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subter means. What was it here? I
hoped that the contents Of his pockets
might help me 10 form a conclusion.
And they did so. You cannot have
forgotten the singular knife which was
found IN the dead mans hand. knife
which certainly no sane man would
choose for weapon. 1t was, as DR.
Watson told us, a form of knife which
is used tor the most delicate operations
used for delicate operation that night
You must know, with your wide ex-
perienee of turf matters, Colonel Ross,
that it is possible to make q slight nick
upon the tendons of a, horses ham. and
10 do it simultaneously. So as to leave
Absolutely no trace. a horse so treated
vculG develop a slight lameness, which
would be put down TO II strain in exer-
else or a touch of rheumatism, but
never TO foul play"
VILLAIN! Scoundrei!' cried the col
onel.
We have here the explanation of
why John Straker wished to take the
horse out on TO the moor. So spirited
a creature would have certainly reused
the soundest sleepers When it felt the
prick of the knife. 1t was absolutely
necessary to do it in the open cir
i have been blind'' cried the colonel
"Of coarse that was why he needed the
candle. and struck the match
Undoubtedly. But in examining his
belongings I was fortunate enough TO
of the world. colonel. YOU know that
men do not carry other peoples bills
about In their pockets. We have most
OF us quite enough to do &c settle our
own. l at once concluded that Straker
was leading a double life, I'D keeping a
! second establishment. The nature of the
| bill showed that there was a lady in
the case. and one who had expensive
| tastes. Liberal as you are with your
| servants. one can hardly. expect that
| they can buy twenty-guinea walking
| fur
| Mrs. Straker as to the dress without
| her knowing 1t. ard having satisfied
| myself that it had never reached her. /
made a note of the milliner's address.
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of friends, Heren discovered that his
associate had a yellow streak in him.
Heren made allowances for his partner
and all went well until one hot evening
at Monte Carlo. The play had run high
and the millionaires lost heavily. Their
great fortune. however. would have felt
the losses little. But Kwalfey did not
like the way Herein was playing and
made a remark that was to say the
least impoIite. Heren, eooIer-headed.
passed this without notice, but he con
tinued to play according to his system.
Kwalfey not knowing when 10 let well
enough alone. continued to nag his
partner. At last Heren could stand it no
longer and he turned on KwaIfey and
told him what he thought of him. There
was retort and Heren. Selling Kwal-
fey in his strong hands. deliberately
spat in his face and branded him
coward This incident was repeatedly
denied by the friends of Kwalfey, but
there were witnesses of the scene and
there is little doubt but what it is a
true story
After the split between the partners
Herein went away after Kwalfey with
the intention of running him out of the
business. He succeeded and became
himself the great diamond king OF
Africa,
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Began Years Ago.

The romance which has come to light
In the past few days began years ago
when Mrs. Munchhoff was a little girl
III short skirts. Her father. T. Y. Cam
non, of Chicago, was president and gen.
erai manager of the p. V. Maple Syrup
Company, of Quebec. at the time. Mr..
Eeren was principal owner Of a rival
concern. also in Quebec. But in spite
of the business rivalry the two men
were the best of friends, Cannon was
married and had a little daughter.
Eeren was a bachelor. During the cold,
long nights of the Canadian winter he
used TO spend many hours with his
friends, the Cannons, III their coy
home.
Mr.. Heren became much attached to
little Matte Cannon. Whenever he was
able TO take a holiday he always came
for the little girl to take her on an
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necessary for time protect. their
natural resources as patriotic duty.
Only when prolonged trials have been
made can it be determined which nation
can best and most cheaply provide the
articles for which raw material ahounds-
Early in 1884, we find Watt taking
the lead In getting up a loyal address
TO the king on the appointment as prime
minister of Pitt, who proposed to tax
coal, iron, copper and other raw ma
terials of manufacture to the amount
of IS, o00, 900 per year, a considerable sum
In those days when manufacturing was
in its infancy. Boulton also Joined In
opposition. They wisely held that for
a manufacturing nation ''tos tax raw
materials was suicidal; let taxes be laid
upon Injuries, upon vices, and. II you
like, upon property; tax riches when
got. but not the means of getting them.
