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M<«r*o*t»-* tt-r donnioB Bar atr ora ; mama*- tad b~y. —wrsfiifetotrd far •mw Uto* Tti-rr aw <^rtamly br •oaar arayuawaiMto—ba* a feat a** r* That day I •»>»'•< to Unuirr tfer irraCr^o Mr Hsrt'C fead ufrwd Sbr to Jndrrsutac boc as tmbai psrr :arr I featr wt ►—-s Sbr *ub-c ufcr a r;t.a, a sum- rrpnrvr ty oowr aatf tbr day of rt— tlMO afe riraorfem* CHSfeTER XV feiQdy &<ret t*f Alarm Tii- wti day. EYiday. <irrm«dr b-to* tfer b-a* of feor «—{>fautorrs W L*f L<»J *'£ *m.e *» Um^m* Sk Mhm frmzlr a* raaS4 tai^ac fcw tam than bar «J» «WT * aart fe*J»I*y that U aa» •**< I •am MMlwai fkr t»a > it. -e* Halsey all that day. and the boy l was frantic. We had a quiet hoar Halsey and 1. j uar evening, and 1 told him several tine- a boat the request that we **w up the lease to 8uaup*ide. about it - •- iegram to Louise, about the rumor? of an approaching marriage the g.ri and L»r Walker, and. •ast at ail. my own interview with her the day before. He sa: hac k in a big chair, with his - » a th*- shadow. and my heart fair t ac hed :ot him He was so big and b •• When I had hushed he drew a kmg breath. W hatever Louise does.” he said, nothing w.;; ?ot’ :n> * me. Aunt Hay. that she duesz. t care for me And up ti two mouths ag ■ when she and her s »ther went west. I was the happiest fellow ob earth Then something mad? a difference. she wrote me that her people were opposed to the mar r.~r- -hat her feeling for me was » ..at n had always been, but that - ■> thing had happened which had ! hanged her idea? as to the future. 1 *»- not to write until she wrote me. diM. what* ver occurred. 1 was to think best I conic of her. It sounded I t- a p-Zz.j- W hen 1 saw her yes >-c*y was "ae ?ame thing, only, pel taps, worse.” Halsey.' j asked, have you any de» of the nature of the interview bet w • - r. Louise Armstrong and Am die the night he was murdered T* It was ?'ormy Thomas says once or twice be almost broke into the l room. he was ao alarmed for Louise.” rw M I -I On Friday night, then. I had gone to bed. resolved to go at once to sleep. Thoughts that insisted on obtruding themselves 1 pushed resolutely to the back of my mind, and I systematically relaxed every muscle. I fell asleep soon, and was dreaming that Or. 'Valker was building his new house immediately in front of my windows: 1 could hear the thump-thump of the hammers, and then 1 waked to a knowledge that somebody was pound ing on my door, 1 was up at once, and with the sound of my footstep on the Boor the low knocking ceased, to be followed immediately by sibilant whispering through the keyhole. Miss Rachel! M:ss Rachel!" some body was saying, over and over. "Is that you. Liddy?" I asked, my hand on the knob. "For the love of mercy, let me m!" she said in a low tone. She was leaning against the door, for w hen I opened it. she fell in She was greenish-white, and she had a red and black barred flannel petticoat over her shoulders. ' Listen, she said, standing in the middle of the floor and holding on to me "Oh. Miss Rachel, it's the ghost of that dead man hammering to get in”" Sure enought. there was a dull Thud —thud—thud—it came apparently from the wall. ' It's not a ghost." I said decidedly. "If it was a ghost it wouldn't rap: it would come through the keyhole." Liddy looked at the keyhole. "But it “We Had a Quiet Hour." Halsey and I. \no*£*T thing Halsey." I said, I :*'•» you ev^r heard Louise mention i v rituais hhc.ec Carrington. Nina Car rmgronT Neter" be said positively. !'■ '* 'ry as we would, our thoughts - »ay ■ ana- Sat a to that fatal Satur c.> L.iti and the murder Every con te-o*ml path i-d to it. and we all - ’ that Jiii-.r* was tightening *!.-*a<:? o: evident e around John : - ey The detective s absence was oardly reassuring he must have had -• -uj* •x.g tc work on in town or he would have retimed. The papers reported that the cash -r of the Traders bank was ill in his apartments at the Knickerbocker—a • ■« no- surprising, considering everything The guilt of the defunct pr- .d -nt was to longer in coubt; the Biisting bonds had been advertised and some of them discovered In * ' **' i.'tan'e they had been used as <</lateral for large loans, and the ■ewas < irren* that not less than a bi.,1 on and a half dollars had been realized. Ehvt one connected with tie- hank had been placed under ar r--• and reeased on heavy bond U„' he a.on- in his guilt, or was lie • :er his accomplice* Where wa> the money* The estate of the fl-ad man was com para lively small— a «itf house on a fashionable street, rucryside. a large estate largely rnor-gaged, an insurance of and some perscnal property—this was ail The rest kma in sp-eaiatiott prole :* !y. the papers said There was one L ng which looked uc'-omiortable for ! "»-k Hailey He and Paul Armstrong *oe- tb-t had promoted a railroad com «ty in New Mexico, end it was ru »hat -ogether they haa suck, a*g* - ns* of mooey there. Th? busi ■e»- i...an>» be tween the two men -u-e ». •:*» b isef that Hailey knew ~«me- ng of the looting His unex •iaioed abeewc from the bank on Monday -r color to the suspicion Against hi«B The strange thing -—-mec to 1- fc * surrendering himself an Tie pom* sf departure To me, it —ae-d the shrewd calculation of s • - rascal I was not actively an I'.