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8 "©And no pkysician under the sun will ever be called upon to say of what my man died,"‘ said the father, with a slap of the hand upâ€" on his knee. "PlIl tell you how it was done: I hired two men to help meâ€"men who are used to the busiâ€" bnes's, and whose implication is a _saving clause. We went to the Brookside late in the evening, and I contrived to call Sanders and Davis out into the grove. As I enâ€" gaged their attention, my two pals slipped up and gave them a pair of settlers upon the head from beâ€" hind. We strangled them where they were, and then took their bodâ€" ies in a covered wagon, and drove over to the seashore. There we seâ€" cured our horse in a safe hidingâ€" lace, and took a boat which we Ea,d prepared _ beforehand, and rowed out into the channel, where two bits of strong rope, at one end of which was a dead man and at the other an iron anchor, were thrown overboard. What do you think of it ?" ‘ "‘¥ou weren‘s seen ?" "I can swear we were not." â€" @®hen we have only to destroy this will, and our work is done.‘" On the morning following the events last recorded, Christine, when she went to the chamber where the mortal remains of her Tosterâ€"mother lay, â€" foundâ€" Lora esleep in her chair. The woman had worn herself asleep with weepâ€" ing. Upon raising the curtains of the bed, she found old Tom kneelâ€" ing there, with his head halfâ€" buriâ€" e in the clothing of the couch. She tQ‘lQhed him, and spoke his name. but he did not answoer. She looked more c!osely, and presently moved back with revercnt awo. The faithâ€" ful old servant had only been livâ€" It was consumed utterly, and the ashes were swept up and thrown into the grate. after which, father and son turned once more to the whiskeyâ€"bottle. Leaving the family to care for the lifeless body, Caspar Hugo returnâ€" ed to the office, where his first movement was to secure the will of . Rachel St. Clair. This he did quickly, and placed the document in his breastâ€"pocket. Then he reâ€" _ locked the safe and went to a neighâ€" '.gbOring office, where he related what &had occurred, and asked that he _ might have assistance in caring for the business. The will was produced and openâ€" ed ; and when Alexander Hugo had made bhimself sure of its identity, he stood back and saw Caspar comâ€" mit it to the flame of the candle. "How did you do it?" asked the son, with eager interest. "Are your tracks covered ?"‘ ""Are yours covered !"‘ "YÂ¥es, entirely. â€" A respectable physician gives testimony that my man died of apoplexy.‘"‘ "Good! And now allow me to say that the two men whose names are upon that instrument as witâ€" resses are also dead !‘‘ ‘"‘What have you done?"‘ was Alâ€" exander‘s response. _ _ of the stairs had been noiseless. Alexander was worn and weary, and he looked dragged and hollowâ€" eyod. He drark freely from the whiskeyâ€"bottle, and then sat down and lit a pipe. went out and tried a game of bilâ€" lHards, but his hand was not steady and he gave it up. He then sought a gamblingâ€"room, where he drank two or three glasses of whiskey, and made petty ventures at a faroâ€" bank. He played carefully, from instinct, and as there were several drunken, reckless players at the board, whom the dealer had markâ€" ed as his especial victims, he was allowed to win. At eleven o‘clock be returned to his chambers, where he sat up until midnight, at which time he swallowed more whiskey, and then threw himself upon a lounge, where he soon fell into a doze. It was past three o‘clock in the morning when Caspar was aroused by the coming of his father, whose entrance into the house and ascent "‘What have you done!‘ asked Caspar, in a whisper. __ _ ‘"‘Adam Halford is dead, and tâ€"s will is in my possession.‘‘ A lawyer who had been long a friend and companion of the deceasâ€" ed went in with the distressed clerk, and promised to remain, and render such assistance asâ€"might be reeded, until matters could be properly arranged. When evening had come, Caspar vwent to his lodgings and remained there unitil ten o‘clock. Then he "Of course,‘‘ said he, ‘‘a proper commiuission will be ~appointed to take charge of his affairs; but as he had much important matter on hand, I do not care to assume the entire responsibility of guarding it.” Near to the Dregs ; CHAPTER X1I APTER ORB, SAVED BY THE LOVE OF A wWOMmMAN. X.