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Aa they uwaHad laraird Thro,£n the uat iMa*arity he coaimueA ht» |te:aahhl revetAUana. the preaent cs larieiv lamp nuV akautrf there was at ae&tttteet aVtaknup to ma At teat IV) case oat oa a tutat B,uc above ahura teal aad aith (V ClCht to the mater* way to a poio; aa «raaa up oa the Marp m. aa tA.* he aaM. vir* he had Ihhbrhad A ~f «riti (o oo tarther**’ aaia Hetty ta fMprnttoa t*b* lett aa over ■Htmtp fear, tv lull horror u tLe •akv - , Uv hath al la te go aritk n«r asked Btety '.fiatmeaty “•ore*" agreed Bkaasoa affably “Tear nigger, tun—quite a party “ Be"* stepped ictu tte skiff Sbe lag «l Bean: aiMrirr tke girl's mo tlvan. ke bad erteken ker to escape, take no aid slab It noer mere tbaa oeer - tnce tke very tfcuig tfce bad dtme* to prevent Cad Happened gi naai-d seated biaseei? and took op tke o:. rs Banker to t. eed vrttn Man BW *»4 tkey puked off No word n>aa • :«kan until tkey dtaetnkarkad on tke « ,q captive! op tke knnk ami tkey estered a clearing. !«*::{ art sea tkia Betty saw obere a emits a inflow framed a single •tetee *4 ugkt Tkey advanced to ward 'fc;* ate presently tke dark out Bne »" tke cnMket itself lergtM dia tkfcffvir e A moment later Sioe eoa fit -t a dmor yielded to bis tend, ate Betty ate tke toy were lira into tke room ‘Mr * i >• gstenta. old lady— said Mr k.-.watn. Mrs. Hicks rose :roia tke It! *»-egged about on wbick Sbe wa» etuis* 'Mane me tke candle. Bens.* sbe At «* stee of tke room was a steep ffigfc- 4 stair, skirb gave acre*, to tke tort evrrkind Mrs. Hicks, by a getter*, signiand tkat Hetty asd Man mkn! fern *a ascend Hum stairs: tnoy did so ate found iriiniiimii u on a aarrow taodirg tw loeq by a par Otim. f roogk pUbks: tkis partition was pierced by a low door “In yonder— ske said briery nod dtng toward tke door. " tried Betty te a whisper “M® " said tfc* woman wtte so al most maanUine aurliaeas of tone -| C„. no.*lung te aar Bke pushed ties, lnu> tka attic, and. dostog me door fasts* **j if witk a afoot wooden bar. He; -ci that door, wtick seemed f0 kave clomd oe every fc< pe. Betty be.d the tail** dip aloft,, and by its oncer tata »ed flwkerfsg nget surveyed ber prtan* Tke tneles* gianr* s .-aired Tk* zt m rontaued two »Aike-down THE PRODIGAL JUDGE j \By Vaughan Kester. lui'sn^T/ovs By D.Melviu «L \ ' » W » " » « "Here’s Yo’ Guests, Old WomanI" * teds and a stool; there was a window tit the gable, but a piece or heavy plank was spiked belore it. "Miss Betty, don't you be scared." whispered Hannibal. "When the judge bears we're gone, him and Mr. Ma baffy wilt try to find us They'll go right off to Belle Plain—the Judge is always wanting to do that, only Mr. Mabaffv nerer lets him—but now be won't be able to stop him." "Oh. Hannibal. Hannibal, what can he do there—what can any one do there?" And a dead pallor over- ] * spread the girl's lace To speak ot the blind groping of her friends but i served to hi tbe horror of their situ | anon In her mind "1 don't know. Miss Betty, but the •-dge is always thinking or things to do; seems like they was mostly things ; no ore else would ever think of." Hetty bad placed the candle on the i stool and sealed herself on one of the beds There was the murmur or ropes la the room below; she woi> dered if her fate was under consldera- i I non and what that fate was to be. Hannibal, who had been examining | the window, returned to her side. "Miss Betty. If we could Just get out of this loit we could steal their skiff and row down to ihe river; 1 reckon they sot Just the one boat; the only way they could get to us would be to swim out. and if they done that we could pound em over the head with the oars—the least lit tle thing sinks you when you're in the water " But this murderous lancy I of bis failed to Interest Betty. Presently they heard Sherrod and Bunker come up from the shore with tleorge Slosson joined them and th.--e was a brief discussion, then an interval of silence, and the sound of voices again as the three white men moved back across the field in the direction of the bayou. There suc ceeded a period of utter stillness, both In the cabin and in the clear ing. a somber hush that plunged Bet ty yet deeper In despair. Wild thoughts assailed her. thoughts against which he struggled with all the strength of her will. In that hour of stress Hannibal was sustained by his faith In the Judge. He saw his patron's powerful and picturesque Intelligence applied to solving the mystery of their disap pearance from Belle Plain; It was In couretvable that this could prove otberwt.