Alice said, "No, no," vai-'ntook a little more than one crying you must stay with Alice." half a day. The seed cost $2.8035 The madman hesitated and looked pounds at eight cents a pound. The longingly at the door. cost was a mere trifle compared to the. "Alice will cry, indeed, if you leave value of the crop. The corn stands her," she said. Thereat he came a, little thin on, the ground, the land back, and went into his corner, from is rich, and I look for a great crop of whence the crooning began again forage that will come on when the othGil watched the couple with shamed er pastures are brown and dry. I will eyes, but he was not satisfied and turn lambs in about the middle or last muttered: of September. They will not molest "I think it best to go and call Tor the corn to their injury and the green raine. I kept Pat and him with me, succulent rape will at this time do sir, for they could go into places that them a world of good. I dared not venture for fear of recog The crop is so easily and cheaply nition. I will be back with a stretch grown in this way, says the Farm er in a wink." and Home, that no man who keeps He would have gone, but I called sheep can afford to do without him back. it. Every flockmaster knows the ad"It is early yet, Gil, be in no haste," vantage of having his sheep go intc I entreated. winter quarters- in high condition "My lord, I have much to tell you," They are so much more easily and he pleaded. cheaply wintered, and the rape gives "Tell it here and now," I comthem a fine start on the road. It will manded. surprise any sheep man to see how He gave a sigh of resignation. quick lambs will respond to the pas"Do you know where the locket is turage of luxuriant rape, and conthat you wore pinned upon your coat sidering how cheaply It can be grown, the night you left me?" he queried. no flockmaster can afford to do with "Yes," I replied. Had I not given out it. it myself to Rosemary? POINTS ABOUT THE HOG. "Where is it?" he demanded. The hog quarters should be kept In "It appears to me, Gil, that you are busying yourself about something such condition that they will never be a taint to the air blowing over them. which does not concern you. My Don't think that high breeding can God!" I started up only to fall hack again. "How many days have I lain take the place of good feeding. Of course much depends on the breed, here?" "Five days, sir," replied Alice and but more on the feed. 01! in the same breath. Don't expect the the pigs to thrive in muddy pens and damp beds. They (To be continued.) will disappoint you every time if WEAR GEMS OF PHARAOHS. you do. If the sow is kept in good condition London Society Women Proud of Jewon the right kind of food her pigs els From the Pyramids. will be strong and vigorous. who Happy the woman of A good sow in perfect health always of owns some gem worn by a prino loses flesh while suckling a litter of Egypt when the world was younger; pigs and needs to be well fed. joyous is she who adorns herself with Pigs often iack vigor because the any ornament taken from a mummy, brood sows are kept too fat. A good for such jewels bring the be-- t luck, thrifty condition Is much better for women firmly believe at the moment, the pigs than too much fat. and they all yearn to wear them. Aa a rule aged brood sows are the Mrs. Clarence Mackay of N w Vork most prolific, the best mothers and possesses a weird carnellan necklace produce the most vigorous offspring. that decked a daughter of the I'har-aoh- s Usually the hogs with coarse, and Mrs. St. John Broderirk rehair will not fatten near so straight joices over some quaint, priceless .icw rapidly as the one with soft line hair. els that shone by the Nile. Many The thumps In plga is often caused fashionables are wearing a little pend an excess ot fat about the Internal by ant or charm made of New Zealand and especially around the organs jade, the Ponnamu stone, which alheart. ways bestows good fortune. farrowing sow should have Sarah Bernhardt's favorite masGOt a Every to herself and be put In shelter Is a necklace of gold nuggets which in time to get acquainted with hei the admiring miners of California presented to her. An English actresa. surroundings. Miss Irene Van Rrugh. pins her faith The Keeping of Sheep. to a girdle of splendid turquoises. There Is no stock so easily and cheaply kept as sheep and they are In Lent. of value Instead of a detriment to Henry M. Flagler, at a dinner