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Show PEDIGREED ' STOCK BREEDING PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE Of All Pursuits That City Business or Professional Man With Country Home Can Indulge in. Live Stock Heads List. INDATftgD GAT: jyy Meredith Nichoeson BY HLlk5TRATIOM3 PAY WALTER'S IQMtnf.aV ev f . SYNOPSIS. Holbrook 4nd UlM Patrick Holbrook, her niece, were entrueiro a w the care of lAurance Donovan, Annandaia. summering near Port Donovan Ibat . Patricia confided to feared her brother Henry, who. threat constantly had a bank failure, her. Donovan discovered and an Intruder, who proved to be RW Helen. Qllleaplei aultor for the hand ot ber teDonovan saw Hiss Holbrook and ther meet on friendly terms met fought an Italian aasassln. He man he supposed was Holbrook, but said he was Hart ridge, e canoe-maseOi Miss Pat announced her Intention eeek g fighting Henry Holbrook and not another hiding place. Donovan met He Hejen In garden at night. Duplicity of was confessed by the young lady. A night, disguised as a nun. Helen sto'e from the house. She met Reginald G Gillespie lespie, who told her his love. was confronted by Donovan. At I1 Donoposloflice Helen, unseen except by van, slipped a draft for her father Into the hand of the Italian sailor The chapel cloekchlmed nine as 1 gained the road. ahdI walked my horse to scan St. Agatha' windows through the vistas that offered across the foliage. And there, by window of her aunts Bitting room, I saw Helen Holbrook reading. A table-lamHt her Bide illumined her slightly bent bead; and, as though aroused by my horses quick step la the road, she rose and stood framed against the light, with the soft window draperies fluttering about her. 1 spoke to my horse and galloped toward Kid Gate, the-ope- p r. -- Prize-Winnin- English Sire. g (By CAPTAIN WADDELL.) cessfully as they are In the countries In which their breeds originated, and it remains for the man of wealth with There are pleasant profits to be made by the man who la seeking a country home and rural pursuits by way o t relaxation from business, than the ordinary man of this kind has any idea of. A. country home with land attached to It would be a dull place If there were not something besides the fresh air. scenery, babbling brooks, song birds and flowers to admire and occupy one's mind in a way that combines rest with pleasure. Of all pursuits that the city business or professional mag with a country home and farm. can. Indulge - ln,--' nothing Is so pleasant and remunerative as that of pedigreed stock breeding. This may comprise horses of the various breeds, eattle, sheep and swine, either of which when t&kei hold of practically and sensibly will bring much pleasure and a good deal of profit to the man who Indulges In It la the first place, there is a ready market for good pedigreed stock of every kind, and apart from the pleasure of breeding them and seeing them flourish and grow, into maturity there Is the dellghtfunl fascination of exhibiting them at the various horse and live stock shOTS, competing ylth -- friends and ne jhbors and beating them with animals one haa bred him- a country Americans done, and profitable home and farm to show how easily this can be so make it as pleasant and as It Is In Great Britain. UCE INFECTED Insects More Troublesome During Spring When Live Stock Kept Inside Until W arm Weather Arrives. (By self. In the case of horses almost all the great stables of this country that have been and still are winning the majority of the leae ribbons throughout the country have imported all these horses from Great Britain, which robs him of much of the pleasure of winning with home-bre- d animals, this Is particularly the case with heavy harness horses, but the same holds good In regard to Shires, Clydesdales, Percherons and Belgians. Suffolks, All the great winners at . the great shows throughout this country where these horses are shown are Importations from England and Scotland In the first three cases and France and Belgium In the two latter. As far as polo ponies are concerned It Is only necessary to say that nine-tentof the polo ponies that competed for the American cup at two years ago were English bred and English purchased, which robbed that splendid achievement of much of Its glory. All these animals as well as hunters, hackneys and Shetland and Welsh ponies, which are all In great demand could be bred In this country as sue- Hurl-tngha- ft O. WEATHERSTONE An Odd Affair at Red Gate. As I rode through Port Annandalo the lilting strains of a walls 'floated lady resembling Mias Helen llolbw was observed" alone In a canoe, when Helen was thought to have been at home. for Gillespie admitted giving Helen $20,00 It. her father, who had then left to spend Miss Helen and Donovan met In the night. She told him Gillespie was nothing to her. He confessed his love for her; Donovan found Gillespie gagged and bound In a cabin, Inhabited by the villainous Italian and Holbrook. He released him. from the casino, and I caught a glimpse of the lake's cincture of lights. My head was noue too clear from Us crack on the cabin floor, and my chest was growing sore and stiff from the slash of the Italian's knife; but my spirits were high, and my ears rang with memories of the Voice. Helen had given me a commission, and every CHAPTER XV. fact of my life faded into Insignificance compared to this. The cool night sdr I Undertake a Commission." rushing by refreshed me. I was eager for the next turn of the wheel, and Gillespie availed himself of my wardrobe to replace his rags, and apmy curiosity ran on to the In house. peared in the library clothed and bis usual state of mind on the stroke I came now to A lonely sweep, where of seven. the road ran through a heavy woodYou should have had the doctor land, and the cool,jnolst air of the so out, Donovan. Being stuck Isnt forest rose round me. The lake, I funny, and you jwill undoubtedlydie of knew, lay close at hand, and the HartEvery one does now ridge cottage was not, as I reckoned days. my distances, very far ahead. 