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I Tie Gypsy's Sacrifice A SECRET REVEALED CHAPTER XXXni. > stole from the The room, half fearfully to tui lights, llie countess and holding Madge's hand, people stamd ia the center Of an earthquake. Royce * up and down, his head breast, his lips tightly c Seymour had disappeared. The entrmce of the serva to arouse the three won their lethargy; Madge drei from Irene's and moved ood , that beloved voice for the last time, 'she told herself--for the last time!" j j "What is to be done?" she heard the [ the countess say, in a voice which till j sounded hollow and weak with trou- gal- ; :ble c slowly, with weary, dragging Royce looked after her for a second, as if hesitating. "Go to her, Royce!" murmured Irene, brokenly. But when he followed her Madge shook her head and put up her hand. "I--I want to bo alone. Do not come--yet!" she said, and Royce stopped short. Madge went slowly up the great staircase. Most of the lights had fceen extinguished in the hall, and a funeral dimness masked the scene, had been so dazzling. She went to her own room and fitood loaning against the bed, breathing slowly and painfully, and Marion entered a moment or two after her. The girl looked pale, and started with a cry of alarm when she saw her mistress. "Oh, madam!" she began tremulously. "Leave mo, Marion," said Madge in a faint, hollow voice. "Leave me! I--I want to be alone. I will undress myself. Go, please!" The girl lingered for a moment, then slowly and reluctantly left the shock | "God knows!" said Royce, and vas pacing j Madge knew that he was pacing to upon his ' and fro as he had paced in the ball-□mpressed. I room; could picture his pale, harass-| ed face as plainly as if she saw it. its seemed "God knows! 1 feel confused, be-len from wlldered, and miserable!" he added r her hand j with a groan. "Mother, I ought not. have come here! fatal one! I might have known that--that some of them would find us out, and--and bring this upon you. Forgive me mother! Ever since I was born I have been a trouble to you, and have disgraced the old i "Y( 3," said the countess communing with hers ipcaking to him, "it iot understand; aid confused- presence here might have after gated "And I have brought i he said bitterly. She turned her head slightly, most as if she did not then she put her hand 1 iy. "I mean that fellow' to-night," he said. " known that he would Madge and want money. I might have known! But I did not think; I thought of nothing but my own "It is the way with all of us," she said almost absently. "No," he said with deep emotion; "it is not your way, mother; you have always thought of others-" She arose with a strange gesture of denial, then sank into the chair again. "It is I who am to blame," he I will give you money. Seyr must give you-"< Royce started, and the blood flew to his hitherto white face. "No," ho said, "not a penny from Seymour. And mother-" he paiis- he forced himself to go on. "Mother, Seymour, wants watching. You did not see him in the card-room, did not hear what that man Jake "What--what did he say?" breathed. "Enough to show me--all of that Seymour is--not what ho pretends to be," he replied. "Ho lie and a fraud! God forgive for speaking so of my brother, but it is the truth." The countess shuddered. "Yes," she said slowly, painfully; "he is your brother--your brother. You say-" "That--that he wants watching," said Royce. "" I have brought disgrace upon the old i but 1 shame on it if he is not pi vented. He is tho sort of man gamble away every penny----" 1 stopped, and put his hand to 1 brow. "But I can't think of hi now, mother. It is of Madge and her future I must speak. Wo will go to-morrow. I know what she fools, and I know that she will not want to see you--any of you--again. We will pack up to-night, and be """©ft" early to-morrow. There must some spot in the world where people His voice broke. Madge heard the Oh, "1 shall i Mai nited r vith ,roke her} longer, an agony her way along i and sped swifting the lame also. God works is way. It was fated Id do what you Madge with trembling hands unfastened her dress. As she did so, in a vague way she missed the diamond ornaments. For a second or two she stood as if trying to remember what had become of them, then it all flashed done; that ; back upon her--the whole hideous scene, and, more clearly than all, the look of »hamo and ifcsery upon Royce's face. W 1 did not understand her. Then:after Yes, sh« who loved him so dearly pause, "What have you done, except that she would have given her life think and act for my welfare? A Vs pain had how have I rewarded you? B a. She had there, what is the use of talkii humiliatjai Tho question is, what are we i punished." as she stood before the gli should she do? What could she do? To repair the ruin she had caused was impossible. Royce must hate • her! A faint cry broke from her cold lips at the thought, and she staggered back from the glass at the reflection of her own face, which had been the cause of his ruin. What should she do? The question beat upon her brain with cruel persistence. Presently the t innc 'Go .'