-zoc!'- << to Gertrude's lover, but 1 -ear.- to be i-anvinced. one way or the ' •tbe; I took wo one on faith. Tha- night the Sunnyside ghost be £3t to walk again Liddy had been ! m Ionise « dressing room on a row t and the approach erf dusk wa> a signal for her to barricade the i enure suite Situated as It was. be I vond the circular staircase, nothing but an extremr y of excitement would oavi made her pass it after dark. 1 -aniens myself that the place seemed tome to have a sinister appearance, but We kept that wing well lighted, and until the lights went out at midnight it *»« really cheerful, if one did not anew its history sounds very much as though some one is trying to break into the house." Liduy was shivering violent*y. I told her to get me my slippers and she brought me a pair of kid gloves, so 1 found my things myself and pre pared to call Halsey As before, the night alarm had found the electric lights gone; the hall, save for its night lamp, was in darkness, as 1 went across to Halsey's room. 1 hardly know what I feared, but it was a re lief to find him there, very sound asieep. and with his door unlocked U ak< up. Haisey." I said, shaking him. He stirred a little IJddy was half in and half out of the door, afraid as usual *o be left alone, and not quite daring to enter. Her scruples seemed to fade, however, all at once. She gave a suppressed yell, bolted into the room and stood tightly clutching the foot board of the bed Halsey was gradually waking. 'Tve seen it. Liddy wailed. “A woman in white down the hall!" 1 paid no attention. "Halsey," f persevered, "some one is breaking into the house Get up. aon't you?" "It isn't our house." he said sleepi ly. Anc then he roused to the exi gency of the occasion. "All right. Aunt Kay." he said, still yawning. “If you 11 let me get into something—" It was all I could do to get Liddy out of the room The demands bf the occasion had no influence on her; she had seen the ghost, she persisted, and she wasn't going into the hall But 1 got her over to my room at last, more dead than alive, and made her lie down on the bed. The tappings, which seemed to have ceased for a while, had commenced again, but they were fainter Halsey | came over in a few minutes, and stood listening and trying to locate the sound. "Give me my revolver. Aunt Ray” he said: and 1 got it—the one 1 had found in the tulip bed—and gave it to him He saw Liddy there and div;ned at once that Louise was alone. "You let me attend to this fellow, whoever it is. Aunt Ray. and go to Louis*, will you? She may be awake and alarmed." So in spite of her protests. 1 left Liddy alone and went back to the i east wring. Perhaps 1 went a little faster past the yawning blackness of j the circular staircase: and I could hear Halsey creaking cautiously down ; the main staircase. The rapping, or ; poanamg. had ceased, and the silence was almost painful. And then slid . den’y. from apparently under my very i teet. there rose a woman's scream, a cry of terror that broke off as sudeen j ly as it came. 1 stood frozen and still, j Every drop of blood in my body j seemed to leave the surface and gath er around my heart. In the dead si ! lence that followed it throbbed as if it would burst. More dead than alive. I mumbled into Louise's bedroom She was not there! CHAPTER XVI. In the Early Mcrning. I stood looking at the empty bed The coverings had been thrown back, and Louise s pink silk dressing-gown j was gone from the foot, where it had 1 lain. The night lamp burned dimly. revealing the emptiness of the place. | I picked it up. but my hand shook so that 1 put it down again, and got somehow to the door. There were voices in the hall and I Gertrude came running toward me. "What is it?" she cried. "What was that sound? Where is Louise?" "She is not in her room." I said stupidly. “I think—it was she—who screamed." Liddy had joined us now. carrying a light. We stood huddled together at the head of the circular staircase, looking down into its shadows. There was nothing to be seen, and it was absolutely quiet down there. Then we heard Halsey running up the main staircase. He came quickly down the hall to where we were standing. "There's no one trying to get in. I thought I heard some one shriek. Who was it?" Our stricken faces told hira the truth. "Some one screamed down there." I said. * And—and Louise