OF all things, don't cut open the hen
that lays the golden eggs"
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again in the train bound for Winchester
TO see the race for the Wessex Cup.
Colonel Ross met US by appointment
outside the station. and we drove in his
drag TO the course beyond the town His
face was grave. and his manner was
cold in the extreme.
II have seen nothing Of my horse :"
said he
II suppose that You would know bim
when you saw him?" asked Holmes.
t.ne colonel was very angry. Il have
been on the turf for twenty years, and
never was asked such q question as that
before said he. "a child would know
Silver Blaze. with his white forehead
and his notified on-foreieg."
" "
How is the betting?"
Well, that is the curious part of it,
You could have got fifteen TO one yes
terday. but the price has become
shorter and shorter. until you car
hardly get three TO one now"
HUM" said Holmes. Somebody
knows something, that is clear
AS the drag drew up in the inclos-
ure near the grandstand I glanced al
the card to see the entries.
Yessex Plate lit ranI 80 sovs each h # witt
Loo Eovs added for four and five year olds
Second, $500. Third, GOO. New course Zone
mile and five furlongs}.
j. Mr Heath Newton's The Negro. Rec
cap. Cinnamon jacket.
2. Colonel Wardlaw's PugilIst. Pink cap
Blue and black jacket.
3. Lord Hackwaters Desborough. Yellow
cap and sleeves.
]. Colonel Ross silver Blaze. Black cap
Red jacket
s. Duke of BaImoraFs Iris. Yellow ant
black stripes.
8. Lord singleford's Rasper Purple cap
Black sleeves.
We scratched our other one. ana
put all hopes on your word" said the
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II confess that 1 can make neither head
nor tail of It, Don't you think that you
have kept up your mystery long enough,
Mr. Holmes?'
Certainly. Colonel, you shall know
everything Let us all go round and
have a look at he horse together Here
ne is" he continued, as we made our
way into the weighing Enclosure, where
only owners and their friends find ad-
mittance. You have only to wash his
face and his leg in spirits of wine, and
you will find that he is the same Old
Silver Blaze as ever"
You take my breath away
Il found him in the hands of fakir,
and took the liberty Of running him
Just as he was sent over
Y ~
NV dear sir. YOU have done wonders.
The horse looks very fit and well. 1t
never went better in its life. / owe
you a thousand apologies for having
doubted your ability. You have done me
a great service by recovering nv horse.
You would do me a greater still If You
could lay your hands on the murderer
of John Straker.'
Il have done 50" said Holmes quietly.
The colonel and l stared at him iii
amazement. You have got himi Where
is he. then?'
He Is here"
! Here! Whers?"
I'm my company at the present mo-
ment"
The colonel flushed angrily. Il quite
recognize that / am under obligations
to you. Mr. Holiness" said he but /
must regard what you have Just said
as either a very bad Joke or an insult. "
Sherlock Holmes laughed. ~ assure
you that [ have not associated you
with the crime, colonel said he. The
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great and the reward is noble" So with
this enchanting dream, better than most
realities, even if it be all a dream. Let
the dreamers therefore dream on. The
world. minus enchanting dreams would
be commonplace indeed, and let US re-
member this dream is only dreamable
because Watts steam engine is a reality,
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Silver Blaze

colonel. why, what is that? Silver
Blaze favorlte?"
Five to four against Silver Blaze
Five to fifteen against Desborough!
Five to four on the field"'
There are the numbers" I cried.
They are all six there"
'.AlI six there? Then my horse is
running" cried the colonel in great ag-
itation- But 1 don't see him. My
colors have not passed.
only five have passed. This must
be he"
AS I spoke a powerful bay horse
swept out from the weighing inclos-
ure and cantered past us, bearing on
its back the well-known black and red
Of the colonel.
That's not my horse" cried the
owner. THAT beast has not a white
hair upon its body, What is this that
you have done. Mr.. Holmes?"
