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OR .. .w . 3.x. a,” CHA PTER XXXV. SOYmOUr Woke with a decidedly bad headache, which was not lessened when he recalled the events of last night. “l've got to thank vagabond wife for that, Master Royce!” he muttered. “After all, nobody will have believed him," be reflected. “Everybody will be too much engrossed in talking of Royce and Madge, and their exposure, to think of me. Besides, I’m the earl of Landon, after all, and a good deal is forgiven to a man in my posi- tion.” “Thank Heaven." he added devoutly, “we've seen the last of Royce and his wife. They shall nev~ er darken the doors of Monk Towers again if I can prevent them. Oh, my head!" a; After a time he rang for his valet. “I’ve got a bad headache,” he said; “it must have been the heat and theâ€"er excitement last night. What would you recommend?” “Well, my lord, I should say that you and vour a small quantity of brandy mixed with sodawater would be a good ; thing; though I know, my lord, that iyou have a strong objection to al- cohol." g "I have," said Seymour. “I should ~only take it as a medicine; but if f you recommend itâ€" But it must be .very weak, please." 1 “Certainly, my lord," said man. He reappeared presently with 'a mixture that was anything but weak, and Seymour, with a wry face, drank it down. “1 think 1’11 lie still for a little while," he said. “Isâ€"is there any :news? Mr. Royceâ€"is heâ€"erâ€" in- doors?" “Mr. Royce has gone out, my lord," replied the man. "Andâ€"erâ€"Mrs. Landon?" "She's gone too, my lord." The man drew the bedâ€"curtain, then hesitated. “There are two policemen waiting to see you, my lord,” he said. V“Two policemen! What on do they want to see me for?" “Some magistrate business, I be- earth lieve, my lord," said the valet, de- murcly. "Let them wait. Come up in an: hour." The man left him, and Seymour tried to sleep but his brain was too busy. “Royce gone, gone completely, can bring matters with Irene to a conclusion," he mused. "There s is no reason why we shouldn’t be mar- ried at once. That money of will more than pay those confounded debts of mine, and”â€"he yawnedâ€"“as the ‘story-books say, we shall be happy ever afterwards. I don't think she’ll refuse z‘ne. She didn‘t hear that ruifian declare he’d seen me in Coventry street, andâ€"and she didn’t See me in the card-room. Oh, yes, it's all right. I wish I'd got another brandy and soda; one’s no use with a head like mine.” The hour passed in this kind of re- flection. “Will you see the constables, now, my lord?" asked the valet. “Yes, certainly," he said. “We must not neglect our duty while We have strength to discharge it. I will go into the library and see them there, please."~ There was a stale odor of brandy in the room, and as it recalled the scene of his parting from Royce his face grew rather ugly and vicious; but it resumed its proper expression as the door opened, and a footman ushered in the two constables and Jake. Seymour half chair and glared at them with mixture of anger and fear. Was handâ€"cuffed, his Velvet coat hung in rags, a smear of blood added to the ordinary prepossession of his countenance, and his eyes met Sey- _mour’s startled ones l,t,ure of cunning assurance and de« i fiance, which increased Seyinour's un- : easincss. f "What is this? Whyâ€"why do you bring this fellow here?“ he stam- mered. l “Beg pardon, my lord,” said one, ithe sergeant, "my mate found this gman along the London road. He ‘fyvas sneaking along under the hedge ,in a suspicious sort of way, and my man stopped him, and asked him {who he was and what he was doing out at that time of night. As he Lwouldn’t or couldn't give a satisfac- ',tory account of himself, my man {told him that he should have to take lhim to the station. Then he pounced upon my man, and would have done him a serious injury and got clean laway if my man hadn’t got at his whistle, and I happened to be near and heard it. As it was, we had a. hard tussel with him, my lordâ€""I , “ let. to the point, sergeant. Why l did you bring him here? The station lyvas the proper place." I "Yes, my lord/5 assented the serâ€" lgeant respectfully. “We took him l~there and, searched himâ€"he being a. tsuspicious characterâ€"and we found lthese upon him." “They are my mother'sâ€"the coun- ltcss’â€"diamonds!" 