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How to store and maintain productivity of soil Is a most Important phaso of tho conserva tion problem. Theso observations aro sot forth In a farmers' bulletin prepared by W. J Splllmnn, agriculturist In chargo of tho ofllco of farm management of the agricultural department. Mr. Splllman says that In order that tho prairie country may not follow tho descent of tho east and south It Is necessary that Intelligent and vigorous effort bo made to farm correctly. Renting of land on short loosos for tho purposo of growing grain for the market Is ono of tho surest means 'of reducing tho productive power of the toll. Well managed pastures and ra tional systems of crop rotation aro nec essary to tho development of perma nent BystemB of profitable farming. Land owners muBt reallzo this, and must tako atepH to Improve renting methods by stocking their farms with a full complement of domestic animals, In caso the renter Is not ablo to do this for himself, and by giving longer leases whereby the renter may reap tho reward of intelligent management. In view of tho soil waste that has occurred, Mr. Splllman asserts, It Is not surprising that valuos of farm products havo risen to a marked do groo In tho last few years. POTATO BUGS ARE AT WORK War Must Be Commonced Early and Continued With Vigilance Parla Qreen Recommended. , Potato bugs are at work. They arts an enemy to bo poisoned by the pota to grower. War must bo commonced early and continued with vigilance. Paris groen Is the most highly recom mended. It may be used as a spray, with a sprinkler, mixed with air slaked lime, flour, or line, dry road dust, sifted over tho potato plants when covered with dew or rain. In any form of ap plication at least ono pound of Paris green should bo used per acre, but when tho plants aro largo a greater amount may be required. Tho Mlnneq sota Experiment station prefers to use Paris green mlxod Into a thin paBte with water and then stirred In the larger volume of wator to be used In a sprayer. Very good results, however, havo been obtained by tho use of a common sprinkler. Where tho crop Is largo and It is possible to procure one, a power sprayer Is advised and re garded as almost indispensable. Milk of llmo, mado by slaking two pounds of stono llmo In water to each pound of Paris green, should bo carefully strained Into the poisonous mixture to prevont burning of the plants. Arson ato of lead may be used as a potato bug poison, but It is moro expensive than Paris green. ParlB green may bo mixed with bordeaux mixture, when tho mlxturo is used as a disease de stroyer. In this case no additional 'lmo need be added. The Colony House. Tho permanent colony house Is not as good as tho portable. The portable houso 1b usually built upon runners similar to tho common stono boat. In the spring and summer they aro drawn upon tho range, and in winter may bo brought up near tho feed houso and arranged In rows, so It Is almost as easy to caro for tho birds as If they wero in a single continuous house. The colony-house system is In general use In England, and Is practically tho only oyBtem cmployedf says a writer In Baltimore American. Theso colony houses have wheels at each corner and no floors. I would adviso thoso who contemplato going Into tho poultry buslnoss, no matter on what scale, to Btart with tho colony system. It takes a Uttlo moro work, but It is best In tho end, nnd tho chances of buccosb are much greater than where tho other plana aro followed. Use of Separator. Wo make butter and think It pays much better than soiling milk. Wo only havo to toko our buttor to market onco a week, while, If wo Bold our milk, wo should havo to go overy day. and now wo havo our skim milk and buttermilk for pigs and chickens, and havo all tho croam wo want and make as much money as If wo sold milk. Wo havo a tubular croam separator, barrol churn and a butter worker,, say7 a writer In an exchange.. Wo makt about 180 pounds of butter a month from eight cowb and wo average over 32 cents for our buttor tho yoar round o prlvato customers. To Maintain Nitrogen. Nitrogen must bo maintained by legume crops, and tho best logumo for tho corn bolt Is clovor. Tho olovor cron flhould bo left on tho ground. If removed, not much, If any, nitrogen Is addod to tho soil. If tho crop Is re moved and fod to averago llvo Btock and tho manuro given averago caro and hauled back to tho Held, .the loss Is nearly ono-half of tho plant food and throo-fourths of tho organio mat tor. U a good crop of olovor la loft on tho ground onco overy throe or four years, only tho soedB being removed. it will supply Bumcioni nitrogen ror Quite largo grain crops. apjpjBBC The Quest of Betty Lahcey Hy MAG "DA. r, WEST Coprrlcht, 1909, by IT. Q, Chapman. Copyticht in Oreat Britain CHAPTER XXVI (Continued). "So they went to India and look up their residence In the hills. One daughter was born to them, named Narclsse. Capt. Do L'Enclob died tho following year.' When Cerlsso wob only eighteen she was married to Har old Harcourt, whom she had met while on tt visit to Calcutta. He was a per sonable fellow, of good family and my aunt thought her only- child was mak ing a good match. Tho