LOST MAN'S LANE A Secoad Episode in the Romantic Lite of Amelia Butterworth. BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN. 2 ought a sari Lage I eried out re than even yourself into Willies’ ‘2 5a ap HAPTER ‘TRIFLES, BUY KO? TREVLING. Vac Tam smathotioal even at the most in rend rae Affair Next Door” have hed am- reunity Having heard re. fale thia startling deslaration, £ rooeed: a, OF, oi had been instilled in me by oth- i is ot crimes of which we are utterly incapable. ’”” “Well,” I cried, “you heard that?” that word into the car of a detective, fall “Not much It was Hannah who led me into the u} hall and Hannah who by signs signals rather than phat was me. ever, when, after the box was lowered into the cellar, me away Lrostta stepped ap and wi im her ear: ‘Don't give her the Kerwrlhs pidor lave leisad one or she would remain lodged in Mother Jane mina “Well, well," cried again, certain puzzled, for these stra) plain what you mean bya imot ef craps jan the shatter I am at your servi eran F told him, tata Apa ba dou Place of the quiot assuran ith which is mind. sala agin bee pe hee @ minute atone Beene Miss Paealytoinat you have more than fuifill y hopes. What we buried was geen ha- man, and the question rie fi who it was ed of what death di ie. You think it was silly mate 1 did not answer. a ere was a weak |. point in the Fiaew taken in this mab ba matter, and did not try to burr; I buicrhge gaan ‘this uadt Pare my time Presently I sa ou nae! a = eafomin to arp Site never had a thought tor ve Asws satis, "lip Refus they held impri in Wiitinm’s rox died | Ahiebs mor am I quite sure. that I am yet ready tp embrace 3 S any boy wartp Pinks of. " Nelther ‘could Pity have b pea of aay one Thad ever mot a ibe » Hasclive areas and Lu- @ cotta. recste sienna 10, very dainty and of a out and m make worn by women, or rather, I should say, by ile Now, what do youm make of that aa n vgs what to maize of it. Jn oo ta, went hie Soe on bis seasoned palm, an tohed the somaes. vith Venich (8 fol1"2 anid to my: oblema an op: and then it w with a shade of doubt in his tone that I isuonide tah to have felt some pride at putting “Shey wer ero Lucetta's shoes. The fecetlsai eaden walne you labored— Yery pardonable emotions, madam, con- circumstances and the ie,” said I. “We do not sham in in smaliness since her tenth year.” ‘Has Sims! iter? Has there not been a child about the house some ne ‘to assist the cook im errands and so jo, ox I would have seen her. Be- shoes a were ie to be disturbed; so shoes were that quiet might result. re Lucetta shoeless or William even Mother Jane? You have not told alk in se stocking feet up the hall. No, Mr. Gryee, the shoes wero the shoes of a girl. I know it because it was matched B® Gress I sey, atgiag a in a sort | of wi “Ab! You looked oe the wardrobe?” angen skirt. Tho Misses Knollys do not ride a bicyole, I take it, ea this gona anly be the dress of on child. Kk was a nil ptt anomaly—and the coler, I think, w: blue, but I cannot swear to that point. ont age But my briof Leet can be ing was girl child who came into that Economical and sanitary methods of feeding animals, whether they be fewer waggested, and which you suggest owt pein mys clearly into words, ia orrible ie. Stroy much of the profit on the average z ce of these appearances, yet he has seen no child come here, ’’ “Mr. Trohm is not # spy,” said I, utd Sad remark, happily, perhaps, fell Uistoge the Fie ees corn septa! is more by en Max’ 3 Tas fae: evening pr. ie your rack ae which is ese tle o phent “Two saw it, and le I ald ie hea sen have had pas tal he com- men sLa te ed Bay, and where small man ata “ Sy id, madam, /but 2 saw noth- asnaclves af the sting ‘ feed that Me thst Bae) sate “the feeding eouge! an- net nent tman? Madam, what do you sr tomthing Hey eh Mz. Gryos, Sim: ma ave rows a away ‘te cla ragi ma, SANIT, Readies erie ‘after the riding 1 : ae correspondent send Dice of evice gave me ashe did it. Tt made no impres- awe the notched board lengthwise | of the adam, was the elds es) is ha found now Wear eas ean of winding me e top e trough. dean troughs ever since we adopted plan. accrang'(o offielal report ee im- hemp fb said he, ay. ws must And ite iy yehila id fen tae night or, what is more mr ae duaceae ‘pdt of nem ee ‘This hemp ts Med fameipany in place a The Kentucky nab producers eee ge sais ome quietly, bat in my ewa prop: tua gekpes yon: siete it aes not appear atta es pa Be Saas me to regard a jan hogs fertilizers, aan and ne high and this operation repeated at intervals of two or tnree weeks until: the Askin are ieft tig hee edhe in -biphaaats This method fol