t 1 !!'g—! == CHAPTER XHL-fConTiKoso.) Whereupon he roas, and went out !■ to the street He etrolled aimlessly •round until the gray twilight wrapped the great city In a gloom more dense than that of the smoky day-time fog, until a thousand blinking eyes opened bright and glittering along the straight line of the street'* humble relief sen tries for the stars, that had hid thpm selves In sullen clouds of black. Then he sought admittance at Colllnwood House. Owing to the Indisposition of Lady Annabel, the drawing-room was free from visitors, but Eleanor came down immediately upon receiving his name. She looked tired and dispirited, but smiled cheerfully when she saw him. "I should not be glad to see anyone but you, Walter, for I am somewhat fa tigued. Mamma has been ill all day, and 1 have been extremely anxious. But 1 shall look for you to coinlort mo, as you always used to In the old days. Bit down and talk, and let me luxuriate In listening.” He sighed. "I fear I shall scarcely enliven you. I am somewhat dull myself, but 1 will do my best.” So they strayed off Into a conversa tion, commencing with prerent I.ondon experience, but soon wandering away to the old life. They forgot present grief and care to recall the wild beauty of those far-off haunts. They talked of the cool green shadow flung by the Hi biscus tree over the grave ot Tom—of the musical dash of tho surf beneath tbe coral rock—of the tall palm from _L ■ _ v_ liAnnlntmlu nuivu du iuiiq dli ■••'r --< their tattered signal-flag—of his fath er’s watchful care—Tom’s simple but noble nature, and his heroic devotioD. Was either aware how utterly had been fulfilled the prophecy of Mr. Vernon T They had gained the world—Its prizes of fame and wealth and honor, and yet their bruised hearts yearned wistfully toward the innocent tranquility, the un troubled peace of the retreat beneath the palm and bread fruit grove. The time passed rapidly, and they were startled when a servant entered. “My lady wishes to know if Mr. Ver non is with you, and If so she would like to see you both in her apartment.” "Has my uncle gone'!” asked Elea nor. "I left him with her a. few mo ments ago.” “Lord Colllnwood has been gone an hour or more.” "An hour! Have we talked so long? Come, Walter, let us obey her sum mons.” They found Lady Annabel In an easy chair, dressed in a snowy Cashmere wrapper, which set off becomingly the glittering dark eyes, raven braids and feverish cheeks of the invalid. She was evidently somewhat disturbed. "I sent for you, Mr. Vernon,” said she at once, “ because the admiral has just related a rumor that came to him on hU way hither, and It has made me very uneasy. I trust you will contradict It. Report says there is to be a duel be tween my friend Geeffry Dacre and yourself.” Walter's eyes fell—his face showed unmistakably the truth of her suspi cion. “I am deeply grieved," said she, lean ing wearily against the damask cush ion. “At any time it is so revolting—but for you—” "For me it Is as hateful as for any one else," Interrupted Walter, proudly, “but I am driven into it. 1 assure you I have no thought of taking your friend's life. I shall not even fire the pistol but it he demands a chance to ahoot at me, he is welcome to tt. The consequence matters not to tne. and few will mourn for me.” Kleanor had listened aghast with horror. She could restrain herself no longer, and regardless of her mother's presence she sprunk forw.tr.I usd caught his hand. “A duel' Waller, Walter, you will break my heart. Kew to mourn for you? Do you not know it will kill me to sec you aarrlflced In that horrible way? Promise me quick, Walter promise me. that for my sake, this w leked deed ahall not be done.'1 ‘Kleanor," said lady \tui*U i au thoritatively, "come here, my child you forget yourself; leave It with your mother to remonstrate with Mr Ver non. Now.” continue,! uhe, when Kl eunor had mutely obeyed, holding fast to her daughter * band, ‘may I aak. Mr. Vemoa, If my daughter can be any way connected with tbia affair*' "Not at all, your in ly snip Mr lu ere'a anger arisen from tbs fact that I refused to bo introduced to bis olte or rat bar to tab* her bond after loirs fafflst “ •be tanked hesltdered "And why should you be *e war** eoaable* I 4a not under* and "t dtd not stpoet yen sou Id no an* but my a* if knew* lb* Injury and desu Ml to* that •**»** b«s br> uatu to or* through my fntbsr * life t .h,..»