Well. well. let us see how ne
gets on" said my friend, imper-
turbably. For d few minutes he
gazed through my feldglass. Capital!
An excellent start" he cried suddenly.
There they are. coming round the
curve"
From our drag we had superb view
as they came up the straight, The SIX
horses were SO close together that d
carpet could have covered them. but
half way up the yellow of the Mapleton
stable showed to the front. Before they
reached US. however. Desbore 9gh's bolt
was shot. and the colonefs horse
coming away with a rush, passed the
post "A good six lengths before its rival
The Duke OF BalmoraIs Iris making a
bad third.
Its my race. anyhow" gasped the
Colonel. passing his hand over his eyes.
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Claude Henderson Heren
Never Forgot First
Sweetheart.
Willed Her an Enormous
Fortune Annassed in
South Africa.
Her Marriage to Another
Did Not Alter His
Devotion.
STORY which shows how in
tangible is romance and how it
is to be found lurking in odd

STORY which shows how in
~ tangible is romance and how it
~ is to be found lurking in odd
out of the way corners is that
of Claude Henderson Heren, former
African diamond king who recently
died and left his fortune 10 the girl he
had loved years before ana who had
since become the wife Of another man.
Mrs Matte Cannon Munchhoff
Claude Henderson Heren, snrewd man
Of affairs, who had roughed ii in almost
every known payt Of the globe, who had
come by wealth quickly, and who had
spent It with all the recklessness Of
vulgarity, still retained enough romance
about him before he died TO think of the
girl he mad loved when he was COM
parativeiy poor man.
Although Heren died several months
ago In South Africa, the news that he
had made her his sole heir has only
recently reached Mrs Munchhoff. who
has spent q large part of the winter in
Denver. Col. The cable which told her
Of her good fortune said. too, that the
estate of the dead millionaire was va
riously estimated at from s500,00 to
So, 600 600 This is all that is left of the
huge fortune q few years ago not less
than $50, oo0, GOO which Claude Herein
amassed in the South African diamond
fields
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Labor and Protection.

East Indians. Mexicans. Japanese.
Chinese. all become more or less efficient
workers with q few months experience
Manufacturing is therefore to spread
rapidly throughout the world All ma
tions may be trusted to develop, and if
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excursion into the country. or on the
river, or when she became old enough,
TO the theater. He watched her grow
from babyhood to girlhood, and into
womanhood The love he felt for her
as a child developed into the love of a
man for a maid. He determined that
he would make her his wife if posi-
BILE.
But there were two drawbacks to
this plan. One was the decision Of
Mates father that she was too young
to marry and must wait until she was
better able to judge Of men and of the
world; the other was the disinclination
of the young girl herself to become
Mr.. Heren's wife. Mr.. Cannon said
that if his daughter were to marry
any man ne would prefer to see her
marry his old friend, but that there
must be a delay OF several years at
any rate. Matte said that though she
was very fond Of MFR. iIeren, she could
not, would not marry him. They had
always been the best of comrades until
he declared his love for her. or, as she
put it, ''he had to go and spoil it ALL
" X
Hard Hit.
Heren was hard hit by the refusal
of the girl more particularly than by
the decision Of Mr.. Cannon, for had
she given him the slightest encourage
ment he might have been content to
remain in Quebec waiting until she
should be old enough, in the opinion of
her father. to marry. AS it was, how
ever, he felt that it would be impossi-
BILE for him to watch her going about,
as she undoubtedly would as she grew
older, with other men. perhaps learn
ing to love another than himself. He
sold out his business and left Canada,
not telling anyone where he was going.
Years went by. The only news Of
their old friend which came to the
Cannons came through the American
and European press dispstehe First
they heard that he drifted to the
United States. then TO Europe. From
| there he went to still undeveloped dfa-
| mond fields of South Africa. Appar-
| entity he caught on, for he formed
an association with Kwalfey, who was
| becoming famous as the diamond king
| of South Africa. Together the two
men made tremendous fortune But
| though they worked together, and as
far as. their interests lay, were the bes
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real murderer is standing immediately
behind you" He stepped past and iald
his hand upon the glossy neck OF the
thoroughbred.