resemblance between these four women my Aunt Marie, and her daughter Narclsse, whom you know ns Mrs. Harold Har coUrt, and my mother and her daugh ter, Cerlsse Wayno, my sister, was ap palling. They all had the same color ing, the same features almost to the fraction of an Inch, and the same re markably exquisite coloring. Yet I am sure that not until to-day ha3 Mrs. Harcourt known that Cerlsso Wayne and she were full-blooded cousins, as Aunt Marie brought her daughter up In Ignorance of the relatives In Africa. Aunt Marie's Idea In this was to pro tect my mother from my father's wrath, as he had forbidden mother to tell us of our aunt, and Indeed we were so yountr when Aunt Marie de parted that wo soon forgot her. Moth er and Aunt Marie never had any com munication after Anut Marie left for India. My mother died when I was about nine, and Cerlsse not quite eight years old. Cerlsso had always been father's favorite and after my mother's death homo would have been unbear able to me except for Tyoga. We had excellent tutors In the house, and later father sent Benonl and me to Europe to study. I took a doctor's degree In Heidelberg at a remarkably early age, thanks to the previous Instruction I had received from my father, who was an exceptionally brilliant man. Benonl studied with me, for while father had subordinated Tyoga and her child, my mother had dealt fairly with them In the matter of wealth. "I was at Heldelburg when Aunt Mario came to visit me. It was the year that Narclsse was mamea, ana three yearB after Cerlsse, a madcap girl of seventeen, had been sent home In disgrace from a French convent after a flirtation with Hackleye, who had followed her to Africa and mar rled her there. "Aunt Marie had gone to Africa In search of her sister. With her daugh ter my aunt felt she could safely sek out- her twin sister after the lapse of all theso years. She was grief-strlck en over the news of her sister's death, and unwittingly let fall before my father that In the Tiougaley region were some extremely valuable diamond fields, the secret of whose location had been made known to her husband, Capt. Do L'Enclos, by an Arabian servitor of his. Aunt Marie's fortune had felt the touch of years, and she had made a Joint reason for her African Journey an attempt to locate and work these mines. Father, his avarice all Btlrr-sd again, strove to force her to tell him where they wero. Aunt Marie knew him of old and refused. Learning I was at Heidelberg, she proceeded there, and stopped with Benonl and me for over a year, giving me the only happi ness I had known since my mother's death. She spoke freely to me of my young cousin Narclsse Harcourt In In dia, asked me to befriend her If ever she needed It, and showed me her min iature, so like that of my sister Ce rlsse that I could but gasp. "I went homo that sunfmer and left Aunt Marie in Paris planning to re turn to India In the early fall. Later tho news came that she had perished In a horrible conflagration at a charity baznar. This was a severe hlow to me, for I had loved my aunt, and my heart went out to my unknown cousin. "Cerlsso had the heart of a fiend. Hackleye had taught her that she was tho most beautiful human existent A whim of hers was to fancy herself the reincarnation of Venus herself. Ce rlsse did not take kindly to tho news of her equally exquisite cousin across seas, especially since her children, ofd whom by now she had two, were, with all due respect to their father, whom thoy resembled, not particularly come ly. To satisfy herself Cerlsso made a flying trip to India in disguise, and there began tho tragic end. "Father at this time became cogniz ant that I knew how to reach tho Tiougaley mines. Aunt Marie had be sought me with her farewell breath to keep this Intelligence from him. I kept my faith with hor. And as a penalty for that faith my father subjected me to the most cruel tortures that forty fiends might havo devised. He began In tho castle and ended with them In tho Jungle. And when I was nearly dead from pain and distortion, he real ized that I was dying and the secret with me. Then he put forth all his un canny and exceptional surgical skill, and dragged mo back to life but such a life such a living deathfor no be ing so deformed and taunted out of hu man shapo as I over before walked the earth. "Cerlsso went to India. She saw Narclsso and hated her on sight. Nar clsso had a child, too, by thon, and her ono baby was as lovely as Cerlssa's two had been plain. What is more, Cerlsso becamo violently Infatuated with Harcourt, Narcisso's husband. She mado herself known to him one day as ho walked beneath tho trees In the garden, while Narclsse sat In tho house and rocked her baby to sloop. Aftor the first start Harcourt becamo Inter ested. I know not what wiles Cerlaae tiBod, but this Cerlaae soon bad Har court bound hand and foot Narclsse was ousted from her husband's heart. Cerlsso had forgotten her home and children. "Both Cerlsse and Harcourt stopped at actual murder. They began to play a royal game. The resemblance be tween Cerlsse and Narclsse made this easy. They kept Narclsse under the Influence of the loco blossoms drugged her poor mind almost to Imbecility. When