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Greed Jor Gold Or, The Sign of the Arrow _^r-CHAPTER XIV. | a crack, aud craok indeed i quick step on the short ladder just over the temple; leading Adolpho entered. His face was deathly pale, and1' his lips trembled; it was evident that excitement had got him tightly in hand. "Miriam.has been with you all the evening--has just left 1" "Yes," replied Alfred, surprised at the question: "is there any tiling unusual about it ?" And then notic Ing his brother's evident perturba tion, ho continued, "What's the mat i look scared, " "Enough ence here is Known." "Adolphe I" ""Fact. I left you to and was sitting quietly c Wild tho hedge, smoking, of sight, because if the i - n the ' solute death-blow. The tent was examined, the rip in the canvas seen, and the knife;--Reuben Leo's knife--drawn from the couch-bed Into which it had been plunged. It was palpable that murder had been intended. Tl diet was given in, by what j tutod tho jury, at once. In : oner's court it would have been "justifiable homicide," With the dwellers in tents it took the form "serve him right," but it mean Your pros- samo thing. of there should be i sides, I wanted to be alone, to think. A month has gone by, and you are no safer now than you were. The hue-and-cry is still-" "Yes. What has that to do with your scared-" tioavy night; the fitfully. A few minutes ago, when tho moon happened to be beaming, 1 chanced to cast my eyes camp-wards, and to my horror I saw a man crouched beneath tnis van, with his ear to it, listening !" Alfred sprang to his feet, and gripped his brother's wrist, as he hissed in his ear : "And is the man alive now ?" "Yes. Pass me the revolver from bohind that bracket." There was a world of meaning in "V'^lsl Mkfl these words. As ^PSleB W° e. CHAPTER XV. Tho camp gradually settled down to quietness again. Three of the elders and Adolphe discussed situation. It was a superstitii custom with the Lees to shift camp after a death, and Adolphe suggested that the tents should be struck early and a move made northwards. Leave the body with him--ho and Miriam would see to its concealment , , and burial, and follow next day in ,L1 I the tribe', tracks. Glad to be relieved of the trouble, the elders at once felt in with this suggestion. Tho body was stripped, for they did not believe in a waste of useful clothing, and laid under Adolphc's van, and there it lay the way ho spoke these words, his brother passed the weapon, "Good boy ! but be careful." "Trust rne. Tell me, what you talking about in here ?" "Why ?" "Because I am puzzled. The man who was listening means killing some one. I watched him sharpening a weapon. I saw murder written In his face. Yet he cannot know you; why should he want to kifj you ? I can understand giving you up for the sake of a reward, but--" "Do you know the man ?" "Yes, Reuben--Reuben Lee." "The man with the soro eyes?" the whole night covered by paulin. , During the night the two brothers discussed the situation and matured a plan they had often had in mind. At morn the camp was struck, and before the sun was very high mile distant. that 'Adolphe's caravan, and the "thing" 1 covered up under it. : Miriam and the two men break- | asted together, and during the meal she was enlightened as to the dis- j posal of the body, and at once became a willi iig helper. Adolphe mounted his cycle and rode away, leaving a . ghastly piece of business for his brother and the girl to c out--the dressing of the corpse the convict's clothes. They had niappad out a meeting-place on the banks of the ueighbi •fbe. Two are dead, und the sole living witness." "And she told you this ?" And thon they resolved on thi ing of a daring thing. It v make assurance doubly sure, it true, but, to the ordinary mind, a terribly risky thing to venturi Three days after the incident just detailed, Alfred--of course a different Alfred from the convict; the dress, the shaving, the hair-trimming, the pointed moutachc, he felt sure had made so great a change that he would never be recognised-put up at the nearest inn to tl prison, and from there wrote to tl governor of the goal, of disguise he worded his letter bad English, and determined speak it even worse at the in view. His letter ran : "Sir,--I to England came this weeks, to hope find permission t interview my brother Alfred, who i imprisoned with you. I hear ii formed that permit is given on ai plication to you only. I have t England leave this weeks. May aak you permit to seo my brother hoping to receive pci "Receive, sir, the i obedient services, "Adolphe Duboi! And he went at noon the no this daring man--went, a overwhelmed with grief at the tidings of his brother's death. Ho wej»t to think that he bad arrived too late: for an inquest had been held and the body buried. His lamentations for his brother--his dear, dead brother-filled the air. The stolid English temperament of tbe officials could not understand the emotion shown by this foreigner. And at last the sad interview was over, and he left the precincts of the prison armed with what he had gone for--a certificate of tho death of Alfred Dubois. All was absolutely safe now; he could move without feo.r. The hue-and-cry