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^=. ^ CLOS E QUARTE RS ; OR, THE HOUSE IN THE RUE BARBETTE * CHAPTER I.-(Coafd) His lordship knitted his brows «nd smoke-'! in silence. At last he loind utterance. '"Tl'.at'a a good idea of yours. It makes thiiigj Easier. Well, ii.-it oi »11, E'.'.ith and I became engaj^-'d. Edith is the daughter of the lace Admral Talbot. She and Jack, her brother, live with their uncle, d-n- eral Sir Hul>ert Fitzjames, -it lii*, Ulster (jiarden-s. Jack is in ^he Foreign Office ; ho is just like Edith, awfully clever and that aort '^f thing, an assistant secret.\ry [ t.iiMk bhey call him. Now we're getti.ig on. aren't we?" 'Splendidly." 'That's all right. About a month ago a chap turns up from Coii- itantinople, a kind of special Envoy from the Sultan, and jie explains to th» Foreign Office that he has j.-i his possession a lot of uncut <!;i- mond-s of terrific value, ineludla? one 33 big as a duck's egg, to which no figures would give a price. Do you follow me i" â- "Eacli word." 'Good. Weilâ€" I can't tell you why, because I don't know, and I could not understand it if I did â€" there was some ix)litical import- ance attached to these gems, and the Sultan roped our Foreign Of- fice into it. So the Foreign Office placed Jack in charge of the busi- ne.ss. He fi.ved up the Envoy in the house at Albert Gate, got a lot of diamond cutters, and ma- chinery for him, gave him into ihe charge of all the smart policemen in London ; and what do you think is the upshot 1" '•What?" '"The Envoy, his two secretaries, and a confidential servant were murdered the night before last, the diamonds were stolen, and Jack has vanished â€" absolutely gone clea;a â- -into space, not a sign of him lo be Tttund anywhere. Yesterday Edith 6en5»^or me, cries for half au hour, tWIs me I'm the best fellow that ever ^ived. and then I'm jig- gered if she didn't wind up by say- ing that she couldn't marry me." The earl of Fairholme was now worked up to fever heat. He would not calm down for an appreciable period, so Brett resolved to trj- the effect of curiosity. He wrote a telegram to Lord Northallerton : â€" "Very sorry, but I cannot leave town at present. Please ask me 'ater. Will explain reason for post- ponement when we meet." Ho had touched the dominant note in mankind. "Surely!" cried the earl, "you have not already decided upon a course of action 1" '-'Sot exactly. I am wiring to postpone a shooting fixture." 'What a beastl^v shame I" ex- claimed the other, in whom the sporting instinct was at once aroused. "I'm awfully sorry my affairs should interefere*with your arrangements in this way." 'vNot a bit," cried Brett. "I make it a sacred rule of my life to put pleasure beforo business. 1 mean,'' fte e.xplaiued, &-s a look of bewil- dermeiit crossed his hearer's f.ice, 'that this quest of ours promises to be the most remarkable affair I have ever been engaged in. That pleases me. Pleasant-shooting is a Berious business, governed by the callendar and arranged by the head-keeper." .\n electric bell summoned ,gmith. The barrister handed him the tele- gram aad » sovereign. â- â- Read that message," he said. "Ponder over it. Send it, and give Ihe change of the sovereign to Mrs. Smith's brother, with my compli- ments and regrets." a hansom rapidly brought Brett to the residence of Sif Hubert Fitz- james. A stately footman took Reggie's card and its accompanying letter, placed thein on a salver with a graceful turn of his wrist, which oddly suggested a similar turn in his nose, and Raid : "Miss Talbot is not at home, cir.'' "Yes, she is," answered Brett, p.aying the driver of the hansom. The footman deigned to exhibit astoni3hme;it. Here was a gentle- manâ€"one obviously accustomed to the manners of Society.