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I O O O O O O O 0 O 0 0 O O O Q 9 “0‘9 o‘c.r.o.c~o.a§o.o-o.o§o.o$0.“..OQQO“ O,"0.~¢.o§9.0‘0, "It is mine. yes," she said. -"Where did you find it?" "In the parlor of the cottage on the moor," replied Madge. “Mrs. Hoopcr’s, madam." Well as she can ride, 1 am sure.”« No more was said, and presently the countess arose. "Give her the bracelet now, ’Mmlgo," whispered Irene, as thny fol- lowed her into the ladies' boudoir, a smaller apartment than the drawing- room. She still looked around with U bled indecision, and Irene haste ‘20 her rescue. "I have something to give you, niadnm,” she said, standing beside her with downcast, eyes. “Something 1.0 give me?" “Yes, madam,” said Madge, and she held out the bracelet. "Madge would like it, I am sure," She said, thinking that the ordeal of an introduction would be easier for her if it came in a lump; so to speak. "It; is a. long time since there was a ball at Monk Towers." “Very well," said Seymour; “only you must have it ,smm, please. for I shall have to go’to towuf' ’ “Thank Heaven!" growled Royce under his breath. “We will send out invitations at. once," said Irene, cheerfully. “Do you know the new waltz?” asked Seymour of Mudgo. “If she does not,” Irena replied for her‘uickly, "I can teach her. It is Very easy and Madge will dance as Well as she can ride, 1 am sure/’4 The countess sea.th herself on a low chziir with some fancy work, and Madge, with a faint, color in her faCU went. up to her. “You found it, atâ€"Mrs. Hoover's?" she said 'slowly. and with her gray eyes fixed upon Madge with a kind of keen reseanent. "When?"- “This morning,” replied Madge. "Irene and I went, there, and Irene saw the bracelet lying on the floor.” y “I must have done so,’ shb said. “It is of no consequence. Did you =â€"did you stay long at Mrs. Hoop- er's?" The countess glanced at it and up at the beautiful face abovc‘ her, with haughty indifference. “Mrs. Hooper thOUght that you must have dropped it. when you were there the other day," she said. As she spoke. the words she flushed; for she wondered whether the countess would corl‘CCt her and say, "Not the other day, but last night." The countess looked at her stead iiy. The countoss' hand closed sharply on the bracelet she had taken, and a look came into her face which alâ€" most started Madge. It seemed to her as if the expression of pride and hautcur had given place for an inâ€" stant to one akin to fear. As she asked the question she put the brawlct around her wrist, but in attempting to fasten it she dropped it. .- The 4 Thou-f “a Madge v countess "Have The countess turnefl the bracelet over in her hand as if she were ex- amining it, and Madge went on: “Let me put it on for you, madâ€" am," said Madge, naturally enough. The countess held out her arm, and Madge snapped the braceth on. She fell: the hand tremble, and she feared that she. might have hurt, the soft white skin. "Have I hone it properly, much am?” she said gently. o . . o o v ' ‘ I s .o\ ‘ smgofigqso. $0 0Q..0Q0.~§ 3ao'.s.:.go:.9.:o§o:o‘o‘ow.fiqsoj The countess inclined hm“ head. Thorof was a. moment's silence, and Madge was moving away, when the countess stopped her with a. gesture. "Have you all that you wantâ€"in your room, I mean?" she said, a trifle less coldly than before "Oh, yes, indeed!” replied Madge quickly. "More than I want. I have not thanked your ludyship boâ€" foro. becauscâ€"” She pause. “Because what?" said the countesa, said Mm without raising her eyes. The CO1 "Because I was afraid oiâ€"troubl-ia pendm ing you," said Madge, he!" sweetitiara, a voice very low, her eyes downcast, neck. “You were afraid of me, is nut. "It is that 50?" said the countess. brown," Madge roniainod silent. white as “Poor girl! I pity you!" said the Madge countess, but with very little pity Countess in her voice. “Yes, I pity you," i-o.