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Juni f, 100.1 have some converse. Interesting anl enter taining to us both. You can scarcely Imag ine my Joy at seeing so lovely a visitor In my poor apartments." "Sir, you said you would bring the king. A gentleman keeps his word." "Oh, the king In good time, my pretty one. Charles Is but a doleful companion Just now, and we are well quit of him. As fur a man's word, the fashion seems to he the breaking of It, example set us poor gentlemen In the highest places. For In stance, our last discussion related to mar riage, but times have changed since that day. and you will not be so cruel ns to ex pect me to carry out the good domestic in tentions I then expressed." "Sir, I am very glad I shall hear no more of them.' "Truly? Then so much the better. I ex pected tears and reproaches, but am pleased you are not given to compluining. By my honor, I love you the more for It. So, then, I'll steal a kiss from those ripe lips to seal the new compact we are to make, and I warn you that a scream is not likely to be heard from this chamber." "I do not need your warning. You shall neither hear me scream nor see me weep." "By St. Denis, I like your spirit. Some scream and some weep, but they all end by clinging." "Sir, a warning for your warning. Ap proach not another step nearer me, or my father shall know of this Insult, to punish It when he Is free." "When he Is free?" echoed De Courcy. "Powers of heaven! Then you have not come to reproach the king, but to plead with him!" "Why should I reproach him?" "It would surely be useless enough, but feminine. Why? Because Gregory Bran don, with one good stroke, severed tha king's word and Strafford's neck on Tower hill this morning." The girl's face went white as the kerchief about her throat, and swaying half an In stant, she leaned against the table for sup- Main Agricultural Feature ROWING on six acres of a gentle f I southern slope of Tesson hill at I f ha Tilltsiiinil PlirrhniiA nvrinul- tlon, St. Louis, is the largest i geographically correct maD ever constructed. This map Is 0 feet long from east to west and extends from north to south 240 feet. The map is the main feature of the large open air exhibit by the bureau of plant industry of the Department of Agri culture and is personally superintended by D. A. Brodie, late superintendent of the Western Washington Experiment station, under the direction of Prof. W. J. Splllman, agrostologist of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. The bureau of plant Industry Is made up of eight offices, comprising vegetable physiology and pathology, fiber plant In vestigation, poisonous and medical plants Investigation and every phase of plant life. Each of the eight offices is presided over by a chief, and by vote of the combined offices W. J. Splllman, professor of agros tology, was elected to have complete con trol of this exhibit authorized by an act of congress. Mr. Brodie was selected to have supervision of the planting and cultivation. Tho several acres were fenced off early In April, and the entire tract was richly fertilized. The ground was plowed and har rowed, the soil pulverized, and the entire tract Bowed to cow peas. This crop not only enriches the soli, but prevents the growth of weeds and will render the sub sequent plowing unnecessary. As the crop to be grown will be required to be planted at intervals up to a short time before the opening of the exposition further plowing would prove impracticable. When an ex hibit is ready to be installed the gardeners Bimply pull up the cow peas covering the space required. The ground Is found to be In receptive condition and requires but little work upon it. The monster map Is, of course, the main feature of this comprehensive exhibit, and the crop grown on this small farm will cost the government considerably more than $1,(100 per acre. A belt of blue grass lawn twenty feet wide establishes tho boundary and coast lines of this gigantic map. Tho boundary lines between the states are marked by cinder paths three feet wide. The territory compiling tho fourteen states and territories of the Louisiana Purchase is marked by a white gravel walk. The states themselves are to be planted In growing crops of the principal agricultural products of the state. The cin der and gravel walks serve us promenades and are of sufficient width to permit the free passage of visitors. Thus a labyrinth of passageways is created and the visitor may wend his way through the maze nnd seo by actual demonstration Just what rrops are grown In every part of the I'nlted States and how they are raised. The cereals will be the feature of the great northwest, while down In Florida will be seen growing the pineapple and orange and other semi-tropical fruits and crops. To bacco will be a prominent feature of Ken tucky's allotment, while sugar cane and