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CHAPTER II.
Continued.

He held her tightly in his arms.
"Now my dear, to-day. l have only
time to get things together. I start by
the O'clock train. and travel day and
night. We must part here, dear, in
the castle of our dream"-he smiled
sadly-"and we must part at once.
Courage. Katharine; it is but for few
months. And then-and then Kiss
me once more, dear. Oh! kiss me.
esod bye. dear-good bye
The solicitor, Toms cousin, saw him
efr at Charing Cross.
Remember" said Tom, earnestly,
"if there should be anything left over
after paying that trust money to the
heirs. and if anything should happen
to me, you will give it all to Katharine.
I have given her your address, and she
will go to you if she wants anything.
Writo to me about the heirs of the
trust when you find them. am curious
to know who they are. And-and-
don't forget-in case you know-that
letter is for Katharine, and everything
that belongs to me is to be hers as well.
I ought to have insured my life and
made my will, but there was no time.
Will you charge yourself with this,
1em :?
"Oh, you'll be all right, old man."
said his cousin, with the cheerfulneSs-
nobody is so cheerful as the man who
ID not going proper to the occasion.
81 wish I had your chance. Good-by.
I won't forget, and I won't lose the
letter"
"You promise then," said Tom. 81
trust my girl to you.''
"I promise faithfully, Tom. You may
trust her to me-"
"It is solemn promise, Jem?"
"a sacred pledge"
Their hands met with the grasp OF
two men who trust each other.
Then the guard waved his hand, and
the train rolled out of the station.
Tenn Rolfe stood looking after it until
It vanished across the river. Then he
went to the refreshment room, and had
a whisky and potash. He was one Of
those young men who in all times OF
thought, perplexity or forecast assist
the brain with whisky and potash, or
its equivalent.
Katharine remained in the empty IL
-5rary. The beautiful inheritance had
vanished like dream. And Tom was
gone to Egypt. She sat in the quiet
room until the day drew to its close.
Then she got up and went softly into
the hall and out into the street. And
the caretaker, who was still making
tea in the basement, and heard the pat
ter of her feet and the gentle closing
Of the door, thought she was one Of the
ghosts, who generally, however, do moi
begin to walk about an empty house
until after sunset.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-29
AN OREGON BEAR STORY

This is an account of tussle had
with an old she bear and cubs on the
Kalama River in Cowlets County,
Washington. C. Masterson, C.. B.
Knowlton and had contract of dig
ging a prospect hole on mining
claim. We were camped at Apple
tree crossing, and it was March %.
We had crossed the river in canoe
and were going up the river to the
Beaver mine. On the way I stopped
to do some fishing, and the others
said they would go on and wait for
me at the next creek. The fish were
not biting, so after time I followed.
I was passing around an old fir snag
and I stopped as 1 noticed some dry
ferns at the mouth of small hole on
the lower side of the snag. i got
down on my knees and looked in, and
an old bear ran her nose out to
look at me- 1 then jumped down in
a hole about five feet deep, where an
other fir tree had been uprooted and
took q shot at her, hitting her in the
lower jaw, cutting it off so it hung
down by the skin. She knocked a
hole through the side of the snag
about six feet up and covered me
with rotten wood. She came out of
this, opening and came for me.
knew I had fight on hand, so as she
reared up on her hind legs 1 shot her
through the heart, cutting about one
and a half inches of her heart off, as
found when I cut her open. She
turned at. the second shot and ran
right away from her cubs (sRe had
two cubs in the tree), and by the
time I got so could see her she was
about seventy-fve yards up the hill.
But she was getting weak, l could
see, so took another shot at her, this
time lifting the top off Of her head.
This stopped her, and I was glad of
it, as it was my last cartridge, as I
had left my belt in camp. She
weighed about 400. pounds.
This gives an idea of the amount of
lead it takes. to stop a bear. i went
to the tree and found two cubs. One
was dead; the bullet I shot the old
one through the heart with had
passed through the cub. lengthwise.
took the other cub and raised it on
bottle and then sold it for $40 to a
butcher. who in turn gave it to the
Park in Portland.-F. w. Arnold, in
Recreation.
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RABBITS IN ARIZONA.