!d need g souse of ptatst* to compel me Is touea her tmltoroue baud * “Too apeak MtterD I have boson my Oousla Annabel from hot child Tit~—* gad never knew »» unbind ward m deed to sum* tram her tM cos me | know aetklag of your fsiket t bletery Are poo aore (bore is net **»»• vintage gbldtoke*” "You shall ascertain for yourself," answered Walter suddenly. ‘T intend ed to leare my father's life for her to read. You may read it to-night, and then answer me if I am net Justified In refusing to clasp that woman's hand. Nay, send me word before eight In the morning, and If after learning that sor rowful story you bid me apologize to Mrs. Dacre, I declare solemnly I will do it. I shall only agitate you by remain ing longer. You know my wish respect ing the manuscript, which I will send to you immediately. Lady Eleanor. Do not grieve for such a hapless soul as mine, God bless you! Good-night." Walter returned to his own lodgings, dispatched a messenger with the manu script to Colllnwood House, and sat down to write what he believed his last message to Eleanor. He was Interrupt ed by the viscount. "I have Just seen Dacre," said he. “He wishes to change the hour of meet ing, and make It as early certainly as seven. The rumor has got out, and he fears a police Interruption. Have you any objection?” "None,” briefly responded Walter, keeping on with his writing. "Ah, Vernonl, I cannot bear to think what may happen to this hand of yours, so magical with the brush. For mer cy’s sake give me some little word of apology.” "Apology — pshaw! That woman knows what she Is about. There can be no apology; she thinks my death will make her safe. Leave me, my kind frlonH If vnti havo nn hntfpr r>nn leered from your ana pie top*. Mr t Metre T"be tenth Is not as i new a* ee yen beltoeo. He had better reason* than you •Mistrust The mutes* stoe# in ytmr * He's name We warn both Annabel Mareton tl l. a.eiaahW*. but M *•* I slot** tts base I’nol Mrb tend let as* ee* ten stn*p hands j Mbit* I gas * Wallet vttended hie head re—*innf !«*»'* Mi lM>re ebook it oermly Then Lady Annabel motioned for Walter to assist her to the carriage. He did so, folding his arm carefully arqund her to steady her faltering steps, and yet it was the Annabel Marston be had taught himself to abhor and despise. She smiled mournfully at his assiduous care for her, and said, faintly: “Oo home with me, Walter, and yon shall know the secret of the mournful story. Perchance you may feel more sympathy with your father's destroyer than you have believed possible.” Walter took the seat beside her, and though not another word was spoken, never removed his eyes from the wan, deathly face that lay back wearily against the cushions. Was this the proud, Btately, admired woman before whom nobility and genius bowed in homage? that Lady Annabel whose per fection and superiority shamed even the virtuous? the woman who had de liberately deceived a loving, trusting heart, sold herself for dross, dipped her fair hands In crime? No wonder Wal ter walked as In a dream when he fol lowed up the polished staircase to tht luxurious, elegant room of Lady Ann abel. Eleanor's pale face Just looked In a moment, and was vanishing, when her mother called her. "Come In, my love; I need you. Take away my hat and cloak, and bring my cordial, without calling Claudlne." The affectionate daughter complied, gently removing the bonnet and strok ing fondly the glossy ebony hair. Lady Annabel rested a few moments after drinking the cordial, and then said, calmly: oik uunu line vy uiy diuc, uiy tun* dren, and I will relate the humiliating story, which my poor Eleanor has heard before, and scarcely yet recovered from the shock. I was brought up at my grandfather’s, for my mother died at my birth, and my father lived only two years after her. My earliest remem brances are of the childish terror with which I regarded my father's sister, the Hon. Pamella Marston, and of the pas sionate love lavished upon the only be ing who cared for me, my Aunt Marcia Wellesford, my mother's eldest sister. A little later came an intense hatred of my beautiful cousin Flora, the es pecial pet and pride of the Marstons. My father married against the wishes of hlB family, and from the moment he brought his bride to his father’s house, my mother was the object of his haugh ty sisters’ dislike and persecution. I know this no better now than I realized It then; for the enmity bestowed upon the mother was not burled In her cof fin, but survived to torment me. ;to us COXTIMCSIM THE "HUNTING” COW. How a Nabraika Sian Deceive* the Wll* «ea*e. “Hunting Cow” is the name given by John Sievers of Ames, Neb., to a unique device for sportsmen, says the New York World. The finest wild-goose hunting in the United States is found in the meadows of Nebraska. The fowl are very knowing, and distinguish the figure of a hunter a long distance, whereupon they fly away. Horses, cattle and sheep are not feared by the geese, and they graze iir the very midst of the flocks of birds. Inventor Sievers has taken advantage of this by con structing a machine outwardly re sembling a cow. The frame is made of very light willow, covered with canvas, painted reddish brown and white. An opening near the front legs permits the hunter to enter. His head fits In a hat-like frame which supports the head of the cow. A hole in the fore head permits him to see. When the hunter walks the hinds legs automat ically keep step with the forelegs and the tail switches