-c than disastrous to Mr Slo^ sen. and be endeavored to sbare the confidence he was feeling with Betty, but there was something so forced and unnatural in the girl’s voice and manner when she discussed his con jectures that he quickly fell Into an awed silence. At last, and It must have been some time after midnight, troubled slumbers claimed him. No moment of forgetfulness came to Bet ty. She was waiting tor what—she did not know! The candle burnt low er and lower and finally went out nrd she was left in darkness, but again she was conscious of sounds from the room below. At fir6t it was only a word or a sentence, then the guarded speech became a steady monotone that ran deep Into the night. Even tually this ceased and Betty fancied she heard sobs. CHAPTER XX. Murrell Shows His Hand. At length points of light began to show through chinks in the logs. Han nibal roused and sat up, rubbing his eyes with the backs of his hands. •'Wasn't you able to sleep none?" he Inquired. Betty shook her head. He looked at her with an expression or troubled concern. "How soon do you reckon the judge will know?" he asked. "Very soon now, dear." Hannibal was greatly consoled by this opinion. "Miss Betty, he will love to find us—" "Hark! What was that?” for Betty had caught the distant splash of oars. Hannibal found a chink In the logs through which by dint of much squint, leg he secured a partial view of the bayou. "They're fetching up a keel boat to the shore. Miss Betty—it's a whoop er!” he announced. Betty’s heart sank; she never doubted the purpose lor which that boat was brought into the bayou, or that it nearly concerned herself. Half an hour later Mrs. Hicks ap peared with their breakfast. It was In vain that Betty attempted to en gage her In conversation. Either she cherished some personal reeling ot dislike for her prisoner, or else the situation in which she herself was placed had little to recommend it. even to her dull mind, and her dis satisfaction was expressed in her at titude toward the girl. Betty passed the long hours of morning In dreary speculation con cernlng what was happening at Belle Plain In the end she realized that the day could go by and her absence occasion no alarm. Steve might rea sonably suppose George had driven her into Raleigh or to the Bowens' and that she had kept the carnage Finally all her hope centered on Judge Price. He would expect Hannibal dur ing the morning; perhaps when the boy did not arrive he would be tempt ed to go out to Belle Plain to dis cover the reason of his non-appear ance. She wondered what theories would offer themselves to his in genious mind, for she sensed some thing of that indomitable energy which in the face of rebuts and laughter carried him into the thick of every sensation. At noon Mrs. Hicks, as sutipn as in the morning, brought them their din ner. She had scarcely quitted the lott when a shrill whistle pierced the si lence that hung above the clearing. It was twice repeated, and the two women were heard to go from the cabin. Perhaps half an hour elapsed, then a step became audible on the packed earth of the dooryard. Some I one entered the room below and be | gan to ascend the uarrow stairs, and Betty's fingers closed convulsively about Hannibal's. This was neither Mrs. Hicks nor her daughter, nor Slosson with his clumsy shuffle. There | was a brief pause when the landing was reached, but it was only momen tary; a hand lilted the bar. the door ' was thrown open, and its space i framed the figure of a man. It was 1 John Murrell j Standing there he regarded Betty in silence, but a deep-seated tire glowed \ in his sunken eyes. The sense of pos session was raging through him, his temples throbbed, a fever stirred his , blood. Love, such as it was. he un doubtedly felt for her, and even his giant project, with all its monstrous . ramifications, was lost sight of tor the moment. She was the Inspiration tor i It all, the goal and reward lor which J he struggled. “Betty!" the single word tell softly j from his lips. He stepped Into the j room, closing the door as he did so. The girl's eyes were dilating with a mute horror, for by some swift, in tuitive process of the mind, which asked nothing of the logic ol events, but dealt only with conclusions. Mur rell stood revealed as Norton's mur derer. Perhaps he read her thoughts, but he had lived in his degenerate ambitions until the common Judg ments or the understanding of them no longer existed for him. That Bet ty had loved Norton seemed inconse quential even; it was a memory to be swept away by the force of his greater passion. So he watched her smilingly, but back of the smile was the menace of unleashed impulse. "Can't you find some word of wel come for me. Betty?" he asked at length, still softly, still with some