Notwithstanding the bounty paid
for rabbit ears in this county and the
strenuous warfare that has been
waged against them all summer, the
conditions are still disturbing for
timid people. The rabbits are yet
quite numerous and one can never
tell what minute he will be attacked
by one. The other day rabbit ap-
peared in front of the courthouse and
circled around it to the west, disap-
pearing down First avenue. 1t was
suggested by one that the rabbit came
to bring his ears to the supervisors
for the bounty, thinking he could
raise another pair for his own use.
This theory will not be countenanced
by fair minded people. The rabbit
has many faults, but he should not
be called a CRATER unless there is
some actual evidence against him.
Arizona Republican.
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Do Prunes Cause Badness?

Professor Trouessart, of the Muse.
um of Natural History, unsmilingly
declared before the French Academy
of Science that there was a we'll de-
fined connection between prunes and
badness.
The professor said he had discov.
cred new kind of microbe which
f1ourished in prunes and figs and 9th.
er dried fruits, also in the human
hair and in the feathers of certain
birds, notably parrots.
81 do not affirm" said the profes-
so:, that these acarians cause hair
to fall, but they certainly give rise to
a condition predisposing to badness. 3"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-29
Peat Alcohol For Autos.

r. W. Wallace, K. c., chairman or
the London Automobile Club, an
nounces a remarkable scientific dis
coyery whicff promises to solve the
problem of substituting alcohol for
petrol as the fuel for automobiles.
The cost Of alcohol, which here is
eighteen pence gallon, has hitherto
prohibited its general use in motor
| cars, but Mr.: Wallace says. a chemi-
car Investigation, which was carried
on for. years, has now resulted in
finding means by which alcohol dis
titled from. peat may be manufac-
tured and sold at considerable profit
for three pence (six cents) per gal
Ion.
Moreover, it will be safer to handle
than petrol, and it will not overhead
the engine as petrol has tendency
to do.
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with an extra stick, or wand, strikes
the first stick a hard blow exactly
in the centre, breaking it neatly IN
half without shattering the pipes,
surprising feat, as every one we'll
knows how easily clay pipes break
even in the gentle process of bubble
blowing. The explanation of this
seeming bit of magic, says Good Lit
erature, lies in the fact that the blow
is given so suddenly that the force
has not time to travel beyond the
point where it fell.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-29
CHAPTER III.

HARLEY HOUSE, CLEVELAND SQUARE.
Two months later. At 8 o'clock on
a cold spring evening the drawing room
of Harley House, Cleveland Square. is
generally as full as you may find it all
the year round. 1t is a salon Of more
than common interest. To begin with,
there are no men in it. Male visitors
are not allowed to penetrate into the
drawing room of Harley House. This
removes it at once from the common
drawing room of society. Next, the la
dies who use this drawing room do not
appear in evening dress; most Of them,
In fact, have only one dress, which
serves them for morning and evening,
summer and winter, until it falls to
pieces. and how it is replaced no man
knoweth. Again, in other drawing
rooms there is idleness; but here, for
the most part, there is work of some
kind generally going on. And in other
drawing rooms there is light and airy
talk, all about nothing, with laughing.
singing, and little jokes such as girls
love; but here the talk is subdued in
tone, sometimes discontented, some
times angry, sometimes exasperated.
If any laughs, it must be one of the
younger ladies newly Joined, and then
the rest all look up with astonishment.
As for joke, no one ever made one
in Harley House.. If it was made, it
would fall fat.
Harley House is governed by COM
mittee of six matrons of proved virtue
and religion. 1t is a home for ladies
who have to work for their living; in
live cheaply. The founders recognized
the fact that pound week, taking
one week with another, is rather more
than most working ladies can ever eX-
pect to earn. They have therefore as
certained the very lowest charges for
lodging and meals on which the house
can be kept up, and they charge the
residents accordingly. Thus it has
been proved by experiment that
young woman of tolerably robust ap-
petite can be fed. not luxuriously, with
Jam, cake, chocolate cream, ices and
COiu cnicKeI, DuC SuIHCIeHtiy, SD as ~
keep the machine in good working or
der, for fifteen pence nalfpenny day
1t is really fifteen pence, but the odd
halfpenny is added for luxury and the
putting on of fat. The committee of
Harley House therefore give the young
ladies breakfast for threepence, and
tea for the same; dinner is seyenpence
and supper is twopence halfpenny.
For three and sixpence girl can have
a bed in cubicle all to herself. In
other words, without counting dinner.
a meal which in hard times may be
neglected. a young lady can live in
Harley House for eight shillings and
4ewopenee halfpenny a week; so that if
she is SO lucky as to be making a whole
pound a week, there remain eleven
shillings and ninepence halfpenny to
>ond. If you deduct sevenpence day
dinner and eightpence for Sunday.
ge still remains seven shillinGs and
'venpence halfpenny. The girl who
mot make seven shillings and seven
nee halfpenny week suffice for
ashing. dress. gloves. boots, amuse-
Ants, religion, charity, travelling, ON
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-29
THE MAGIC WAND.