cotton will be found growing in the plots of ground representing other southern states. THE ILLUSTRATED HEE. port Something In the brutal method of the announcement convinced her of Its tiuth more surely than if he had spoken with all the solemnity, of which he might he capable. Yet she struggled not to be lieve. He had been edging toward her. cat like, but she paid no heed to htm. Then with a spring he caught her wrists, but she did not move, nor make any effort to free herself. She looked dul'y at him, as If wondering why ho acted so. "You will be pleased to withdraw yourself, sir, and let tne go. My heart Is broken." She spoke with forced calmness, but there was a. tremor In her tone that cast doubt on her former assertion regarding the tears. "Your heart Is not broken, and if it was I'd mend it for you. Absurd! Why. you know the man for scare a day, and that time la full short for the growth of any large affection." "I shull never love any ns I have loved him." "Tush! How little you know of your self. You are a very goddess of love, and I will" Ho was off his guard for a moment. In that moment she whisked herself free of him, und, darting to the other side of the room, whipped down a thin rapier from the wall. "You will be well advised to put an end to this fooling. I am now In no humor for It, and with you, never. If you have not the gift to see It, I would have you know that I detest you and despise you, and have done so since first I saw you." "Indeed," cried He Courcy with a laugh os he possessed himself of a similar weapon to that which threatened him, "are you for a duel, then?" "If you ore coward enough to lift blade ti a woman." "I meet kiss with kiss, and steel with eteel; always ready for either. Guard yourself, madame." His pretended antagonism was but a feint to throw her off the guard he advised Not only will the products of each state be shown on this map by growing crops, but the section of the state on which each commodity Is most grown will be shown. In the great northwestern state of Wash ington the map at St. Louis shows that wheat, corn, potatoes, hay and the wild grassses that thrive in the semi-arid dis tricts are more largely grown In the east ern portion, while in tho west hay, clover, vetches, timothy, orchard hay and grasses, hops, strawberries, raspberries and black berries are more grown. Thus on the small plot of ground that represents one great state will bo found a score of different crops growing. There will be no actual di viding line between the growing crops, though in the cases of the various grasses, wheat, barley and buckwheat the line is aS distinctly drawn by a wave of color as is the line that divides the muddy waters of the Mississippi from those of the compara tively clear Ohio at the Junction of the two rivers at Cairo, 111. While the arrangement of the exhibits In the form of the monster map will fasten the eye more quickly and will challenge the admiration of every visitor to the fair, the agriculturist and horticulturist will find in the exhibits surrounding the map other exhibits of equal interest and im portance. Pathology of plants is treated in an ex tensive exhibit in the territory of the map that would be British Columbia did the map extend further than the United States. This exhibit Is under the personal direction of Prof. Woods of the Department of Agri culture, and illustrates how the growing of plants of economic value are affected by diseases peculiar to plant life. Experi ments will be conducted for the benefit of the agriculturist. Economic plants that nre already affected nre growing on the tract, and other areas of strong and healthy plants of the same species are inoculated with the spores of tho disease and the ro sults are carefully noted. The blight of the pear, the black knot on the plum, po tato blight and all of the other diseases of plant life will be shown, and practical experiments showing the methods of treat ing will be carried on and the results shown. riant breeding Is given a large section to the east of the pathology exhibit. Here Is shown the effect and value of cross fertilization. Varieties of plants are often benefited by crossing. Cherries, for in stance, fertilized by their own pollen, show no change In their fruit, but when fer tilized by the pollen of other varieties of cherries show a marked change. Rome times the result is good and sometimes otherwise. A strawberry that yields boun tifully but is soft and will not bear ship ment is cross-fertilized with a variety of firmer berry, with the probable result after much patient experimenting of securing a large increase in the yield, while the fruit will bear long shipment. From the seed of the fruit grown by cross-fertilization many of the valuable hybrids are obtained. A unique feature of the government's open air exhibit is the school garden that occupies a large section