THE horse!'' Grief both the colonel
and myself.
Yes. the horse. And it may lessen his
guilt if / say that it was done in self
defense. and that John Straker was
man who was entirely unworthy of your
confidence But there goes the bell, and
as 1 stand to win a little on this next
race. | shall defer n lengthy explanation
until a more fitting time"
We had the corner of a Pullman car
to ourselves that evening as we whirled
back to London, and / fancy that the
Journey was q short one to Colonel
Ross IS well as to myself. as we listened
to our companions narrative of the
events which had occurred at the Dart
moor training stables upon that Monday
night, and the means by which he had
unraveled them.
Il confess" said he. that any theo-
ries which / had formed from the news
paper reports were entirely erroneous
And Vet there We're indications there.
| had they not been overlaid by other de-
| tails which concealed their true import.
| went 20 DeVonshire with tho cOnvic-
| ton that Fitzroy Simpson was the true
culprit. although, of course. / saw that
the evidence against him was by no
means complete. 1t was while l was
in the carriage just as we reached the
| trainers house. that the immense sig
nificance of the curried mutton occur
red TO me You may remember that 1
was distract and remained sitting after
| you had all alighted. | was marveling
| in my own mind how / could possibly
| have overlooked so obvious a clue"
| Il confess" said the colonel. that
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ODE First Of the Origino1 She

even now ] cannot see how it helps us.
1T was the first link in my chain of
reasoning. Powdered opium is by no
means tasteless- The flavor is not dis
agreeable, but it is perceptible. Were
il mixed with any ordinary dish the
eater would undoubtedly detect it, and
would probably eat no more. a curry
was exactly the medium which would
disguise this taste. By no possible sup
position could this stranger, Fitzr0y
Simpson have caused curry TO be served
in the trainers family that night, and
1t is surely too monstrous coincidence
TO suppose that he happened to come
along with powdered opium upon the
very night when q dish happened To be
served which would disguise the flavor.
That is unthinkabIe. Therefore Simpson
becomes eliminated from the case. and
our attention centers upon Straker and
his wife, the only two people who could
have chosen curried mutton for supper
that night. The opium was added after
the dish was set aside for the stable
boy, for the others had the same for
supper with no i'll effects. Which OF
them, then, had access TO that dish
without the maid seeing them?
Before deciding that question had
grasped the significance of the silence
of the dog, for one true Inference inVa-
ria bly, suggests others. The Simpson
incident had shown me that dog was
kept in the stables. and yet. though
some one had been in and had fetched
out a horse, he had not parked enough
to arouse the TWO lads in the loft. OBJ
viousiy the midnight visitor was some
one whom the dos knew we'll.
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u was already convinced or almost
convinced. that John Straker went down
to the stables in the dead of the night
and took out Silver Blaze. For what
purpose? For a dishonest one, obvious
ly, or why should he drug his own
stable boy? And yet l was at a loss TO
knew why. There have been cases be-
fore now where trainers have made sure
of great sums OF money by laying
against their own horses. through agents.
and then preventing them from winning
by fraud. Sometimes 1t Is a pulling
jockey. Sometimes Il is some surer and
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-03-10
RENTING FARMS.

In Maryland and in the adjoining
states, where the mixed system o1
farming is prac,iced, farms are usually
rented or leased from the first day ol
March, usually for one year, with the
privilege Of renewal from year to year.
In the grain growing sections most ol
the fal ms are under crop rent-that
ia, the landowner furnishes the seed
corn snd seed wheat, SO much lime
and 50 much fertilizer, the tenant fur.
nishine tie labor, stock and imple,
ments for farming the place to advan.
taee. The owner of the farm usually
gets for lis share .wo thirds of the
wieat and two thirds Of the corn. The
tenant gets the other third, all the
vegetables and fruit on the place, and
has also the privilege Of raising and
pasturing a reasonable amount OF
stock. The Lay, fodder and straw
grown must be fed to fattening cattle,
the resulting manure spread over the
|an.l In the dairy sections the farm 9
are usually taken at money rent,
the tenant having his own stock and
farming the land und 7, certain restric.
tions Each Of these systems has cer-
tain advantages. Much depends up.
on the business ability of the tenant,
whichever system is followed. A
lawyer Of experience says: "ln the
rental of farm property tie greater
risk is alwa,s on the landlords side.