1 had I shall disappoint you. Ijlma and drawn In my horse to consider the I between us have stuck me together manner of my approach to the not like a cracked plate. And "it la A t and waa Jogging along at an Out and My Horse Shied Sharply. Rang well to publish our troubles to the easy trot when a rifle-sho- t rang out on eoto Then 1 doctor I'm for capturing him and fully. And I thought heard a world. If I called the village my left, from the . direction ot the In the moments silence before she creek, and he would kill his horse circulating the staking him away In a safe place. my horse shied sharply Thats the Irish of it if yon will spoke. Are you satismysterious tidings. and plunged on at a wild gallop. He "I want you to go, at once, to the ran pMon me; bnt it's not the Holbrook fied Wefprw-r on Tippeca- CoultTsevrAL.jl1ldrot--VIcheck 'him, and then I turned Quite so. Youre a man after mj oft. , A father tucked away in a prt-ve-t house of the madhouse would not sound well noe creek: go aa fast as you can! she and rode slowly back, own heart, Donovan. peering into the We had reached the dining room XRft&nhe daughter. I advise yon not to Implored. forest's black shadow for the toe. I To the house of the man who calls paused and waited, wilhthehorse stood by our chairs. suQest that to Helen. I generously at dancing crazily beneath me, bnt the I should like, he said, taking ap aid )rour suit to that extent. We are himself Hartridge, the canoe-makeHelens-gratitudRed Date?" his cocktail glass, to propose a truce, botk playing-for- woodland presented an Inscrutable ' that's the flat of the matter. between ue Yes; you must see that no harm front I then rode on to the nnfenced In the mutter of a' certain lady ! T was brought Into this business comes to him strip of wood where I bad left my There was no mistaking now the horse before. Even set On the honor of a fool, to kip Miss. Pat, I declared, though he said, and touched hla glass to his a trifle lamely. Gillespie grinned sar- sobs that broke her sentences, and my I began this narrative with every mtnd waa so with questions Intention ot Ups. !And may the best man win, donically. telling the whole truth 'Be It far from me to Interfere with that I stammered Incoherently. he added, putting down the glass un touching my adventures at Annandale, deshe will We Will or methods four plans, you go you go? emptied. hopes. and I cannot deny that the shot from He was one of those comfortable both have the conceit of our wisdom! manded In a voice so low and broken the wood had again shaken my faith that I scarcely heard. There may be something in that. people with whom it Is possible to sit in Helen Holbrook. 8he had sent me vanin In silence'; but after Intervals Bat It was decent of you to get me voice at the once, and "Yes, to the Tippecanoe on an errand of her which we found nothing to say be out of that Italians clutches this after-soo- ished, and while I still stood staring own choosing, and I had been fired on When I went over there I at the Instrument the operator at would, with exaggerated gravity, make from ambush near the place to which some utterly Inane remark. thought I might find Henry Holbrook blandly asked me what number she bad sent me. I fear that my tower his mind was more agile than ever, his sod pound some sense Into him; and I wanted. The thread bad snapped of faith that had grown so tall smd thoughts leaping nimbly from crag to he's about dub, from that telegram. and the apell was broken. I stared strong shook on It; foundattoos;but It MIri Pat won't soften her heart Id helplessly at .the thing of wood end once more I dismissed crag, like a mountain goat. He bad my doubts, Just traveled-widoland knew the ways of better bufTiirri off,5 lie added reflect- wire for half a mfqute; then the girls as I had dismissed other doubts and In rose and my misgivings abont her. My fleeting my promise many cities; and of American political ively. appeal characters, whose names were but .We walked the long length of the mind distinct from aliVTse?' Lordered glimpse of her in the window of 8L vaguely known to me, he discoursed lull Into the library, and had just my horse before returning to the li- Agatha's less, than an hour before with delightful intimacy; then his lighted our cigars when the butler brary, where Gillespie was coolly turn- flashed back upon me, and the tower mind danced away to a tour he had ought me. ing over the magaxlnes on the table. touched the stars, steadfast and seI was still .dazed, and something in my rene once made with a company of acrobats ""Peg pardon, the telephone, sir. again. whose baggage be had released from My distrust of the