A stick about yard long, two
pins, two pipes and another stick are
laid out on the table by the per-
former. Then he requests two of the
spectators to stick the pins in either
end of one stick. This done, he re-
quests two of the others to take up
the pipes, these being Of clay, and
naturally very fragile. Then the
stick with the pins in the ends is to
be laid across the pipes, the pins
alone touching the bowls. In this
position, while the spectators are
holding the pipes supporting the
stick, the performer steps back and
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of large size approaching him at
leisurely pace.
The wind was blowing from the
moose toward Lowell, and, conse-
quently, the big animal did not be-
come aware of the approach of the
rider until the two were quite close.
Lowell peddalled slowly along, not
dismounting because he thought the
moose would turn off and run into
the woods when he saw man, but
the moose had no such intention.
Rider and moose got nearer and
nearer and finally Lowell decided he
would look much better adorning the
limb of a tree than he would doing
similar service on the antlers of the
ner that would have done credit to a
cavalry man and made record
breaking ascent into the limbs of a
neighborly tree.
Lowell's action in jumping from
the bicycle aroused the moose's ire.
He was probably looking for an en-
gagement at close quarters, and the
action of the enemy in taking refuge
in tree angered him beyond meas
ure, and he dashed at full speed for
the tree which held Lowell. The
moose struck the tree with such force
as to throw him back on his launches.
The impact bent the tree over, and
when it was Strengthened Lowell
came nearly playing the part of a
rock in a sling, but managed to hold
on
When the moose recovered himself
things began to happen in that imme-
diate vicinity. The rider of the
wheel was out Of his reach, but the
defenseless wheel lay beside the road,
and the moose proceeded to do stunts
with that. What the moose didn't
do to that wheel Is hard to mention.
1t took him about five minutes to re-
duce the wheel to scrap iron, and
when he had done this to his satisfac-
tion he paused to look around.
Despite the picture of strength and
anger which the moose presented the
man in the tree could not refrain
from laughing at the ludicrous side
of the picture, the moose having one
of the tires hanging to his antlers,
the chain coiled around another
prong and the remains of one of the
wheels hanging to one of his hind
legs, held there by the wire spokes.
The moose hung around the foot of
the tree for nearly three hours, every
now and then butting it to tests its
strength. all the time throwing froth
from his muzzle in every direction.
The moose and his quarry might have
been there yet had not several. MEM
bers. Of the crew of the lumber camp
come c,32 : the road. The '5coose cd
not like the looks Of the reinforce
ments and took to7ight. Then young
Lowell descended from the tree, sore
in every joint from the rocking of the
tree by the moose and vowing he'd
give the next moose he met the right
of way as soon as he saw him.-New
York World.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-29
CHERRY TREES SAVED.