realistically. The head can be moved by the hunter in any direction. When a field is reached in which a flock of geese are feeding the hunter inside the “cow" simulates (he movements of grazing cattle until within gunshot of the game. By draw ing a bolt the fore part of the cow falls apart and enables the hunter to use his gun at short range. The Inventor asserts that other game than geese may be successfully stalked by the mechanical cow. The device will sell for f30. It U to be so made as to be rosily taken apart and packed for transportation. The (iHiInlUr. "The Neiislretter." who stirred the Hola and Champs Klyaee loungers with envy of her clothes and turnouts what time the Vanderbilt divotoe was on the tnpls. i* again in evident * with equip age* of the newest and floret, and an other New York millionaire has set the tongues of tout Harts wagging The funny part of the affair is that the millionaire accredited with the present episode le well past the half century and up te Ike present time has lived with the regularity of sn old tltu, New Knglcad deacon, without n sus picion uf wild unis abotlt kirn In kis youth sad early manhood, when fredntnee are tc be espected. he lived In (he odor of reepectabiitiy, al though n man uf great wealth, a ids travel and yachting propensities and Mow lehabodt Well, humanity la a curvaue com pound and men make queer break* In thte prooent >• «• n number of cugnaio tud cvianmted attracte are ch « bltag and conversely several nrtalaerolle families. whose onmea arc synonymoaa with the straight and narrow path ara piuaged into thn depth* of gloom -» New Tech Journal. I«a Waey ISMS* Huso a girl la*e iaet«* by rtdies a wheel*" eahs liar pet • Weekly Net amesaarily Hat the nrmettmee bsesq her cample k van aed ant infheqaenttp ' her bnh»n«e FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Cp-to-duto Hint* About Culttoa tlou of tbo Boll aad Y 1*1 da Thoroof —HortlruHoro, ▼IMealturo and Wlorl caltara. ONES are said te have been first em ployed to a large extent, as • fertil iser, In 1794, says Bulletin 86, of the Massachusetts Ag ricultural College. For some time they were applied without being treated In any man ner. During the first three-fourths of this century they were com posted with many kinds of ma terial, especially with lime, ashes And animal refuse. In 1840, super phosphate was first made by Liebig, who accomplished this by '‘dissolving” bones with sulfuric acid. Shortly thereafter Sir John Lawes manufac tured “superphoebate of lime” by this process. Bones were soon ground to "bone-meal.” This method of treat ment has been highly developed, so that now a large variety of uroducts known by the general term of bone meal are made. The varieties consider ed in this bulletin are raw bone-meal, produced by simple grinding, steamed bone-meal by steaming and grinding, and "glue-free” bone-meal, obtained by grinding what remains after the glue has been removed from the bones by cooking. These are each further classified according to the fineness of their particles. The fineness of a bone meal Is ascertained by passing the ma terial through a series of sieves, with meshes of regularly decreasing size, and weighing the different stftlnge. It has long been held that phosphoric acid In bones and bone-meal Is In such form, as to be quickly available to plants, when applied to the soil. Bone lire Mntli* mb<1 Swarm*. This subject has been written on be fore but will bear repeating, as It Is mostly amateur bee keeper?, where bees are kept at all, that read only agricultural papers, as. If they would take regular bee Journals, and espe cially procure a bee book there would bo no necessity for them to write to ■ny one to know how to clear their bees of the moth worms, says J. W. Reuse In Journal of Agriculture, In the first place a good strong colony of bees with a queen are practically moth proof of themselves. We have seen some so called moth proof hives, but as moths can go wherever a bee can, a moth proof hive Is a humbug; but If the bees are strong In numbers they can protect themselves agnlpst the moths. When moths do get In a hive they can be removed by lifting the frames containing the combs out of the hive and with a pointed knife lift them out of the comb. They can be easily detected and found by the white appearance In the comb where they have burled themselves. Remove all trash or webs that may be found, and see that the bees have a laying queen. If the bees are In a box-hive, or gum, so that the combs cannot be removed for examination, the case Is hopeless, as a hive that cannot be looked Into Is no good when moths get Into It. A question was asked by one "How many bees are In a new swarm?" We saw one answer given that there should be some three or four pounds of bees. We would consider that to be a very small swarm. About eight pounds Is a fair average swarm, but we have had them to be much heavier than that; the heaviest swarm we ever