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i The ffcdemptiot? El f)dVid forsot? By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS Copyright, 1"00, by The Bowen-Merrill Company. CHAPTER XVII. (Continued.) To his own unbounted astonishment this young man who had long ago abandoned his faith In Christianity, began to plead like an apostle for the practice of Its central and fundamental virtue, "My friend," he said, with a new sol emnity In his manner, you are on the threshold of another world; how dare you present yourself to the Judge of all the earth with a passion like this In your heart?" In the momentary rest the beggar had recovered strength enough to re ply: "It is t-t-true. I am on the threshold of another world! I didn't use to b-b-believe there was one, but I do now. There must be! Would It b-b-be right for such d-d-devtls as the one that wrecked my life to g-g-go un punished? Not if I know anything! They get away from us here, but If eternity Is as long as they s-s-say It Is, I'll find D-D-Dave Corson If It t-t takes the whole of it, and when I f-f find him " he paused again, gasping and strangling. "And so you really mean to die with out bestowing your pardon upon those "who have wronged you?" "1 swear it!" With a heavy heart Mantel left him and hurried home to report the Inter view to David. He found him Just returning from his work, and conveyed his message by the gloom of his coun tenance. "Has anything gone wrong?" David Inquired, anxiously, as they entered their room. Casting himself heavily into a seat and answering abstractedly. Mantel replied," "Each new day of life renders It more inexplicable. A man no soon er forms a theory than he Is compelled to abandon it I fear It is a labyrinth from which we shall none of us es cape." "Do not speak In parables," David exclaimed, Impatiently. "If anything If the matter, tell me at once. Do not leave me in suspense. I cannot endure It Is he worse? Is he dying?" "Ha is both, and more," Mantel an swered, still unable to escape from the gloom which enveloped him. "I have at last drawn from him a brief but terrible allusion to the tragedy of your lives." "What did he say? Quick, tell me!" "He aaid that he had been wronged by those whom he had benefited, and that he would spend eternity In re venging his wrongs." "Horrible!" cried David, sinking In to a chair. "Did he show no mercy? Was there no sign of pardon?" "None! Granite Is softer than his heart Ice is warmer." David rose and paced the floor. Pausing before Mantel, he said, plt eously, "Perhaps he will relent when Pepeeta comes!" "Perhaps! Have you heard from her?" "No, but hr answer cannot be much longer delayed, for I have written again and again." "Something may have happened," said Mantel, who had lost all heart and hope. "Do not say It" David exclaimed, be seechingly. "It Is a long distance. She may have changed her residence. She may never go to the postofflce. She may be sick." "Or dead!" bald Mantel, giving ex presslon in two words to the fullness of his despair. "Impossible!" exclaimed David, his face blanching at this sudden articula tion of the dread he had been strug gling so hard to repress. They passed out Into the night to- geiner ana nurnea away to me beg gar's room. Each was too burdened for talk and they walked in silence. Arriving at the house, they ascended the stairs on tiptoe and paused to lis ten at the door. "I will leave it ajar, so you may hear what he says, and then you can Judge If I am right" said Mantel, entering quietly. He approached the table and turned up the lamp which he had left burning dimly. By its pale light David could see the great head lying on the pillow, the chin elevated, the mouth partially open, the breast heaving with the painful efforts to catch a few last flut tering Inspirations. Nestling close to the ashen face and licking the cheek now and then with his little red tongue, was the terrier. Mantel's footfall, quiet as It was, dis turbed the sleeper, who moved, turned his head toward the sound and asked in a husky and but half-audlbla voice, -Who is there V 'It is L How are you now? A little better?" said Mantel, laying his soft tool hand upon the broad forehead, wet already with the death-damp. "I am getting weaker. It won't last long," he answered palnfnully. "I do not want to bother you, but I eannot bear to have you die without talking to you again about your fu ture; I must try once more to per uade you not to die without sending lome kind word to the people who have wronged you." The expression of the white face un Serwent a hideous transformation. "If you do not feel like talking to me nbout a matter so sacred and personal, would you not like