party the farm and pasture They eat at Palm Beach, said, apropos of Ient: In the pasture etc., weeds, plants, "A clergyman told me one day In other stock refuae, ths acting Iont how. the Sunday before, he had which aa gleaners. preached from the text, 'AH flcdi Is grass.' It Tells. "The next day he met a parishioner Continued health, good food, good of his. a lowly laltorlng man to whom from the Inclemencies "t protection was but anything congenial, hating show their influence In ThL man said to the clergyman with the weather, of even staple of the the production a smile: " T much enjoypd, sir. yesterday, yer beat quality, while deflciencj in either sermon about all flesh beln' gra f and reaped will leave its Impression uHn tin' iibre. I wish to know whether, in IhK Lett-I BOotdnl a be set on, after liatia' Tha Water Supply. small piece of pork by way of a al- Water Is as Important as food and art?' " ahould b lapl clean and fresh - g 'Enter the ghost he comes, he comes!" aeavily laden. Each of us had a pack -- our little belongings. I was leartul is we trudged along, groping our way 'rom street to street, lest we be set lpon and our few possessions taken 'rom us. A fog in London's a fear-u- l thing! ' Hardly a light anywhere iave the few lanthorns carried by provident wayfarers. You shrink from veryone and everyone shrinks from Gentlemen carry their naked fOi. swords in their hands. Men and prey upon one another. All is fear! We had reached the end of Bow Street when Martin stumbled over something huddled in the road and fell. I lighted a taper I recognised yon!" I thought (my head was clearer sow) of Rosemary and our wild ride ;hrough the fog that night as contrasted with this poor woman's wanderings with her daft mate; of Rosemary as she stood at the door of the ;nn. her cloak half slipped from off ner; of the petals which lay on her Bhouldcr. shaken from the roses low In her hair, nestling against her deck. Ah, there was no one more neautiful than she! And so thinking, I lost the thread of her discourse. When I came back from soaring near to heaven I heard her say. "I tied a bit or ribbon on one of the should spikes of the gate, so that I we had know the place, and because to hide our bundles beneath the hedge so as to be free to carry you. When who 1 went back for them I learned owned the place and who lived there, thinking that if you recovered you might wish to know. The house Is on Bow street surrounded by large grounds, inclosed by high brick walls, Ivy grown." "I know the place," Lmnrmured. "We carried you between us," she "Often we had to stop continued. and I would leave Martin and you a madman and a corpse and go to Inquire Ut way of the first passerby In I could meet, my heart thumping I should ask some fear for breast my evil Inclined person and be directed wrong. Thus, after hours of wandera radius ing hither and thhcr within of a few miles, we came to Mag's. she explained, a charwoman," She "who used to clean at the old Orury when I acted there. I was once able to do her a slleht service, and for the sake of those old days she took us In." My brain was not idle the night of the tot "f'"r had left Rosemary I the window and said: "Enter the ghost he comes he comes make way, ye slaves." A shadow spread itself upon the shade of the window and faded away. Alice put her finger upon her lips to silence Martin, while she went to the door without a sound and stood CHAPTER XX. wo-no- n 1 Wager and What Came of It. sword handle fell heavily upon the door, wielded by no slight hand. "Open, it is I Gil Monte; open I say," cried a voice, and again there was a tremendous banging at the A A door. I too cried "It is Gil." yes," Alice answered, as she made haste to unhasp the latch, and "Open," "Yes, Gil rushed in. "At last! my lord, at last!" he cried, as he hastened to my side. From the break in his voice I understood plainer than words could have told me the anxiety he had passed through. "It Is as I feared yon have been hurt?" he questioned. "Not much, a crack on the hack of the head," I replied, "and this cut." "It is enough, from your looks," he said dryly. "Tell me how you succeeded In finding this hiding place?" I asked anx"For what you have done iously. others may do and so Alice's safety be Imperiled." "Ah! 