3 “Yes, my lord, that's what I sus- !pected, and I charged him with 'stenling them, but he had the audaâ€" I his a started from A SECRET the ‘ hers , Jake' with a mix-r REVEALED to him.” The sergeant smiled. “In the ordinary way I should have locked him up at once and entered the charge; but the man stuck to it hard and fast that they had been given to himâ€"by Mrs. Landon, he said, my lord, begging your par- don," he put in apologetically. “Of course, we knew it was a lie but the inspector thought it would be as well if we brought him up here for identification, and get you to sign the warrant, my lord." Seymour was very pale by this time. and he sat for a moment sil- ently looking down at the diamonds, his white lids shrouding his eyes. He stole a glance at Jake, then lowerâ€" ed his eyes again, for there was something in the man's face, and the way he was taking the affair, which, in a. vague, indescribable fashion, made Seymour uneasy. “You are quite right, sergeant," he said; “the prisoner's story is ridiâ€" culous, of course. These diamonds were worn by Mrs. Landon last night, andâ€"erâ€"the fellow was here. as you may have heard.” “We heard something of it, my lord," assented the sergeant, disâ€" creetly. “Just i,o,' said Seymour. “If I remember rightly, Mrs. Landon Went out on the terrace with himâ€"I think she knew something of himâ€"to perâ€" lsuade him to go away quietly, and no doubt he seized the opportunity land abused her goodness by snatchâ€" ing the diamonds from her.” “Just so, my lord," said the serâ€" geant. “I suppose Mrs. Landon will be good enough to identify him?" “Erâ€"Mrs. Landon has gone away on a visit," said Seymour; “but there need be no difliculty in identiâ€" fying the prisoner. I should not like to trouble Mrs. Landon to give evi- dence." “Certainly not, my lord,” assented the sergeant promptly. “One or two > of the servants who saw himâ€"" “Send one or two of the servants whoâ€"erâ€"saW this man here last night," he said to the butler. His lordship was not kept waiting long, for the simple reason that nearly all the household was col-l lected outside the door; and as soon as it opened not one or two, but half a dozen entered the room. “I do not want all of you. Which of you saw this man last night?" “I did, my lord.” “Very good,” said Seymour, tak-. ing up a pen. “He has been found with some of her ladyship’s jewels ,upon him. You may have seen Mrs. Landon wearing them?" l “Yes, my lord, I noticed them parâ€" ticularly,” said a footman, eagerly; “I could swear to ’em, my lord; so could all of us, and the man, too, ‘my lord." “That will do," said Seymour,l ’curtly. “What is your name, prisoner?" he asked. Jake was silent for a moment, theni his lips twisted into an ugly smile. “My name‘s Jackson Hooper," he said, quietly enough, but in a toneJ of assurance and covert insolenee that caused Seymour to glance up :at him. I “What 0Ccupati0n?” he asked. “I’m a gentleman,” said Jake. A titter and smile of amusement ]ran around the spectators at this announcement. “Silence,” said Seymour, sternly. “You refuse to state?" said iniour. “I suppose you are a vogu- bond and a tramp?" "Oh, no, I am not," said Jakt’. ,“I’ll tell you all about me if vou ll send this pack of gaping fools away my lord." “Behave yourself before his iship,” growled the sergeant. “Behave yourself," retorted Jake, turning on him savagely. “I'll teach you to bully me, presently, my line fellow! You keep your hands off me! I'm going to bring an action .for false imprisonment and assault against you, before many hours are over. Ah, you may grin, but you‘ll 'grin on the other side of your mouthsâ€"all of you"â€"he glanced at Seymourâ€"“before long! "- “If you’ll make out the warrant I’ll take him away, my lord,” said the sergeant apologetically. "This is the kind of stuff he’s treated us {to ever since we took him in cus- tody." Seymour's hand shook as he held the pen. It is said that at critical moments of our lives we are uncon- sciously protected by our guardian angel, whether it be a black or a celestial one. Seyinour's angelâ€" a black oneâ€"whispered to him to leave the warrant unsigned; but Seymour 512‘.“â€" lord- city to say that they had been given. .gloatingly. turned from the inner warning, and put. the pen to paper. The morning- had become overcast, and rain “as‘ falling; in the silence of the room it: could be heard beating against the: window. Suddenly the noise was in-l creased as if the rain had turned tos hail; and Seymour glanced nehind‘. him. A woman was standing at the“ window and tapping. I “Who is it?" said Seymour, angri- ly. l I “I'll see, my lord," said the but- I "What is it, my good woman?" he said solemnly! “You mustn't come here, you know." “I want to see the. countessâ€"I must!" said a low Voice. “For God’s sake let me. in. I must See her. I must seeâ€"her ladyship!" “’l‘he countess cannot see you," said the butler in a tone of outraged dignity; “and his lordship is engagâ€" ed. Why didn't you go around to the back?" "I did," was the reply, “but there was no one fhere, thisâ€"servants were not there." They were all, men and Women, collected outside the door, straining their cars to catch something of what was going on inside the room. ” lo away!" said the bufler. “Yes, go away, Martha!” called out Jake. “You're, not wanted here! At the unexpected interpolation all eyes turned upon the prisoner; and in the moment Martha Hooper stole into the room. “Am Iâ€"um I too late?