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a ; ore ulgarian "the oon Jo ever dreamed that which would be placed be- by the bearer. ; 5 : a inquired, when I had ckoring betwee "and the Poste, fin imminent danger, / Party in the Bobranje defeated, and the police of a projected popular uprising against His Highness in of & republic, the' agitat 'would endeavor to "| srnex the country. hence the posi- ion of the throne grows each ent more perilous. F offence to Russia prevents oF warm, 'and the window stood 8 being issued for At last I determined upon b itators, and it seems though a revolution e delayed. It is your Highness seeks -- te million" 1 ejaculated. 1"? Tt seemed incred- uld be a dealer at the money is re: nce's private ' The discovery that the myste; oman--whose name she had held from me was actually 8 cret agent of the autonomous Pri i) 1ity created by the Berl Tr at turbulent State most- 6 for unloo! nd, i te .. The Prince|a young girl who had taken pity Cin upon' me in my helplessness; but the revelations she had made dur ¢ that half-hour showed that there been some firm purpose under: Alyingeit all: oo i , She alone knew the truth of that fags occurrence at The Boltons, ind saw that in this matter 1 had tito us woman. . ad now s- double purpose in |th life--~to discover Mabel and to elu- 'cidate the mystery of the crime. Towards that end I intended to strive, and as I sat with my glance fixed upon those mysterious grey eyes, 1 endeavored to form some plan of action. ; 'Madam,' I said gravely, at last, "gs you appear not to place suffici- ent confidence in me to tell me your name, I régret that I can place no confidence in these documents.' _ "My name!" she laughed. "Ah, course; I had quite forgotten. There is no secret about it;' and from her purse she drew forth a folded, "much-worn- blue paper, which she handed to me. i "Tt was an English passport, bear- ing the name of "Lucy Edna Grain- r. 5 "Grainger!" T repeated. "Then 2 | you are English ¢" 2b |" ¢Yes, T am legally a British sub- because my father was Eng- was, however, born abroad." silence fell between. us. The ject. traffic in Piccadilly came car of the: a rom bolowy the summer night open. a bold course. : "Now that we have met," I said, "1 wish to ask you one or two ques- tions." First, I am desirous of Ding the whereabouts of Mrs. nson and her daughter." I was watching her narrowly, and w her give a distinct start at my ention of the name. Next instant, wever, abe recovered herself, and ith marvellous tact repeated-- "Anson?" Anson? I have no ac- quaintance with any person of that name.' ; i 1 sm py PE "T think it unnecessary that you should deny this, when the truth is 80 very plain," I observed sarcas- tically. "You will, perhaps, next ny 1 n was foully ous} of with oy river-beds should significance, writes gp RRL son of | BMS, assassination of had gone with the "star of Empire" deal with a very clever and in- tion of the pur-| looked for a return on the} gold began to be : i ar in from that great country She 3 nt was pronounced in gold alone was ned to repay those early states- "for their real-estate specula- Years after the yellow metal 'discovered, there came an aged "to that far northland, and back to the States the basis wealth to his country by. the side which the gold from the hills and ale into in- fi soar F. Day 'n the Saturday Evening Post. It was in 1903 that Abraham Ad: native of Kentucky, who to the great West to farm it, was taken with a desire to trv his for- nes in Alaska. Leaving his ranch n northern Idaho, he made a trip to the land of promise and of gol but' nothing came of his attempts at discovery. Turning his attention then to exploring, he drifted along the coast of eastern Alaska, where the Japan curren flows near the shore and makes of the land from «coast to 'mountain eternal spring. 'Many miles he explored, investigat- ing the possibilities of that country for future farming and grazing, preparing himself for a report to e farmers of his community. He found many beautiful bays, splendid beaches, sweeps of timber, and meadows heavy with juicy grasses. Here and there were trac- es-of gold, but not of promising quantity, and then he chanced up- on -/A SURPRISING DISCOVERY. Lodged in a nook under protecting rook, sheltered from the winds, was 'a little familiar patch. Interested at once, he investigated and found that here a patch of wheat was growing, far from any living hu- man that could have planted it. On hands and knees he pulled away the matted straws. Yes, it was certain- 13: wheat that was just ripening. The explorer sought among the ick stems for some heads, but the wild game had been before him, and 'fie was just about to give up when discovered one head of wheat 'almost intact, A gigantic head it was! Folly four inches long with its rough bearding, and broad in proportion. "Packing the head carefully away, the old man brought it back with im to hig ranch at Juliactta, Ida- 0. Not.a word did he say to his reighbors of his find. Whether it was wild wheat or not he could not say. Perhaps, some wild bird had filled its crop with the grains in an unknown region, where it grew na- tive, and coming to Alaska deposi- ted the seed in a fertile spot. And yet it was only curiosity that moved Abraham Adams. He never dream- ed of his find being of any value except 'as an experiment for his own pleasure. In the fall of 1904 Mr. Adams planted. his head of Alaska wheat ¢n high and all-too-dry land -- the | natural soil of Idaho. It grew rap- idly when the * spring. opened its founts, and in the summer he had "pounds of wheat from this That was startling. dared tell a farmer of it. He 1 the kernels. Four times as large as ordinary wheat, and in color--instead of the homely brown- ish-gray of wheat of commerce -- ) st cream color without a POUNDS OF WHEAT from one head, and the finest-look- i vheat mortal had ever seen! sham dams began to dream. ving tested the grains as win- heat, Mr. Adams saved his nds to try as spring 11906 he planted the yunds, - Sturdily 16 len it was harvested 1646 pounds. His Alas in, the world's re e } Indoors or outdoors there is nothing quite so good as " Triscuit--the Shredded Wheat _ in smallest bulk all the muscle-building, brain-producing qualities of wheat. 