'pretty Alice Lynson' more petticoats." Gil said, laying his hand upon his breast and bowing low before her. "Poof! You!" Alice cried scornfully, and swung round on her foot, presenting her back to him. He gave a perplexed look at her hack and then turned to me. "When you did not meet us at the marsh as agreed." he said, "I sent all the men on to lxng Haut. except Torralne and your linkman. Pat. We came back to London by separate ways and ever since have been searching hich and low for you. It did not take us long to find that you had been hurt or killed, we knew not which, near the How Street mansion. Then what had become of von was a In mystery I could learn nothing despair I hung about the Duke's th- eater" "A risky thing to do." I interrupted him street. has long been known that she Is interested in phllanthrophy, higher education and the uplifting of the poverty stricken. She has taken part, unknown to the world, in many of the charitable projects of Miss Helen Gould. Ruaaell Sage was afraid of her generosity. I'ntil the old millionaire became physically and mentally unable to give personal attention to his business he was the sole arbiter of expenses in his household. He audited and paid the bills of servants, of the grocer and of the butcher, beIt Tho most economical method of feeding rape, peas and oats to sheet as summer forage is to hurdle them on a small part of the field each day. This requires a simple and easily movable hurdle. The sketch shows to-da- y 1 wifi'J I J it Mmmm A ' 1 AAmMTT 'l" lit auce for iwWfc'tllwr Ills Wile Willi all txnyjri household expenses le-- t any call appeal- charitable instincts might empty his R'.ll 111 III IIUSI purse. She was born Olivia Sage is now in her seventy-seventyear Slocum. at Syracuse, N. Y., and reared in comfort. She was popular at school and was a successful school teacher. She taught during the war In Philadelphia. In U69, at the age of 40, she married Russell Sage, whose first wife had been one of her dearest friends. Mrs. Sage is very fond of animals and loves to feed the birds and squirrels In the park, having succeeded in saving them from the bitter cold upon more than one occasion. She took very good care of her husband and could persuade him to do things that no one else could. Her maids and men have been in her service for terms of 20 and 10 years, which shows how considerately she treats them, and every one with whom she is in any way associated loves and admires her Mrs MRS. BURKE ROCHE DISOWNED BY FATHER. If the rumors recently heard in society circles are correct Mrs. Fanny Burke-Roch- e made a heavy financial sacrifice when she married Aurel Batonyi, the professional whip and manager of her Middletown farm, it is said that her father, Frank Work, has cut off her monthly allowance which has never been less than $6,000, and that he has denied his daughter the use of his estate at Newport. Heretofore this has been his daughter's home during the season. Mr. Work's displeasure with his daughter has been evident ever since her marriage with Batonyi was announced. He did not know of the wedding until nearly a year after it occurred, friends of the daughter say. She told him of it, and then only a few hours before taking ship with her husband. Mr. Work always had Insisted that no for eigners were to be admitted into the family. Even his love and affection for his favorite daughter, Fanny, was not so strong that she dared tell him of her approaching marriage to Batonyi. OLD CHUM TO DEFEND THAW. The last batch of documents and reports obBlack's law firm, who were tained by originally employed to defend young Thaw, have been turned over to Clifford Hartredge, and he has taken complete charge of the young Pittsburg millionaire's case. "Cllf" Hartredge is an He appeared in old boon companion of Thaw. New York direct from Yale in the fall of 1887, with a fine record as an oarsman at "Old Eli." He was a member of two of the famous crews that bore the "dark blue" to victory. When he joined the D. K. E. club, on Fifth avenue, Man hattan, the older members developed a sincere fondness for the tall young Georgian. He hailed from Savannah, originally, and his family is one of the best known in their state. He entered the office of Judge Russell, of Henry Hilton, and several years after his admission to the bar married the judge's Ex-Oo- son-in-la- daughter. Counselor Hartredge Is one pf the best bridge players In the metropolis and was distinguished for his expertness in whist prior to the advent of the more modern game. In his bachelor days he spent, much time at the