â€"(Cont‘d) 0D.y "‘But,"‘ suggested _ Waybrook, ‘‘the girl in question has lived with Rachel St. Clair, and has borne ber name, and has been held as a child of her own from infancy." "In which case, / pursued the afâ€" fieer, the girl‘s claim would be good for no‘hing in law, though 4 humane court, with sufficient eviâ€" ‘*But,"" put in the registrar, with cruel directness, "the caild was a foundling and of no kin? / Mr. Waybrook could only nod in response. : "I am very confident,""‘ answered the officer, "that there has been no legal adoption. Such an adoption would have been entered at this office, and it could not have been done without my knowledge. I am not cognizant of any such formalâ€" ity"" e l ‘"‘Do I understand,""‘ said the regâ€" istrar, after Waybrook had stated the case, "that Madame St. Clair has left no representative of her own bloodâ€"no kin of any degrec?"‘ "I don‘t suppose,"‘ answered the merchant, hesitatingly, "‘that this adopted child could be called a reâ€" lative E" "Do you know anything of a new willy 2 L â€"sNothing."‘ Mr. Waybrook did not choose to hold any further conversation with the clerk. He went out and called on a legal friend, who went with lum to the probate office.. The few questions propounded by the regisâ€" trar, who chanced to be the officer in attendance, sent cold chills through the frame of the honorable gentleman. "I may tell you, sir, that on the occasion to which you refer, two wills were destroyed by Madame Rachel‘s ordsr, and in her presâ€" ence."‘ «Destreyed ‘ Yesiait." "Iwo of them?" ‘ITWO.J) ‘‘Were they old wills ?" ‘"‘One of them was as old as I am, and the other was far from being new."‘ ”Bllt,” can‘ tell of a will ‘‘[You will excuse â€"me,""‘‘ he anâ€" swered, with a low bow. "You said truly when yau said that I was a confidential clerk. As such, I may not break our rule of circumspecâ€" tion."" Not a quiver betrayed the interâ€" ral emotion caused by this direct question ; and even the emotion itself was brief. Hugo had set himâ€" self with firm resolve to sustaining the position he had assumed. ‘You were Halford‘s confidenâ€" tial clerk. What was the object of your visit with your master to the Brookside cottage shortly before Madame Rache!‘s death?‘ Paul . Waybrook was at home, baving graduated with honor at his college, and â€"_his presence served greatly to sustain and cheer Chrisâ€" tine. They had heard of the death of Mr. Halftord, but not until after the funeral did they take any steps toward looking into the condition of the business which Madame Rachel had intrusted to his care. Mr. Waybrook, senior, considering that he had an interest in the matâ€" ter, called at the office on Court street, where he found Caspar Huâ€" go with a gentleman who had been appointed as custodian for the time. Mr. Waybrook stated. that, as a f{riend and neighhbor of Rachel St. Clair, and in behalf of those who were interested, he had called for information concerning. such . afâ€" fairs connceted â€"with the Brookside estate and its mistress as might have been lodged in N r. Halford‘s hands. â€" _"Do you know whom Madame St. truly when you said that I was a tor ?" ‘"‘She may have done so, sir. I am not informed, however." "But she made a will?‘ "If she did, it will, probably be fcund with other papersâ€" of hers which Mr.. Halford. had in keepâ€" ing."‘ ing that he might bear his mistress company. He had accompanied her through life, and now he had gone to join her beyond the vale. Chrisâ€" tine could not pity him. Rather she felt that the refuge was a blessâ€" ed one. ""I do not,. sir." "You know that she had desig nated one?‘"‘ Hagar, when this double stroke fell upon her, sank beneath it. She survived to see the bodies of her beloved mistress and Tom borne away toward the place of burial, and then she took to her bed, and ere long slept with them. ~ "Really, sir,"‘ was Hugo‘s reply to his general query, delivered with obsequious frankness, "I should be happy to inform you upon all the particulars involved in the case; kut the budget has not yet been opened."