telephone Is so appearance caused him to stare. I strode on toward Red Gate with Been seeing a ghost? he asked. the grasping bands of a rural sheriff. deep seated that I had forgotten the my revolver In the side pocket of my No; Just hearing one," I replied. What, he asked, presently, Is as existence of the Instrument In Glen-ar- m Norfolk jacket. A backboard filled I had yet to offer some pretext for sad as being deceived in a person you house, where, I now learned, it with young folk from the summer colhave admired and trusted? I knew a wss tucked sway In the butler's pan- leaving him. and as I walked the ony passed me, and then the utter sifellow who was professor of something try for the convenience of The house- length of the room he stifled a yawn, lence of the country held the world. In a blooming college, and who was so keeper In ordering supplies from the his eyes falling upon the line of In a moment I had reached the canoe-makepoor that he had to coach delinquent village. After a moment's parley a French windows. I spoke of the beat cottage and entered the gate. preps In summer time Instead ot get- womans voice addressed me distinctly of the night, but he did not answer, 1 went at once to the front door and a voice that at once arrested and and I turned, to find his gaze fixed knocked. I ting a vacation. I had every confirepeated my knock several dence in that fellow. I thought he held all my thoughts. My replies upon one of the onen windows tin, g, but there was no answer. The J was all right, and so I took him up were, I fear, somewhat breathless and It. man? I demanded. Whs front window blinds were closed tight. into Maine with me just the two of wholly stnpld. He crossed the room in a leap and The houseboat was effectually us and hired an Indian to run our This is Rosalind; do you remember was out upon the terrace,' peering screened by thubbery, and I had dedown upon the shrubbery beneath. camp, and everything pointed to plus. me!" scended half a dozen steps before I I "Tes; I remember: Whats the row? I demanded. Well, I always get stung when I try remember saw a light In the windows. It octo be good. Didnt you see It? nothing else! I declared. Ijlma had curred to me that as I had undoubtedNo." He placed his knife and fork care- closed the door behind me, and I was ly been sent to Red Gate for some purThen it wasnt anything. I thought fully across his plate and sighed alone with the voice a voice that pose, I should do well not to defeat It deeply spoke tome of the summer night, and I saw the dago, If you must know. by any clumsiness of my own; so I What was the matter? Did he of low winds murmuring across star- Hell probably be around looking for proceeded slowly, pausing several waters. bore you with philosophy? us, ry limes to observe the lights below. I "No such luck. That man was I am going away. The Rosalind Humph, you're a little nervous, heard the Tlppecanoe allpplng by with on the subject of domesticatyou remember Is going a long way thats all. You'll stay here all night, the subdued murmur of water at -I I me from the lake and you will never see of course?" fear, night; and then a lantern flashed on asked, without, ing prairie dogs. You if that isnt the fact There he was, a her again. much enthusiasm. deck and I heard voices. Some one r "But you have He grinned. and a fellow of his unian engagement; was landing from a boat In the creek. Dont be so cordial! If youll send This seemed amiable versity, and a fine scholar who edited when the new moon enough, aa the Greek "But the little feather of the new me into town Ill be off." with that thing on lantern-hearer helped a man In the his mind. He held that the dally ex- moon Is under a cloud, and yon cannot I had Just ordered the dog cart when boat to clamber to the platform, and ample of the happy home life of the see It; and Rosalind must always be the butler appeared. from the open door of the shop a "If you please, sir, Sister Margaret broad shaft of prairie dog would tend to ennoble ail Helen now. light shone brightly But this wont do, Rosalind. Ours wishes to use our telephodC, sir. St. mankind and brighten up our family two men. The man with the the upon altars. Think of being lost in the was more than an engagement; It was Agatha's is out of order. lantern was Holbrook, alias Hartridge I spoke to the sister as she left the woods with a man with such an Idea, a solemn compact," I Instated. beyond a doubt; thp other was a stran-gc- r. . not Oh. and of having tq aleepunrier the same so very, solemn! she bouse, half as a matter oLcourtesy, Holbrook caught the painter of blanket with him! It rained most of laughed. And then you have the half to make sure of her. The tele- the boat and silently made It fast. the time, so we had to sit in the tent, other girl that Isnt Just me the girl phone at St. Agatha's had been out of Now, he said, come In. and he never let np. He got so bad of the daylight, that you ride and sail order for several days, she sai(l; and I (TO. BE CONTINUED.) that he would wake me dp In the night with and play tennis with. walked with her to St. Agatha's gate, to talk prairie dog. Oh. 1 havent her; I and the The Sickroom Bugbear. Jont want talking of the weather, who garden were-s- he I he- rIt must have been trying. The- - great nugbear of tbe slckroora V the Holbrook... ladies. Treacherous man!' Volatile