In the midst of the havoc the San
Jose scale is creating among fruit
trees, it is refreshing to note that
cherry trees are fairly exempt from
attack by the pest. In several Or
chards hereabouts, where apple, pear
and cherry are intermixed, the cherry
is really free from attack, while pear
and apple adjoining are badly at
tackled. A few miles away from the
writer's home lives one who has In
his garden pear, a peach and a
cherry, all nearly touching each
other, and while the pear and peach
have to be sprayed every season to
keep down the scale, not scale has
been seen on the cherry, notwith.
standing sparrows are flying from
tree to tree all the time, and these
birds are known to be the great cause
in the spread of the scale. In early
summer and even now, scale in
tested tree will be alive with young
scales, and as the bira7Nfy from tree
to tree the scales which tAsir feet
catch up are carried to other trees.
There is a hundred times more spread
of scale through sparrows than from
trees sent out from nurseries.-Far.
mer's Home Journal.
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other at will, writes correspondent
of The Farmer. The opening may
be as wide as desired. Two by two
inch plank are nailed to the fence
posts about four or six inches from
the ground and two extra posts are
set out from the fence about q foot.
The plank is nailed to the inside OF
these posts and this plank should be
about four feet longer than the one
fastened to the fence, SO as to go
by the opening at each end about two
feet. The hogs cannot jump the two
pIanks and small hogs that go be-
tween them cannot jump over, as
they are lengthwise of the opening.
The cattle will readily step over.
The same plan may be used for sheep;
only three planks may be necessary
to retain them, although l only use
two for them also.
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Lobsters For the Pacific.

The Fred B. Higgins Lobster Com
pany, of Boothbay Harbor, has taken
the contract to furnish the United
States Government with 1900 lob
sters. These Holsters are to be
shipped alive by express across the
continent to the Pacific Coast, where
they will be used experimentally in
Pacific waters to ascertain whether
or not the lobster can live and breed
out there The contract Is one of IL
not the largest ever taken by any lob
ster dealer, and the crusfaceans must
of necessit- he ones. The
shipn this uss~f"@
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For the
Younger
ChiLdren..

: RETURNS.
At morning when I'm just awake,
Nurse says to me, "For PHYS sake,
You lazy child, you're very late!
Here is one stocking-where's it's mate?"
And then l just turn round and say,
81 know it isn't time for day"
At night when nursie says to me,
"The clock strikes seven, do you see?
And nsw, my dear, you go to bed,"
I turn to her, and shake my head,
"See, nursie, it is very light
I know it isn't time for night"
katharine R. Neumann, in St. Nicholas
League
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MOOSE TREED RIDER.

Lyle Lowell, of South Springfield,
Me-, who works for o. H. Mahar on
logging operations in the town of
Kossuth, near Topsfield, after visit
to his home, started back on his bicy-
/ Gle for work 1t was a fine day for
a ride through the woods, and young
Lowell was riding leisurely along and
thinking little of what was in store
for him when he noticed bu1'
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-29
LIME AND POTATOES.

The use of lime is not commonly
recommended Immediately before
planting to potatoes, on the suppo-
sition that the lime will make the
following crop of potatoes scabby;
but results this year at the Massa-
chusetts Station suggest that the
caution is not so necessary as might
be supposed, since potatoes grown on
freshly lined land did not show any
serious amount Of scab.-American
Cultivator.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-29
NESTS OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE

Every pair OF eagles whose habits
I have had an opportunity of watch
ing over period of a few years
would seem to have invariably at
least two alternative sites for their
nests; some have three, and l know
of one with four sites. In fact, l
only know Of one pair out Of many
which habitually resort to but one
place and only one.
The reason for this is, however,
apparent, for owing to its situation it
has never been disturbed. The nest
is in a small cavern ON the face
Of an absolute wall of limestone rock
some SEQ feet high, at about 400
feet from the summit. Above the
cliff is talus Of loose stone at an
angle of forty-five degrees or so,
above which again rise other preci-
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The Mission of Letters.