extending (on the garden map) over tho Dominion of Canada from Mains to Minnesota. This exhibit her to maintain, for being one of the best swordsmen of his time, lie knew by her holding of the blade that she was Ignorant of its practice. lie brushed her sword aside, dropped his own and sprang in upon her, grasping again her helpless wrists, her arms pinioned thus transversely across her body, her right hand still clinging to the useless hilt, with the blade extending p.ist her shoulder nnd Inhliul her. His sneering; grinning face so chse to hers that his breath fanned her cheek, ho pressed her back and back against tho wall, the sword bending and bending le Iilnd her until the blade snapped off some rix inches from the hilt ami fell ringing to the floor. "There, sweetest of Amazons, you nre stlngless now, and naught but the honey Is to be gathered." The vry ease with which he had over come her hoodwinked him to his danger. The proud, dominant hi nod of the Wcnt worths flushed her face with an anger that steeled every nerve in her lithe body. As, with a victorious laugh, he released her wrists and slipped his arms around her. she struck him twice with lightning swiftness, first across the brow, then down the face. Nothing could well be more terrible than the weapon she had used, for the jaggod Iron tore his flesh like the stroke of a tiger's claw. The red cross showed for a brief moment, then was obliterated In a crimson flood. "Cowardly poltroon, wear the brand of Cain." He had warned her not to scream, but now his cries filled the room as he stag gered back, his hands to his face. Yet grievously wounded ns he was, he seemed resolved she should not escape him, and, after the first shock, groped blindly for her. She flung the broken weapon to the further side of the room, and the noise of Its fall turned him thither, striking against the table, and then against a chair. She tip toed cautiously to the door, turned the key and threw It open, before he could recover at St. Louis World's Fair Is under the personal direction of Prof. Wheeler of Michigan, of the United States Department of Agriculture. The llbernl space allotted to this exhibit has been cut up into numerous subdivisions, nnd each of these subdivisions In turn is turned over to the various St. Loui3 schools. A class of pupils is selected by the principal of the school so honored, and the actual work of planting und cultivating the gar den Is left to tho pupils, under, of course, the general direction of Prof. Wheeler. Liberal prizes are offered for the best cul tivated garden nnd for the best results. The sight of the little tots in their knicker bockers and gingham dresses, their sailor hats and sunbonnets, equipped with hoe and rake, is a sight all too seldom seen. The immense grass garden grown under the personal direction of Prof. Splllman, who was selected by the Bureau of Plant Industry to have charge of the entire open nlr exhibit. Is one of surpassing value and Interest. This grass garden occupies on the five-acre plot all of tho space in tho Atlantic ocean from Maine to Florida, and, rounding the peninsular, occupies a large portion of the Gulf of Mexico, oft Florida's west coast. In the northern section of that exhibit are a series of sand dunes, constructed so as properly to exhibit the sand-binding grasses. These grasses send their strong and vigorous roots down through the shift ing sands and finally entrench themselves in the solid soil. As the plant becomes more firmly established and sends up its super growth, the roots firmly nnchor It, protecting it from the ravages of the wind and hold it in its place. The plant enriches the barren sand on which It wss originally planted, nnd in the course of not a great many years a rich soli takes the place of what was once a barren sandy stretch of no value. Off the east coast of Georgia Is a circular collection of twenty plots of an average size of 10x20 feet planted to the best tested varieties of lawn grasses. These plots are artistically arranged and are vep-irated by gravel walks. The small lawns ore marvels of tho landscape gardener's art and tho turf is so thick and so well kept that It appears as a velvet carpet. Still further south is the section devoted to the ornamental grasses. Here Is nhown the pampas grass growing up ten, twelve and fifteen feet high and all the other ornamental grasses, including tho ribbon grasses, attaining a height of Ihreo and four feet, down to the dainty little sweet vernal grass that seldom reaches a foot in height. In this section, us in all the others, tho shorter grass is grown In tha plots nearest the hugo map center piece, while the taller grasses occupy tho spuccs on the edge of the exhibit. This adds to the artistic and uniform ap)e tr ance of the display and the view of no section is impaired. In the 83ction of the Gulf of Mexico, west of Florida, are