is not in her room." With a ierk Halsey took the light ! from Liddy and ran down the circular staircase. I followed him. more slow ly. My nerves seemed to be in a state \ of paralysis; 1 could scarcely step. At I the foot of the stairs Halsey gave an ■ exclamation and put down the light. "Aunt Ray." he called sharply. At the foot of the staircase, hud dled in a heap, her head on the lower stair, was Louise Armstrong She lay j limp and white, her dressing-gown dragging loose from one sleeve of her night-dress, and the heavy braid of her dark hair stretching its length a . couple of steps above her head, as if she had slippea down * She was not dead: Halsey put her I down on the floor and began to rub her cold hands, while Gertrude and : Liddy ran for stimulants. As for me. I I sat there at the foot of that ghostly J staircase—sat. because my knees wouldn't hold me—and wondered where it would all end Louise was still unconscious, but she was breath ing better, and 1 suggested that we ! get her back to bed before she came , to. There was something grisly and '•horrible to me. seeing her there in almost the same attitude and in the same place where we had found her . brother's bydy And to add to the similarity, just then the hall clock, far off. struck faintly three o'clock. It was four before Louise was able to talk, and the first rays of dawn were coming through her windows, which faced the east, before she could tell us coherently what had occurred. 1 give it as she told it Site lay propped in bed. and Halsey sat beside her. unrebuffed, and held her hand : while she talked. (TO BE CONTINUED.» London Mulberry Trees rinnury circus gardens, which have just furnished fruit for the lord mayor, are by no means the so]*- city haunt of the mulberry tree, says the London Daily News. The "wisest of trees," as Pliny termed it. evidently "likes London.” and flouirshes even at the Charterhouse m murky Smith field A thriving little saplinp has recently been planted in the pi. tnreseque north ern comer of St- Paul's churchyard hard by the spot where once stood the famous Paul's cross. Asked how the prospective fruit would be protect ed from marauding street arabs. chap ter gardener replied “I hope he won't never bear no berries in my time." London mulberry trees are supposed to derive their descent from an at tempt of James I. to found a silk grow ing industry, but seem really to bare been introduced by the Romans An other unlikely tree which appears to do well in the hewn of London is the fig. numerous specimens of which can be seen flourishing under the most depressing conditionsL The Only Kind. “It would be a good idea if brains could be gone over and renovated now and then " "M that were possible, some brains would have to be renovated with a vacuum cleaner Interchange of Confidence. “1 have come here." said the cat model in the artist's studio, "for a set purr paw." "Tes.“ said the dog. "any one ought to snap at that fob—Baltimore American. APPARATUS FOR TESTING [ TEMPERATURE OF GRAIN Beat Is Not Uncommon in Bins and When Elevator Man Can Locate It Many Dollars Can t>e Saved—How Done. Apparatus for Testing G-ain Te’npe-atu'%. - Grain stored In cne large bin will litr e heat. A pood many dollars would be saved if the temperature down in 'tv? prain could be known at any time. This has been made possible by the Zelery thermometer, says Popular Electricity. Atout $0 years apo it was found that two metnis. such as bismuth and antimony, if heated whiie n contact would generate an elup'ro tnotive force and thts principle, that x the thermo-electric pile, is used in this device. In the illustration one wire of nick el-copper is run in a conduit tor pro tection down into a b:n represented i: the left. At vr- ~ious points taps are taken oS with copper wire. An ordi nary palvonometer and souse is placed on the wall near a contact board on which the wires terminate. When the lever is in the position shown, all the circuits are open and the scale (SI Is moved so that on look inn throuph the telescope the scale is shown by reflection from the little mirror in the paivanometer. Then the lever is moved over to point ;1>. tor instance, this places the galvanometer In cir ' cult with one of the thermo-electric junctions down in the bin A slight current will then Sow through the gab xanometer due to the heating of the J junction and will deSee: the galvan ometer mirror so that the scale as you look through the telescope will ap pear to move over The distance vfcich it moves indicates the temper attire of the junction, as the scale is calibrated to read in temperatures. Silo Com. If for the silo the large growing kinds of com that will mature suffi ciently early are to be preferred, as a much greater amount can be grown on an acre, and the process of siloing will put the