~cut,icle.0 peated the countess. “But you have‘ “Now no need to be afraid of me. What ‘Vhic‘h .V is done cannot. be undone." the oUu “Ah, no," murmured Madge, with She w: a sigh. proud, The countess looked up at her cnr-: ptuous c iousiy; there was another anSC. and! Madge Madge was again about to movo‘anri solei away when her ludyship said: lbrilliant: “Did my son buy you any jewelry; have ch< when he was in London?” ‘1‘ more co' “No. madam," repliod Madge, sur- Madge prised. "Why should he? I did notlcountess want any; l)oSidoSâ€"â€"" She stormed‘: ruby 111K enou, luau room and unlocking a. cabinet. toc covuzcd box from it, an noti orn: 1h CHAPTER XXVII.â€"(Continued-) u: countess "Sit down chair. Madge obc The Gypsy’s Sacrifiee were going to say he 3y.” said the. countess. lst night that you won s. Come with me." too surprised to be fri [lge followed her out of I up the staircase, and :oss' own room. >wn," she said, pointin and the count OR‘ SECRET REVEALED Madge, sur- s‘? I did not She stopped. say he had you \\’ 01“.) n 0 me. ' ' to be fright- 1' out, of the :so, and into a. lonthoru raising the trou- mc‘ am!” she said. “Too beautiful and unsuitable!" "Are you not fond of jewelry? I thought that, gyp " she stopped, but Madge raised her eyes and lookâ€" ed at her steadily. “That we gypsies Were fond of bright and glittering ornaments? So we are, madam, and I 111w them Well enough; but, those. ai‘o too grand and too costly. Besi(lesâ€"-â€"” she paused. “Well?” said the countess, “Why do you offer to give me some of those things?" said Madge, gathâ€" ering courage as she proceeded. Madge got. up and stood before the things. a warm flush on her face, and her eyes glowing with girlish admiratiun; and the countess, with halfâ€"lowered lids, Watched her. Madge took some of the things up and look- ed at them, then she put them down and drew back. "Well,"â€" said her ladyship, “is there nothing there you like?" Madge, with all the color faded from her face, shook her hand. "They are all too beautiful, math am!" she said. “Too beautiful and “Because you have none of your own, and you areâ€"my son'S’ wife. he absence of jewelry would cause 1 mark. Do you understand?" “Yes, I understand," She glanced at, the jewels indifi‘orently, and with no longer any admiration in her eyes; "I will take any you like, ma- dam," she said, "but please choose the plaincst and least costly." “You do not care for she. “You are a strange girl," she said coldly, and yet with an undercurrent of admiration and respect in her tones. “Most women in your place would have accepted the things, and cared little why they wenI given.” “Would they?" said Madge, simâ€" ply and sadly. “I. am not like UNI/t, madam," and she turned away “Stop please,” said the countess. She took up the diamond tiara. “Take this; you must wear diamonds at this bull; Wear this!" “I do not know when: to wear it, how to put it on, madam," she said, with a kind of proud humility "Now," said the countess, “choose what. you please." Th-o countess looked at. hdr down- cust face with increased curiosity. “You do not care for them?" said "No; why should I? If you had given them to me becauseâ€"you liked me, I should have beenâ€"â€"â€"-" her eyes filled with tears; “I should have been very glad. But that was too much to expect, madam, I see that now though for the moment; I thought, I hopedâ€"" how to put it on, madam," she said, with a kind of proud humility that became her as Well as any diu- monds could do. “Come here," said the countess; “wind your hair in a. coil, higher than you have it, now." ’j‘ho countess «mg-ht her underâ€"lip with her teeth, and remained silent, for a moment. “Irene is right," have beautiful hair "Do you not admire them?" asked the countess, evidently astonished at her immovability. “They are very beautiful, madam,‘ said Madge lammically. The counteSH took up a chain, With a pendant. of brilliants matching the tiara, and put it rouml Mddge's neck. Madge hesitated a moment, then she obeyed. The countegs watched her with a reluctant admiration. Madge looked straight before her and made no response, and when the thick waves were wound in the proper coil, the countess fixed the tiara in its place. They flashed and sparkled against the soft, raven hair like so many fireflies, and the Counâ€" tess’ eyes seemed to melt beneath the vision of loveliness; but Madge remained cold and impassive. “It is only your face that is brown," she said. “Your skin is as white as mine.” Madge smiled sadly. Evidently the