â€" who de- clined to accept the courteouo dis- claimer of an unexpected visit. "Miss Talbot is not receiving visi- tors," he explained. "Exactly. Take that card and the letter to Miss Talbot a.id bring ^ t all the facts that is known to you " personally :" "My uncle, General Fitzjames, has just gone to Scotland Yard," she began timidly. "Quite so. Perhaps you prefer to await his return V â-  ' "Oh, no, I do not mean' that. But it is so hard to know how best to act. L'"ncle expects the police to accomplish impossibilities. He says that they should long since have found out what has become of Jack. Perhaps they may resent my inter- ference." "My interference, to be exact," J Messrs. John K. K'ng ano' S.in*. I he I Essex seed growers. The Me.'de- ' lian theory of cross breeding has re- cently bea.n making great l.c:ui-.\(iy among agriculturists as well as stock rearers, and this season Messrs. King have been growing ex- perimentally two new varieties of wheat produced on the Mendelian system by Professor Biffin of Cam- bridge, one of Mendel's foremost; ^ LETTERS OF A SON IN THE MAKING TO HIS DAD. - By REX McEVOY =^ up ia the talescop* I ffpub mother put ' valUc (or ma. ^ W« stopped at Kanora, whiifa used t« be palled Rat Portace, \a tbo morniuc. It'll quite a town, with substantial brick uuildi>'.j(i. It bii« i larKe brick Uail> way Y. M. C. A. building, close to the station. Tho placu is right close f) Kee- watin. and both are en tbp Lake of the WooiJjf. There, are lots of islands in the iaUe. and there are pretty houses on theai, I half bidden by , the trues. A sobool tea. [Mr. McEvoy will write for r*""" "'"' "" "* '""" "" '•''' *''*'â-  JJ disciples in England. But Messrs. King believe themselves in the svs-' fl •"" ~ ,i "i'"" '"* ' iwenty-oue jfreucbmeu were massacred tem of pedigree election and not in- ' paper a S TICS Ot lef.ers by the Indians on this lake by the Sious tercrossing and side by side with from tho west. They will '""*''»'" -o "'«. An exploring party dis- Professor Biffin's new varieties is appear from tims to time un- said Reggie, with the pleasant smile! growing a new one of their own, J. . ,1,^ n],^vo bfl.,Ii'n, n,. i that had fascinated so many wo- produced by selection over a num-' .,, . ^^^^^ lieddiri;^'. find ber of years. Professor Biffins; ^^'" f^''^'^ a picture of the wheats were Red Joss and Buigov- areut (.'auudiail west frulll nes, and certainly in this particular iLe St;indpoiut of a VOUUg, .. __„ _ „ Ontario man Jjoinij out there ! -•'vcrytUing a«oms to be on a big Kcala ,. out hereâ€" aud ctuue a town has crowa »r !.-â-  • L ,• f â-  , , .' 1 • . . " ., **"* "P round them. We got to Winnipeg not Messers ivings belief in the older ters SboilM bo Jul) oF inte Git lo"* after noon. The teacher said that men. Even Edith Talbot was not wholly proof against its magic. "I personally have little faith in them," she confessed. "I have none." "Well, I will do as you advise." "Then I recommend you to take me into your confidence. I know Scotland Y'ard and its methods. We do not follow the eame path." "I believe in you and trust you," said the sirl. So ingenuous was the look from the large, deep eyes which accom- panied this declaration of conS soil and under the peculiar climatic , conditions of the summer their i:p- • .â€"... j,- pearance was not a kind to shake to make hi.SWav. covered the bones of tho riciims in 1907. Vou don t think of Indians and s<.'aIpioc when you lo<jk at the pretty, quiet laka to-day. I saw the shops the Government is building for the transcontinental rail- way at Transcona. ust six miles out tf Winnipeg. They are tremendous shops systems, which was represented by Snowdrop, a new white-chaffed red wheat with a good close head. The Mendelian varieties are smaller in the ear, shorter in straw, and grew less closely together, while they are said also not to remain true to type. Messrs. Kings hold it to be a clear for every Oataiij father.] dence. that many men would h.ave triumph for pedigree selection ; but, pronounced Miss Talbot to be au j on the other band, of several agri- experienced flirt. Brett knew bet- j cultural experts with whom one of " ' " " our representatives went over tho the first European to put foot on tho present site of Winnipeg was a French- man named La Verendrye. who cama here 180 years ago. They say that there are 170,000 people here now. and the place looks to be going ahead at a great rate. Building is going on in every di- and some great buildings are me the answer. . u • . l j . • Jeames was no match for his an- ["• ^e simply bowed his ack.iow- tagonist. He silentlv showed t.he!'