‘ persisted Wayhrook, "you me if you know anything ‘‘Perhaps, gentlemen,‘"‘ said Casâ€" par, upon whom all eyes had beâ€" come turned, "I can afford you a little explanation. At any rate, I will give you wlhat light I have. I think at the time of which Doctor Atkwright has spoken, Rachel St. Clair did have it in mind to make a new will; but cshe was not fully decided. I accompanied Mr. Halâ€" ford, on that cccasion, and . was cognizant of most that passed. Mr. Halford had held in custody two wills, one bearing date, if â€" â€"I reâ€" member rightly, in 1839, and the other twelve years later. These two wills we were ordered to deâ€" stroy, and a servant, named Lora, was called in to witness that the act was fresly the testator‘s. After this, madame spoke of a new dispoâ€" sition of her property ; but she said there was trouble in her way. â€"I remember her remarks the more clearly. becapse . [ was impressed with a pectlia= sense of a\e and vencration in viex of the wondrous ‘‘She certainly gave me to underâ€" stand,""‘ replied the doctor, "that such was her purpose, and I supâ€" posed ‘that she had accomplished it. She told me she was going to send for her lawyer,‘and I know that he visited herâ€"and this young gentleman accompanied him. It has been my impression, from words which she dropped on the following day, that she made a will on that occasion. _ Still, she did not disâ€" tinctly say so. She was very weak, iand I did not urge conversation upon her. She told me, however, that she had mads a satisfactory arâ€" rangement of her business." CC am sure,"" said_ Waybrook, ‘‘that Madame St. Clair had planâ€" ned the making of a new and final will. Doctor Arkwright, did she never speak of it in your hearing ?!"‘ The clerk was questioned, and he gave the same information which he had previously given to Mr. Wayâ€" brook.. He told of the destruction cf the two old wills, but he told nothing of the making of a new ore. & Mr. Waybrook gasped for breath ‘‘There must beâ€"a will,""‘ he said "It is not among these papers,‘ asserted the administrator. ‘‘With her property here and her propérty in New Orleans, it is saie to: say that it will reach two milâ€" lions." Caspar, to whomâ€"the question was put, reflected a moment, and then replied : "I bhad no idea," said Dr. Arkâ€" wright, "that she held such posâ€" session. . What is your estimate young man ?" work required at his hands. He brought forth from the safe the drawer which contained the docuâ€" ments in question, Some were of parchment and some of paper ; some were comparatively new, some oldâ€" er and some very old. There were titleâ€"deeds of realâ€"estate; certifiâ€" cates of stocks, bonds and notes and mortgages, and various other matâ€" ters, all valuable, and all clearly classed available. The Honorable Nathan Waybrook was himself surâ€" prised, and the administrator was inclined to doubt the evidence of the documentary mass. dence to warrant it, might aid her materially. Our probate judge is a man of large heart, sir, and will do what is just and right. But, my dear sir, would it not ‘be well to make a thorough examination of madame‘s papers before you take With this information, Mr. Wayâ€" brook left the office, and sought Doctor Arkwright, who had been for years Madame‘s physician. The doctor, when he had been made to understand the situation of affairs, promised that he would attend to the business at once, and on that very day he made the necessary apâ€" plication at the Court of Probate; and, after due examination, the public administrator was directed to investisate. "If no responsible heirs have ap peared, there must at least be cre ditors." "That can hardly be,""‘ said the registrar, â€" dubiously. ""At â€" all events,""‘ he added, with decision, "I havoe never yet met with a case where a person had shuffled off this mortal coil, entirely free from debt. There are servants, doctors, undertakersâ€"‘"‘ Thus, a competent authority apâ€" peared at the office of the deceased lattorney, and demanded posses ston of all documents and papers appertaining to the estate of the late Rachel St. Clair. Caspar Huâ€" go was in his most affable and acâ€" commodating mood, and gave himâ€" self wholly and cheerfully to the "‘"That is what I would like to do, sir; but the papersâ€"in fact, the whole business of the ladyâ€"were in the hands of Mr. Halford, who is also deceased ; and there seems to ke difficulty in getting at his priâ€" "Ah!‘‘ interrupted â€"Waybrook, raising his hand, "I had forgotten. Of course, Doctor Arkwright must be a creditor, or, at all events, he can appear as one.‘" "I should suppose so, if he was the attending physician !‘ "He was.‘"‘ ‘"‘Then, my dear sir, the business is simple. Let Doctor Arkwright apply for administration upon the estate, and the court will grant letâ€" ters. Very likely the public adâ€" ministrator will take the matter in hand .‘ vate affairs without an official war fant."" ‘‘None that I know of. Madame Rachel contracted no debts." any other steps "You werer‘ t satisfied with your first haul were you‘? You had to. come back for more." j "You got me right, boss Now, be â€"goe‘ feller, just gix me fifteen: minutes an T‘ll fetch back de stuff I stole before=I willâ€"I give you me word of honor.""