Narclsse lay stupefied from the dearly powders Cerlsse paraded before the world as Mrs. Harcourt Cerlsse was always Jealous of their child, tfie little Harold, Jr. "One day Harold, Jr., fell by acci dent Into the Illy pond. The poor drug ged mother was watching him at the time and sat by tho window too stu pefied to move br rescue him. Har court tried, but ho was too far away at a distant corner of the garden. Har old dead, he decided It would be best to leave India. Hackleye and father were growing suspicious of Cerlsse's long absences, and Mrs. Harcourt's friends in India were becoming unduly exercised over the changes that appar ently had come over her, for of course this strange exchange of personalities was known to none. So Harcourt gave out that he was to travel for his wife's health. In my pitiable shape I could do little to protect my cousin, but I tried to travel closely enough In their wake to prevent heir ever killing her. For my affliction Cerlsse felt no pity. She loathed the sight of me, and her evident hatred soon drove me to ally myself In spirit with my sadly Injured brother-in-law and cougin. Harcourt and Cerlsse had planned to spend the summer here. She, was to go to live In lodgings .till she could find a home in which to remove with his wife, and then Cerlsse would Join them, and the same old farce was to have been re newed. To that end Harcourt leased the Flanders house " A distinct "Ah!" ran through the court room and Harcourt simultaneous ly uttered a denial. "To that end," continued Le Mal heureux, "Harcourt leased the Flanders house. For some whim or other he took It under the name of Hamley Hackleye. I think Harcourt had In tended to make an end of Narclsse there, for he knew that Hackleye was close on the trail. Then Cerlsse was to have stepped Into her cousin's shoes and Hackleye would have believed that It was his wife who had died. Ce rlsse took rooms at the Desterle's and almost immediately a secret doorway was cut through. I tracked Harcourt to the house at 94 Brlarsweet place the night of the murder. I waited till I had a chance and secreted myself In the house. I saw him remove the plaque and climb Into my sister's room. I followed, hiding in the closet "Cerlsse and he quarreled nearly sll evening. Cerlsse In one of her petu lant moods was provoking him beyond endurance. She was becoming wear led with him. The letter that was found on the floor urging her to live up to the demands of womanhood and to return to 'H' had been recently re ceived by her from Harcourt and she made It the pivot on which to turn many a Joke and Jest. Finally she told him she was tired of him, and thought she would go back to her husband. They squabbled and wrangled till final ly Cerlsse made ready for bed. Har court started to go home, but at length, fully dressed, threw himself down on the bed and begqn to smoke, at the same time chiding Cerlsse for using so many cigarettes. Then she asked him for money, claiming that her losses at tho races had, as she termed it, 'laid her flat' He said he had no money, and then she turned on him with re proaches of an over-fondness for rou lette. They bickered about money till nearly daylight and till Harcourt would not talk any more. Cerlsse dropped off Into a doze, but Harcourt lay there smoking In moody silence. Cerlsse roused and asked him to get her a drink of water. He refused at first, but sho kept at him. Finally he got up, went over to the stand, fumbled there for a moment and came back, handing her the glass half filled with water, and said, 'Never ask me for a drink again.' "Cerlsse lay back on her pillows, and apparently fell into slumber again. Harcourt resumed his place by her side. I was about to go, wishing to make my way back home before tho dawn broke, when suddenly Harcourt turned over on his elbow and moaned like a whipped lioness. "What havo I done, what have I done?" ho cried over and over again. My temper, my temperl My awful Jealousy! Cerlsse, I have killed you, killed you!" "He kissed her again and again, and wept and dug his nails Into his flesh. The sunlight camo In at the window and the breakfast gong clanged In the hall. Reality came back to him. Ho cautiously slid from the bed and made his way back Into tho house. Ho knew that safety lay In flight. "Handicapped by deformity, I knew could do nothing, but I relied on Hackleye. Together I thought wo might take tho body away with us through that trap door. I went over to the bed and assured myself that Ce rlsso was quite dead. I smelled of the glass and from the, lack of odor and the condition of Cerlsse's body guessed that Harcourt had depended upon his old friend, the loco plant, to end her life. Perhaps he had given her the dose meant originally for Narclsse. "Then I went In search for Hack leye. It took mo longer to find Mra than I thought, for It was very lato, nearly noon, when we returned to tho room. I had not told him sho was dead. He was fearfully shocked. Wb had Just entered and were figuring how wo could get tho body away, whon wo heard the trap door fastened behind us. Evidently Harcourt had come in and noticed It open and, fearing ho had for gotten to close It In his wild flight of the morning, made haste