thing of entreaty in his tone. "Then It was you—not Tom—who had me brought here!" She could have thanked God had It been Tom. whose hate was not to be feared as she feared this man's love. "Tom—no!” and Murrell laughed. "You didn’t think I'd give you up? 1 am standing with a halter about my neck, and all tor your sake—who'd risk as much lor love of you?" He seemed to expand with savage pride that this was so, and took a step to | ward her. "Don't come near me!” cried Betty. Her eyes blazed, and she looked at him with loathing. “You’ll learn to be kinder," he ex ulted. "You wouldn't see me at Belle Plain; what was left for me hut to have you brought here?” While Murrell was speaking the sig nal that had told of his own presence on the opposite shore of the bayou was heard again. This served to ar rest his attention. A look of uncer tainty passed over his face, then he made an impatient gesture as tf he dismissed some thought that had forced Itself upon him, and turned to Betty. "You don't ask what my purpose is where you are concerned; you nave no curiosity on that score?” She en deavored to meet his glance with a glance as resolute, then her eyes sought the boy's upturned face. "1 am going to send you down river. Bet ty. Later 1 shall join you in New Or leans, and when l leave the country you ahali go with me—’* "Never!” gasped Betty. "As my wife, or however you choose to call it. I'll teach you what a man's love is like,” he boasted, and extend ed his hand. Betty shrank Trom nun. and his hand fell at his side. He looked at her steadily out of his deep sunk eyes. In which blazed the tires of his passion, and as he looked, her lace paled and flushed by turns. "You ihay learn to be kind to me, Betty, he said. "You may find it will ne worth your while.” Betty made no answer; she only gathered Hannibal closer to her side. "Why not accept what 1 have to offer. Betty?" Again he went nearer her, and again sne shrank from him, but the madness ot his mood was in the ascendant. He seized her and drew her to him. She struggled to free herself, but his lin gers tightened about her. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Rea'm of Applied Science Mo* *»r* of C.reaj of iUndjrtfi In C«t e» Mo* Boon Extended In <>•** Veara. The »'«r* of iW bureau of rtand artta a been c?-a!jy extended of lem «o*NU aays dm New Tork Her aid The operations of the office wore at Beat • lasted for the moat part to ataadifda of length am. capacity and «*»p-rati»*e. but the rapid prog ram vt appl-ed seteaee erea tod now dons, i* which bo taatiiunoa was coast rent to satisfy t*fce awetry or the measurement of Hgbt •* a rasa tn point Thirty years ago it cad ao Croat com me ret si tm portar o. but the extended ase of eiec Utcfcy for :ichi.cc purpoaea. the dla ceoary and suanfirtnrc of acetylene CM and (bo ictendon of namerons ta pswomu la burner* for ordinary 11- j tamtsa’ing CM bate opened up a new Bold Puotoaatrlr apparatus la now •rreaunrt la hand reds, or even thou sand, af tsosortes Not only must the volume of light be accurately measured, but Its chro matic composition roust be deter mined The most desirable light Is. of course, that which coroe3 nearest to sunlight in its color composition The pitch of tuning forks, of inter est to manufacturers of musical in struments; the testing of optical sur face* which is important to every one who wears glasses: the verification of •hermometers. of gas. water and elec tric meters—in fact, the standardizing of all sorts of measures—are coming more and more within the scope of the bureau of standards. Thoughtfulness. It ts a pleasant bit of thoughtful ness which many hostesses show In leaving reading matter on the table of tbeir guest room. A guest is frequent ly not accustomed to the same hours of rising and going to bed as prevail in the bouse where she Is visiting < She may have a habit of early rising I or of sleeplessness, or she may have ! merely a short time In her -oom with nothing to do. when she does not wish j lo go down stairs or elsewhere to ob tain books. At such a time a new book, an interesting magazine or two would prove most grateful. It Is not necessary to have a whole guest room bookcase. One or two well-chosen books will serve the purpose quite as well. It is a distinct compliment to a guest to have put enough thought Into her tastes and Interest to be able to offer her just the book or just the ar ticle which she would wish to read. While this Is not always possible, with tho best intentions, something bright, readable and new will rarely go amiss. Look Below the Surface. When bent on matrimony, look more than skin deep for beauty, dive farther than the pocket