â„¢"^^-. . ^ way into a reception room acd dis- 1 , "" !f^ ,'^ '* *"*' JO" ^^^'^ *« appeared. A minute later he an- > *'"*^* • she continued. "We our- nounced. with much deference, that j *^'''^^ ^''^ ""^ "obiter informed than Miss Talbot would see Mr. Brett .*"* "^'"''P^P^" ^^ ^'^ '^"^^ has actu- certainly get the worst of it, but ! *>»« done pretty well contracting. in the library, and he conducted;?"-^' h'lppeued. save that four men] the Cambridge men point out that; ^"f â- =»^^ '"ter was from Heron Bay, ground, those adherine to Profea- «,.,. RJfS,, „* nJ\ A ^'â- "'«3 i in town and drives an automobile. Ue sor BiHin of Cambridge are not dis- took turbed. In two or three of the var- i and asked about all the folks round lous trials the Mendelian wheats '. home. No. 2. Winnipeg. Aug. 20;h. 1911. My Dear Dad:â€" I am a locg way from home now. but ; rection I didn't remember it when I got off the ' being added to those which already line train here, and almost tho first person ' Portage and Main streets. The Bank of I ran into was'Bill Dodson, who used to : keep store over at the corners. l£es been | out here three years now. and he has ' a fine house on one of the best etreetj ! me in it up to bis house to dinner ked abo He may be east neit winter. Ue this mysterious visitor upstairs. On rejoining Buttons in the hall he solemnly observed : ''That's a swell cop who is with the missus â€" shining topper, button- hole, buckskin gloves, patent lea- thers, all complete. Footmen ain't in it with the force, nowadays." Jeames expaiided his magnificent waistcoat with a heavy sigh over this philosophical dictum, the poig- nancy of which was enhanced by his knowledge that the upper house- maid had taken to conversing with a mounted policeman in the Park during her afternoons off. The apartment in which Brett found himself gave ready indica- tions of the character of its tenants. Tod's "Rajasthan'' jostled a vol- ume of the Badminton Library on the bookshelves, a copy of the .\lla- habad Pioneer lav beside the Field and the Times on the table, and many varieties of horns made tro-! ; have beeii killed as the result of a carefully planned robbery. As for my brother '' She paused and strove hard to force back her tears. "Your brother has simply vanish- ed. Miss Talbot. If the criminals did not scruple to leave four dead many factors enter into the consid- 1 "f'" """ ""' ffiimpse of Lake Superior eration. that on another soil and in i another kind of weather the re- 1 suits may be altogether different, and that the rival wheats are after I all not yet harvested and weighed against each other, .\nother ex- cellent wheat among the 63 trial ' While we were waiting there we could see a large steam- er lying at, the wharf below us. The cyal was hauled up out of its hold in ureal men behind, they would not draw 'growths on the sam~e ground is a '""'''"«• "'>'':'> «<â- "• hoisted by cables the line at a fifth. The clear infer- ! new selection from Squareheads i '"*''"" T" '"""*''''''''"''''"'"'' ''"' ence is that your brother is alive, \ Master which has not yet received a| "^Z.rfr^T.: X^LT^t^.^'ll but under restraint. j name. ^^ey were run off down the track to a 1 can see that it is possible hej those of the unsophisticated to | pocket or hopper, where they were auio- was alive until some time after the whom wheat is wheat merely would | matically emptied. These pockets have tragedy at .\lbert Gate. Butâ€" but ': have been struck by the sight of â€"what connection can Jack have ' these si.