‘â€"Life. ] "It was too strong for meâ€"1I lost my headâ€"I thought that everything belonged to meâ€"if I had not been detected I should have gone on alâ€" ways." = Out of 120 cases which the crimâ€" inologist has studied specially, eight women were found to be suffering fiom general paralysis and three from softening of the brain. _ Of the remaining 109 cases no fewer than 100 proved to be suffering from disease. As a rule, the goods have not been worn or used, and they freâ€" quently still bear the ticket of the shop. Finally the same explanaâ€" tions are given in nearly every case. Many persons, again. go a step further. â€" Anticipating their quesâ€" tioner, they accuse themselves of former thefts committed in similar cireumstances, and. describe the stolen articles they have in their homes. Another point is that when arâ€" rested at the door of the shop they readily distinguish from the rest of their possessions the stolen article, and many of them admit possession of it with an expression of relief, as if they had felt burdened by its weight. | Here areâ€"some leading facts from theâ€"eriminologist‘s investigations. The women only thieve in the large shops. The majority of them are in easy circumstances, and many ef them are rich.. The articles they take are oiten of no use to them, or they do not need theim, or they have alteady in their home similar articles, and often more than they require. The interest of these cases is inâ€" creased by the fact that although a few professional thieves and some persons who are driven to theft by poverty may be among their numâ€" ber, by far the ‘majority of these shop thieves are ladies in easy cirâ€" cumstances. Some of them, indeed, are rich. C span of years reached by her busiâ€" ness relations. She said that in simple fact she had a right to disâ€" pose of her property as she pleased, but she was in _doubt as to what might be perfectly just. As a maiâ€" den she had been poor, and all her wealth she had inherited from het busband. That: husband, atâ€" his death, left a sister in unfortunate cirecumstances. If the heirs of that sister were living, they should be considered. And then, she was not sure that there might not be heirs of her ow a body. She was in doubt and perplexity, and â€" seemed_ so deeply moved by the situation, that Mr. Halford suggested a delay. He said he would write to_ New Orâ€" leans for information ; and he did ~ "But,"" said the doctor, ‘ I un derstood from Lora that two of the garden hands were summoned to madame‘s chamber. For what were they wanted !" It was a curious case, but the inâ€" vestigators had no reason to doubt Caspar Hugo. He not only seemed entirely innocent of all intention to deceive or conceal, but they could conceive of no possible object which he could have in view through wrongâ€"doing in the premises. (To be continued.) Others have dismissed the pheâ€" nomenon after giving it a nameâ€" kleptomania â€" but a celebrated Paris physician and criminologist, has gone straight‘to 120 of the fair culprits for their own version of the matter. ‘"They were summoned,""‘ replied Caspar, promptly and composedâ€" ly, "by madame herself, in antict pation of the making of an instruâ€" ment by which she proposed to transfer full powers of administraâ€" tion and absolute disposition to Mr. Halford. She fancied that she saw in that a way out of her difficulty. Should she die before information could be received from New _ Orâ€" leans, her lawyer, in whom she had full confidence, would be in posâ€" session of her wishes, and could exeâ€" cute them at pleasure. But Mr. Halford madeo her understand that such an arrangement could not be consummated, so the witnesses were pot required. In fact, they were evening."" rot called into the room, though I think they were in waiting near at hand.