crop in excellent condition for -ceding; but such are cot usually the best for curing to feed dry. as there is a liabi ity of being too much waste. This crop should not be planted toe thickly, but space allowed for air and sun. and a fair amount of ears will aid materially to the value of the fodder Plant in rows sufficiently far apart tc admit of cultivation which should be the same as for that grown for the grain. SUBSTITUTE FOR BUMBLE BEE The implement here illustrated is a mechanical substitute for a bumble bee. and its purpose is to cross-pol lenize clover. The machine consists of a platform, the under side of which is covered with a myriad of minute fibrous fingers arranged like the bristles of a brush, says Popular Mechanics. The end of each fiber is covered with a rubber-like substance to which the pollen of the clover will cling. When driven across a field, the plat form. or frame, moves up and down, the little fingers reaching down Into the heads of the clever. All that is required of the operator of the ma chine is to know when the pollen Is In the proper state to be carried from one blossom to another by the ma chine. The clover pollen, unlike that of most plants, is heavy and has a ten dency to adhere to the heart of the blossom. The period in which the pollen can be carried from one bios som to another lasts not longer than I two or three weeks. Consequently, t! would take a vast army of bumble bees to carry the pollen from every bead of clover to some other bead even in a small field. The pollen can not be carried by the wind, and the bumblebees are disappearing, there fore, a machine to do the bumblebee '* work is necessary. Boom In Beet Sugar. Beet sugar factories are now In suc cessful operation in 16 states. Colora do. California and Michigan being the leaders in the order named. The largest of the factories handles three thousand tons of beets per day. They pay the growers So.So per ton and the acreage has increased to eight times the area of ten years ago. The bus! ness seems to be profitable for the growers and improves the market value of farm lands in the neighbor hood of the factories. The by-products pulp and molasses, are fed to stock, in creasing the amount of cattle kept and fed in the factory districts. GOOD FARMING IS PROFITABLE How Three Men and a Bo>* Operate Successfully 160-Acre Farm — Finds Time «o Give Neighbor m Lift. (By A HIRED M AN * The owner of our farm and another man besides myself and a sixteen year-old boy as chore boy and mes- j senger. farm 160 acres of land and farm It right too. In the spring we i put four good Norses on a riding plow ' ar three -on the big disk and keep them hustling along. We harrow i mostly with four horses, because in 1 his way one tnan and the team can rover nearly as much ground as two i men and two teams. We hitch two horses to the drill and always use a two-horse riding cultivator for the rorn. When haying time comes «e use i hay loader a ad a side delivery rake and the hay fork with the horse on the end of the rope makes the job rotnparatsvely easy. Sometimes we help out a neighbor and he gives us a lift later. I notice that the boss always takes care of his own hay and grain first before he works out any trade. Somehow, he seems to be always a little ahead uf our neighbors so that this arrange ment works welL Our grain is al ways stacked, although some of our neighbors thresh right out of the field. This saves time, but our boss seems :o think that wheat that goes through i sweat in the stack keeps better in storage. Our threshing is done by a man with bis own machine and crew So completely does the thresher mac take this job cC our hands, that fre quently only one man is left to our crew to check up the work done, while the other two are at work on another part of the farm Prevents Potatoes Sprouting. Consul Genera! Richard Guenther, at Frankfort, reports that a German pub lication. the Practical Adviser in Fruit Raising- and Gardening, states that a new method for keeping potatoes and preventing sprouting consists in pla cing them on a layer of coke Doctor Schiller of Brunswick, who has pub lished the method, is of the opinion that the improved ventilation by means of coke is not alone responsible for the result, but believes that It is due tc the oxidation of the coke, which, how ever. is a very slow one Coke always contains sulphur, and it Is very p«si ble that the minute quantities of oxide; of carbon and sulphur, which result from the oxidation, mixing with the air and penetrating among the pota toes. are sufficient greatly to retard sprouting. Potatoes so treated are said to keep in good condition until the following July. Ingredients of Best Fertilisers The highest agricultural value in fertilisers is found in those that are manufactured mainly from animal matter, such as animal bore dried blood, animal tanksg^ nitrate of soda and high-grade potash salts To Prevent Gapes. Gapes have been prevented and cured by using oil of sassafras. Pace a few orops in the food for prevention and for a cure drop down the windpipe with a medical dropper. Put it on the head -n*. under the wings for lice. Marvelous Sense of Smeli Remarkable Agencies and Forces In volved in Extraction of the Fragrance of a Rose. What a marrelousb delicate mi rhinerv is set. in motion when vre smell the fragrance of a rose! Simple an that pleasurable sensation seems te os, it invoices the activity of most | remarkable agendas and forces. 