2 Wafer, which contains TRY IT AS A TOAST WITH BUTTER, CHEESE OR FRUIT. " BY | were planted in fiields by the side of the famous Blue Stem and Club wheat grown in that section. Watch- ing their comparative growth, Mr. Adams picked on the same day green heads of Club' wheat and G. gren heads of his Alaska wheat, the latter so many times larger than the ordinary wheat that the Club wheat seemed hardly started. THE FARMER WAS JUBILANT. Then Nature took a hand, and hail- storms of the worst kind came, beating down the- ordinary wheat until it was not fit to harvest. The farmer, discouraged, went out to his Alaska wheat-fields and saw that the sturdy stems had partly withstood the storms, and he finally harvested 53,000 pounds of seed. Now was the time to make his fin- al test. He had enough for a test from winter-grown. Taking this to the experimental station, he soon received a report which made him for the first time that he had some- thing worth giving to the public. The station chemist wrote: . 'The kernels from the fall-sown wheat were plump and sound and doubtless will grade No. 1. Judging from the chemical and physical con- dition of this sample, it will pro- bably take rank with the best grade of Blue Stem for flour. "The sample grown from spring- sown wheat showed by chemical analysis a somewhat higher protein content (this being an indication of its probable strength for bread- mak'ng purposes). I am inclined to think that the wheat that you have here is the equal, if not the superior, of our Blue Stem for flour-making purposes. I should like to make a mill test whenever vou can send me a sufficient quan- tity for that purpose." These are the facts about the won- derful wheat of which the world will soon be talking. Farmers do not believe it; wheat speculators do not believe it; but those who have traveled to see it do believe it. Mr. Adams had his fields surveyed and has absolute proof of the yield from each field. Te has tried his wheat in other lands, and in some places it did better than in Idaho. Alabama raised wheat from it with leaves seven-eighths of an inch broad, | GROWING LIKE CORNSTALKS. As a last test, Mr. Adams sent single heads of wheat to other parts of the country where he had mea be could trust to plant and ascer- tain the result. Reports are just coming to him, and he finds that in other States his Alaska wheat does better than on its home soil. In Ala- bama a head was planted Decem- ber 31, was up January 30, waist- high . April 1, with leaves seven- eighths of an inch broad, and July 7 was harvested. It showed to be hard wheat of a fine quality, and the one head yielded the same as the first head planted in Idaho. Under ordinary soil conditions the new wheat will yield two hun- dred bushels to the acr® under ex- tra conditions above that. What will be the outcome? Had all America had Alaska wheat to seed this year, the American crop alone would have been five billions of bushels. Does that not mean a revolution in the wheat industry? Will the food of the poor become s0 cheap that there will be no fam- ines? will farm property rise in value with the capacity for the yield? 'All this is conjecture, but these things are certain : That wheat Alaska has given us will withstand hail if not too heavy, Tt will withstand frost. hard "wheat from fall | reason why many cows give poor revolutionizing the wheat produc- tion of the world. Conservative es- timates place the ¢rop at from 70,- 000 to 75,000 bushels of grain, which Adams and his son-in-law, 0. K. Hobe, a wholesale lumber dealer of Minneapolis, have contracted to sell to farmers at 820 a bushel, not more than one bushel going to each buyer. "Adams acquired a tract of land in the Gem State six years ago and sowed his land to wheat, harvesting from 23 to 30 bushels of blue stem ciub and other varieties from every acre under cultivation. "One day early in 1904 he receiv- ed a single stalk of wheat, picked by a friend in one of the fertile val- loys in Alaska, and sowed the ker- pels in his back garden. A crop of seven pounds resulted the follow- ing summer. This Adams planted in the spring of 1906, harvesting 1,646 pounds of grain in July, or over 220 bushels per acre. Embold- ened by his success he sowed the en- tire crop in the fall of 1906, anl last summer cut enough grain to sow 700 acres of land, from which is now being cut what is believed to be the world's record yield."' --e REVEALED. An incurance agent was trying to induce a hard man to deal with to take out a policy on his house. Af- ter listening to him for an hour, while he painted in vivid colors the extreme danger of fire consum'n the house, the hard man to dea with said: "Do you really think it likely that my house will burn down with- in the time that the policy will run?' "Certainly," replied the agent. "Have I not been trying all this time to convince you that I do!" '"Then,'"' said the hard fnan to deal with, '""why is your companv 80 anxious to bet me money that it will not?' The agent was silent and thought. ful for a moment, then he drew ths other apart into an unfrequented place, and whispered in his ear: 'My friend, I will impart to yon a dark secret. Years ago the com- pany disgraced me before my swee*: heart. Under an assumed nam: I have wormed myself into its ser- vice for ravenge, and as there is a heaven above us, I will have its heart's blood !"' ) IMPUDENT. Marks--"Say, old man, did I ever tell you about the awful fright I got on my wedding day?' Parks--"8-s-h-h! No man should speak that way about his wife." "I hear your engagement with Miss Boodle is off. How did it hap- pen?' "In strict confidence, my friend, she got mad because I stols a kiss." "I don't see why that should provoke her--when you ware engaged."" "Well, you see, I stole this kiss from another girl." Only one couple out of every thousand live to celebrate their golden wedding. . We must grow more products than we can sell. Too many farm- ers are content to grow enough to furnish the family supplies and feed what little live stock they may have. The income from a few head of live stock will not fill the purse very full. Is it not probable that three . out of every five farmers cculd, with a little effort, grow double the amount of wheat, corn, potatoes, beans or small fruits the. coming year that they did the last! Whatever one finds to bring in the most cash at the. least expense 'n the, thing to tie to. $ Tho presence of weeds, and espe: = cially rag weed, in pastures is ee J ilk and butter during and afte .- While the weath