was at an end; and even as the body was buried as Alfred Dubois, so he then and there buried the name He changed the handiwork of his godfathers and godmothers by re-christening himself. Henceforth he would be known as Count Oscar de Verement. (To be Continued.) PERSOAAL POINTERS. Notes of Interest About S Prominent People. One of the wealthiest the world is the Lady Mary Hamilton, only daughter of the late Duke , of Hamilton. She is a charming carry; giri cf nineteen, and in two years 111 j will be mistress of $1,000,000. The King of Siain is a great believer in all things English. His hourrane?;7th]rlaC\iS, <>f ™«^} parties were making for it. Miriam tur? w,,rh Was Phased in London, had put the horse to the van and ! and whenever anything new in together by the fishermen they belong *olsJ?7 »8 wanted U is generally an to. But it was intended to strap! En?llsh flrm that secures the order, the convict's body to the bottom ofj1Iis Mu.iesty has brought up all his the flat-bottomed punt and keep it children to read anil speak our lan-there till the water had acted on it J g'"age fluently, usual way. And that was he had. in hit DAIRY FARMS, the feed, it is not the feed so much as the care; but the better the breed the better the feed, and the better the care the better will be the rein selecting breeding stock prefer those from dams which are regular breeders in preference to those from a transcient or uncertain breeder even if the latter are better look- Dairying has many advantages over many other branches of agriculture. In the first place the very important matter ol keeping up tho fertility of the land is secured bet- in fitting ter by devoting it to this business | Whenever tl than if it is yearly cultivated in .the fail to grow usual way and hauled off and sold, panions from Almost all the sources of fertility in be taken as the dairy farm are returned to the that the old soil and it will increase in value If there is from year to year if rightly manag- side let it be ed. But the dairy men must study in tho boar, the methods of the great packing houses and let nothing go to waste j by using a coarse boar, if they expect to make business pro- While to some extent it is advis-fitable. The milk and butter alone < able to make a scavenger of the hog, will in all probability net them ajyet he should be allowed to gather considerable extent the regularity of feeding t of hogs for market. 3 pigs from an old sow \s fast as their com-younger sows it may in unmistakable sign ow is failing. ow rather then ot a good plan sufficient and put a little in the bank each month, but their profits will be imich greater if they will keep an eye on the by-products as the packer does. The Calves are ono of these products and they can be cheaply raised on the skimmilk, with the addition of some other suitable food. As the calves are not capable of consuming all the skimmilk produced on the farm, the pigs should be on hand to assist in disposing of that article as well as the buttermilk, upon which pigs, they will thrive and grow fat, only needing a little finishing oft on corn to make them good marketable animals that will greatly assist in making a farm a good investment. After the pigs will come the chickens, which ore partial to both buttermilk and skimmilk and will produce eggs in sufficient numbers to for their care and will need but little else es a regular feed. Then comes the flock is sold ami considerable addition is These by-products will represent tho cash profit on tho investment while a the milk and butter will pay for tho , ?a running expenses and for the labor i'm the great profit is , f always visible and j 11; ot regarded so se-|8r Id be. We refer up what he eats before it begii decay and send off unhealthy and offon:-ive fumes. To a very considerable extent the thrift and condition of tho mother determine what the pig will be. Aside from color there aro many other good points>--long and deep body, large hams and Bboalders, thick bellies for bacon, small head, fine oars, strong frame without being coarso, and they arc very proli-"b often bearing from ten to sixteen KEFS' A KE.W GEESE. the cd i lually nntly enhanci the KNOW THE COWS. One of the greatest advantages of dairying over other phases of live stock husbandry is the opportunity afforded to weed out inferior indi- hlual.-. No two cows ave^ alike Geese are scavengers, like sheep. They will thrive in summer on any rough pasturage accessible to water. A hog meadow covered with wild grass just suits them. They will foul more food than they will eat, if allowed to roam with stock in clean meadows- They should be permitted to have the freedom of the farm, if kept in any considerable numbers. We do not think a large flock requires soecial facilities, when a small flock can be trusted to take care of themselves for nine nvonths in the year. Geese are as much grazing animals as horses or cattle, unimer they need very little if they have grass and vegota-oies. In winter they will enjoy life better and make better breeders in the spring if their diet is composed principally of cut hay. corn stalks and vegetables. For shelter a rough shed with a good roof is all they require. A Toulouse gander and