countess expected her to have the cuticle_ol a negrcss. “Now take these rings, choose which you think will go best, with the other ornaments.” She watched Madge closvcly with a. proud, halfâ€"but only halfâ€"contemâ€" ptuous curiosity. Madge took the rings indifierently, and selected one set. with pearls and brilliants. “I thought you would have chosen the rubies; they have uiore color in them." Madge made no response; and me collutess placed the ring with the ruby and one or two others aside. "I will give you these. and some nlaiucr ornaments to wear on ur- 5'0“ 1‘ 1'00 nyt I‘h RV She said. “T4 They are v 0 them about. y put them in : box," said she said; Madge, Ike them. t 11nablc. s :0 Q 0.. Q 0‘0 ° " . o ‘ ave yo you “That is too big. I will something more suitable." She went, to the bureau again and took out a. moroccoâ€"covered jewel case. As she did so she lifted one or two articles in the drawer, and one of them fell to the ground. Madge went and picked it. up, and unconsciously glanced at it. It. was a. miniature about the size of the palm of the hand, and set rouncl with turquoiSc. As she glanced at it, Madge was conscious of a. strange sensation of recognition. It seemed to her that, the portrait was like Madge was conscious of a. strange sensation of recognition. It seemed to her that the portrait was like some one she had seen in life; like, yet, unlikeâ€"the. shadow of a resemâ€" blance. She stood looking at the face. trying to recall the person whom it resembled. She had only a moment in which to make the en‘ort, for the countess, looking up, saw the, thing in her hand, and going quickly to her, took it from her none too gent lyly. "It is an old portrait; I have sev- eral like it, andâ€"-value than. Here is your box. Take care to keep it: lockod. Marion will Clean than for you when they need it, and Show you how to wear them." Madge looked up with surprise, and saw that the countoss' face was pale and stem, and that. with the sternnofls was mingled the faint. 0.x- prcssion~was it. {MAWâ€"which hand flown to her face when Madge gave her the bracelet. "You madam dignity "By the way, have you moationud to anyone that you found my brad» lot at. Mrs. Hooper's?" "No," replied Madge. “It was really Irene who found it.” Madge arranged the ornaments in the vnrions satinâ€"lined nests, and closed the box. “Thank you, madnm.’ she said, graVuly, and was leaving the room when the countess said carelessly: “Where did youâ€"? with suppressed anger. "You dropped it fro "Very well,” said the. countess, “You need not mention the matter. It was careless 01' me to drop it, andâ€"â€"â€"-" n “I will speak to her, said the countess, as calmly as before. Madge carried the box to her room. Under any other circumstances the possession of such exquisite jewels would have, and very naturalâ€" ly, filled her with delight, but she understood too Well why thay had been given to her to fool: any satisâ€" faction in them. She locked thq case in one of‘thc drawers of a cabinet. in her room, and wont downstairs in search of Irene. As she passed the library the door partly opened, and she caught a glimpse of a. gentleman standing just in side. He was a stranger, and looked like a. solicitor's clerk. though, 01‘ course, Madge did not looked ] though, 0 know this i‘heycount ss took it to the bureau and locked i up, and was silent fur a moment; then she said indifferent- “I should not have spoken of it, madam," said Madge, quietly; "and I do not think Irene would.” She hesitated a. moment, for she did not care to meet a strangerâ€"the occupants of the great, place were qlliLe enough for herâ€"and as she stood undecided whether to go for- ward, she heard him say: “My instructions were very definite my lord. The money must be paid, or some satisfactory arrangement made." Seymour‘s voiceâ€"u. tone of irritable impatience in itâ€"Inade some reply, too low for her to hear, and the man, as if in response, said: “That would be satisfactory, of course, my lord. My client only “It, is quite sale, quite." Madge heard Seymour say. “You will see the announcement in the papers shortly; in a few days, perhaps." Madge, recoillng from her position of eavesdropping, waited for