for worth, and search for temper beyond good humor of the moment, remembering It U not always the most agreeable partner at a ball who forms the most amiable partner for life. Virtue. like some flowers, blooms often fairest la the shade. Much-Named Isle. The Parisians, who are extremely fond of changing place names with in their jurisdiction, have never equal ed the record established in this re spect in the case of the Island of Reunion, which has changed its name four times in a little over half a cen tury and with little or no reason for doing so. In 1793 it was Rourbon. a-, it had been for a century and a half; but the convention then changed it to Re union. Under the empire It became Isle Bonaparte, at the restoration it revert ed to 3ourbon. and. Anally, in 1848. it became Reunion once more and so far has retained that name. Too Much for Him. “Allow me,” said the fresh young man in the Pullman dining car, as he passed the sugar bowl to a shy young girl; "sweets to the sweet, you know.” "Allow me," said the girl, as she handed him a plate of crackers; “crackers for the cracked, you know." —Ladies' Horn* Journal. GOOD VEAL DEMANDS MORE ATTENTION j Ten-Months Old Calf Raised in Missouri. The high price of mutton during the i Past few years has encouraged, par | ticularly dairymen, to pay more atten tion to making good veal, but there is i woeful lack of this kind of meat now on the market. Most dairymen will not take the trouble to fatten calves, but send them :o market just as soon as they are past the age limit, and the result is I sntirely unsatisfactory, both to the j seller and .the customer. Well fatted calves, weighing from j 120 to 150 pounds, always bring high prices, r.o matter what the condition of the cattle market may be. City peo j pie eat a great deal of veal and would . ,'onsume much more if they could get what they want, but the stuff seen on ! :he market is for the most part stringy, unfinished and not at all sat isfactory. Many calves' are sold when a week Did. at 3 to 4 cents per pound, when if fed until they weighed 25 pounds would bring double the money, but dairymen have not yet learned how to feed calves, in order to make good veal. The European farmers make good money out of the right calves. The youngster is carefully fed from the day he is born, being confined in dark stalls. He is fed liberally on oatmeal. | whole milk at the start and skim* j milk later, with some roots, and ; when he goes to market he is about as toothsome a morsel as can be found ' anywhere. Englishmen are very fond ' of this kind of meat, and price cuts nq j figure with them. There is no reason why our dairy- , ) men should not increase their profits j ; materially by feeding their calves; | and it has always been a source of wonder to us why they so neglect this | part of their business. The fact is. the American public, tc a large extent. Is so prejudiced against • veal, having read gruesome tales ! about bob veal being too often mar ! keted. that thousands are afraid tc buy veal of any kind. If a better svs | tem of feeding calves were adopted, and the business systematized, we i would have in a few years a line of ! choice meat that would sell readily at j very high prices. The first thing to be done would be 1 to amend the laws, to prevent the j railroad and express companies ship j ping veal under four weeks of age. The amount of immature stuff that goes to market every day is appalling, and we believe that 75 per cent, of it I' is unfit for food. How it gets past the inspectors is something no man can find out. CHEAPEST HAY FOR FORAGE IN WINTER Second Crop Clover Is First Class Feed for Cows and Sheep. Second crop clover is a first-class winter forage for cows and sheep. | Clover, when cured without being dam ! aged by rain, is the cheapest and best hay for cows in milk and ewes with young lambs. Owing to the shortness i of the hay crop throughout the country the young clover and foxtail and rag weeds growing in the wheat stubbles | should be cut and cured before the fall j rains set in. Second crop clover is I worth too much as feed to plow under for manure. Save the crop for feed and plow under the stubble this fall and lime for corn in the spring. As food for poultry, when bulk is needed, poultry men say that no other clover, except it may be alfalfa, is equal to second-crop red clover, cut and cured free from rain and steeped in boiling water during the night for feeding the iext day. Use the water in which the clover was steeped in for mixing with bran and corn chop, which, with the clover, makes one of the best winter foods for laying hens during the win ter months. In the grain-growing