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The Qhauifeur and the Jewels OnvTrie-ht. 1 VX. by J. R. Mppincutt Company. All nht rcrrved. BJth Morgan Wlltctt In line, with the best modern productions of fiction wrvch we are offering, this serial is timely, intensely entertain ing and dramatic, and should be received with enthusiasm by every leader who delights in a bright, interesting story. It is entitled, "This Chauffeur and the Jewels." and inside from the automobile element, which is fascinating, has a wide range in land and ocean travel and includes scenes and incidents of varied interest. The gifted authoress is Edith Morgan Willett, the story is linely written and interest is maintained to the very last chapter. The heroine is Annette Bancroft, the daughter of a retired army oiiicor, whose home is in Washington. Miss la-croft and htr mother pass a wonderful year visiting England in May, summer in Switzerland, the Tyrol in September and the winter in the Riviera, where their automobi'e wax bought. Thev are robbed in a mysterious manner ot wry va'uable jewels, and this incident form the central point in the romance. Complications ensue ana around the.-e are grouped p'ot and counterplot am num -rous mcuknts that are intensely depicted. There is a stjong e'ement of love and devotion all through the story, ending in a dramatic way that is original anc striking. This serial has a further e'ement of fashionable society that lends a nte-asmy variation to its HpvpIa j. ne nonwe impersonation, the loss ot the jewels, the rapid euange in sc ne, an continue to maintain the interest, and the result is a story of superior power and merit. life CHAPTER I. Springtime in F ranee a port's theme ! The charm of u gray-blue sky strung with bead-like clouds, of level fields, of dis tant spires and turrets jotted picturesque ly on the horizon : and always the white road, glistening, undulating ahead, keep ing step with the windings of the Seine! It war with the satiety of utter enjoy ment that Annette at last closed her tired eyes and, loaning 1 nek on the crimson cushions of thp tonneau, gave herself up to the twin luxuries of perfect motion eyes and perfect air. (-'hug-chug, snorted the motor as it swept ahead, consuming space at the rate of sixty kilometres an hour. Over the girl's head rollicked a merry wind, now steeped In sunshine, and again chill with the breath of far-away ice fields. Behind lay l'ans, letr unit very morning, and now only a confused, composite memory of de lights which had been crowded into three delicious weeks. Ahead the telescopic eyes of the motor pointed to Havre: and then .Miss Bancroft shivered slightly there would be the Channel crossing, Southampton, Liverpool, and eventually home ! Home. To the girl in the tonneau that magic word signified chiefly an abode in S street, one of Washington's unfashion able thoroughfares, where bay-windowed "twenty-foot-frouters" elbow each other with offensive familiarity; where walls are narrow, and ceilings low, and the smell of cookery haunts the air. It was in one of tii ;se so-called "desir able residences" that Annette's father a retired army officer nn half pay and her two little brothers had been keeping bach elor's hall without her for the past year. However, Major Bancroft was a wise pareut, as well as a kind-hearted if some what prosaic mortal, and when Mrs. D'fk Waring, who was a distant cousin of his late wife's and a handsome woman to boot, had taken him o.T forcibly in her victoria one line day of the previous spring, ami begged the loan ot that nice girl of his for twelve months on the other side of the ocean," he had said "Yes" without hesitation. After all. when a man has a penchant for doing his own marketing and divides his time satisfactorily between the club and his newspaper, an only daughter is not always indispensable especially when she writes regularly and doesn't re quire an allowance. Besides, what an opportunity for the child! Kurope at twenty-one! A witching combination, even with an exacting chapprone to o.Tset its charms. "You know." Mrs. Waring had inform ed her proposed charge very frankly, "I've quarreled with Julie and, any way, one gets tired of traveling forever with a maid, as I've had to do ever since poor Dick departed this life French women of that clas have and are such poor jtnind hooking im will you, d-ar, am We'll have a beaut no ideas to speak of travelers. You won't up behind sometimes, I packing my trunks? iful time together and iee ev.