no more but wont quickly past. As she did so the man and Seymour came out. She glanced back and caught a glimpse of Seymour's face. It was almost. haggard with anxiety, and he ' stood gnawing his lip as; he watched the man go through the hall and out of the: door. (To be Continued.) HOW many hammer strokes does a carpcntcr use in driving a. nail? Perhaps not one carpenter in a, thou- sand or one laynmfx in ton times that number can to”. or ever thinks of it. The truth of the matter is this: T19 carpenter taken seven strokes in driving a nail into 01'- dinary Wood, and twelve regular “That would be satisfactory, Of course, my lord. My client only wants to feel that his money is safe." dinary wood, and twelve regular strokes and two finishing taps in driving nails into hard Wood. Them figures are furnished by a. man who works at. night, and sleepsâ€"or tries to sleepâ€"by day, and whose bedroom window opens out upon a. flat, build- ing in course of erection. He figured the average number of hammer strokes for nine mornings, and, havâ€" ing; learned thmn, moved to a hotel He (in he minm under T1110 day trait in thcv and Sheâ€"‘ til he Would drive 1,440 nails 3. in soft wood, if he knops up the steadily and 1,282 in hard 1 He would give 10,080 ham- stmkcs in soft wood and 20,160 ,‘.” {ILâ€""Well, I'll 9 tell the hens about th the new discovm-ed 5: an avon 1.0 in soft sh three in (3 would soft W0 teadily DRIVING A NAIL )uld alw upped itvfrom the drawm‘, said Madge, with simple want 1t give you bean , Writes Mr. Goo. E. Scott. The ac- cumulation of weed seed has forced us ti. turn down such munurus with turf for corn and destroy the weeds lby cultivation, using care not to cultivate deeply at the laying by of tho corn crop. Any suggestion to destroy weed seed by fermentation finds no lodgemcnt in our idea of saving and applying manurcs. The heat necessary to germinate and de- stroy seeds contained in manurcs must necessarily turn most of the available nitrogen into the air; hence such a method would rob us In our operations dressed for wheat Writes Mr. Geo. E clnnulution of wcm 0'. turfs that, will readily huld all liquids after rains, so the soil will absorb it quickly, is Ldvisable. The hauling and ticking @f munures are by no mean: the best methods to get all tha‘e is out of manure, and I would discourage it as a. means of profit, The benefits of the man- ure spreader are to be realized, I think, in the future, by putting five tons} of manure on each acre of mowing turf during the fall, winter or very early spring. It is not pos- or very early spring. It is not posâ€" sible that the weed seed will get a. start the first season, and, afta‘ cutting a. good crop of hay that sea- son, the chances for a. crop of corn are better than if placed there just prior to turning over for the letter crop. I am positive that any atâ€" tempt to carry manurea over the heated periods of the Summer would certainly insure very great loss in its nitrogen. hence would diECOurage any attempt to, do it. I am per- Slladc(l_that when we use our man- urcs on turis, allowing them to lie there one season through frost, rain, sunshine and the heat of summer, then will we get better clover stands. Bacteria. will multiply and colonize- with greater certainty and rapidity under such conditions. If one has the (‘ash to spare the purchase of n manure spreader and the use of it in putting the fresh 111.),lllll‘C'S directly on the soil, he will find wonderful results accruing from its frequent use, On our farm we have preferred to use commercial nianures on our wheat crops, and thus supply it and the grass crop with available plant food, mostly in phosphorus, with I. small percentage of potassium. Lime should not be used with manures, as it, liberates ammonia, though at the same time destroys tissue, and, in a. sense, makes available plant food. Lime is not a, manure in a sense, lint stimulates the soil in breaking down both organic and unorganic matter within it. Few soils need lime, ex- cnpt to correct acidity, and for this reason experts advocate nature's method by supplying carbonate of lime finely ground so that the acids in such soils will unite with the Calv cium in just such degree as ‘condi- tions demand. I do not believe any other one phase of lamb feeding contributes more toward failure than careless feeding when the lambs are first put. onto feed, wrifefi Mr. L. E. 1103'- nolds. Toward the end of the feed- ing season careless begiunurs wonder why their lambs have not done bet- ter 01; the amount of feed supplied them. In nearly every case it is ha cans!) right, \\‘h h b A RTING LAMBS ON ux'al of my I“ E D eoi the feed- 's wonder done bet.