to have me send for some minister or priest?" The head moved slowly back and forth In a firm negation. "In every age, and among all men. It has seemed fitting that those who were about to die should make some preparation to meet their God. Have fou no desire to do this? If there ab solutely no word of pardon or of klnd sess which you wish to send to those who have Injured you, as a sort of leg acy from the grave?" "None!" he whispered fiercely. appose that your enemy should All Rlirhti Rwti-4 come to see you. Suppose that a great change had come over him; that he, too, had suffered deeply; that your wife had discovered his treachery and left him; that he had bitterly repent ed; that he had made such atonement as he could for his sin; that it was he who has been caring for you in these last hours, could you not pardon him? These words produced an extraordi nary effect on the dying man. For the first time he Identified his enemy with his friend, as as the discovery dawned upon his mind a convulsion seized and shook his frame. He slowly and pain fully struggled to a sitting posture, lifted his right hand above his head and said in tones that rang with rau cous power of by-gone daye: if I had known that I was eating his b-b-bread. it would have choked me! Send him to me! Where is he?" "I am here," said David, quietly en tering the door. "I am here to throw myself on your mercy and to beg you, for the love of God, te forgive me." As ha heard the familiar voice, the beggar trembled. He made one last supreme effort to look out of his dark ened eyes. An expression of -alr-lng agony followed the attempt, then, with both his great bony hands, he clutched at the throat of his night robe as if choking for breath, tore it open and reaching down into his bosom felt for some concealed object He found it at last grasped it and drew it forth. It was a shining blade of steel. Mantel sprang to take it from his hand; but David pushed him back and said calmly: "Let him alone." "Yes, let me alone," cried the blind man, trembling In every limb, and crawling slowly and painfully from the bed. The movements of the dying man were too slow and weak to convey any adequate expression of the tempest raging in his soul. It was Incredible that a tragedy was really being enact ed, and that this poor trembltn crea ture was thirsting for the lif-'- of a mortal foe. David did not seek to escaoe. He did not even shudder. There was a singular expression of repose on his features, for In his desperation he so laced himself by the reflection that he for a sin whose atonement had become was about to render final satisfaction otherwise impossible. He therefore folded his arms across his breast and stood waiting. The contorted face of the furious beggar afforded a terrible contrast to the tranquil countenance of the pent tent and unresisting object of his ha tred. The opaque flesh seemed to have become transparent and through it glowed the maleful light of hatred and revenge. The lips were drawn back from the white teeth, above which the great moustache bristles savagely. The lids were lifted from the hollow and expressionless eyes. Balancing him self for an instant he moved forward: but the emaciated limbs tottered un der the weight of the body. He reeled. caught himself, then reeled once more, and lunged forward In the direction from which he had heard the voice of his enemy. Again Mantel strove to Intercept him, and again David fore - Uncertain as to the exact location of the object of his hatred, he raised his knife and struck at random; but the blow spent Itself In air. The futility and helplessness of his efforts crazed him. "Where are you? G-g-glve me some sign.!" he cried. "I am here," said David, in a voice wnose preternatural calmness sent a shudder to the heart of his friend. With one supreme and final effort the dying man lurched forward and threw himself wildly toward the sound. His hand, brandishing the dagger, was up lifted and seemed about to descend on his foe; but at hat very instant with a frightful Imprecation upon his Hps, the gigantic form collapsed, the knife dropped from the hand, and he plung ed, a corpse. Into the arms of his In tended victim. David received the dead weight upon the bosom at which the dagger had been aimed, and the first expression of his face indicated a certain disappoint ment that a single blow had not been permitted to end his troubles, as well as terror at an event so appalling. He stood spellbound for a moment sup porting the awful burden, and then, overpowered with the horror of the sit uation, cried out: "Take him. Mantel! tsk Mm! Help me to lay him down! Quick, I cannot stand it; quick!" They laid the lifeless