at the Oklahoma piaehes cud ste t tion ey heaates FEEDING BEES II IN SPRING. ° Best Way, Far the Goo the iesaal of the Bees. Ba tor. S caatae of ee ae spring is ag pl to their welfare, and the best seyret of doing it so that no openings to the hives are left to let the heat of fs bees escape is of much. the honey feed often and regularly, and the best results are obtained by feeding every nner of feeding stimulates the ergs Sepa se eggs, aud she will Keep it up so long as the feeding ig ol Rune aoe of course, to the strength of the colony. seas: Teipridite fee eae in colonies very strong in rates ready, for the honey flow that we may have a large force of bees to store honey, Ss. DI e their own natural way of building up: in spring, so that we frequently double their strength in this manner, and this accounts for the immense honey crops 3 only, but a ae understanding nee ty our opini iplest ane best manner well cleaned and made tight, says . Duff in Farm, Field and Fireside. ifalfa In the Ea: New soa eA ‘ecommends The alfalfa to the gests that it will ta, fail NeW werner on many kinds of soil provided the sub: soil is open on “fobs ‘The most fa- yorable, au r, is a somewhat sandy: taatataalbe stp aad seins era elly danaotl ell supplied with I hard, compact subsoil is not desirable: Although a rich soil is preferable, the ere the land {s not naturally rich it = erate to Hla as a plant is a heavy feeder will not grow The treatment of the field the season ae the sowing of pea sioatd be such as to effectually s all weeds and cause the papa Poe feeath in the ground. Farmyard’ manure should not be ae & at least one year before sowing, this favors the growth of Weel he adU1 auould Be thoroughly fined, and {f the subsoil is hard and compact a subsoil plow can be used with. profit. and sow broadcast the last of April or the first of May without any protect. gO field with a wing ma- chine, raising the cutter bar slightly d two crops are sometimes secured the frst secon, but on poor soils and dur- ing a dry year no crop cam be expected until ihe hte year. Starting the Me! uiplon’ xii eaangt hee seeataslanred ge oe hence we have to adopt me ns to start them if early ieee aes arene ee a tough sod of black loam and cut into oe from six to eight poe ieee about four meee tl I place s gether so as to form fig eee 1 bed. Then the seeds are planted the middle of April with from six to ten seeds in When the plants throw out ‘ond leaves, I thin them down to four th a hill and when ready to be moved to the field thin them again by taking out the weakest plant of each hill, leaving three plants yhen ready to be removed to the field; mark the ground six fe way! inched below thei gurtace af tie ground, siving a thorough irrigation at once, est. Alfalfa has a long taproot and Ae iW ith bar s A. Homan in Field and Farm. ’ that Is a vulgar expressi jon for a woman | a ies wher $09 you talk of like myself and might prove I was be- | earthing? No has told you me e coming cameioaniel by the business into | you can lay Tend « on Silly Rutas’ bod; mushed more or less | I take it. which I had been p phe will; clipped the words sa ald Bieaberans oeey ited ‘A Second Episode in the Romantic Life! happily Tefore they were spoken into— inclined to give up its secrets. " of Amelia Butterworth. “that Iam in a state of the liveliest se started, glancing remorse ; ES curiosi sone ole matter? | fully first at the tip, vegan BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN. Seal Min’ Eo Some: La a ef. the. cen 'be wes balancing” in ips certs STE Se Can ate [tk Raomceg “2 Ehow. You will jate | ‘It's too bad,” he “ peabsigpan fanart as By 48. You, like myself, placed weight up- | you've been led astray, Miss Butter * ye the case then Twilltig, | 08 the numbers she is forever ranning | Worth, excusably, I acknowledge, quite ing over, and you, like myself, have con- | exousably, but yet in a way to give you ‘The Sp e find the veal criminal in tite matter, | Ceived the possibility of those numbers | @uite wrong conclusions I sy at the present moment it is Moth- Jane.’ “Gog grant {t is 20," I said, influ. by as- to promise co of his manner. “‘If she was at Caweitte rene encountered no having reference to something in the | the Knollys house— But wi mo one room she inhabits. At first glance | ment. Then yon were not looked up ix ~ extreme bareness of the spot seem- | your room last night?’ “'earoely,”” Ire nothing to my carloaity. | twocs the doabis be ted Second by sen! and the ise the house night before last between 11 | #igas of any disturbance having takem | *i# frst-sentence place in those i g taken | his last could not fail to give me. vand 12, then perhaps she is. But I see 0 reason to believe it—not yet, Mr. Supposing you five me one. ot way and 28 the other, and marking the | Pe tne! poe ‘Gryce. pecs be better have known they would no be likely to catch youin « fap," he ro ou Were up and Yet I counted up to 10 one brick thus selected began to pry it ont. halle?” “Lwas up,” said I, ‘and i the halls ‘Tald noe mayrwhat, batt the f fllip it gave | nothing underneath but mold and to his intention stood me in g amerablo frightened i Then 1 | Mart ropalaek Peta rh Sy f ched ately into the | coun bricks tbo ‘athex (war, BUN sais ceimaiticntey taateans” weia tn you . is Believe, thoroughly aroused, though I} Turning my attention i from 'y could not believe that anything he had mal a will understand me. You thought fbi 0 aria Mote abe oe for a mom thought a ought, Miss Butterworth. I wonda and burial I had seen and that you look as well as you do, madam. ‘® part in in Miss Knollys’ house durin; ¥ you are a wonderful woman—s the two previous nights, very wonderful woman. CHAPTER XXIV. ments 70 by 28, but no result followed “tt "you ke sae complimeatn” 1 ried ENIGMA OF KUMERRS. SR a ea nt ae TO" | aw of what woatt om'tn thane til eneane “When I told you that Mother Jane | think I did then? house last night, you ought to show ‘was out of the question in this matter, “You will tell me,”” I ae it I give ¢ degree of emotion yourself, for if I meant out of the question for you. She i it was not silly Rufus who was laid ibject to be h: by the po-| ‘‘Very well,”” said i under the flower parlor who, lice, and we have handled her. Yesti nk then, it? No for whom t made a search of her | below : could openly be shed or of whose @abin.” Here Mr. Gryce eyed mequizzically. He sometimes doce m tk public acknowledgment could be made, or we would not be sitting here faking eyo me, which same ioe} i bore ‘eri kenistiomik wa said, not ‘tinting ve beyitd atest 5 syed gla fond he is of peaa titers vs his raed the pehnasat T really actin are not shea e Palle oes dom upon small and insignificant ob- fects. wonder,” said he, “what you would have pl in such a search aa that. It was no common one, I bec feat Mage Souuee hoes ere ihasovilodgmientsciadel tie om ‘ subject a half crazy man’s love ha scientific 5 from the open doérway I crushed it be- : tween my fingers and—this fell out, | perigee niga ae 8 208 you ae muadum—worthlos trinkets, as you will | tre noliyn loved, bus: which for ai laces Well; wal ied that could not escape that half monster’: tween Mother Jane's four walla?” a passion for viviseotion.’ etalk zayeelt: begin to eomabla’ with woe They sara ‘ein we ali “You are playing with me,’ I cried, eagerness, of course. > | “outrageously and inexcusably playing “T wish I had beon given the oppor- Serna A gen Whaat ose with me A laid away in suck tanity,’” said I—'‘that is, if anything h, ah! ae out, somewhat cari id with such a degree of feol was to be f. there. muraney Town. “And number 28?’ itness to? You mum He seamed to ha in a sympathetic ens hides @ carrot, and it helda aes ‘me in my dotage, or else’”— me, feplidy Fy Bomar Alp eget nite ruby surrounded | «we will take ie ‘reat of the sen is the likelier Sele gees ay hi y ‘ou remember, I once | tence for granted," “You know minute of leisure and thought he could hi iamon spoke to pe of ‘tia ring. It was the | that T cam have n0 elas gag! ok pal 0 ig Mr. Chittenden and | intelligence, Miss Butterworth, an amusement. Ho i es y dog I must have ample reasons for ewered me by DE ge. He disappeared on his it, a fal contradics 8e reasons. “‘The opportunity is not lost. You| ‘JWay station, having taken, as many was a man that wa. Do ‘been in that cha pes have noted, bantgeren for, the short detour by Lost Bein ploy ful night? If you a6 ther. I hare no > doubt its oxtrome simplicity. | Man's lene, which would lead him di- | i¢ no more to be said, or, zat Yet tains, or rather did contain | “etly by nan Jane's co | is very tin Ins Waite mall fen chug veoele up Any Higk ach distinct sidoncos ot ‘You thrill me,” said I, ‘ening & e transaction of last ssa ne more than one of the orii ioh have | down with pence ap ysiihe ym my | ri ak ait deen rated in wn thoughts in regard to this matter | whi ch at present Tam not eel - “Good! you Gua tis ol nica bona seas oe 10, beyond which | ascribe toi gu where you Pea Theat Well, it’s not sho, ey he could not count?” fair.” ‘Ab, and why not?’ “Because you otal id not find | whose w! was them on your first attempt. You had decir daly othe only bestia which eet H fbf rep! seemed to make any impression on her Sine y it was a dog, time to look and change your mind and zk ipmyrel paacks almost overwhelmed by your 25 cent pieoe, and in. a stone Het bike Iwas in node edits icin Yegetables small coins | gree prepared, and yet which I coale | & pitiful | not but think ties for all his quiet seir hic prov . Iam asked to guess at once! mind were those ao btral Lad | that. Te want he fae enough for me 4 trial what, I wi orimes. ei Th took you several trials to deter. | terworth, that Mother case holds ie clew “‘Humph!” He could not hap but for laugh. “And a wny Soiree think it ¢ took | pons’ babs of the ree repre- me several tri n “You know what mean,”’ I de | upon clared; ‘‘70 parts, 28, or whatever the | propia in the last crime of this ter- le ser numbers are she so constantly mutters." | ‘His admiration was unqualified and sincere. ‘Miss Butterworth,” said he, ‘‘you 1 are s woman after my own heart. How | elry of a well to do man like the young gent rll mm than “Certainly,” I so lesced, “‘and if ste fuadle'ny of parte" | you thoegh os éxacalie her oto ker re look puz- | turn your supposition is provec matter, cvon if sho isnot | ‘*Madam’'—he was not angry; fel- few fealing = the disappointment in pomsidered me ntle to the actual killing and | ed by this propert, “Hi do not a it.” eed well, then, I will tell ae why I think A supposition tr ue. Mr. Knol- lys, ly have ana dis- It aoe Hie, have beou | covered, is « man vith @ secret passion 1 | for viviseotion. is | ‘You,’ said I “I hay discovered ia known to his family, and ft came you to think that her muttering: west yerner. ’” known toa very few others, but it i had anything to'do with a hiding} ‘‘Silly Rufus?’ not known to thi wos at isthe not "7 “He was the last to disappear from | even to his fellow villag “Beonuse it tay! not hay ing te | these parts, i he not?” ($3 olleve it,” said L % with the amount of pte gaa i who are gentle eile, 2 team! hata bee's cents, she And ould have left some tool dpeattel tage They hay , ‘Seventy, 28 and now 10!’ Ten | lew to his fate in the ands of this old tried in every way to influence him As ee Not 10 be or $10, but ten’’— | crono if ae fit in removing him | abandon it, but unsuccessfully so far, “Why do you sto] ea to think, entirely that | for he is not aga ntirely ree ie oe do not want fo lak my reputation | of g: There is a quilt oat ha pe 4s @ pavement under foot of ay tad | brick"’— Dad adeiy tk ae coe fo. Sil. Binur inicmeeratie pieo o ly Rufus would be the any sib) den mpg aie apa atle Ae | Mother Jane, would alfiados apn persuasion, but has a nature of ity | | im this dreary house. All they can re H i 01 | \ | d ees is ne Bible eo et Feed | gain. e eyes of the people who alrsady exe- shoes les | “But what other motive could she te him for his many one a want ih the Ble you ound” | kave, and, Mr. Gryce, where could she | the undoubted shadow under His smile ats mine quite to sh: Pore bestow the bodies of so pany unfortu- | lives. Time wi I ‘ligaghe’ toy “I must acknowledge,” nate victims, even if by ber great | shadow had a substance worth our “that I looked in the Bible, but I eae | | strength she could auton in) Killing yothing there beyond what we all sock when we open its sacred covers, Shall I | tell my story?” fi vestigation, bas « further knowledge of his real fault and a gompleter knowl- Ther @ you have us,” said he. “We | ste of ue pi as irtues turned my have not i an as yet to tae fi an BS was evidently bursting with pride | any would “No,” sai ia 1 Iw evot just such successes 4 man would of triumph Sowing through my disdain, | ith some little dio | + take his honors more quietly. Bunt, Beit show you where to unearth | you see that all your suspicions at be pshaw! Human nature is just the zane ! om explained by the brother’s cruel im- in the old as in the ig. le should have becn esa Pro. | i and thé sisters’ horror of ting more tired of compliment or BY pulpit | toxnaly startled. Why t be? 1 | those impulses known? ing the astonishment of those heconfided | asked that of myself Yet es foaloe in| fn than if ho jo was, out on his first great | Gis eee instant he weighed his word: | Wisdom Comes With Age. ease. Of course in presence of such | betore answering. Every bride imagines that her photo- eons "could do noting less than | ‘ou know Seer pe definite | | ergph on her husband's office desk in- | spires him to keep onward and upward, hapa eh lente had apd ay he ae ave come | * 0 keep onward and upwar old myself sme iy Besides, bis end actos a grave or a sto which yor | Globe Py 9 toe was uy ely to pro nter- | have taken Zor 9 grave, y estin; I shook my head. ! Longest Ocean Liner. “Ten your story,” Irepented. Dave “No mound,”” eaid L Why should } | Boas Whats bis occupation? yon see that Iam”!