•'ay! Leave him and tho house you dragged down to your own level. Go, before worse happens! The-man Jake will come back as soon as the money obtainedby the diamonds is spent; them. Irene will come back to work fresh misery 1 and disgrace. Go and go at once!" "Yes," she murmured, "that is best! I must go, and forever! Jack hates me--he must; he could ss remained silent, she were too engroi I by her own thoughts to understai all he said. "There is only one thing to do, ho went, on after a moment of silence. "Madge and I must leave here. We ought never to have come; I see clearly enough now. We ought tc have gone away, abroad somewhere; anywhere where we weren't known, and where this couldn't have happened. Poor Madge! Poor Madge!" "Everything has gone wrong. A curse has rested upon me and the house since-" She stopped and drew a heavy breath. "And yet all seemed so smooth and straight. My plans--and God knows I planned and schemed for your happiness, own!--my plans were going to their 'donee 1 help i He n Oh, >ved ; "Mother!" he cried. "Yes," she said in her p way, "she loved you--she lo still; I know it! I see it every day. It is not only I wretched! -1 watch her face; by tho look on it, by the toi voice when she speaks to you-"For God's sake be silent; s; ither!" Royce broke plainl. rho ar of her if 1 could only die! If I had only died before he saw me!" and she clasped her hands over her face. Alter a moment or two she gained more, r strength to obey the inner voice. She! hoarsely. went to the drawer at tho bottom j "It is the truth," she said dully, of one of tho wardrobes, she took j stubbornly; "you have been and arc out the old linsey dress and the red j blind not to have seen it! I meant shawl. Sha would wear no other i you to marry her. You would have dress; nothing that he had bought j been rich, you would have been her, nothing that should remind her j happy, and my great sin would not or anyone also that she was Royce's; have borne its fruit." wife. | Royce went up to her and laid his With feverish haste, now, she put; hand heavily on her shoulder, on the dress and wrapped the shawl "What are you saying, mother?" around hw; and as she looked in the he demanded hoarsely. "Your sin_" glass, a bitter, miserable smile pass- She started and looked at him for ed over h«r face. It was in this: a moment like one in a dream; then dress that mhe had listened to his sho put her hand to her brow, vows of love, and yet tho sight of it "What have I said?" she exclaimed now would only remind him of what j in a trembling voice. "Why do you she was, and make him hate her; come here and drive mo to despair? more intwiieely. j Why-" Sho looked around the a heavy sigh, and tur door; thea, as if she had i membered it, she wont to took out the watch and uddenly r, "Wha' than death, she the wall of the i ly, noiselessly, and down tho stairs. No one was in the hall. The porter, were congregants' hall disc feverish excitement the of tho night; and she went straight to the great door, and opening it, passed out into tho night. It was dark and a keen wind v/as whistling through the leafless trees. It seemed to her to be singing in a mocking voice, "Irene loved you; Madge'hastened her shawl around her and stood for a moment, poised, as it were, upon tho broad step. Whither should sho go? The answer breathed by the same inner voice, seemed to whisper despairingly-- "Anywhere from this place, anywhere!" Obeying it, as before, she passe!' down the steps and swiftly crossing tho lawn--across tho light thrown' from the windows of the still llowed up (To be Continued.) TOWING UP THE ORCHARD. I plow as early as practible, ha ow repeatedly during the growir > furnish good July 1, writes nd Thessaloi ;r, As-tr; fishes of a spotted color, but by what name peopli of those parts call them it is better to ask Macedonians. At any rate these