‘" The Views of a Celebrated Paris Physician. Why do women shoppers who have plenty of money steal things which they â€"do not need 1 _â€" 3 WHY RICH FOLKS STEAL. I posted his lefters that very When the little pigs art weaned put the sow out of their hearing for a while. Take care not to allow food to sour in the pig troughs. Feed just what the pigs will eat up clean; if any remains clean it out. = Dry meal can be fed in shallow trouzhs ; hogs chew it well. The hog lots should be dry. â€"Burn over the feeding places at least once a year. Hogs éhould have plenty of clean water to drink, and their feeding troughs should be kept clean. â€"Charcoal. Ys<ulphin"and salt shou‘d be kept in every pen and hog lot, ‘Thisâ€"question comes to me again as it has manyâ€"times before. _ Its answer, like many others of like nature, depends largely on the man. For some with one cow it would be a practical thing to sink a molasses hogshead in the ground and fill it with cut com. Its practicability ‘would depend upon the amount of i roughage available, and the lack of ‘other succulent fooés, as well as the means at hand for growing the corn, ard putting it into the silo. Now these same principals obtain in every case up to ten cows. After that in any case where corn will grow, and the silage milk can be sold. I believe it is not a question, ‘Gan I afford a silo?! but ‘Can I afford not to have one? The averâ€" age feeding season is about five months, or 150 days â€"The ordinary cow will eat about forty pounds of silage daily, or three tons i4 this period ; ten cows mean thirty tons. i round silo twenty feet deep (I do not believe it wise to have one of less depth), and twelve feet across would hold thirtyâ€"eight tons, allowing for settling, would mean just about thirty tons actual. One the same height and fourteen feet‘ in diameter would hold fifty tons,, sbout forty actual after settling, This would cost but a trifle more to build, and would hold enough more for a longer season, more cows or summer feeding, either of, these certainly a practical thing.”l is read. Nevertheless, this is not the last year in which such things are rnceded, and Mr. Van Alstyne‘s suggestions should be remembered. They are : > s It is well understood that to give plenty of milk a cow must have succulent food. â€" Grass meets the need from late spring to early fall, and silage in the winter months. But can a farmeor or a dairyman having from one to ten cows only afford a silo, and what is the smaalâ€" lest silo that will prove practical? This question has been propoundâ€" ed by a contemporary, and a conâ€" tributor.. Mr. Edward Van Alstyne has tried to answer it. It will proâ€" bably be too_late to build a siloâ€" at least itâ€"by theâ€"time this article With. silage _the temperature makes little difference if it does not reach the point where it freezes. I have found in the feeding of pumpâ€" kins that we can feed about forty pounds per day per cow to advantâ€" age, and with some cows the milk production will be greatly increasâ€" ed. I have, however, had occasionâ€" al cows where the effect of feeding pumpkins was to cause the cows to lay on fat and decrease their milk production. There are very few experiments to which we can point relative to the value of feeding pumpkins. In one experiment that I have in mind that was a gain of six per cent. more milk when pumpkins were fed than before they were admitted into the ration. There. is no better place to plant pumpkin seed than in the corn field. The corn field, or a proportion of it, is just the place for them, Seeds placed in alternate hills of the same row of corn will give ample room for the growth of the vines, and they will usually bear well. The great advantage about feeding pumpkins is that the men who have no silos can feed them, and nearly all men who kesp cows have. no silos. In all of the Eastern. States where pumpkins are extensively grown they are used for cow feed in the late fall and early winter months, and as long as they can be kept without deteriorat:oa. Pos sibly they could be kept all wincer under proper conditions of storago, but they are such a bulky food that a very large place is required to store enough of them to last a larze herd through the winter mortlhs. They are not only hollow inside, but their round shape make:s them spaceâ€"consumers in storage. â€" I 1«â€" gard the pumpkin as equivalent t« silage for feed, but when we have the problem of feeding many. cows it is much easier to build a <il> that will hold several tons of silage than to build a receptacle for several tons of pumpkins, writes Mr _ J. P. Fletcher. Moreover, the pumpkins must be cold enough to prevent them from decaying, for ths ait will get into any receptacle in which they can be placed. BO4tO4A44+444444+++4++++++ PUMPKINS AS COW FEEL. : About the Farm: SMALL PRACTICAL SILO BRISTLES Veteran foreign cficers who have had experience both of actual warâ€" t h t o CC l Gpn fare and of‘thg __Kaiser manveu» vres ~ say t at the 'iatter are inâ€" comparably more exhausting. German officers