form on the bed, while the little dog, leaping up be side his dead master, threw his head back and emitted a series of prolong ed and melancholy howls. CHAPTER XVII L Bewildered by the scene through which he had Just passed, Corson re turned to his rooms and spent the night in a sort of stupor. What hap pened the next day he never knew; but on the following morning he ac companied Mantel to the cemetery where, with simple but reverent cere mony, they committed the body of the doctor to the bosom of earth. Just as they were about to turn away, after the conclusion of the bur ial service, a strange thing happened. The limb of a great elm tree, which had been tied back to keep It out of the way of the workmen, was released by the old sexton and swept back over the grave. It produced a similar Impression up on the minds of both the subdued spec tators. They glanced at. each other, and Mantel said. It was Ilk the wing of an angel',' "Yes," added David with a sigh, "and seemed to brush away and obliterate all traces of his sorrow and his sins." They did not speak during tholr homeward Journey, and when they reached tholr rooms David paced un easily backward and forward until the shadows of evening had fallen. When he suddenly observed that it was dusk, he took his hat and went out Into the street There was something so rest less and unnatural atout his move ments as to excite the suspicion of his friend, who waited for a single mo ment and then hurried after him, The night was calm and clear, the autumn stars were shining In a cloud less sky, and the tide of life which had surged through the busy streets all day was ebbing like the waters from the bays and estuaries along the shore of the ocean. A few moments' walking brought David to a weird spectacle, A torch by tne growing plants. Soils once fer had been erected above a low plat- te are 8a,d t(J be exhausted when de. mini un which hioou a man or niuiij . , , , , . . . unique and striking personality. He pfived of such food as is required for looked like a giant in the wavering light of the torch. He was dressed in the simple garb of a Quaker; his head was bare; great locks of reddish hair cunea round his temples and fell down upon n snouiaers. ls massive coun- mlnrl. n nrl hPAmAH with raaf m nAPA. I As he sang an old familiar hvmn. he looked around upon his audience with an expression such as glowed, no doubt, from the countenance ' of the Christ when He spoke to the multi tudes on the shores of Lake Genessa- ret iubo iu u amau yia.nur.ll w - " . . 1 11 A I lence and respect by the charm of this remarkable personality. Next to them came a ring of women some of them old and gray, with haggard and wrin kled countenances upon which Time, with his antique pen, had traced many Illegible hieroglyphs; some of them young and bedizened with tinsel Jew alyv an1 flu ah v ninth In cr iia! a fow nt them middle-aged, wan, 'dispirited and bearing upon their hips bundles wrap- ped in faded shawls, from which came occasionally that most distressing of sounds, the wall of an Ill-fed and un loved Infant crying in the night Outside of this zone of female mis ery and degradation, there was a belt of masculine stupidity and crime; with corpulent bodies, bull necks, dou ble chins, pile-driving heads; men of shrunken frames, cadaverous cheeks. deep-set and beady eyes vermin-cov- ered, disease-d3voured, hope-deserted, They clung arouna mm. tnese con-en- knw nt wht ra!HtifiRH Attraction. The simDle melody, borne upon the pinions of that resonate and cello-like voice, attained an almost supernatural Influence over their perverted natures. When it ceased, an audible sigh arose, an involuntary iriouie oi aaoranon ana Ul awe. a 9 buuii am no uou union- -'a w 11 j Hill. Ill IB i;unoci,t a. luu '-tv lost sheep of the great city opened a well-worn volume. The influence which he exerted over the mind of David was as Irresistible as it was lnscrutame. His language had the charm of perfect familiarity. fcvery word ana Phrase nao. rauen I ruiu Ilia uwn nua iiuiiuicu ihiicb tu kL,. in fct."