fish live upon the native flics which fall into the river and are like no flies of any other part; one would neither call them wasplike in appearance, nor would one reply to a question that this creature is formed not yet like the honey bees them-i really tho proper fashion of each of the " dacii . fly, called a bumblo the wasp, and it buzzes liko tho honey bees. All common crea- tails. These pitch upon the stream the. food they affect, but. cannot help being seen by the fish which mderneath. whenever one of them sees tho fly floating he comes softly, swimming under tho water, afraid of elis-ho surface and so scaring game. Then he comes near the shady side of the fly, gapes and e a wolf snatching a sheep from the fold or a goose from the yard. This done, he disappears beneath the rip-understand these make 1 the for often enough bod, and sow mar clover or both abi Mr. W. H. Hart, of my older orchards by plowing early in the spring every other year and seeding mammoth clover with a dressing of fertilizer. This clover is mowed late in the season and again the following summer and left on the ground as a mulch. I use a fertilizer 10 p.c. phosphoric acid and 6 p.c. potash, the sources being acid phosphate and muriate of potash. This mixture has given mo good results. I prefer to thin winter appl< July before they have drawn oi vitality of the tree. At this time they part quite easily from tho stem and the work can bo done rapidly. The Northern Spy repays thinning best of any commercial variety, large specimens bring fancy prices and seconds are nearly valueless. " would rather thin too little than 1 much, as the loss from wind stor is likely to bo g;reater propoi ly with larger fruit. Very little thinning is needed where high cultivation and pruning are practiced. In spraying, I use the usual formula of six pounds blue vitriol in 50 gallons water, with lime added somewhat in excess of tho test by le of potassium. Among large I liko two sprayings soon after bloom with winds in opposite 1 i i n ii t pound to 50 gallons water. I use a pump and change or double up if necessary, using two lines of hose, ono 25 feet and another 50 feet long, light bamboo poles, attaching the t tho polo with a spring stop o a i-inch brass tubing tied pole, terminated by a battery of four nozzles on each line. If I can •h good men I prefer this any power machine, as being lighter, more flexible and less Mable to break down. Where help i3 rot obtainable the gas machine gives good satisfaction. TREATMENT OF INSECTS. Among the most important sum-" s for scale insects arc tho following: 1, kerosene emulsion ich as ten times for ap-a»d pear, and as much fop peach, plum and For other plants the hardi-which is not known, it wil to use the more diluto emul i. 2, keroseje_mixture for %>< i Jose scale'upon apple and pear uld bo applied as a 20 p.c. mix e. For other scale insects in theii :ng stage as well as for the San Jose scale upon peach, plum ai cherry apply it not stronger than 12 to 15 p.c. mixture. Spray on bright day, when the air is movin although it docs not need to be very windy. 3, whale oil soap used water at the rate of o ght galloi water. For the San Jose scale o should mako it a little stronger, u ing ono pound to five or six galloi water. 4, common soap, ono poui in four or five gallons water. Good strong soft soap will be all right for this, especially, if a littlo ca bolic acid, lye, caustic soda or car tic potash bo added. Tho lye that left from making soft soap is good for killing such pests. 5, a strong decoction of tobacco applied spray. These are practically the same remedies for destroying ph elements to good dairying, and that is good feeding. To be a good brooder, then, is to be a good feeder, and on the other hand, to be a good feeder is to be a good breeder. Tho two are inseparable. One cannot exist to tho highest point of perfection without the other. The woll-i the hands of a poor yorse than the poorly the hands of a good feeder i feeder. It is a good policy to keep your horses always fat. If you have any horses for sale you cannot alVord to offer them on the market in a poor condition. When a thin horse is led out for inspection, he is at a groat disadvantage. Purchasers will always pay a higher price for a fat horse. You never saw a handsome horse that was poor and run down. Some men say they would not buy a horse that was loaded down with fat, but tho indisputable fact remains that in tho public sale ring or in the flesh brings by far tho