—I was going to say | not play for an onant oe more with bi Joax—He's an ocean lin i “on pins and needles till hear fs,” but Curiosity? Ho kad with mix ep rami afk you make that out THEY ARE A BAD GANG, | wat A JAPANESE PAPER SAYS OF THE CHINESE BOXERS. Evolved @ut of a Loy ry Secret As sociation Known the White Lily Seetety—Once 0; The information we are now going to reproduce is embodied in the re- ports to the To-A Dobun-kai of Tokyo, from Mr. M. Inouye, of Shanghai, and Mr. H. Nishimura, director of the Chi- passing events in China says the tere, Japan, Times. eording to these authorities, the *¢ i id AE ey the Boxer society, is ternal regulations, the details of which &reasealed book to those not belong-| ing to it. All that is known to out- ert of boxing and profesa,that in vir- tue of a certain incantatio® which they recite mentally, their person is render- ‘ed proof to bullets and lethal weapons. (he first historical mention of them vceurs about the middle of the eigh- zation, went by the mame of Lhwa- ‘Bub i it was not until the time of the ‘Emperor Kiaking that the Boxers be. gan to attract the atteation of the ruling power. Ait the beginning of jthat Emperor's reign they were dis- loovered to have obtained a stron, ng (esting im the country districts on iterdicted in 1809; but in epite of o ‘casional persecutions they have since then steadily increased in power and m umbers. In the early days of its! existence the political tendency of the kassociation was antagonistic to the existing dynasty, and its whole ener- |&*' ies seem to have been directed to its overthrow. Latterly, however, taking Shrewd advantage of the growing friction between native Christians converts, the Boxers have identified themselves with the latter’s foreign creed und rofessors as ir principal raison d'etre. Still more recently, to ingratiate them. bel with . those in ities they ual, adopted the lar legend of “Hing-Tsing neal anh gt with the dynasty! Dow: with foreigners! ‘ ANTI-FOREIGN ACTIVITY. As to the alleged close connections between the Pekin court and the’Box. ers, our informants entertain no doubt on the subject. In the first place it is a significant circumstance that t n manifestation of antiforeign activity by the Boxers coincides with the appearances of Prince Tuan on the political stage at Pekin at the beginning of the present year. We may here refer to an incidental des- cere ee that important person “Pri are told siduously cultivating the atquaintance of all classes of men, and there are , Said to be several other traits in his SRR ge that differentiate him from other members of tho Imperial me mily. Evidently he is @ man of lofty ambitions, for it is widely whie. pered that since the appointment of ma so we are told — that he is deaply ime plicated in the present Boxer agitation, To make his connection with the Box. ers still more clear, it is stated that pie jeader, @ notorious cares himself conspicuous in con. tise. with an inecrantioad in Honen generally believed in well-known oir- cles, that the ambitious but i ienced prince isa dupe im the hands of a the artful I-kwa ‘leader, who has anob- ject of bi conspiracy, getting himself in power at court. Whichever may be ay men are at present working hand in hand. POLICY OF DOWAGER EMPRESS, one count of what took place at the alleged cabinet meeting is reliable, we are sorry to find Prince Ching, who hitherto been considered a moderate ‘conservative, in the same camp with Prince Tuan and tthe rest of that ‘oup. He is, however, a trimmer of 5 £ ‘ H g g g HS 3 & = 3 a | general are very much excited by their 1 |Strong superstitious beliet that when M jan intercalary month occurs — as it \eighth and ninth montha ef the year of the Rat, or the seventh Stem, the country will be harrassed by great political convulsions, and, further- he| more, that such convulsions will be justifiable and proper, as they are the will of heaven, Add to this the long- , smouldering fire of antagonism to the Manchu dynasty in the southern pro- vinces, and nobody will be so bold as to predict that the disturbances thas far happily confined to the oountry around the not lead to 1 disorder and great convulsions throughout the whole Empir feat tbe fa THE WISE MAN'S DEVICIENCY. How ofb you'll see aman hice h earn’ The admiration of the es Pipa irabnolyeth lbenspded Somehow to got bis money's worth. =| Dr. Ghase’s Ointment Is the World’s Greatest Cure for Itching Skin, Eczema, Salt Rheum and Piles. 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