\ty-three varieties, growing with the theft of diamonds worth ' 'n strips side by sde, of all colors, millions? These people used him from greenish white to deep old gold as their tool in some manner. Why *°<i orange red, square-headed should they spare him when success ' "'heat and long-eared wheat, beartl- had crowned their efforts.'" jcd wheat and plain wheat, wheat Montreal certainly thinks that the West is going to have lots of money, for they are putting up a fine building that I saw. right in the heart of the town, und it 18 to have a vault about a hundred feet square, the floor of which will b« eighty feet below the street. That wiU bold a considerable amount of money and valuables. You meet all sorts of people on the streets of Winnipeg. Tou can tell what That same uigUt. before it got dark, we [ ^ mixed population there is when the stopped at Jackfish to take on coal. The I word "Ofllce" at the Emigration bureau C. P. E. ban an immense coaliog place ' **** '" be written in eight languages. X here perche^ by the side of the line on 'O"'' a 'opy "f 't. Here it is: the steep slope of a hill. Whde we were OFFICE. .SKRFSTOFA KOSTOH BUREAU KJVKZELEI l^'RIAD KOXTOOE IRODA Everybody seems to get along wltl Englit>b, however, so I guess tie foreigi^ ers must mo.stly ba sent out to K\A prairies. Guodbye for the present. Loving soq JIM. chutes over a siding on which coal cars are put to be loaded. These cars ate scut east to supply the engines of the C. P. R. on Ihe long run through iilaceti where coal is not obtainable. .\fter leaving Jackflsh we passed round a most remarkable horseshoe where the track looped right round the bay on «â€" « ^.u..u-,.u ,,iit*i ^riAviLa; I ^>- ......«« «»..« p.u.u ivii^ai., niieaL iraca loopeu rigui rouna me nay on a "\\e are conversing in riddles. I from France, Flanders. Egypt, from; bank built up a long way above tho Will you explain?" all over England. The constant "'I'e''- While going round the curve I "You know that my brother is aa I search for new and better varieties assistant Under-Secretary ia the' which goes on throughout the coun- j Foreign Office!'' ''Y'es.'' ' | try is slowly making wheat better! could see the engine aud the Ur.<it «ix cars of our train from my window. At first I thought the engine belonged to anotlTcr train. That night I waked about one o'clock aud found that the train was standing BtilL I raised tho blind at my window â€"that ia one advantage of having a ower berthâ€" and looked out of the wiu- phies with quaint weapons on the ,,. ,, . i , , , , , â-  , ^ails_ I "\>ell. early in September his ' ""d better, but the chief reason for A complete edition of Ruskin, and I '^hief placed him in charge of a! the activity in experimental grow- some exquisite prints of Rossetti's' special undertaking. The Sultan; '°g 's that all varieties tend to de- best known works, supplied a dif- had decided to have a large num- 1 generate after a few years, and ferent set of emblems whilst the her of rough diamonds cut and pol- i n^ed to be regenerated again by , l^ , ^ -,., room generally showed signs of J-^hed by the best Turope.an experts, j special selection. One attempt | ^°- ^wo-^iantb^^^^^^^^ daily occupation. i They were al magnificent gems, ; -hich the Mendehans are now-mak- -j^ ^nTTreeogniW th:m "ton"-: IL "An Anglo-Indian uncle, artistic ®*^'^««^'ns'>' valuable it seems, be- ling 's being closely watched by I ^,^^^^^^ „, ^^ g,ai„ elevators of Fort niece," was the barrister's rapid ' '"« •''^''^ "^^th in size and purity ;, farmers. Lnglish wheat usually ; wauam. They are tremendous build- comment, but further analvsis was hut one of them wa-s larger than any \ fetches a few shillings less per I ings and they reminded me from tho prevented bv the entranceof Miss ''"â- â€¢'^^'" diamond. Jack told me it â-  quarter in. Mark lane than wheat' outlines that I cou'.d see dimly against Edith Talbot I '*'*' quite as big as a good->5ize<.i j fr^m California, and certain kinds: *^ night sky. of the pictures of Notre The suri>rise of the nair was mu-' h^n's egg. Both it and the others, ! from Canada. The reason is that! Dame cathedral i'a Montreal. Our bam Aiie surprise oi ine pair was mu __-j , _, ., '. *i.