-th seemed to him strangely like the echo of his own voice coming back upon him from the dim and half-forgotten past (To be continued.) Doubtful Identity. Cricket Is the national game of En gland, and It would no more help one to Identify an Englishman by saying that he was a cricket player than It would to distinguish a college man in this country to say that he was de voted to baseball. In his book on the game. "Kings of Cricket," Richard Daft relates many amusing things of the sport and of men who have been connected with it. One of his stories is about two iNOtungnam piayers oi a common family name with similar lnl- a'a' We had two players of the name of Johnson, one being John Johnson, for years the secretary of our county team, and the other Isaac Johnson. As John Johnson's initial was near- ly always written as an "I," confusion arose concerning the Individuality of the two players. Charles Thornton, a well-known sun- porter of cricket in Notts, once got into conversation with a stranger in a railway carriage. Cricket cropping up in the course of conversation, the stranger happened to say he knew a Mr. Johnson, who belonged to Notting hamshire, who played cricket, and asked Mr. Thornton if he knew him. Mr. Thornton replied that he knew two Mr. Johnsons who played. "This one," said the stranger, lives in Nottingham." They both live in Nottingham," wa the reply 'This one is Mr. I. Johnson." They are both I. Johnson." 'This one I mean plays with, the Commercial." "They both play with the Commer cial." "The one I mean Is a fast bowler." "They're both fast bowlers." "The one I know Is gray-headed." "They're both gray-headed." "The one I mean wears spectacles." "They both wear spectacles." The gentleman gave up in despair. Mlaaed Ills Only Chance. There once lived a woman who never gave her husband a chance to say a word, lne moment J8 opened his mouth she closed it with a torrent of words. It happened that he fell sick when -his wife was out of town, and before she could get home death came and took him away. "I would feel better about it" she is still saying between her sobs, "if I could have been with John when he died. There must have been some last woras ne wanted to say to me. . . . Atc&lson Globe. Keeping- the Soli Fertile. According to Prof. Whitney of the l'ureau of Soil, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, a soil to be fertile must contain a sufficient quantity of the ash ingredients of the plants to be cultivated, and these must be In such soluble condition as to be taken UD M"""1 uuuiou, out rest ana menurai- ing treatment will, in time, restore such soils to a fertile condition. Until past the year 1750 no Just ideas upon the rotation of crops seem' ed to haye been f fl , ft ( The rotation Of crops affords time 'or the disintegrating action of the at- mosphere, rain and frost to prepare new material from the rock particles In the soil and get It in a form to be used by the plant. One crop may use UD the available food of a nart.lnnliir bind fnater than Ir o ho ,.n, y these natural agencies. When prop- managea u enables one plant to prepare rood tor another. All plants exhaust the soil, though I In an unequal degree; plants of dif ferent kinds do not exhaust the soli In the same manner; all plants do not restore to the soil a like quantity or Quality of manure, and all plants are not equally iavoraDie to me growiu of weeds. Upon the above principles is based a regular succession of crops. Though the system of rotation Is adapted to every soil, no particular rotation can be assigned to any one ! description of soil which will answer at all times, and on the demand for different kinds of produce. On clayey soils, beans and clover, with rye grass are generally alternated with grain -rona. and on drv loams or sandy . frr,,na hcpta. notatoes and alternate husbandry Is most conducive to the plentiful production or rooa both for men and animals. One por tlon of a farm would thus be always un(jer grain crops, while the other por H erowine roots or cultivated es; but ag tne major part of ar- i . . ,,,a i Q able lands can not be preserved In a i ..... ... . , . . . . m state of fertility with even this kind of management, it is requisite iuai iub portion of the farm which is under cultivated grasses should be pastured for tw0 or three years. In order to give ,t Ume tQ recrult The following Is a goQd TolMoli o crop9: Flrst year i , . . , clover; second, clover; third, corn fourth, oats; fifth, wheat. The clover does well with oats, and after an early mowing can be very well prepared for wheat Modern Farming;. The use of the most modern meth ods In farming is by no means re stricted to the huge ranches of this country. In nearly every locality in the state farmers are using traction engines with steam or gasoline for power to plow and harrow their land. We know one ranch of 6S0 acres not large for this state on ' which the plowing and harrowing is done with a 20 horse-power gasoline engine. This nau,s fQur 14.lnch gang pl0wg and a 2horB(J harrowthe equivalent of the work Qf twenty horges Tne dIstance traverged over tougn 8oll ,B from two to two and a half miles an hour. One harrow Is placed off to the side so that the result is a double harrowing of he tract. It was considered too small an area to warrant the initial expense for