“ she panted. Seymour stared at her with a strange sensation of dread. which seemed to himself unaccountable. “What does the woman want here?’ he demanded angrily. “Send her awayâ€"take her away!" “No, no," she said hurriedly, pant- ingly. "Don’t send me away, I must speak to you. Don't send him to prison, my lord. For God's sake don’t think of it. Oh, I am not to late!" ‘ “Go away, Martha!" growled Jake. “He ain't going to send me to prison. What do you want to come and interfere for? Me and his lordship’s going to have a little con- versation together, and it will be all right; only you clear out, will you!" “Let him go, my lord," she breathed. “You don‘t know What you are doing. Oh let him go! Give him money, nowat once, and let him go!’-‘~ “Mind your own business, I tell you! Who asks you to interfere?" “This woman is a friendâ€"a con- federate of this man's evidently. I should advise you to keep your leye upon her, sergeant. She is a penâ€" sioner of her ladyship’s, and I have no doubt is as bad and old a thief as the man." He signed the warrant and held it out, and the sergeant stepped forâ€" ward to take it; but before he could reach it the door opened, and the countess stood between him and the table, and it was her hand that took the warrant. Martha uttered a low cry and shrank back against the window. Seymour stared up at the countess. “Mother!” he exclaimed. "Release that man!" she said. Instinctiver the policeman dropped his hand from Jake's arm. “Take those off; the man is inno- cent! My daughter gave him those jewels. Do as I bid you!" The sergeant, after a moment of stupefaction, unlocked the handcuffs, and Jake shook himself and turned upon them with a grin of triumph. “What did I tell you?" he cried “Where are you now, eh? Oh, I’ll make you pay for this. And now get out! I want a word with my friendâ€"my friend, d’ye hear?â€"â€"the countess.” “Leave us. I will be answerable.” The countess calmly signed to the servants to follow, and they, too, flied out. “This too much exclaimed Seymour. “What does this mean, madam? Do you know what you have done? Youâ€"you of all persons to stoop to screen such a. ruflian from justice! But you will allow me to tell you that I will not permit of your interference! I say 1 will not! I am a inagistrateâ€"â€"" l..~ staminer- ed and stuttered in his rage. “Are you mad? You forget yourself! I say the man shall be indicted and tried. He shall be tried for the theft of these diamonds. I don't believe Madge gave them to him; no jury Y" is will believe it. But that is not the present question. It is yourâ€"~your indecent interl'irence! Why do you interfere? “'izg should you endeavor to save this vagabond from the pun- ishment‘?" Martha Hooper had stood looking from one to the other. and apparent- ly struggling for breath. “I will tell you!” she said in a low, strained voice. “Do not ask her; ask me!" “What the. devâ€"! What, are you here still! What have you to do with it, woman?" “Iâ€"I am his wife." "You are his wife! Well, I'm sorry for you. But you have no business here. You can see him in prison. Go away at once." "Oh, my lord! how can I tell you?’ and she put her hand to her eyes for a. moment. Jake came forward and put his lips close to her ear. “Hold your tongue, you fool!" he hissed. “Leave it to me. You shall have your share!" “Madam, forgive me!" she moaned, extending her hand toward the coun- tess. “I cannot keep silent any longer. I have been faithfulâ€"faithful for years; but cannot bear my bur- den any longer. Oh, forgive me, 111:.â€" (lani, for the sake of old times: for the sake of all we have suffered to- gelher-â€"â€"" Her voice broke. “I have nothing to forgive. Yes, tell him!" tell from her white lips. “My lord, this man is my husband. No, you will listen to me; you must! for Seymour had made a movement of impatience. “You can only see, looking at him, now, that he is what you have called himâ€"a Vagabond, a bad man, not fit to come into the same room with you. But he was 'not always like this. I can remema her she paused and struggled for breath. “it was when he was young and goodâ€"looking, and spoke l i less; then he laughed, a derisive, deâ€" ‘_â€"_â€"..._â€"_~..___h_ ‘- 4.