-r;. thing wi'ltin And so indeed they year linking a chapb't Anisette, like a good ever canning over and England in May : land ; t he 1 Italy end reach." did. the wonderful of experiences that Catholic, was for-, over. nnmer in Switznr- .to! through September; then a winter on the Iliviera. b'-en bought, point in Miss tioiis, a voice jvheie the automobile had At t!:is lai't ev.piisite Bancroft's r -ary of recoil broke in upon them. "Where are ve now?" it demanded, in Mrs. Waring's clear, trenchant tones, that carried above th whi-.il- of ih." wind. "Wl at's that iri ll.e d si -nice. Sarto?" "'bateau Gai'lard. tnali )." Then, to Annette. "Ti -e, to your right, see?" Annette opened her eyes. B-side her the chauffeur was leaning forward and pointing to distant battlement. Far above the road on a ro-ky height the cas tle towered a sullen mass of ruins, blot ing the fair lands-ape. The two p-ople on the front sent of the motor had turned their he.ids and were Mariug up. "What's thp use of sloppin' and over Iiatilln' that old den V" demanded the hug", br a.! hoisldered. thick set personage who was grasping the steering wheel. "If we're goin" to reach Bouen this afternoon, we'd better push straight on and keep cur nerve and muscles and tenier for the cathedral. What say, GussieV" All right, laconically agreed Mrs waring, and the car shot on. "Mr. Buisl is not an admirer of ruins.'' remarked the chauffeur solto-vocp. and then, as his companion acquiesced with a whimsica shake of the head, he shrugged his leath ei-ccert(i siioukiers and sat staring at the Englishman's square back with which glittered behind their goggles The chauffeur himself was not an in effective figure, in suite of thp coerles the heavy brown beard, and brigand-like moustache, not to mention an automobile livery which could not quite obliterate the graceful lines of his person and the straightness of his nose. Six weeks ago it was that he had ap peared miraculously on the wide, shallow. I orange-ported steps ot the Hotel de Paris, at .Monaco, at the very moment that Mrs. Waring .was descending them, and, ap proaching her with a low bow, presented to her a co rone ted missive, in which no less a personage than the Prince Itode rigo del Pino sang the praises of one I.udovic Sarto, who had managed his new forty-horse power touring car for two years in a trip which must have tak en in all the corners of the globe, dis playing nerve, resource and science in all motoring exigencies, besides intimate fellowship with Baedeker and "unusual linguistic ability." The effect of all this; endorsed by the coronet, had its influence on (iussie Waring, who engaged the par agon on the spot. And so I.udovic Sarto steered the new Napier motor over the upper Cornice, down to Monaco and Monte Carlo, and finally up to Nice, where. Mr. Gerald Buist. an ancient ally of Mrs. Waring's ( besides being second son of Lord Lind say), appearing on the scene, the new chauffeur was relegated ignominious)- to the tonneau and t he society of Miss Ban croft. A month is a long enough time to reg ister an impression, and in Annette's diary it will lie found recorded that there are worse things in this sad world than being whirled through space in a comfort able arm-chair, tete-a-tete with an agree able individual who has apparently been everywhere and seen everything and who knows how to talk about it all in excel lent idiomatic English. "Chauffeurie," if there be such a word, is a curious craft, which admits of its votary working like a coal heaver and engine driver combined, while at the same time preserving the manners and appear ance of a gentleman. "I know he's a gentleman." Annette told herself irrelevantly, and for the twentieth time, that June day, as Jhey left Chateau Gaillard a pin point on the sky line speeding on to Andelys, which shimmered alluringly through a blue hare. Above the front seat a veiled hat and a gray auto cap could be seen in close propinquity, while their owners indulged in ansorneci conversation, anu rue swing ing car traced eccentric scallops on the broad road. "S'e wiil be in th ditch without doubt if M-estcr Buist is not more careful," commented the chauffeur aside, in his pre-.! else foreign English. He bit his lip and 'cowled as the motor skimm-d the edge of the roadway in a Z'gzag course of per ilously acute angles. The girl beside him laughed softly. "How yon want to be on that front seat at this lircnent 1" she ejaculated. Sarto turn-d bis head. "Sousi. signorina ';" he asked, eyeing his companion with an intent glance that gave way to one of relu-tant admiration. Annetre Bancroft was not a beauty: the small oval face, with its delicate childlike features, had none of her cous in's emphatic brilliance. Nevertheless, the girl's shy grace was full of poten tiality hints h"lf uttered, yet unmistak able, of the charm that was to be. "Why do you imagine that I