Embden geese make a good market combination. THE FARMER'S INFLUENCE. The farmer is tbe man that makes the world prosperous. He is build- POLAND'S CAPITAL GUI The Poles Cling to Their Language--Clash of Rival Creeds. should 1 Russ ) those who ; after i before tha It is coming from the East. But to the traveller from the ,W7est it contains asajjle evidence' of a novel civilization--that is, ol the Russian Empire. Warsaw lies on the border-line between tho Occident and tho Orient. The Poles, properly speaking, belong to the Western world. They have our calendar, our religion. Warsaw is full of old palaces and churches that aro Italian in stylo. Its railways--small matter-are part and parcel of those of Western Europe; it is only east of the Vistula that the Russian Colossus has set its heavy foot on Poland, and the lot of the Poles henceforth will be to hold up the torch of Western civilization in an empire that is unfriendly to it. . That, the Poles are aware of their mission no one who has watched them can doubt. With them, as in Ireland, religion and patriotism are synonymous. What crowded church- We ! aftern i ot 1 in U.or n an ordinary week \y; tho seats and aisles wero al-ost full. No priest was visible, it a crowd of people pressed, expectant, patient, against the altar rails. In the body of the church a number of mon, seated in pews on and when they had n on the other side took up the strain. In another church the doors are left open at all es, but AN IRON-BARRED GATE shuts off the interior from the porch, et at any hour of tho day women nd men may be seen kneeling there, ad these by no means the poorest i the town.' What doffiing of hats. >o, in the act of passing a church! 'e saw half a dozen men raise their its simultaneously. Language is a symbol, a pledge of nationality. The Poles cling tenaciously to theirs. In the restaurants, in the shops, enter and speak Russian to them. They reply in Polish; you persist in your Russian. It becomes essential to the bargain that you should communicate rn a common tongue. Then reluctantly the Russian comes, but not a word more most of them It lUght the "And he heard hor I That accounts for it. It is not your death he means to compass, but the girl's for betraying him. So far, you are safe. He did not see me watching him; he would imagine "I see. lt is the girl he has knife into." "Or," said Adolphe grimly, what was done. The details of tho work are better skipped. Suffice it that during tho night it. was done. The punt--with its human keel--was securely chained down, the boat run into some reeds and fastened there, and ot daybreak the caravan was travelling A week after, Adolphe had cycled bo.ck and was fishing. A flsrierman's | being on the water all night would have excited no suspicion, even bad he been seen, and the work he had to do he preferred doing by night. With muffled oars he towed the emplov an English om he paid $3,#fJ a i Ellon : glass. Brooklyn, took five months deri'ul fine glass threads, which duce the most startling light-efi If the stage is only half-lighted dress emits a glitter similar to of moonlight, upon a polished e '., (..,s_ del ►ugh , and bless the o after him. ; that . but the home-maker r the hearts of men when the mining towns have i crumbled into ruins and blackening 1 desolate slashing are the ' only monuments that tell of lumber ivingj kings dead and gone. M. l'er ad thei lss that|Punt well fill jtations of i j the punt ln as uir as ne comn, and loosened the straps which held the burden beneath. Pushing off gently from the shore, he was horrified at what he saw by the light ot the breaking day--saw come up beneath the boat: but with his pole he gave i he had i sleeps alone box of cartridges; I may . Ho did so, and quietly left the caravan. It was a. cloudy night, as he had said, occasionally lit up brilliantly by the light of' the moon. Ho knew the direction of Miriam's tent, and walked that way, walked in the shadow of the hedge, lest the j the awful thing a push, and moon should suddenly appear and ground on the sloping bank, betray him. He had got within a few yards' distance of it when the moon did appear, «.»d the next instant he had raised his revolver. But his arm wavored. Ha saw a man, iritl knife raised, rapidly approach the tent, pause a moment when he saw his shape silhouetted on tho canvass wall, then suddenly plunge his knife into the canvas, stagger forward, then backwards, with his hands to his head, and fall a moaning heap on the ground. And the wavering arm with the revolver he had been afraid to fire-- for the man was in a direct line between himself and the tent, and come out of the door of missing him might mean wounding j them, doing up her hair with the occupant of the tent--the arm hand and carrying an empty known French advi to a most beautiful v Miss Maggie O'Key, cert-singer, whose largo boarding-house There two guest: her--M. Labori a ist, Vladimir d the And on every shop, wher-l here is an announcement of tha ""."T _ I kind of thing on sale, or the name . • , . "' j oi the occupier, both are written 1,8 n j side by side--the name in Russian he can!letters as ordered by law. the Polish name in western characters. Nowhere is the clash of