- [of the best draft breeds, and the '-‘- ' ' 1’” heaviest 11ml lies! boned stallions me E c: R of? gEgfi; suitable. l'lven tlnn the demand for {4 (it: extreme weights necessitates flieuse .. ~ ' I - - of large men-s that are good milk- .e.» m 01‘s. in no other way can colts be __ produced with sufficient bone and \ m; feeding qualin to attain the size TUE MORSE FUR TUE PARI‘EEIL and fllllnil demanded by the markets. Even then the youngster must be An interesting bulletin has buen suppliel with the best of feed in published by the University of llliâ€" large amoust from the Very first. nois on the market clnssis of horses. Plenty of good posture, clovvr hay, We quote from it on the description oats and corn are imiu-rafive, and and qualities of the draft horse. it there is no better food for young says that there is one standard use horses than green corn ('..i wont the for the (fruit horse, and that :s to field and fed whole. Only the Lest haul enormous loads at the. \Vzlili fowl should be used and then every only. Strength is the one cousid.-r.1â€" effort must be. made to htC‘I) the “on in the draft horse, and broadly horse gaining fl‘k‘lll the first if he is speaking, weight is the principal ele- ment. if, however, the mechanism of the horse is to endure the strain he must have a strong hind leg. espec- ially at the hock, a heavy loin with short coupling and a strong front leg and dense hoof, because so large a proportion of his weight is, or should be, in front. to top the market. All this is much like grmving beef, and these are. the horses to produce on the farms. ’l‘hr-y can be produced nowhere else to advantage, and when it is remembered that the draft horse is really the highest priced standard horse in the market, it is easy enough to see what horse the. farmer With the draft horse it is not, a should raise. He not only sells for question of height, but of weight; iii-'more average money, but if bred deed the nearer the ground he is the with the same care there are fewer better both for service and endur- ance. To class with draft horses an animal must weigh not less than 1,500 pounds in good flesh and he is all the more valuable if he weighs 1,800, 2,000 or even more. He can- not be too heavy if his “bone” cor- responds to his weight. Such a horse should be blockin culls, and no training is required be- yond light common work to familâ€" iarize him with the harness and with drawing. The disposition of the draft horse is so docile and his onâ€" cestors have labored so long that he works almost by instinct, and he re- quires no special training to go upon the markets. made with heavy bone, though smooth; short in the back, Close . 1 r Coupled with heavy loin, rounded DISEASE Oh POULTRL hips: Wide Strong hOCk. “at 1"?“0v An ointment of vaseline and sub moderately short pastcl‘ns. 1119‘hum phur is a good one for scaly legs. straight shoulder, heavy in the front with full breast and legs placed well apart, though not extremely wide. The animal should carry a good cov- ering of flesh, be smooth finished all over and manifest docility and a dis- position to do heavy work with paâ€" tience but with spirit. Accordingly he should show a bright inild eye, an erect ear, and a smooth, easy motion at the trot. The good draft horse is not expected to make speed, For canker in fowls alum water is recommended. Put alum in the drinking water. The best tonics you can give you; stock are fresh air and exercise. Disinfect if possible once a. week. It is .the only way to kill disease germs Disease comes to many flocks through the drinking vessels. Discus.“ lurks in filthy water fountains. It is a noteworthy fact that the cry of “cholera” comes from sections yet he lull-St _110t b3 1“ COllSta‘lt where corn is the main diet. .qum‘l'el Wlth 1‘15 108's; .Because It A cure for sore head is bathing lS easlel‘ to Secure weight "1 fat than with salt water and afterward anâ€" in bone, care should be taken to inâ€" ointing with carbonized Vaseline. sure heavy bone in extreme weights, Another cure {01. gore head of 1"“ this Shouid “K” be done at the chickenpox is an ointment made of expense of fair finish. two parts lard and one part kerm Draft horses of good form sell 211- sene_ most according to weight, except that as weights increase prices rise at a much greater ratio; so that ex- treme weights bring enormous prices if only the bone is satisfactory. PriCes range from $125 to $300, with an increase of about 10 per cent. when matched in teams. These priCes are sometimes exceeded, and dealers insist that prices Were never so low that a span of draft horses would not bring $600 if only they were good enough. This is par excellence the horse for the farmer to raise. Only the blood ‘â€" Cases of roup have been greatly benefited by placing a little bromide of potassium in the drinking water. The United States Department of Agriculture recommends in warding ofl' roup a decrease in the proportion of corn and an increase in the pro« portion of meat food in the daily ration. There is nothing better for a. re cently contracted cold than a. one- grain quinine pill given each night for three nights in succession. For sneezing