the machine, but the owners of the ranch are satisfied that It will save Its cost In a few years. The time is coming when the tedium of farm, work will be laid upon machinery. The Sand Pear. The sand pear is the only pear that Is practically free from blight. It IS a very rapid and continuous grower. It Is a prolific bearer and requires less attention and will stand more abuse than any other fruit tree known. The sand pear comes into bearing at -an early age, and at 10 years old ordinary trees will yield from 10 to 20 bushels of pears. The trees usual ly beeln to bear at five vears of aen The Blxth year each tree win net 25 cents, the seventh year 50 cents, and A SMALL GREENHOUSE. iM fmilr J J While most greenhouses are expensive to build and maintain, It is pos sible for an amateur to have one at dwelling. Hotbed sashes cost from $3.25 to $3.50 each, and measure 3x6 feet If steam or hot water heating cannot be provided from the house, an oil stove will maintain a high enough temperature. the eighth year fl, the ninth year $2 and tenth year $4 per tree. By plant lng 24 feet apart 75 trees can be pet to the acre. This would give a net return of $300 an acre the tenth year which would be equal to a $3,000 In vestment at 6 per cent. This Is a very conservative estimate. We have seen ten-year-old trees at different places which yielded rrora 10 to 20 bushels and large trees which yielded from 30 to 50 bushels. Ten acres of the sand pears at the above conservative estimate would bring $3,000 income, or equal to a $50,000 investment, at 6 per cent. Orchard Pests. Whether there is a good or poor fruit crop it will pay to keep the fruit trees as free from disease and Injur! ous Insects as possible. The healthy and uninjured tree is more liable to bear and prove profitable than the one full of disease and injury. The orchard will last longer If It Is kept clean and healthy. Borers are - among the most insidi ous pests of the apple orchard In some localities. On account of their habits they cannot be reached by poisonous sprays, and nostrums placed about the roots, as sometimes recommended, are utterly useless. The most efficient means of preventing damage from these pests Is by anual inspection of the trees and removal of the. grubs with a sharp pointed knife. Various protective measures are also used. One of the most effective is to paint the lower part of the stem In late winter or early -spring with a fairly thick paint made from pure ready mixed paints for this purpose, since others may contain injurious sub stances. Wood veneer strips and wire gauze are sometimes used to prevent the eggs from being laid on the trunks of the trees, but white lead paint is simple and cheaper. Black rot is a fungous disease which attacks the fruit, foliage, old bark and branches of apple and pear trees. The leaf spot form probably causes more damage than the other forms. Some times black rot cankers on the trunk, and the limbs develop so rapidly as to endanger the life of trees, but this is seldom the case except where spraying la wholly neglected. The fruit is rarely seriously injured, though outbreaks In this form may sometimes be quite se vere. Potatoes and Corn. While there is much difference ot opinion as to the rotation of crops on a medium heavy loam, we have had the best results from following corn with potatoes, always being careful to heavily manure the ground for the corn and not use any stable manure at all for the potato crop. By heavily manuring we mean giving the soil more than will be required by the corn and more than will be necessary to make good to the soil any reserve fertility the corn takes from it; in other words, so that there will be some of the virtue of the manure left for the benefit of the potatoes. For the latter crop we confine ourselves to an apllcation of mixed fertilizer, consisting of sulphate ammonia, bone meal and sulphate of potash, applied at the rate of 800 pounds to the acre. There may be no objection to the use of stable manure for the potato crop, provided one can obtain- it well rotted, but the fresh manure is a scab breed er and we never use it for potatoes. A Large Poultry Farm. Isaac Wilbur of Little Compton. R. , has the largest poultry farm in the world. He ships from 130.000 to 150, 000 dozens of eggs a year. He keeps his fowls on the colony plan, housing about forty In a house 8x10 or 8x12 feet In size, these houses' being about 150 feet apart, set out in long rows over the gently sloping fields. He has 100 of these houses scattered over three or four fields. The food Is load ed into a low wagon, which is driven about to each house in turn, the at tendant feeding as he goes; at the afternoon feeding the eggs are collect ed. The fowls are fed twice a day. The morning food Is a mash of cooked vegetables and mixed meals; this mash is made up In the afternoon of the day before. The afternoon feed is whole corn the year round. One Thing- Yet to Learn. We have learned how to telegraph without wires and fly without gas bags, but the antidote for a common ordinary cold still mocks the foiled searchlngs of the human race. St. Louis Republic. small expense, as an addition to the HE WEEKLY i778 John Jay of New York elected President of Congress. 