H., is putting his property into the
poss ssion and care of another, and
that other is not infreqrently a person
o. 4 ,uh:f fu! utility"
T.. fo lowing rules should be fol-
lowed in drawing a lease eitber'for one
or more ycars:
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EXERCISES FOR HEALTH.

For almost every person under fif-
ty, and for a great many people over
fifty, exercise is the nearest approach
to panacea for bodily ills that has
yet been devised. Causing the body
to move and stretch and push and pull
makes the blood circulate, the liver
do its work and the nerves pick up
their dropped stitches.
An excellent time to exercise is be-
fore breakfast Neither man nor
beast, as rule, goes to sleep hungry.
During sleep there is little waste of
energy. On waking there is no inn
mediate demand for replenishment of
lost tissues. Furthermore, the long
sleep has left the nerves and the di-
gestive apparatus dull and leadened.
To sit down to heavy breakfast
within fifteen or twenty minutes after
getting out of bed means that the
stomach receives food which it does
not need and will not readily digest
A little shaking up before break
fast arouses the vitality and conse-
quently makes the appetite and di-
gestion better That means better
work done during the day. If man
can get away from work in time to
take additional exercise during the
afternoon he will have better appe-
tite for the evening meal and more
power to digest it. That will mean
better sleep at night.
Many man has succeeded in the
world without paying any attention to
his body-Joseph Chamberlain, for
instance. But such men would prob
ably have succeeded more easily and
certainly with more pleasure to them
selves if they had taken care of their
bodies. A strong mind is certainly
stronger and more enduring in heal.
thy body than in sickly one. The
best way to keep the body healthy is
to use it.
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America, and the lines OF an English
mother who has several daughters do
not seem TO me to have fallen to her
in pleasant or in easy places. How
cruelty hard it is, for instance, on a
quietly disposed woman in her fat ff-
ties 50 attire herself in festal array
night after night and 60 forth with
her brood to sit braced against the
wall till morning while her offspring
are gayly dancing in the center of the
room, brought back, to be sure, from
time to time to nestle for a moment
under her broad wings! l always
pity these mothers-they look so
weary. Their eyes will close now
and then in spite of themselves, and
their heads nod, but not in time to
the music.
Yes, l must confess that my SYM
pathies are on the side of the chaper-
ons. The rosebuds are we'll enough
of-too WELL A cynic finds a little
comfort in thinking that their turn
will come some day, when they will
be fat and fifty and sit out long nights
listening of the new music to which
he rosebuds of that far-of time are
dancing.
The subject of chaperonage in
America has of late years provoked
much discussion. Ladies who have
journeyed, like lord Lowell, "strange
countries for to see," often become
rigorous in this matter, and will not
let their daughters accept any invita-
tion in which they themselves are not
incladed. But this is far from being
the general custom, and the question
arises, Are our young girls too little
chaperoned, Fan is the result of the de-
gree of freedom which prevails here,
pernicious or otherwise!
As a whole, it seems to me no girls
are nicer than our own. There are
thorny rosebuds among them, as 1
have said; but how many there are
who are bright and fearless and pure,
aud full of all the latent possibilities
of gracious womanhood, Perhaps they
ought not to be allowed to 60 out so
freely as many of them do without an
older lady to matronize them; and yet
very little harm seems to come of
it.
If / were social law giver, I think
| should try to spare mothers from
duties 80 arduous as those of an Eng
lish mother, and so little agreeable;
while at the same time I would guard
the willful rosebuds from being left
too much to their own devices. What
if group Of mammas, who were we'll
acquainted, should take it in turn to
chaperon the daughters of them all.