best price, other things being equal. No man can toll whether a poor horse can be fattened or not. Now and then some horses cannot be fattened, and tho stranger will be afraid that your thin horse is one of that kind. NEW TYPE OF SUBMARINE It Will Be Operated by Electricity, and Will be Very Speedy. The New York Herald prints the -In the i of i Hi LOTTERIES IN ENGLAND. They Had Great Vogue There a Couple of Centuries Ago. Drawing for the first lottery hold in England commenced on January 11th, 1569, and continued, at all hours of tho day and night at the west door of St. Paul's Cathedral for nearly four months. For the previous two years the scheme was well boomod, and the lottery consisted of 40,000 lots or shares, at ten sh ings each. The profit was devoted to tho repairing of harbors and other useful public works. The state lottery very quickly grew in popularity, and a keen and brisk business was by the numerous lottery offices. On one occasion circumstances excited the people to such an extent that extravagant biddings were made for tho remaining shares in the lottery of that year, until as much as r a ticket on the under conditions of greatest secrecy, there has just been completed a new type of submarine boat, which carries two torpedo tubes and will have a crew of three men. It is so small that it can be easily raised from tho water on board the deck of a battleship, or put on a railway truck and convoyed from one port to another. Following are its principal dimensions:--Length 34 feet, diameter G feet i- inches; displacement, when submerged, 17 tons. Electricity is the sole motive power, the use of petroleum being entirely discarded, and the boat when submerged will .have a speed of eight READY FOR INSTANT USE. It is declare^ that as the submarine will ordinarily bo carried on board a battleship or cruiser, where it will be ready for instant consignment to the water, the fact that, being electrically driven it will have a smaller radius than a petrol boat, trials were successfully conducted, day before the drawing, lady living in London had a lottery ticket presented to her husband, and tho Sunday preceding the draw-her success was prayed for in tho parish church in this form: "The prayers of this congregation are desired for tho success of a person engaged in a new undertaking."- | rino has been built in a shod, tho i doors of which were kept locked ! night and day, and only those actu-| ally engaged in the wo'rk were allow-. ed near. I As the miniature vessel approached completion certain Government officials took increasing interest in what was going on, and kept a vigilant watch on the yard. When at length the submarine was ready to bo moved from the dock into the river a customs house officer, representing tho Foreign Office, placed himself on the narrow platform and resolutely refused to move until he received a written assurance from tho builders that the vessel would not leave the THE BEST BREED OF HENS. The bare statement that there is no best breed is very strikingly emphasized so far as egg laying is concerned by the records of tho last eight egg laying contests of tho Utility poultry club of Great Britain. In each of these contests, which continue 16 weeks, four pullets constitute a team. The following data taken from records of th' :king poultry rai changes in their la figures which foil each breed represent eggs laid by tho pen; tho order :' at this season ers aro making-stock. The iv tho i tho n Buff ildered; I don't knov locket. She looked at them with ! saying!" something of a shudder, and put j "My poor mother!" them on the dressing-table, but they! a strong man's pity, seemed to appeal to her with dumb; me for bringing all t eloquence, reminding her of the night j but there shall be e Royce, all unconscious, had laid with | to-night; wo will ? head on her bosom thrust them into her pocket. Then she opened the door, intently, and went dor. Hall way she heard footsteps ascending the stairs. To go back her room and be found by Royce, face that look in his- eyes, was i possible. She pushed the door est to her, and finding it o;wn, entered the room. It was dark, but she drew back to the farthest corner from the door, and waited. The footsteps ceased, and she was about to leave her hiding-place and go on her way, she heard a voice. It was Rovce's and it came froi and then, peering about, she s that he had entered the room. neJThe Madge could hear i she had b«en i the houtm «rf Royce' leaped wit* an she stood still. t