D. K. E. club, and was a stanch fraternity man. At that time Calvin S. Price was a frequent visitor at the club, and Theodore Roosevelt, after his defeat for mayor, looked in occasionally. Roosevelt was a "Dickey" man at Harvard. Hartredge has had some criminal law experience, but most of his prac tice has been under civil courts. He has acted as counsel for Wanamaker and other large linns. Thaw's mother had originally retained the "Black" firm and was much opposed to trusting her son's chances of life or death to Hartredge, but was finally won over. "PAT" M'CARREN IN TROUBLE. "Pat" McCarren, Democratic "boss" of Rrooklyn, state senator and reputed representative of the oil trust, is used to vilification by the press and campaign orators and doesn't mind it. But be has real troubles now. A woman is after him. The tall, lanky, taciturn man known as "Long Pat" is to be assailed by two suits brought before Justice Cochran In Brooklyn. These suits have been withheld from the public because the complainant, a woman, who says she supposed she was McCarren's common law wile, has hoped She is salt! to make the charge for a settlement. of cruelty and neglect. One of the "exhibits" is a baby, whom the woman has christened "Patrick H. McCarren, Jr." In the first suit the woman alleges she was induced to live with McCarren without going through the ceremony of marriage on the ground that a verbal agreement constituted a common law marriage. She asks for $200,000 damages. In the second suit she charges McCarren with having at tacked her, and she asks for $3,000 and a weekly payment of $500 and nurse expenses, which she says McCarren offered her in settlement. She says she was introduced to McCarren as a man of "noble and honorable sentiments." She fell desperately in love with him and even now, though she asserts she has Buffered untold torture, she still would welcome a reconciliation. McCarren has not deigned even to answer the charge. His friends refuse to believe the woman's story. "Ixing Pat" has a face like a mask, a face that a iniker player would envy, a faculty of drawing out of a person everything that would be useful to Ixing Pat and at the same time never revealing anything himself. "He never shows even the back of his cards," according to the reporters who have tried to draw him out. THE KING OF BOOKMAKERS. Brooklyn, is known through-world as the king of bookGeorge," as he is called by race tracks, handles from This money passes $7.1,000 to $120,000 a day. through his hands and those of his two cashiers during the two and a half hours devoted each racing afternoon to speculation. Rose has made a fortune as a bookmaker and Is known to be worth $1100, 000. This money did not come to him suddenly, but by long years of hard work. In 12 years he has had only one vacation last season, when he took a three months' trip abroad with his wife. During every other racing day he was hard at work at the various race tracks of the country. Rose never visited a race track until he was past man's estate. A friend took him to the old Brighton Beach rack, and he was so fascinated hors by the sport that In quick succession he became a mild plunger and owner. He soon tired of both ends of the game, and shortly after he had received $15,000, his share of his father's estate, he branched out as a bookmaker Fortune was not kind to him at first, and he lost every dollar be had. He Thin tlmo worked hard as a clerk, saved up $1,000. and again tried his lui he met with success, and ton years ago he began to accumulate his r;ecnt fortune. The fever to own racehorses again came over him about ei In years a .no. and be bought and leased a number, the best known of which were Tea Ru a, Torslna, Oeyaer, Nephew, Tiger and Geraldlne. While he had some of QMM horses at the old Bay District track in San Francisco, he recognized that "Tod" Sloan was a great rider, and long before that jockey gained an intor national reputation, Rose gave him mounts when other owners refused to do so. In conjunction with his business aa a bookmaker. Roae OWM 56 Pet DOB I of Uie A wot racetrack at Los Angeles. Besides the holdings In thtl property tie if a director In one of the largest banks in California, owns plenty of real estate in San Francisco, and holds stock in Isa vineyard, which produces tho made hi'li an excellent native wine Krai"'-- , rrora George Rose, .if out the horse racing makers. "Gentleman the regulars at the , l |