of high position will be attached to Mr. Churchill and General Hamilton to inform them minutely regarding the purâ€" pose and the progress of the maâ€" nouvres. When the field operations are over the Imperial guests are reâ€" galed each night with exhaustive debates on the day‘s results and the _morrow‘s plans. . With some good luck they â€" may retire by 11 c‘clock, but in no _ eireumstances are t‘ ey allowed more than four hours‘ sleep. The Kaiser expects his guests to devote twenty hours a day to the manoeuvres. _ They will be awakâ€" eved at 3 in the morning, and takâ€" Each day is taken up with hard, long rides on horseback or in moâ€" torâ€"cars.. The Kaiser himself goes ungrudgingly through the fatigues of the mimic campaign, and delights to set his guests an example of onâ€" durance by weathering a pelting rainâ€"storm in the saddle. ing the train for the. field at 4 e‘clock, an hour later, will be in their saddles for the day‘s operaâ€" tions. Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the British Board of Trade, has been invited by the German Emâ€" peror to be present at the German military manoeuvres at Wurtemâ€" burg this month: General Sir Bruce Hamilton will also be preâ€" sent, as well as the Archduke Franz Ferdinand â€" of _ Austriaâ€"Hungary, and General Chefket Pasha, the famous Young Turk leader. Every one knows that a camel is, able to carry a store of water which! will last him for many days when crossing a desert. . One day, as L. was watching some camels lying in the sun, I learned how the store, was utilized. I saw a small irrideâ€" scent bubble appear from the mouth of one of them, which rapâ€" idly expanded till it was the size ot a football â€"For a moment i6 bung there, looking quite beautiâ€" tul, ifâ€"a little uncanny, as it reâ€" flected all theâ€"colors of the rainâ€" bow in the brilliantâ€"glare of the African noon. Then there came & lquid, gurgling sound as the water passed down the throat into the stomach. It is realiyâ€"anite a protâ€" ty spectacle. 3e > > When a camel has assuaged his! thirst, he quietly vithdraws, and| with a graceful motion of the neck; which suggests a courtcous bow of, thanks, another takes his place. 4 Winston Churchill to be tho Kai= ser‘s Guest. Arranging themselves in regular and orderly rows on either side of, the trough, they stretch out their! long necks and suck up the water| with a solemnity and orderliness that would do credit to the formal! etiquette of a Chineseo mandarin.| There is no rude hustling for place,, po indecorous haste, no selfish and! illâ€"bred disregard of neighbors"; needs and the rights of others., [ The manners of the camel are generally perfect, as is noticeable when one sees a score or more drinking at one of the many wells cutside the town. â€" Breed for â€" utility every time. Too many of our soâ€"called profesâ€" sional breeders have become cranky mpon certain fancy points and loose sight of everything else in their efforts to stamp uniformity ‘of markings in their herds. Lice take the life right out of bogs. They can not grow ; they: cannot take _ a minute‘s comfort with them. S§pray, if you can‘t dip. Even an old broom dipped: in spraying solution is better than, nothing. ‘‘Whenever I recall the sacrod}| city of Kairowan, my ear is aware of the dull, soft sound of the camâ€"| el‘s. leisurely tread," declares Mr. Graham Pebric, in his boon on ‘‘Tunis, Kairowan and Carthage. ‘ The camel is ubiquitous in this city ; one meets him at every turn, pursuing every occupation, humble and exalted. â€" | as they aro correctives and are relished by the hogs. Feed the young pigs whole oats on a platform in an enclosureâ€" by themselves. He draws the carts, he treads the wheat, he grinds the corn, and he carries such enormous burdens of hay and fodder that one wonders ir indeed, his poor humped back would not be broken by adding the proverbial straw. Although his occupations are meâ€". nial, although his figure is groâ€" tesque and ungainly, although his eyes are often covered with blinkâ€" ers and his mouth enclosed by a noseâ€"bag, although his neck is de= nuded of its long, handsome collar and his body clipped and shaved| till his skin is as bare as a plucked, ostrich, although he is lodged in" filthy stables and beaten with sticks by heartless boys, he never| loses his dignity of bearing. _ â€" . Every farmer should have a few well bred hogs as they are waste savers. Mammers of These Animals aro Generally Perfect. A STREXUOUS HOLIDAY. THE WELLâ€"BRED CAMEL.