«„- t ; ...i....*.. .i-^ I would nt be knee high to a crasshonncr KING GEORGE A CRIt KETEIl tual ^ ine «»'<!. ^^ t)ie appearance ofjtnese foreign wneats are "strong- 1 *<»»ld» ' >>e knee high to a grasshopper '•"«'• 1 , , , "-"fl^"- '•'•»'«<• 'T yii >> it _t : • in. .1 111 beside one ot these elevators. They are Brett expected to see a young, ' lumps of alum : but the experts said ; ", that is rise better in the loaf, 1 „„,„„„,. ^hey were the first thing to prettv and clever girl, vain enough i '"at the smaller stones were worth | than English wheats. Ihe explana-i „^^^^ ^^ jhat we were getting pretty to believe she had brain."!, and suf- 1 ^"^^ 'han a million sterling, whilst , tion is believed to he in the differ- • near the West and its great wheat fields, iicientlv well endowed with that 'he price of the large one cmld ence of climate, but the secret is not and you may be 'sure I was pretty m- rare commodity to' be able to twist i °"' he fi.xed. Xo one but an Em- 1 >'et definitely known, and the terested. 1 just gaxcd at peror or Sultan would hiiv it. His Mendelians are now trying to breed , started ofl; again, which Excellency Mehemet .\li Pasha was â-  ^ "^w EuRlish variety, which shall the especial envoy ch.irged with equal Californian wheat in strength. the good-natured Earl of Fairholme round her little finger. Y^ouug, not more than twentyâ€" unquestionably beautiful, with the graceful contour and delicacy bal- anced features of a portrait by llomneyâ€" Edith Talbot bore few of the marks that pass current as the outwartl and visble signs of a motl- ern woman ol Society. That she should be self-t>ossesse<.l and dress- ed in perfect taste were as obvinus adjuncts of her character as that each phase of her clear thought should reflect itself in a siugularly mobile fice. To such a woman pretence wa." this mission, and he brought ere dentials to the Foreign Office ask- ing fjr facilities to be given for its execution. He and the two secre- taries who accompanied him have been killed." ♦_ "Yes."' said Brett, whose eyes ' Professor Briggs. Kearney and were fixed on the hearthrug. " Shantz. of the Department of \g- "Jack was given the especial duty riculture, who ia behalf of the de- of looking after Mehemet AU and ! partment, have completed an in- his companions during their resi- 1 vestigatiin of the dry farm in dence in London. It was his busi- i Idaho, I". S. Professor Briggs, be- 1 ness to afford them every assist- I fore leaving this city, stated thatj ance in his power, to procure them j in all of the travels of the commit- 1 SCIENTIFIC DRY F.VRMING. , , . , , I by the Indians to be a sleeping giaut. That dry-farming methods, when i Well, he will sure be a surprised giant properly followed, are successful! " '^ ^'""' "'^''" "" â- Â»â- "* "''â- '' ^<"'' >^''- has just been demonstrated by â-  '""" imiKissible, the polite fic"ior.3 of i Police protection, obtain for them | tee it has not seen either irrigated CHAPTER II. Tl;ea ho turned to Lord Fair- holme. "Just one question," he said, "bef<.ire I send you off to bed. No, jrou must not protest. I want you to meet me here this evening at •seven, with your brain clear and your nerves restored by a good, jound sleep. We will dine, here or clsowlieie, a.'id act subseque'itly. But at this moment I want you to know the name of the person uiost readily accessible who can tell me all about Mr. Talbot's connection with the Suki in's agent." / "His sister, undoubtedly. Where can I find her I" ".Vt Ulster Gardens. I will drive you there." The barrister smiled. "You are going to bed, I tell you. Give me « few lines of introduction to Miss Talbot." The earl's f. -e had brightene<l at the pr-osp«tt of meeting his fiancee under the favorable conditions of Brett's presence. But he yielded with good grace, and promptly 8»t down to write a brief note explain- *ory of the barrister's identity and position in tho inquirj-. Tk» tww p«rte<l at the door^ and with this fair