I am their cant "So wi id, with the fish forgive against t m you: reddish v. the wood , Madge grow urn bro.ught struggle wax. T strained seemed ual self-posse i on," she said in "I remember all now. Gi d tell your plans." i will go away," he repeatei for all of us e pecially for poor Madgo; sho V be happy here. I see that I ought to have foreseen it from the ca"-'n! first, but I did not. ~~ abroad to ono of tho am strong and can worl The collected, looked before he fully. pullets in the which tho birds aro th the first con-1897-8 and ends with 1904-5. prizes won by: Minorca, 161; Leghorns, 154; Silver Wyan-223; Barred Plymouth Rocks, 127; Golden Wyandott.es, 200; White Wvandottes, 124; White Wyandottes, 243; White Leghorns, 245. Second prizes won by Minorcas, 149; Barred Plymouth Rocks, 146; Silver Wyan-161; Buff Leghorns, 81; White Leghorns, 185; Huff Orpingtons, 200; White Wyandottes, 218; White La-Bresse, 240. Third prizes won by: Langshans, 146; Golde 1;;:',; Buff Orpingtons, 151; Lincolnshire Bulls, 73; Huff Orpingtons, 164; Buff Orpingtons, 200; Buff Orphing-" Wyandottes, 226. CAB STEALING. Londoners Who Make a Fractice of Purloining Hacks. It. v any < giv, ) the a it hot WOUNDS IN THE WAR. > Russian Surgeon Z. ame as a surprise to most learn that cab stealing is ins an uncommon thing in London.i A cabman whoJ^s had pfriencc is thc--gr4PKh< rope- jj| Revuo Medicale Hebdom-adairi Petersburg, concerning mds he has had occasion to t Most of the w take the risk of leav ing his vehicle even for a few minutes, unless he placed a reliable mai in control, but the unwary aro tie quently robbed of horse-and vehicle. The cab thief usually drives some distance from where he stole the pro perty, and takes advantage of some secluded spot or quiet street to altei tho number of tho vehicle, so as tc escape immediate detection. This done, he has two alternatives. lit either tries to earn a few shillings in fares before abandoning the cab, or else he makes away with the whip, rug, mat, and lamp, leaving the vehicle for tho police to take charge of when found. Some thieves actually go to the trouble of stripping off from tho wheels the India the h rubber tires. of asphas-ia and agraphia, loss of tho power of expression by moans of speech or writing, which though not al- erod. The i the domen frequently i nitis, more especially when the noval of the wounded had taken ice too quickly, or had been ef-:ted by means of badly hung mili-ry conveyances. Whero the perito-:is was circumscribed a cure gener-y followed, but where it was eatly extended the issue was fatal, parotomy, more particularly when > surgical operation was performed the field of battle, was found to Wour THRIVE IN THE SLUMS. Remarkable Jewish Vitality der Adversity. were surprisingly less i their results. Cases i in which a ball had to lungs, and the patient after merely an occl tho external wound; of though, in order t had been ablo .rest station, al-effoct a cure, rest The London Lancet publishes the wa9 essential in addition to tho result of an investigation of the j dressing; these two sufficing unless physical condition of children living! fever supervened in consequence of in tho slums of Leeds, which shows; internal hemorrhage. In that case a marked superiority of Jewish child-1 tapping was resorted to after a ren in every case taken. The com- week, to a fortnight had elapsed, and parison is made with similar condi-|When this failed thor-cotomy was tions in regard to age, degree of j performed. poverty, character and residence. | With regard to the nature of tho A systematic examination of 3,000 j wounds caused by tho different pro-children showed that tho poor Jew is jectiles fired at various distances. Dr. three pounds heavier and two inches j von Mantcufel did not observe any taller than the non-Jew at tho age, cases of hollow vessels or organs of ight; six and a quarter pounds! tho body bursting in consequence of ier and two and a half inches being struck by a bullet at close taller at tho age of ten, and seven j quarters. In provioua wars theso pounds heavier and one and a quar-jcascs have been produced by bullets inches taller at the age of twelve. j fireti at from 100 to 40O and even Tho bono formation is much more; to 600 paces or, where the head has satisfactory. The Jews' teeth are! bepn struck, at, from 100 to 800 pac-better, and there is a striking ab-|os From 8Q0 to 1,500 or 1 600 of rickets. The nasal^channel | paceg tho wounda pron-uced have had ggoei edge according