rival creeds more conspicuous than here. No doubt most of the churches are Catholic, and many of them, Gothic or Renaissance, are by no means wanting in -merit. But if you will stand on the bridge' across the Vistula and look upon the hills on which the city is built, dominating all there is mass of scaffolding with three gilt crosses on the top. It is a NEW RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL, which is being raised by means of subscriptions from Orthodox Russia, and when it has its domes and cupolas it will be the most striking object in tbe town. Sometimes, how- Irthoi 3 pil ■ tho the fell ! the lattei obtained, and, subso quently meeting her old lawyer-love in Paris, she made an alliance witl him which she has never regretted. Lady Dudley, who was a Mis Rachel Gurney, of Norfolk, England is a very accomplished woman, witl He a fine and beautifully-trained voice the which has often been heard on con them cert platforms in the poorest parti nd all. He ran back to of London. Mr. Charles Gurney, hei lad left bis machine, and ladyship's father, was a well-knowi oofs. Aud refulgent rith soldi- Then, in his boat punt away, rowing rowed before, he wa leave that awful thing behind, fastened up the punt, shoved boat into the reeds, and left for good where he . mile t ycled to an elevation t which commanded a river's bank. There be rested, and, j ditors" 1 with a telescope, watched. 'served' in t It seemed an endless time before jon. -phe any life stirred in the cottages; but removed t -» last he saw a slip-shod woman roundings, of ed daughtei lot the breed I that usually driving thei-e, up the river Adolphe was rowing there--rowing, towing belli nd him a heavy, cumbersome fishing-punt. Both vessels he had purchased. gruesome task they had s of I the young f s gradually lowered, for Adolpht was paralysed by what had occurred, he could not understand it. There was a sudden thoughtless contraction of the muscles of his hand, and the finger on the trigger pulled, with the result that the report of a pistol rang out over the slumbering camp, the bullet being buried in the ground at the shooter's feet. In a moment the camp was aroused, and tumbling out half-dressed. A way too--too disgusting to detail ing the young enthusiast to weigh gipsy wears partly tbe same clothes !.here. When a body has been in the the claims of the altar against those night and day, so that a minute j water a week the clothes it wears of the heathen, and the altar turned r the firing of the shot they were helps largely in the identification; the scale fresh from for*themselves, but tov Al- Cambridge, he ai fred's safety--and that was the main a missionary to consideration--the discovery £>f the Pacific. As fate missing convict's bod;.,- was essential; was a charming and it had to be found in all gatihered round adolph He, explained wfrat he had seen, how he had come to fire the shot, and with one accord the camp turned to Miriam for further explanation, "I had made up a couch on this side of the tent," sjhe said, " just lain down, when I saw on tne outside a shadow of a man with a knife in his hand. In a moment I had sprung to my feet and seized this mallet wo knock the stakes in with. The next moment there was a ripping sound, and a hand with a knife in it came through the canvas and the knife was buried in that part of the couch where a moment before I had been lying. That same moment I brought the mallet down with all the force I could on the man. I hear, a crack and a groan --ami that's all." By the side of the tent the man was- huddled up. The groans had! ■ examined the features are swollen and dis- Mr. Gorst broke torted beyond ordinary recognition. Zealand, and under --that was the foundation of their i his young wife si And that is the way it was plan-1 interest in politics. body was to | -Rolfe Bolderwooi red that the convict'i had be found--after being a week in the water. That is why the punt was necessary. Moored in the stream, it would excite no surprise; punts are kept that way for months to-with the other. She went straight down to the river, and there she dropped the pail and ran back to the cottage : she had seen that thing. Two half-dressed men, presumably attracted by her cries, rushed out and ran in the direction to which she was pointing. Near the body they paused, and Adolphe almost tralian !ompi« 1 his ' squatter in the he their lips OIlHl ! not paj "Reward." But had it quietly paid for him by this id seen enough. He mounted large-hearted magistrate who in this nachinc, and rode away, back way did good by stealth and "pitch-s brother--his brother who was ed in" to the local reporters wnen it last, they recorded it in the newspapers. "Rolfe Bolder-his line has leatf. • P.ir t "cJlso she hp.d had de- i authorities manifestat. a company of big-limb-lio slouch along in white ugh wool. The garrison ighty thousand men. The are quick to suppress is of national feeling. An told me that he had in-ladies to his room one and after supper one of them Polish patriotic song. Next received a call from the polio Poles speak bitterly of contented with replied: "Such (tdked of here." NOW TH EY DON"! MIND VS. MA "Uncle William, going ?" tliunjder, I'm glac