covet fh front seat, siguorina?" he inquired curi ously. Again Annette laughed. "Ah! I know you must long to be at the helm ixgain." she surmised sympathetically, "in jour rightful place, with your hand on the steering wheel." "In my rightful place!" echoed the chauffeur. The man had taken off his glasses an unusual action with him and without their somewhat fcrotPs,pi protection his eyes gleamed out unfamil larljr ; long, heavy-lidded brown eyes they were, slightly raised at the corners, giv ing their owner the half-sad, half-won-dering expression of an animal. He smiled now an odd, twisted smile. "It is not always that I have been on the front seat of a motor, siguorina." Then, breaking off abruptly, "This is Andelys," he said, in his usual tones. "That spire it is a good piece of Nor man architecture, do you not think so?" But Annette only gazed absently ahead as the motor tooled through crooked st reels at a pace that gave chickens and small children scant time to get out of the way. When they had left the little town quite behind, she turned to her compan ion again. "Now 1 am going to maW a conjecture," this abruptly spoken in French, the painfully correct French of the boarding school. "Do you know" she (lushed a little, inwardly surprised at her own audacity "I've been wonder ing tell nu if I'm not right in fancy ing that at some time or other in the course of your life you've been a Rol dier; you know there is such an unmis takably martial look to your shoulders." The chauffeur smiled. "You have great discernment, mademoiselle," he said politely. "Yes. I have been in the For eign Legion you know nothing ot that organization? It is an extraordinary af fair, the Foreign Legion" his tones quickened, gaining a certain enthusiasm "the most marvelous chemical solution in existence, capable of dennving a man any man of his identity and tinning him into a bit of militarv mechanism. neither more nor less. I served in tho ranks for two years." He stopped short, and as suddenly the light, the vigor of an unwonted exalta tion, went out of his face, which settled into its habitual impassivity. Beplacing his goggles, lie lowered his cap over his eyes, and folding his arms sat looking imperturbably ahead down (lie long road , a motionless leather-encased figure sug gestive of motor cars and naught beside. This attitude was not conducive to fur ther confidences, but Annette Bancroft nt I twenty-one had all the instincts of a born 1 biographer, and when once on the scent I of possible romance was not to be turned aside. "I suppose," slip hazarded nt last, join ing rhe loose ends of his unfinished story, "that after you left the army you took this up?" Her companion hesitated, twisting his long, brigand-like mustaches. "Well, not immediately," he responded guardedly, still speaking in French. "I got down here by degrees; that is the way it generally happens. Let me see I started by tutoring a bit in Switzer land: the boy had consumption and died in less than a year. After that one took up what came easiest. The transitions do not amount to much, but" he laughed suddenly, a frank, gay. wonderfully light hearted laugh "in the course of my checkered earepr I have been respectively guide, courier, croupier, and even cabman on occasions, besides otnciating as motor pilot for various racy individuals not, of course, including His Highness the Prince del Pino." He paused with a faint shrug of the shoulders. For an instant the girl gazed at hin. with eyes lhat were unnaturally dilated. How interesting! she murmured at last, inadequately. The chauffeur made a slight bow. "Bouen already !" he ejaculated, dis missing the subject and glancing around, then relapsing into his careful, conscien tious English. See you our auberge at the end oi that little street? How have we made the run?" He pulled out his watch. Good! Seventy kilometres in as many minutes. Whiz ! buzz ! sang the motor, its breath expiring like a wounded sky-rocket as it drew up in front of a red brick Normanesque facade. "Sarto!" called Mrs. Waring peremp torily. She stood, minus her dust-cloak and goggles, a dazzling tailor-made vision with a big bunch of violets at her waist, smiling with unwonted graciousness to the chauffeur, who hastened to do her bid- A Iliiudy Sinn II Ilnrn. A Missouri subscriber of Farm arid Homo forwards n do vice for n handy and Inexpensive barn, anil In. describ ing same Hays: "Many small fanners, poultryiuen, fruit and truck growers have no use for a large burn such ns FltONT 11CW. those usually published hv the papers. 