districts the second crop is usually cut for seed. If the first crop is cut early and the stubble dressed with 200 pounds of plaster to the acre a good crop of seed may be grown if the season is favor able. Bees are a great help in dis tributing the clover pollen. After the seed is harvested the stubble is plowed ! for corn. NEED OF MOISTENING CORN WHILE IN SILO -—— Excellent Time is When Crop is Too Ripe or Severely Frozen Ordinarily corn cut at the proper ; time does not need any water added | to make good silage. There are S times, however, when it is necesasry to add water to the corn in filling the silo. The corn in the silo at the time of filling should feel moist, if not moist, water should be added. Under any of the following condi tions water should be added to the corn when filling the silo: First, when the corn is too ripe, and the leaves and part of the stalks are dried out to such an extent that they will not pack well. Second, when the corn Is severely frozen before it has j reached the proper degree of matur ity, liberating the moisture and leav ing the leaves and stems dry. Third, when refilling the silo late in the fall with shocked corn it is always nec essary to add water. There are two ways to ad ’ water. First, put a hose in the silo and thor oughly saturate the dry portions, es pecially around the walls. Second, where the blower cutter is used, run Bn inch stream of water into the bicwer when it is at work. This will add a sufficient amount of water to insure good results. Biggest Bee State. Texas is found to be the greatest bee state in the Union. Last year the state alone produced more than 15, 000,000 pounds of honey valued at *3,500,000. The state holds approxi mately 600,000 swarms valued at *5. 500.000 and they are said to be in creasingly rapidly. The Silo Floor. Better put the ailo floor level with the ground. Silos in the ground are rarely satisfactory after a few years’ use. LAMB RAISING PAYS FARMER QUITE WELL Sheep Industry on the Average Farm is Considered Side Issue. The fanner who will pay close at tention to his breeding stock and raise native lambs of uniform size and breed, feed them intelligently and market them at the right time can make more profit from his flock than from any other farm investment. As a rule the "native” lambs sent to the markets are so badly mixed, both as to breed and feeding, that they are a torment to the buyer and of little prof it to the owner. This is one of the reasons why the western range lambs find great favor in the big markets. They the more uniform in size as they are fed in large flocks and go to market prac tically in the same condition. Only a small portion of the "native” lambs that are sold in the eastern markets can be called prime, and his fact is entirely the fault of the farmer. As a rule, sheep-raising on the av erage farm is merely a side issue and little attention is given to it. The remedy of the present condition of the native lamb market lies entirely with the men who produce the lambs. Whenever the farmers are engaged in the producing of prime lambs for market at any season of the year, the business has proven highly profitable. Of course the best markets are just before Christmas and in the early spring; at. this period the prices are always high. America is becoming a great mut ton-eating nation, and if the farmers will improve their flocks and their methods of feeding there is no reason why the native lamb market should not prove more profitable than that controlled by the range district. HOGGING CORN CROP INSTEAD OF HUSKING — Some Farmers Find This Prac tice of Much Advantage at Times In these days of expensive labor, i farmers sometimes find it to their ad vantage to hog off some of their corn instead of husking it. The amount that should be hogged off should be decided upon beforehand, and should of course be proportionate to the number of hogs which are expected to consume it. There should be access to water, and the results will be all the better il the hogs, at the same time, can have access to a clover, blue grass or alfal fa field. Corn should not be hogged off un til it is pretty well matured; that is, until the grains are well dented. Hog ging it off before that time means a waste of feeding value, for corn grows until the leaves are killed by frost oi die naturally. There are many cases in which it is quite as well and muct cheaper to hog the corn off than tc husk it and feed it to the hogs, am the practice is growing more popular every year. Value of Forest Trees. A plantation of forest trees would not yield an immediate return, but it would cost little and would enhance the value of the land each year, be sides providing for the needs of the future Corn and Alfalfa. An acre that will produce $30 worth of corn in a season will with the right kind of care produce from $75 to $100 worth of alfalfa and the ground will be worth more after the hay crop is harvested. WORST DESERT IN ALL ASIA Hongwanji Temple at Kyoto, Japan, Crosses Takla-Makan Sand in Thirty Years. Tokio, Japan.