Irish- said, quite well. solutlon.Btrt-tonsWbat was is monotony. This Is the problem that agreed. . i your -" " man! Thereafter, when I had dlepatebfcjf every nurse, must jneet, And study 7 I moved outdoor; and slept with Marvelous, adorable Rosalind! Gillespie to the Village In the dog'cart, ways and means to prevent She may "That will do, Mr. Donovan the Indian. Your salad dressing is exand I got Into leggings, reflecting upon the do this In several ways. She may cellent, Donovan, though personally I hen with a quick change of tone she odd circumstance that Helen Holbrook alter the appearance of the room oclean to more of the paprika. But let asked abruptly: had been able to speak to me over the casionally by pushing the bed or sofa r YoiT are not afraid of us go back a bit torthe Holbrooks. trouble, are telephone a few minutes before, using to a different part of the room In orOmitting the lady, there are certain you? an Instrument that had, by Sister Ma- der to give the patient a fresh out"I live for nothing else! points about which we may as well rgarets testimony, been, out of com- look; the cat flowers may be replaced "You areiot to pledged to the Me mission for several ,days. The girl by a growing plant; old mag&alnea and agree. I am not so great a fool. but that 1 can see that this state of things you play tennis with that yon cannot had undoubtedly slipped away from St books may be removed and new ones cannot last forever. Henry Is broken nerve Rosalind If she asks It?" Agathas and spoken to me fronTsome take their place; the pictures may be down from drink and brooding over No; you have only to ask. But I other house In the pelghborhood; but changed, especially those that hang at his troubles, and about ready for close must. see. you .once- - more as Rosa- ttirwas a matter or imrrfmjo trance, the foot or Uie bed, or perhapa, a "confinement In a brick building with lind!" now that I bad undertaken her com- - blank waU may be found to be reetfsV to the tired eyes. Circle Magaalae. barred windows. Ston being silly, and listen care mission. boat-maker- 's FARM ANIMALS ) Lice seem to be more troublesome during the spring when theffarm animals are kept Inside until warm Weather comes than at any other time daring the year and as soon as an animal Is discovered to be lousy, th lice should be destroyed at once. We have found a strong decoction of tobacco an excellent wash for the pur. pose of destroying lice, but during recent years we have been using a mixture of crude oil and crude carbolic, act d mixed SO parts crude oil to' one part crude carbolic acid, and find that this does the,. work In a very thorough and effective manner. Oh the cattle we apply it with a hand sprayer, but for the hogs we prefer to use a brush, or to saturate a few gunny sacks or old blankets and wind them around a post In the hog yards and allow the hogs to make their own toilets by rubblhg against these posts. They will soon learn how to apply the mixture where it Is most needed and will keep themselves free from these pests If their beds and houses are kept clean and disinfected. . CHAPTER XVI. Lamb It Helpless. Considerable attention should be given to ewes and young lambs. A new-borlamb is just about the most helpless thing on the farm, and frequently needs a little help to get started in life, but when fairly under way no young stock will give the owner more satisfaction; and It will 'pay to have patience and do all one can to. assist them at first Good for Scours. half cupful of wheat flour and a raw egg In the milk. If given to a calf with scours. Is said to be very beneficial. A GOOD USE FOR DISK HARROW blood-poisonin- -- r T boat-make- r, e; a. To-nig- rs weak-minde- may-shoot prize-winne- text-book- The Illustration 'given herewith shows the various, uses to which the disk may be put In preparing the soil for a crop: Fig. No. 1 representea hard, cracked-ope- n soil that has not been tilled, showing how clod' formation takes place and the depth at which mole-tarcan escape from the ground. Fig. No. 2 represents ground plowed, showing air apace between the turned over slice and the ground beneath. This air space' prevents a firm and compact seed bed from being made and stop capillary attraction with the subsoil. Fig. No.S is plowed ground disked! Note that the air spares still exist This Is what happens when corn stalk ground plowed without first being disked. Corn stalk roots' and' other trash prevent the ground from becoming compacFAnd firm. vie. Nov 4 Is ground dtsked befor e " -- It Is plowed. The mulch of dirt breaks at np capillary attraction moisture cannot escape from the top of the ground. This permits what moisture there Is In the ground to come close to the surface. Fig. No. 5 Is the disked surface shown In Fig. 4 plowed. Disking, the ground before it i plowed leaves a mulch f fine dirt which fills up the air spaces left between the furrowed lice and the . ground beneath, thus making the foundation for a firm and compact seed bed. Illustrates disking before Fig. No. and after plowing When the ground la treated In this manner the seed bed becomes compact and firm In a much shorter time and forms a means of capillary attraction. This .treatment puts the ground In such condition that whether the season be wet, dry or so-th- nonnl, the chances. farmer-- i ls not taking any boat-maker- s, Rifle-Sho- ? - |