1 semi the plan here Illustrated in tlu hope that it will be of some use to those wishing a small barn. It Is ISx : --t icec on tne ground nnd divided as : shown In the door plan. The open shed j is used for tools, a wagon, buggy, or j a shop, iind sometimes simply as a place to store manure. In some of the colder States doors should be provided for the shed, and possibly the parti tions extended to the ceiling. The structure is ten feet at the eaves and tourteen to sixteen feet in front. The bd't Is floored over eight feet above the grade" line. This provides ample storage space for hay and rough teed nnd the two feed rooms are ample for grain and bran. These may be lloored or not, as desired. The outer will Is are boarded up and down and battened. The roof should be covered with some rather tight material not over eight Inches wide, and this is turn covered with any of the prepared roofing felt now on the market. The barn has been built several time's at a price ranging irom $.o to $iiO, and can be built some cheaper where native lum ber is used. When neatly painted it will make a very good appearance. I was prompted to "submit the sketch from several articles written by sub scribers stating that small barn plans never appeared in the journals, and as It is very evident that they can only publish such article as are submitted. Wen n Inn Ptff. If. will soon be time to take young pigs from the sows, and in weaning them much care will be necessary to avoid stunting them or stopping their growth. When about three weeks old the .voting pigs will begin to look around for feed, and a pen should then be provided for them where they can be coaxed and given a little fresh milk it takes very little nt first after they have once tasted the milk they may be easily called to their feed. Corn should lie constantly kept In this pen and the little pigs have free access to It at all times. Milk or swill should be fed to them, a little at lirst, and increased gradually daily. It will bo beneficial to give them all the fresh, clean swill they will drink up clean at each feed. Never feed little pigs anything sour, or so much swill that It will stand In the trough and sour. Feed them this way until you see that the sow Is dried up, then remove her and the pigs will be weaned. 'WEEKLY I' ii Keel Stale Forest Land. I lie Lnited States Forest Servict, now litis administration over more than .-wk;o,(H'0 acres of hind. This in slightly more than one-fiflh of the country total forested area ; the re mainder Is in the hands of private, owners. Nearly all the timber land of the unappropriated public domain is new In the national forests. This means that it is being protected against fire, theft, and wasteful ex I'lcuiiiinni ; null us power to grow wood and store water Is being safe guauieii lor an nine, and that never theless Its present supply of useful nut lerial is open to immediate use when ever it is wanted. colo .- s ding" Then, accepting his hand, regard less of the Englishman beside her, the landlord in the doorway, and nn obsequi ous commis-voyageur who was pressing forward to her assistance, she stepped nimbly to the ground and passed into the inn. followed by her cousin. Mr. (ierald Buist with an expression less countenance sauntered off to the postoflice, wondering "what possessed (iussie Waring to make such a fool of herself;" but the man whom she had delighted to honor stood by the motor rooted to the ground, gazing in a rapt, reverential way at his leather-covered gloves. (To be continued.) Only nn Ofllce Boy. "If you want n ready-tohand study In the downright cussedness of human nature unwarped," said an insurance agent, "just watch the office lx)yg in your own or any other place of busi ness. In four cases out of five the thing will come out this way: "A eew boy is engaged. He Is meek ;ind mild, apologetic of bearing a. id courteous of speech. He is apparently seeking rin excuse for daring to make a living. He looks reproachfully at the head oflio hoy, who orders him around in a rough, catc-h-as-eatch-can style Push rudeness pains him. "Note this boy a little later. Ills rude superior has resigned or boon dis missed, and be is now head ollice boy. Is be meek and mild, apologetic and reproachful? Say, he's a worse young ruffian than bis predecessor bullyrags 1 the newcomer, ignores the cuspidor, uses language not tit 1o print and comes dangerously near 'sassing' his employer. He knows it ail. and a little more. "There are exceptions, iuit they prove the rule." New York (ilobe. CI I'M f ft SUV V FLOOR PLAN. possibly the readers are at fault and not the journals. I hope the above dan will be found useful to nianv." Mixed IlreecIIiiK. In mixed breeding, or cross breed leg, nothing is accomplished beyond the first cross, says a Colorado veter inary bulletin. While a few good in dividuals