1. 1 baa keen shown that the minute cells at the ends of the olfactory nerves tn the nose hear the most delicate f.tt*e hairs, and it is believed that these hairs are the active agents hi produ cing the sense of smell Tet when we come to Inquire tntc the manner of operation of these ceUi and hairs, we find that it is mere wonderful than the delicacy af tk. mechanism ttaelf. LEADING MISTAKES IN UFE Writer Haa Recorded Ten. of Whkoft Moet of U* Assuredly Have Our Share. Some of us may be glad to be told •-hat there are only tea life mistake*, for there seem to be so many more, but a recent writer has catalogued them. Perhaps these are only the tea -e&ding cues from which the smaller errors arise. Let's look over the list and see how many of them are ours: First, to set up our own standard of right and wrong and Judge people ac cordingly: second, to measure the en joyment of others by oar own; third, to expect uniformity of opinion iu this world; fourth, to look for Judgment sad experience in youth; fifth, to en deavor to m-tld all dispositions alike; sixth, to look for perfection in our own actions, seventh, to worry our selves and others with what cannot be remedied, eighth, to refuse to yield in immaterial matters, ninth, to re fuse to alleviate, so far as it lies in our power, all which needs allevia tion: tenth, to trust to make allow ance for the infirmities of others. EPIDEMIC OF ITCH IN WELSH VILLAGE "In Powlais. South Wale*, about fif teen years ago. families were strick en wholesale by a disease known as the itch. Believe me. it Is the most terrible disease of its kind that I know of. as it Itches all through your body and makes your life an inferno. Sleep is out of the question and you feel as if a million mosquitoes were attacking you at the same time. I knew a dcnen families that were sc affected. “The doctors did their best, but their remedies were of no avail what ever. Then the families tried a drug gist who was noted far and wide for his remarkable cures. People came to him from all parts of the country for treatment, but his medicine made matters still worse, as a last resort they were advised by a friend to use the Cuticura Remedies. I am glad to tell you that after a few days' treat ment with Cuticura Soap. Ointment and Resolvent, the effect was wonder ful and the result was a perfect cure in all cases. “1 may add that my three brother*. three sisters, myself and aU our fam ilies have been users of the Cuticura Remedies for fifteen years. Thomas Hugh. 1650 West Huron St, Chicago, IlL, June 29. 1909." EASY TO ANSWER. The Teacher—Who was It that climbed slowly up the ladder at aao> cess, carrying his burden with him as he went: who. when he reached the top pared upon those far beneath him. and— The Scholar (aged 81—I know, ma'am. It was Pst O’Rourke, presi dent at the Hod carriers i;nin» A Knowing Girl. When young Lord Stanielgh cams to visit an American family, the mis tress told the servants that in ad dressing him they should always say “Your Grace " When the young gen tleman one morning met one of tbs pretty house servants in the hallway and told her that she was so attrso tive looking he thought he would kis» her. she demurely replied, clasping her hands on her bosom and looking up into his face with a beatific ex pression. "O lord, for this blessing we are about to receive, we thunt thee."—Lippincott's. More Serious. “Mathilde Browne was very rude ta an overdressed old woman she met ot the street the other day ” "1 know the story- The old womai turned out to be Mathilde'* very rich aunt, and now she's going to give ail her money to a hospital for decrepit dogs " "Nothing of the sort, in fact. It's worse. The old woman was the Brownes' new cook—and now they haven't any.” The Home of the Cod. There is Just one other great cod bank In the world beside* those off Newfoundland. It lies off Cape Agul has. which Is the southern tip of Af rica. and south of the Cape of Good Hope The Agulhas plateau is said to be almost a duplicate in size and rich ness of the north cod banks But this is too far off. so there is little promise of its appeasing the hungry appetite of the world for cod. I