—Rev Zuicho Tach ibana. a priest of the great West Hongwanji temple of Kyoto, re turned to that place recently aft er five years spent in explora tion in the virgin parts of cential Asia, writes a correspondent. His lourney was undertaken for purposes of research under the instruction of Count Otani, the lord abbot of the Hongwanji temple and an enthusi istic geographer. Mr. Tachibana is i young man of twenty-two years of Jge and of such delicate physique that ihe natives said he must be a woman disguised as a man. Mr. Tachibana proceeded from Lon don to Omsk and thence by stage coach in Semipalatlnsk, thence to Turban in Sinkiang ("the new terri ory”) passable roads were found. During his explorations Mr. Tach! Dana traveled across the Takla-Makan desert, which he describes as the Sheltered at the Edge of the Desert. worst of all deserts in central Asia Neither birds nor even insects ar« to be found there. ""he desert is a sea of sand, where there is only the wind to hear and the moon to see. The party constant ly met sand mountains over 12,001' feet high, and the men began tc grumble, fearing that they would be buried by the constant sandstorms. On arriving at Goma, on the right bank of the River Tarim, he caused considerable fright among the shep herds, as his was the first party from the south for thirty years. At first the shepherds fled, but were brought back. The feat of crossing the desert caused greatest reverence by the shepherds. At this point he left the camel cara van to follow on slowly, while he pro ceeded on horseback to Kuchar, which place he reached after three days. This is a large town, though not to be compared with civilized cities. •'Nevertheless,” said Mr. Tacljibana, “I felt on entering it as though I had suddenly been put down in Piccadilly." Some time was spent in the neigh borhood of Kashgar investigating the buried cities, and afterward the ex plorer proceeded through the valley to the east of Tzunling to Khotan, the districts previously explored by Dr. Stein (now Sir Marc Aurel Steini Thence the party proceeded to Tibet for the purpose of geological ingesti gation. Several districts were visited by Mr. Tachibana which had been omit ted by Dr. Sven Hedin. These regions are absolutely blank on the maps, and have never been visited before. As soon as the records of the jour ney have been collated the Hong wanji temple will issue a report on Mr. Tachibana's exploration, which will without doubt be eagerly antici pated in scientific circles in Europe and America as well as in Asia. STOWAWAY HEEDS A VISION Explains That He Received a Divine Summons to Preach to Benighted Chinese—Is Shipped Back. San Francisco Cai.—Harold Yates, a frightened youth, who had seen a vision and started for the Orient to preach to the Chinese, was brought back to San Francisco on the steamer Nile, which reached here recently. Yates’ “call,” by which he was sum moned to spread the message of the gospel among the heathen, led him to stow away on the steamer Manchuria, which left here Friday. Captain Friele of the Manchuria lis tened to the young man's account of his vision, after he had emerged from his hiding place, but decided that it did not entitle Yates to free passage and the stowaway was transferred to the Nile when that vessel was met in midocean. Yates, who was employed as a bell boy at a local hotel, was awakened with difficulty last Friday morning by another bellboy. He explained that he had been listening to a divine sum mons to the missionary field and hur riedly packed a few' belongings and boarded the Manchuria, where he hid in the hold. BREAKS JAIL TO FEED CATS Nevada Miner Tramps Forty Miles That His Pets May Not Suffer— Act May Bring Freedom. San Francisco, Cal.—When James Watkins, a miner, was placed in jail at Searchlight, Nev., recently, charged with having stolen a pair of lace cur tains, he asked the jailer to see that his pet cats were fed. The jailer laughed at him, but when night fell Watkins broke jail and tramped forty miles across the desert to attend to his pets. The sheriff followed him next day in a motor car and found Watkins pouring milk for the cats at his cabin. The charge against Watkins prob ably will be dismissed, his accuser having been Impressed by the miner’s affection for his pets.