may lie secured, the tend ency is for (he progeny to be below ratner iinin nnove tne average. A man conducting his breeding in a haphaz ard way is contending with fearful odds, groping in the dark following wiii-o -die wis). in a Hundred years he would bo just where he started. In cidentally this is Just what we have been doing in this country from the beginning, and the reason why we have so few pure breeds of live stock and are, after ail this time, sensing our good money across the water for pure-bred sires which we should pro- luce at home. After animals have been graded up to a practical purity of blood, the longer they are bred along this line the more prepotent they become, and the more certain that the offspring will uniformly possess general excel lence of form, quality, action and utility. The same Is, of course, true of all live stock. The only certain method of raising the average standard of ex cellence is by persistent breeding to sires of the same breed until the na tive blood Is obliterated and the pro geny uniformly possesses all those de sirable qualities of the pure breed employed. 'I'll roni One. Lady I'm looking for a for my children. Manager or Intelligence Iidn't we supply jou with week ? "Yes." "Well, madam, ncoordlng to her port, you don't need a governess, need a lion tamer. Life. governess O.'Iice one last re- lnn't -Veulecl (lie Garden. In summer the farmer litis plenty of work on band, and work that must have prompt altontion, but the work needed in the garden Is that which he should least neglect. His living depend on it, at least be ought to think so, and act on that belief. It is certain that there is no other part of bis entire work so Important to the health and comfort of his family and himself, and the actual saving of expenses which a bounteous garden insures is a feature which alone warrants him in making a good garden, no matter what other work many cause him to defer. It is i presumed that he has by this time of I year made nil mvessary preparations for a supply of fruit for family use during the entire summer, and muc h of I the provision for a supply of staple vegetables should be completed, but there is time for much more, and It DIxtrilMiten Fertiliser. fertilizer is the life of (lie farm. The man who applies It generously is rewarded by large and fine crops, but the farmer who Is sparing with the soil rejuvenator pays the penalty with d e c r e a si n g crops until he dis covers that bis ground is "worked out." Next to the use of this valuable nisiHiiiLTKs , material is the mat- FUtrit.iziH. ter of its applica tion. The best results are obtained by its even distribution over the ground, so that all parts will obtain the benefit Where It Is scattered In lumps nnd heaps, much of its virtue is lost. In order to acctunplish this operation In the most approved manner the ap paratus shown herewith litis been In vented by a Virginia genius. He claims that It is the most effective and compact of all the machines for the purpose, and besides this it is capable of very fine adjustment, so that the amount of fertilizer may be regulated to n nicety. M" I John d'Arc burned at Bouen. ltih'5 ('iiion of the New Fnglnnd nies. 1 072 Peter the Great of Bussia born at Moscow. 1 7!) 1 French fleet defeated in the Bay of Biscay by the English under Lord Howe. 1S1.' Knglish defeated the Americans nt battle of Sackett's Harbor. 1X14 Fmpress Josephine, wife of Napo leon, died at Malmaison. 1S,'!2 Opening of the Bideau canal. IS;!,") Pope Pius X. ((Juisenne Sarto) born. 'SIX Wisconsin admitted to the I'nion. 180-1 Sheridan joined Grant before Rich mond. -Canada issued its first post cards 1S70 Several hundred houses desl roved by fire in Quebec. INNl Garfield and Arthur nominated bv the Republican national convention Rt Chicago. 1SS!) Texas Spring Palace opened at Fort Worth. 1S!)() The Texas Spring Palace in Fort Worth burned. lPO.'t Last performance given in the his toric Boston museum. 10rt,") Icwis and (.'lark exposition opened at Portland, Ore. ... President Roose velt offered his services as a mediator to end the war between Russia and Japan. 