and slight colrls a simple remedy is a, tablespoonful of kerosene in the drinking water, to be repeated for several days in we free and pleasant, when he was an “.5510”, actol‘ht the theater, that her lady- For limberneck a teaspoonful of ship first knew h1mâ€"â€"â€"- sugar dissolved in a, wineglass of “She was only a young girl fresh from school, andâ€"and she was taken with him. He managed to meet her outside the theater, andâ€"and only God knows whether he would have got her to marry him, for she knew no more of the world than a child; and he was a play actor and full of de~ ceit and pretence, but she learned that he was married alreadyâ€"to me!" she added with stolid misery. “No one. knew of her infatuation or his attempt at villainy, and not long water, a lot of which is squirted down the throat of the affliCted fowl, is reCommended. While we are opposed to giving a well fowl medicine, We can see no reasonable excuse for allowing the first symptoms of sickness to develop into disease. If the droppings of the fowls are not in normal condition give a tea- spoonful of soda water (bicarbonate) to each afflicted bird. In making the water use three heaping teaspooniuls afterward she was married to the Of soda to a pint of water, F0110“, Eal‘l_0f Landon-'1 . with a one-grain quinine pill each “11103! Alla you let “"5 “'Oman‘night for three nights in succession. stand there and utter them in your presence, madam!" The countess did not even glance at him. “Go on," she said to Martha Salt aids in the performance of the. various functions of the body, as digesting the food and its absorp- tion of the blood. I “My lummnd and I “'alldk‘l‘k‘d It is said by those who tried it about for three yearsâ€"three such that gin and molassex equal parts“ “'l'etChC‘l years as few 0f “'0” “5 put in a bottle and well shaken be- women have to endure; and one (lay {01-0 using. is ,an excellent tonic, I met the countess. She was kind to and preventive of colds and roup. me, she pitied me. Being wretched myself, I was quick to see that she wasn't happy; and after a time she FOOT NOTES. told me the cause. She had been _ married nearly four years and there There IS a S‘OOd 5'031‘ in “out 0’ was no child, no son and heir to “3- take the great title and estates; and Get OUt 0f the HHS the earl, her husband, was unhappy Grit is lJCttk‘l' than grunt- about it_ She cried when she told The man who keeps books learns’ incbcried bitterlyâ€"and as I sat and listened to her, my heart achingâ€"for trouble makes us women tenderâ€"a thought came. into our heads at the same moment. My child was lying‘ in the cradle; there was no food in the house; my husband had struck me a week ago and I had left him. I looked at the poor child and thought what a pity it was that it didn’t belong to the countess, and â€"" Her face had grown whiter, her breath heavier and more labored with each word, and she stopped and put, up her hands before her eyes. Seymour sat for a moment speech- fiant laugh. “And you sold your brat to the countess, that she might pass it off on the earl as her own?" he said. “Is that the story?" “It is," said Martha in a low voice; “everything helped us. My lady was going abroad the next day for some months alone; his lordship having to join his regiment. I took the child to her secretly; its birth was advertised in the papers; no one suspected anything wrong, for her latlyShlI) had planned everything, and to the. (lay of his death the earl beL lieved that you were his son." “Me! You mean me?" Sh:- turned her head away, held out her hands as if forgiVeness and merry. (To be Continued.) then imploring. periment. to turn everything to amount. Don't ship poor fruit. A farmer, being asked what he didl to get rid of the weeds on his farm,- said that he sold most of them a: mutton, at three and oneâ€"half to four cents a pound. Spray your ignorance with a 10C per cent. solution of study and ex-' No one has yet come forward to claim that modern wire is as good as that put on the market a. dozen years ago. ' There are men who ought not to be farmers. There are farms which ought not to be farmed. The proverbial expression that “all things come to him who waits," applies more often to the case of the farmer than to that of any other man. Worth working forâ€"the alfalfa crop. The farmers who pay the taxes that maintain public roads, are just ly determined that their rights shall not be wholly annihilated by the be- goggled chauffeur. It requires a twoâ€"horse man make money on a oneâ€"horse farm. The. farmer with a well filled and a cellar full of mangels is shod for winter travel. The question of production is often more easily solved than that of selling the product after it is 11‘.» (llzced, Right here is where business tact and hustle count. to silc. \\ el.‘