creature. He had simply bent in worship before a gvxldes.? of his own cre:d. To the girl, Brett was < quail," .a rcvelati-'U. Fairholme's introductory • ote described the barrister as "the emartest criminal lawyer in London â€" one whose aid would be invalu- 1 : abft." She expected to meet a sharp-featured, wizoned, elderly man, with gold-rimmetl eye-glasses, a iiueer voice and a nasty habit of asking unexpected qucstiois. In place of this commonplace per- sonality, she encountered a haiul- sonie, well-groomod gentlem.'iu â€" one who won conlidcnce by his in- tellectual face, and detaine<l it by invisibly e"*tablishing a social equa- lity. Fortun.itely, there is yet in Britain an aristocracy whervMn good birth is synonymous with good breedi' i,--a freein.asonry whose pass-w rds cannot be simulated, nor its membership Vjught. Brett read the wonder in \he girl's .yes, and hastened to -ex- plain. ''The Earl of Fairholme, " said Brett, "thought I might be of .•some A« a "Middy- H« U«ed to Indulge ti th* Oam« and 6uba«qu«ntly Playad In a Match Thera la only one uccaalon reoordet In which tha late King took part la t formal match, namely, when In 18«i( he asaUtad I Zingarl to defeat th4 Gentiemen of Norfolk at Sanilrliigham, and xta Iwwlad by the tlrat ball ti4 received. Early In the 'sixties, when the pro teaslonal cricketer attached to Eton CoUego •was the well-gnown Can* bria^eshlra player, F. Bell, he waa not Infrsquentlr summoned to Wiodaos Caatle to bowl to the Prince of Walea and tha utbar young and Royal msm< bers of the houaehold. But, alaa! it hoa to bs recorded that on hla return from one of these expedUlona he mada the direful annouacement that h^ "couldn't make a job of 'em at all," ' King George, as well aa hla brother, the late DiUte of Clarence, took an ao< tire Interest In the game. Hla Majes- ty, Indeed, who as a "middy" used ta them till we | indulge In the game on the deck of tha not long, { Bacchante, at the conclusion ot ona and the last I saw of Fort William was : day's racing at Goodwood some yeari a great black rugged hill standing out »80 played In a match In Goodwood against the sky with electric lights | Park that was got up between tha twinkling in the town beneath it. I am ] gueeta at Goodwood House. The team told that this mountain was thought Included His Majesty and an eleven captained by M. Cannon, the famous jockey. The former is credited with having possessed one of the most ex- pensive bats in existence, the blade being of walnut and the bat being mounted la silver. A peculiarity with regard to th^ KIng'3 favorite bat. by the way, lies in the fact that high up on the blade on either side of th» splice appear the famous three fea- thers that form the crest of the Prlnca of Wales. Queen Victoria witnessed more than one cricket match, but never oue that may with accuracy be described as â-  first-clasa fixture. On August 3rd, 1S6G. she, together with the Prince and Princess of Wales aud other members of the Royal Family, witnessed a very they aud Port Arthur at his feet, (or must be pretty busy places from Briggs. Kearney au« , ^^^^ j ^^^^^ ^^^ f^^^^ ^^^ window, and they say that their development ha; practically all been in the last ten years. I woke up at Dryden, where the On- tario Government has au expcrimontal farm, so you can judg^ that there must bo some quantity of gi>jil agricultural land iu this end ol the Proviuco. It it in a good lumbering di.strict, too. and â- -â- -,.,,. J . ^, • , , . ,1 , r - ... - the large piles of lumber in a wood yard fashionable life impossible. ISr.atjthe best advice attainable in the , or non-irrigate<l farming which | y^^, ^^e station are the most prominent readily understood why the >,ar! | "'*â„¢>-'"" trade, and generally place produced better results than were' things to be seen from the tram. There of Fairholme h.ad fallen in love; *' their disposal all the resource:; ' to be found on the dry farms lie re, ] is a brick yard here. too. that seems to ,. ^_. ._ ,..