1007 Widow of President McKinlev buried nt Canton The Waters Pierce Oil Company having been found guilty of violating the anti trust laws of Texas, was fined $1,-023,ntX). Seeding Clover. There nre customs which are rigid ly adhered to In the sowing or plant ing of staple crops. Clover Is usually sown on wheat land In the spring, the seed being scattered over the ground when it is covered with snow in order to facilitate the work. One of the rigid rules is to sow a certain quantity of seed (as little as possible if seed is high), and should the stand be light the cause is ascribed to everything but the quantity of seed that 1ms been used. That fact is that seed should be used more liberally, ns much of it is i i i ,. . ... . ... . cic-M roj eci in ion a. oei ore- geruii- ; and defeated the strongest nation, the saving of seed causing a loss of clover. Another point Is to harrow the wheat, seed down the clov er and then use a roller on the land. The better the preparation for clover, the more seed will germinate and the? more perfect the "catch." The will of Henry Blount, an eccentric miser of Ilerfordshire, Fngland, leaving $40.".XK) to Yale university, was admit ted to probate at London, although rela tives expected to show that bis mind was unbalanced. Yale will get the monev. Freshmen and sophomores from th Fniversity of Minnesota engaged in a lively battle nt a dancing academy in Minneapolis and it took a squad of police and a number of men armed with buckets of water to subdue them. The sopho mores attempted to cut the hair uf the freshmen boys who attended a class party. The Virginia high school debating team claims the Minnesota State championship for 1!0S, on the grounds of havim? met teams in the debating league, including the teams of St. Paul and .Minneapolis, and also cm the recent challenge issued to meet any team in the league or out of die league. Gold medals are being struck for the members 'if the team. I). H. Burnhain of Chicago and Wal ter Cook of New York, the two distin- forner Post for Wire Fenpe. guished architects, who with W. M Ken- Thls contrivance is Intended for the yon of Minneapolis, have been c hosen as attachment of a portable woven wire .judges to pass upon the merits of the fence at the ends. Two posts cleated I'huis submitted in the open competition iior improving and neautit.vmg the greater campus of the I'niversity of Minnesota, have begun their examination of the twen ty plans submitted by architects. Negotiations are under way in St. Paul to secure the Minnesota college, a Scandi navian Luther institution, now located in Minneapolis. The college "was established a few years ago. Since that time the col lege has prospered and grown so that it needs more room. It has been unable to secure property in the neighborhood of jic prc-seiii icjcHiioii, nnci tne authorities j of the institution are now considering the i advisability of removing it to St. Paul. J. committee of St. Paul business men i have the matter of aiding the college in hand. j President Swain of Swarthtnore Col lege has announced that the board of managers will be asked by the faculty to authorize the abandonment of intci llo-ri. ate athletic contests for at least one year together at both top and bottom about ""' .'it the football and basketball games four inches apart are set in line with scheduled for next year be c-ancvled. But contests in the milder form, such nis and lacrosse, mav rtoon coitM n rosT. tho fence at each end. Two nieces of mo by four inch oak are bolted on the fence in the form of clamps, placing .tie on each side of an upright wire to prevent slipping of the laterals. will uot iay to neglect it. SI. I in Milk tor (hlrkrna. The West Virginia experiment sta tion made a 122 -day tost to determine the value of tho skim milk as a chick en feed. They selected twenty-two bc-i s ami fed them skim milk with the result that they secured 1,244 eggs in this time. Another lot of twenty-two bens fed with mash wet with water hi id P!0 eggs in the 122 days. lift Soil for ne(a. Beefs will grow well on any kind ot soil except a bard, eunipuct clay. The ideal soil is a mellow, moist one, pref erably a Handy loam. Well-rotted mar.iiee should be applied to the poorer sol!?, the amount depending on the con dltlon of the soil us ten- continued. The decision is based cm complaints of mem bers of the faculty and of the alumni that "the desire to win has come to over shadow the legitimate purpose of athletics j to such an extent as to form a serious menace to the primary piupes- (,f (-,,li,.,jn life." The Athletic Advisory Committee is willing that the experiment ,P tried, but believes that it will not be found to be in the best interests of Swarthtnore. President Imbney of the I'niversity of Cincinnati has asked for the resignation of Prof. II. II. Bawdeii of (he department of philosophy bec ause of the private view. held by the latter on the question of mar riage. It was said that the request was inspired by the eNclosnres made by Mrs. Bawdcn concerning the effect of her hus band's peculiar views cai their home lif. He holds lhat comradeship should be the only tie letween man nnd wife on the spiritual plane, nnd thnt where this does not exist separation should be made af simple af possible.