$50 you are writing stories?" said
the friend.
mot exactly" answered the cyni.
cal litterateur; Il am merely furnish
ing a certain amount of text to keep
the illustrations from running into
one another. r."--Washington Star.
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LEAVE THE TULIPS.

Do not disturb tulips or hyacinths
too soon after they have completed
their period of growth in the garden
beds. They should be allowed to
complete their annual growth. When
they have done this they will show 1t
by the ripening of their foliage. It
is not necessary to take up hardy
bulbs each year, as many seem to
think. They may remain in the
same place for two years. Then
they should be taken up-aad the
Young plants removed from the old
)nes.-New York Globe.
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Runania.

1t is repoyt<l that the Rumanian
Governmeg.nS s determined upon
grant ecoepce0O for the continue
.tion coro 1arbor works at Con-
stantA ,ot.s construction of petroleum
reservoirs and the amplification of
the railway system Of Rumania.-En-
gineer.
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GROWING sEEDL1Ne PEACHES

A very interesting proposition for
the fruit grower is experimenting
with Seeding peaches. Sometimes
results are very interesting, but it is
very seldom person gets peach
that is as good as the one the pit
came from. Sometimes new variety
will be so entirely different that you
can trace no resemblance whatever.
At other times the original will be re-
produced in size and appearance, the;
quality only being inferior, but one
time in thousand new variety viii
be established in this way and the
grower will be rewarded for all other
disappointments. There is an ele-
ment of uncertainty that adds great
deal of interest to the work.-Tarm
Press.
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Food and Civilization.

Few people realize adequately that
the stomach is the greatest cfvilizing
agency upon earth. \ well-fed man,
whose meals are suitably served, will
rise out of barbarism with an irresis-
tibe elan.
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SAFE INsEcTICIDE.

Soap suds make the. safest and
most generally effective insecticide
one can use about garden. Entire
tubs of soapy water from the laundry
may be emptied on the garden around
the sweet peas and other plants
any plants-and may, IL not too
strong, be sprink1ed over the foliage,
with excellent results-New York
Globe.
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PASTURE GATE.

I here show drawing of the plan
have of keeping hogs from going
from hog pastures to cow pasture
and at the same time allowing the3
cattle to go from one pasture to the
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The Nile overflows it's banks from
July to October. This is due to the
rainfall of the Abyssinian highlands.
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CARE OF CANNAS.

Cannas should be cut of as close
to the ground as possible, the bulbs
dug, torn apart and thoroughly dried.
If they are not separated 1t is very
hard to dry them out. After they
are quite dry they should be stored
in moderately warn place.-Epito-
mist
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DOG AND HORSE AID MASTER.
To the sagacity of his old sorrel
horse and his dog Rover Jeremiah
Hodgkins, farmer living near Great
Notch, N. j., owes it that his wife
found him where he lay unconscious
in the road after an accident. Hodg-
kins was on his way home from Mont
clair late at night. 1t was raining
and the night was very dark.
When about half a mile from his
home the wagon hit an obstruction
in the road with such f0ce as to
throw the farmer out. Hodgkins'
head struck against a small. boulder
and he lost consciousness. Just what
happened then no one but the old sor-
rel and Rover can tell.
About 10 o'clock that night Mrs.
Hodgkins and her daughter heard the
wagon coming into the yard and ran
to the door to greet Hodgkins. The
horse did not go toward the barn, but
turned around the grass plot in front
of the farmhouse and pulled up oppo-
site the front door.
Rover jumped down from the seat
of the wagon and, jumping on Mrs.
Hodgkins. began to bark, running out
toward the gate and back again a
number of times.
Taking lanterns Mrs. Hodgkins and
her daughter got in the wagon, trust
ing to the dog to take them to his
master.
AS they neared the place where he
lay Rover jumped from the wagon.
The women found Hodgkins lying on
the ground where he had fallen, and
beside him was the dog whining and
licking a small cut on the farmer S
face.
The two women put Hodgkins into
the wagon and drove home. After
restoratives had been administered
Hodgkins was not much the worse
for his ezperience.-NewY York Times.