had until this season was twelve pounds; but we bad one this season that weighed fif teen pounds. We catch our swarms In a swarming box and can weigh them, so we do not have to guess at it. Some may think that this swarm alluded to might have been two swarms united; but it was not the case, as we were In the apiary at the time and saw the bees come out and saw them settle and then we took them in our swarming box and weighed them. These bees are giving us a large lot of honey. We it was very pleasant to us to have In plain view white oak, black and red oak, linden, sassafras, butternut, shell bark, pignut, three or four kinds, all sweet, and one fine bitternut, and last in a damp soil, one grand, native elm, In whose drooping branches the hang bird annually swung his purse. Where there was room, I put In a maple or eheatnut, end In narrower spaces a white pine or Norway spruce. I would not, however, recommend cheetnut In most Indiana soils. No doubt many are preparing to plant this spring, and should be well In formed as to distances, kinds, etc. Would It not be possible to send a little circular to the county societies, giving the proper Information? Be ginners eurly always waDt to set too close, often paying for or digging dou ble the number needed. New York, after her long experience, has made 70 feet the legal distance, and Michigan law says not less than 60 feet. These long openings may be broken for a time with some small tree or large shrub or evergreen,as dog wood, service or Juneberry, mulberry, papaw, Ted bud, blue beech, black haw, Mountain Ash, purple fringe, etc. Nur sery trees are generally the best root ed. In any case, set small trees and avoid tall poles. I have seen beautiful rows of golden and weeping willows, the latter not hardy enough here. Lom bardy poplar, also, should be avoided, as short lived. There Is a tree, how ever, that grows like Lombardy that might be substituted—the Bolena pop lar. It appears to be hardy as does the Carolina poplar, a very rapid spreading grower. Both are found In the nurseries. 1 have not mentioned the cucumber tree which Is often beau tiful, but I am not making a special point of naming the kinds, I would rather desire to press the point of not planting too many of any one kind. Take, for Instance, a long stretch of any one kind of maple. The monotony of so many trees almost exactly alike may become tiresome, but if tbo oppo site side of the road has a different tree, or the row of maples Is sudden ly broken by elms, walnuts, lindens or any other kind, you are ready to throw THE ILLUSTRATION SHOWS A RAM OF THE HERDWICK SHEEP, ENGLAND. meal has been considered profitable for application to light, sandy soils, espe cially to those low In phosphoric acid. During the past decade many tests have been made by various experiment ers, to determine the actual availabil ity of this form of phosphoric acid, as compared with that in Apatite, South Carolina phosphate, and other mineral phosphates, as well as superphosphates. The summary of these experiments may be given as follows: 1. The superior value which has hitherto been accorded to undlssolved bone-meal aa a fertillxer la due sole ly to the nitrogen which It contains. 2. Undlssolved bone-meal as a phos phate fertillxer la no more valuable than are the raw mineral phosphates. S. Hereafter It must be classed with the latter, rather than with high grade phosphate* containing available phos phoric acid. 4. Aa a phosphate fertiliser It yields uo better results than mineral phos phates, whether tried alone or with •uperphosphate, on loam* or sandy soils, on soils rich or very poor In phos phoric add. whether with grains or with turnips, mustard, or other cru ciferous plants; either In the ttrxt or tn succeeding crops. 5. The vertous kinds of bone-meal show no essential difference in these results. g. Tbs best form in which to apply iK>ne-steal la aa "dissolved bene meal," i mixed with 40 degrees sulfuric seld at tbs rats of JO per cent for raw, ! sad 40 per cent *« glue-free boae jf|| 1. for Stocking land with a supply if pkoepkaris acid, "dissolved boa* n*al t» bolter adapted lhas w auger { pboephatet. protect tb* Troon If a* orchard la • urtb plenties It Is worth protecting iom* sri bardlets of eourso live la h» cslMtsg where there la no need of pr% i meting because there are no rodent* 1 a be a oenace Hut la the thinly set l*d regions the invagee by rodents la 1 .sty great The beet protector to a cbield «f wire sad lath, the wire be ing need to bold the lath together i i *• «wat My eatall sad the hebeit great ' v tree I* the work of jeer*, but it ! may ho deetreped la a stogie night bp ! « rabbit He eo guard tb* d.geatlve organ* sf lbs bea i should not be overtaxed will not say how much as some have already expressed a doubt as to our reports of honey taken. We have al ready received a good lot of honey but will get considerable more as the bees are now in a good honey flow. Roa