1807 Kingdom of Etruria dissolved and annexed to France. 1813 Oen. McClune, commanding at Fort George, burnt the Canadian village of Newark, and two days later was compelled by the British to abandon the fort. 1816 First savings bank in the United States opened in Boston. .. .In diana admitted to the Union as the nineteenth State. 1817 Mississippi admitted to the Un ion as the twentieth State. 1828 The Legislature of Georgia pro tested against the last tariff act passed by Congress. 1830 The flrst locomotive built In the United States was finished and tested at the foundry at West Point, N. Y. '.833 The Green Bay Intelligencer ap peared at Green Bay, Wis. 1838 Silk growers met In convention In Baltimore and organized a na tional silk society The Monroe railroad in Georgia opened to pas senger traffic between Macon and Forsyth. 1844 Jefferson Davis entered the House of Representatives from Mississippi. 1847 Sir Donald Campbell became Lieutenant Governor of Prince Ed ward Island. 1850 Nearly 100 lives lost by an ex plosion on the steamboat Anglo Norman at New Orleans. 1854 Doctrine of Immaculate Concep tion proclaimed by the Pope. 862 Confederates victorious at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va.... Fredericksburg, Va., bombarded by the Federal army. 1867 House of Commons adopted pre liminary resolutions In regard to the acquisition of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories Reconstruction convention met in Atlanta. 1889 Funeral of Jefferson Davis In New Orleans. 1891 The Knove bridge across the Ohio River above Cincinnati open- ed for traffic. 1895 William O. Bradley inaugurated as flrst Republican Governor of Kentucky. 1898 Sir William Vernon Harcourt re signed the leadership of the Liber al party in England. 1899 Sir George Klrkpatrlck, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Speaker of the House of Com mons, died In Toronto. 1901 SIgnor Marconi announced the receipt at St. John's, Newfound land, of wireless signals from Cornwall, 1,700 miles distant. 1902 Vermont substituted for her pro hibitive liquor law a local option high license measure. 1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Incorpo-' rated as a city. 1904 Earl Grey assumed office as Gov ernor General of Canada. .. .New British ministry formed by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. 1907 Gustav V. ascended the throne of Sweden. The first local unions of printers were established In 1831. There are 65,000 Chinese and Lascar seamen now, on British vessels. Ship owners in England have forced down wages from $25 to $15 a month. and this has reduced the membership of the unions. In order of membership the flrst four divisions of America's labor army are miners, carpenters, painters and gar ment workers. One feature of the great labor dem onstrations, or Btrlkes, that have occu pied public attention for the last year has been the uniform demand on the part of the workers for arbitration of their grievances. A. Rosenberg, president of the Gar ment Workers' Union, says that In his line more men than women are em ployed In the larger cities, but that In smaller places women and girls do much the greater part of the work. John T. Smith, of the cigar makers, is the labor member of the public util ity commission of Kansas City, Mo. This commission Is a standing body that deals with telephones, street rail ways, electric lighting, etc Only 29 years old, Matthew Woll, president of the International Photo Engravers' Union, is probably the youngest international president. Working "at the bench" by day and studying at night .he put himself through a considerable law course. The Railroad Telegraphers' Union Is a widespread one. It has members In Canada, the United States, Porto Rico, Cuba, the Hawaiian islands and the Philippines. A plan has been approved for organ ization among the 600.000 commercial stenographers and typists In the Uni ted States and Canada who would be eligible to Join a union. The International Glove Workers Union faors woman suffrage on the ground that "the ballot for women Is essential to economic Independence of the working classes." T