to remedy tho oversight There wo were, Hackleyo nnd I, locked In the room with tho dead body of his wife and my sister. Five minutes later Mrs. Desterle burst In the door. There was time to get out, as Hackleye has said, while they" car ried Mrs. Desterle to her room. "I was In the hotel perched on tho fire-escape above the room occupied by Miss Lancey, now Mrs. Morris, that same night. I was keeping guard over Mrs. Harcourt. I did not know but that in an after rago Harcourt might not destroy her, too. I did not know what the papers were, but feared they might react on my cousin's safety. I followed Mrs. Morris to Mrs. Har court's room and ran Into her as sho was rouidlng the corner on her re turn. She struggled to free herself, but I held her fast. I wanted to discover what she had done, and to see If sho had the stolen papers hidden about her, and If so, what they were. In the contest her waist was torn off and her nose began to bleed. Then she fainted from fright. I carried her from tho hotel to Hackleye's rooms, intending to take her to her home in the morning. She grew steadily worse and by morn ing was having convulsions. I hold high European degrees as a physician, and as I knew the cause of her malady felt the only Just way to the girl would be to treat her myself. Together with Tyoga and Hackleye I got her to San Francisco and took her to Africa with me. I had to do it There was no oth er way. My only safely lay in flight. Her only chance of recovery lay in tho medication I could give her, for I alone knew the cause of her complete mental prostration. The later complications of her Journey I had not foreseen, but she is here now, safe and well, and, may I not say it? all the happier for her trip." Harcourt had risen and staggered from his feet toward Francis Wayne. Harcourt walked like a drunken man, and quicker than anyone could dlvlno his purpose he had unveiled the shrink ing figure of Le Malheureux. Shrieks r6se from all sides of tho. court room. Before them stood -Tho Man-Aperllla! High and clear rang Narclsse Har court's voice: "My poor cousin! My poor, poor cousin!" CHAPTER XXVII. They hanged Harcourt within the month. And the British government did not Interfere. It was glad to shift the riddance of such a human pest on Uncle Sam. Hackleye went back to England to be with his children, and patch out the rest of his life as best he could. Narclsse Harcourt and Phil ip Hartley married. The papers Francis Wayne produced bore out his story, which was further attested by the old French Cure, and by Benonl. They also told of the fright ful treatment Francis Wayne had suf fered at the hands of his unnatural father, and how his repulsive shapo was In reality a perverted triumph oC science. For old John Wayne out thero In the African Jungle had forestalled all continental research In the graft of body on body. When through his tor tures his son lay before him scarcely more than a heart and a brain, Johru Wayne had grafted to him bodily tha hugest gorilla the Jungle furnlshetL. The human brain and heart and sout still beat in kinship, and the beast' body thrived and made for the mortal soul within It a torture. i After the trial Le Malheureux, dis daining the pleadings of a hundred scientists, went back to Africa with Meta and Benonl. There he has sunk his Identity in a wonderful laboratory for electrical research, from which an nually Issue bulletins that delight and astonish the scientific world. Before Le Malheureux sailed he said, in self Justification: "Only once have I let the inclina tions of the beast that is part of mo overtop me only once permitted Its physical characteristics to conquer my Immortal soul. That was the time when, penned In the death-chamber of my sister, with the trap-door locked behind me, and open escape, such as Hackleye took, barred from me because of my unmerited affliction, and when, I knew no one would believe my story, that I might keep free for my cousin's sake, hunted and sore, I Jlbbered.and fought and played tho beast I look." (The End.) Urncc'a Mother. The Inspector was examlnlnu Stand ard I, and all tho class had been sne clally told beforehand by their master: "Don't answer unless you are almost certain your answer is correct." History was the subject. "Now, tell me," said the Inspector. "who was the mother of our great Scot tish hero, Robert Bruce?" He pointed to the top boy. then round the class. There was no answer. Then at last the heart of the teachqr of that class leaped with Joy. Tho boy who was Btandlng at the very foot hod held up his hand. "Well, my boy," said the Inspector. encouragingly, "who was she?" "Please, sir, Mrs. Bruce." Philadol. phla Inquirer. A. Ilrlirlit Proapect. "For Ave years," said tho commer cial traveler, "I had called upon a cer tain draper in Scotland and never got an order. I mentioned It to tho head of tho firm. We aye deal wl' B & Co.,' ho said. 'Their tralvlor ca'd for twenty years before he took an order, an' if ye'll continue to call for twenty years I'll no say but ye may get one." Manchester Guardian. Bowers They Bay that the new dom inie is not a very entertalnlntr nreach. or. Powers That's right; he can even preach a dry sermon on the flood. r 1 ft. ! r