^^oci. » which the British Goveriimeut it- 1 'u the face of the fact that iho year I turn out quite a lot of bricks for the | close" game at" Osborne "betw'ee'n tha self could command if it undertook ' has been one of severe drought. { country round. | Royal Household at Osborne aud the such a curious taok. He had been I T!ie Woodsmansee and Webster ^ '*'="' "p """• "'^^^ '°'' •"•'aTast by , otficers aud meu of the Royal yacht. with them about a month-not ; Farm of o.OOO acres is producing 2,- 1 ^'»'" "^''t'" \ "'l, *'"'''' I '^•""''" 1 ""'^^"^ '^^^ '^'P" "^ *"« f"""^'' "^ «»« u,. 1 J J , , I ,rvr, c T 1 J 1 .. u 1 1 I would have breakfa.-st in the dming ' narrow maritm of twelve runs Tha hourly engaged, you understand, as i -100 acres of Turkey red wheat, 'ihat I ^.^^ j^^ - "• s u v/i i. ci c iuu». lue once the preliminary arra:igenieut'i ; will aver.tge not less than 10 bush- j „as an hour too early, as at Fort Wii wei-e made, he h'ld little further: els when thi'eshe<.l. This result is | liam the watches of westbound travel trouble â€" but he used to call there ! obtained under dry-farmijig tilLage every m.irning and afternoon to see' meth'od.s. and the use of 30 pounds if he coul'-i render .any assistance. 1 of seed to the acre. Matters had progressed so favor- j Mr. C. H. Woodsmansee of Rex- ably until the day before yester-' burg, Idaho, has been invited to day, that in another month he ! address The Sixth International hoped to seethe last of them. He j Dry-Farming Congress to be held was alway.s saving that he would ^ ii» Colorado Springs, t)ctober 10 to be glad when the busiiiess was end- 1 20. explaining his niethixls of til- ed, as he did not lik? to be oflici- 'age a»d business, utilized on his ally connected with the fate of a big rti ich. Mr. Woodmansee is said few little bits of stone that h.\p- j to be o.ne of the most exacti ig farm period to be so immensely valu- 1 oper-ttors in the West, and is able change, but I found that I j match was particularly Interesting for lers must all be put back an hour. It is tho nearest thing to living your life over again lh.".t can bo imagined. I would rather not live it ovjr again just before meals, and I decided not to wait, 60 got my own breakf.i.-st out of the the reason that the late Prince Leo- pold undertook tho duties of scorer, whilst tiguriug on the side of tha fuilors we find tl<.> late Duke of Saxei Coburg-Gotha. one Hue of the score-i sheet reading: â€" 1 H.R.H. thj Duke of Ktlinburgh, bl Head. 10; c Ccle. b Archer. 2. ' THE BEST PRESERVES able." (To be continued.) THEORIES IN WHEAT. service ii the matter of your btx)- wheat, but in the quiet heart of ag- ther'.s trange disappeara)ice, Mis3 Talbot. I am not a professional de- tective, but my frientls are good enough to believe that I :im very successful in unravelliig mysteries that are l)cyoitd thf kci of Scotbtnd Yard. I have heai-d something •>? the fai s in this prose'tt affair. Wil Exi)eriiu(>nt!i Ueiog Made With Six* t>-Throe Varieties. There is a touch suggestive ot Omar Khayyam in the idea of three- andsixty conflicting varieties of ricultural Essex, England, there has been proceeding with silent in- tensity throughout the present sum- mer a singular combat, says the London Standard. The parf-.^ are two rival theories ,.' agricu 'itrc. the weapon is wheat, aud the fields of battle are of various poiuts on >ou ti.:»t me 80 Jar as to tell me, t^^e seven exjwrime l^»l farnis of to fell .at the close of each year to a fraction <- i a cent, the cost of ploughing, harvesting and haudliag his crop. In the vicinity ot Idaho Falls Government men fouiid .">0,000 acres of dry land grown grain that wil! run from 30 to 30 bushels to the acre. In addition to this, the v.'tl- ley is now harvesting 150,000 .-icres of dirersified dry-farmed crops, all of which are producing heavil^v. The valley already has about 200, (X'O acres of dry-farmed land uuder what is known as summer tillage or fallow, which will be seeded this Fall. 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