- supplied it is be out of lambs neighbors. The lambs were put. onto feed as soon as they arrived at. the barn. Clover hay and bean pods were fed for roughage and com and. outs as a grain ration. Both 01 these were fed in amounts that tho lambs would clean up nicely. These lambs were. fed during the winter and the following spring marketed, but to mv surprise they had hardly made " ‘I don't know as I ought to trust them with you, Jim L0nt,’ thk mother said, frankly, ‘but remember. I'll be praying for you all every m‘nute I'm awayâ€"and don't you let the fires go down!’ “ ‘Woll, if Irs. Colos can trust him with her little ones,’ another neighbor said, ‘I guess he‘ll be safe with our team, and he may as well have that bit of haulingâ€"they say his mother's pretty bad off.‘ “So it went from one to another. ILaler he got steady employment. 'It’s boon hard,’ he said to me, ‘hard Ito keep away from the drink and hard to live down the reputation I’d been making for years. But wh'En t-umptations come I think of those who have trusth incâ€"who trust ma now. I think of my mother and all these were fed in lambs would clean lnmlm were fed dur the following spri! to my surprise the‘ mu average gain of It Is Just Knowing That Some one Believes In You. "I mnt a, man the other day, said a wellâ€"known physiCiun, “whom I had long thought, dead. " 'I‘uor drunkun f001!' n passerâ€"by had said of him as he lay in the sun by the roadside. ‘lle won't, live a month. I pity his mothch "Last week I so." him, strong and clear-eyed â€" a uplm‘did spocimm of manhood. He, too, had heard that. verdict prmxounced upon him. The words stung. He could not get them out of his: mind. That, night he went home to his mochm‘. He had not been in the habit of going home, but she was waiting for him just the same. “Did you ever think of the waiting Women all over the world? Tho sacred vigil: of the loving, longing heart. of mothers and WlVL'S, of sis- ters and daughters, night. and day. over God's earth? I: “The man’s moth'cr was waiting for him, and welcomed him as only a: mother knows how. She mado him a cup of cofice, and told Him Bl little happenings in tho ri‘éigh’bor‘ hood. “ 'Mothm‘,’ he said, suddenly, ‘if you will help me, I'll newer drink another drop.‘ “lle heard her on hm- knoes all that, night and many a. night afterâ€" ward. They were very poor, and he had difficulty in persuading any one who knew him that he was trust- worthy. The first dollar he earned was by staying" all night with a. neighbor‘s little childrtn while the mother went to visit an olclm‘ daugh- ter who was ill at a distance. who have trusth incâ€"who trust mo now. I think of my mother and a“ the lonely nights she waited for me when I never came Home. I tel! you, doctor,’ he said. ‘s’irong'cr than any pledgeâ€"stronger than any tHrcâ€"ats or punishments, is just knowing" that somebody believes in youâ€"that ’your keeping straight means something to somebody that lovea you. It's like a lifeâ€"rope to keep vour head above \vatvr when The railroad from Damascus, to Mecca. has roach'rd Mann, on the pi!- grim route, nearly 300 1131303 south of IMnmscus, and not far from tho hand of the Gulf of Akaha. and a. colelmation was recently held at. that point. in \x‘hith a deputation from Malina, Where Mohanmwd's body‘ rests, took part. The primary pur- poses of this railroad is announced to he the nssistanrc of pilgrims on Wh‘i c o be the assistm hair way to and t' will also posase or the Turkish 3 nushin: rt, nut ar the ; pushing ll'ge it is annot fail NEARING A Then it 5001:]: It will be 1‘ II'SL and other op! 11 spread over th: lil‘ QUITE LIKELY of imp to let In 1n I‘LAG L' I'D-SPOT )rtn from Mr 5 st rale‘ ‘ovcrm f or 111 in all But (‘H