the sections given over to the cultivated grasses, such as timothy, red top, orchard grasses, English and Italian rye grasses, etc. The seed production section will be of immense value to the agriculturist. This exhibit occupies that portion of the Gulf of Mexico extending from Florida to the 11 ' himself, for he had lost all sense of dlreo. tlon, and could see nothing. She took the Immediate risk of pulling the key from the door, to ward olT tho greater danger of pursuit, and calmly locked him in. If screams were as Ineffectual as he had In sisted, ho would take little good from hi baturing of the door lor some tlmo to come. Frances now threaded her way through the mazes of pasages, meeting no tme, for tho gloom of death pervaded the palace, at leust in the direction she hud taken. Sho dared not hurry. In spile of the urging of her quickly beating heart, nut must proceed leisurely, as If she had a per fect right to be where she was, should any Inquisitive servant encounter her. At last, with a deep breath, she emerged upon the great courtyard, and so came to the gate. The officer bowed to her, and she paused for a moiner.t to thank him for his kind ness to her in the earlier part of the day. "It Is true that that lAird Strafford" She could get no further. "Yes, my lady, and grievea we nil are that It should tie so. This morning on Tower Hill. The lords refused to reprieve even until Saturday." Frances bent her head and struggled with herself to repress undue emotion, but, find ing that Impossible, turned abruptly and walked fast down Whitehall. "Her bright eyes, bliss her," snid the officer to a comrade, "are not the only onea dimmed with tears for this morning's work." Two hours later Frances was on her way to the north. She paused on Hlghgate hill and looked back on the babel she had left, vast and dim In the rising mist of the mild spring evening. "Oh, cruel cltj ; oh, faith less man! The bloodthlrst of London may be whetted and not quenched, perjured king of England!" She bowed her head to her horse's man and wept helplessly. (To He Continued. Interior of Mexico. Here the seeds grown In all parts of the world arc tested aids by side. As an example, seed wheat grown in Washington, tho Dikotas, Mu'ne, Florida, and In Europe. Asia and Arrica, uro planted In adjoining sections. The growth and results are carefully noted and it Is thus accurately determined lor the region where the experiment I conducted from where tho seed should bo obtained to get the best results. Other experiments Willi all the other important agricultural products ure similarly made and the te sulls may be noted by the visitor to this City of Knowledge. Anothei section west of that devoted to seed production Is one equally Important and Interesting, illustrating the fiber plants, their growth and tho best approved methods ot handling. Here may b- ten growing In the same manner us In their native homes, hemp, flax, cotton and other Important plants grown for their filer. Scarcely less interesting aro tho appli ances for picking und handling the cotton and the retting of the stalk that contains tho flax fiber. West of this, in the deadly parallel col umn, uro displays of the poisonous and medicinal plunts. Growing side by side are the poison and its antidote. Prominent in the poisonous section nre plants that are Injurious to stock, notably the famed loco weed. This plant when eaten by a horse cruzes the animal and drives It frantic and sometimes even produces death. Another dangerous plant is tho wild parsnip, little less desirable than tho loco plant. In this section Ure shown the best methods for the extermination of the poisonous plants and also the best remedies for tho treatment of horses and cattle after they have partaken of the poisonous growths. In the medical section beautiful beds of popples are to lie seen and the methods of obtaining opium and all of the medlcinals and poisons produced from the weird drug are shown. Here, too, is the foxglove, from which is made digitalis, and the deadly nightshade, from which Is produced belladonna and numerous ottier medicinal plants and herbs. Prof. Carleton of the Department of Agri culture has churgo of the immense exhibit of cereals thut grow In tho space west of tho map. Here may be seen tho various specimens going to make up wheat, corn, oat, ryo and barley families. Each sectional exhibit outside the map is divided from the section adjoining it by a broad gravel walk, while the beauty of the exhibit Is enhanced by a strip of smooth blue grass lawn completely sur rounding it. Reflections of a Bachelor Oood figures are not what they are; dressed up to be. When they are down In the world a maq is cowed, a woman defiant. A hammock Is built for two, even when t Isn't big enough for one. The more sinters a man has the more meif he feel sorry for as they get maxrloiL-e Kew York Press.