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Greed For Gold Or, The Sign of the Arrow -- Ho s CHAPTER VI. he found c > the gii cuter wards that her name was Vere, and that her mother and companion had been the other cyclists--spoken of in the past tense, for, alas ! one of the number was never to even look on a cycle again. Along the roadside was a ditch, and there was clear, running water In its bottom. Dick filled his cap with this twice, and dashed it in the faces of the unconscious women. It had no effect. "Your straw hat is larger," he said to Vcro, "and will hold more than mine. Fill it, please, as you saw me do, and bring the water The girl did not move, only lips seemed to tremble. "For God's sake," added "arouse yourself ! Let us st this now of blood if possible." The girl staggered, moaned, sank in a powerless heap on roadside. ! my mother; my wailed. "Oh God poor, poor mother Dick saw it was useless to expect help from her; she was paralysed with fear. "Mount your machine, then," he said, "and ride to the next village; it is only three or four miles. Ride as you never rode before, and send •art 1 'You ! Thank God ! There be time. Have you writing ial 7" "For what ?" "I want to make---necessary for mj Unless I do so she It i 11 be left pen- How sweet a thing is motherhood! With a knowledge that death stood by her side, waiting to take her out of this world, her whole thought was of the child site was to leave behind her in it. "A doctor should be fot-" "The--will! Let me entreat yon to--hurry. I know, oh, I know ! Be lieve me, my minutes are numbered Paper--have you-" Dick had a cyclist's map of the county with him. He folded plain 'face into a square. In his pair outfit was an ink-pencil for in marking punctures. With that pencil, on the map he started draw out the quickest will he had ever drafted. As he did so, he ' dered what Somerset House would say . it. But again for girl inert : The dying woman explained u ;rs to him pithily. ITnless she xuted a power of appointment j had by will, all her property went to distant relatives. Dick grasped ithe instructions and wrote as fol-tho helpless i0ws :-- "This is the last Will and Testament of me Margaret Grayne of Grayne Hall, Graynewood, Sussex, the wife of Sir George Grayne. 1 appoint my daughter Vere executrix and whereas the whole of the Consols of which I have enjoyed the life interest are held in trust for person as I by my Will should Fear had prisoned her limbs, she could not, move. One of the men began to show signs of returning consciousness. What'should he do? Me did not dare leave things as they were whilst he rode for assistai * nilSht a" recover. idea occurred to him. j point and whereas I am desirous of five-barred j oxercising the said Power of Ap-and in the j point men t now and In execution the said power for this purpose gi roadside ling into a field, the rope the r doubled -knife I up tin in hall, and doubled places. Then with his pock, he sawed through till he ha< pieces of rope in his hands. He clutched the coat collar ruffian nearest, the gate, and ed his body across to it. Th him into a sitting postun it, he leant over, and, dn______ unconscious tramp's hands through" tied them--with no gentle tying, either--firmly to the bars of the'gate Without assistance, freedom would be impossible. The other two men served in the same fashion. They >rtably by this , I do the iid daughter Vere absolutely." of the j He read it to her, and she appr dragg- eli with a look of gratitude. I 'owing) the difficulty was not over. Two witnesses were necessary. Vere not competent--she benefited u the will. He looked round. One of the men had his eyes open; had come back a ga i i sill t nd t re, facing- the r apparontly c Then he looked to t From a great wound in t the elder lady the blood v --a wound caused by an i hobnailed boot. Dick llv Ver CHAPTER VII. Half i the ma what t able U II c i. exercise her He went to the girl, who was crouched, moaning, on the grass, and said somewhat roughly : "Give me your hat." She had watched his actions as a cat watches a mouse, fearful that he would leave her. So she guessed what he required her headgear for. She tried to withdraw the two long hat-pins with which it was staked to her head, but so great was the fear which had got hold of her that ' r trembling fingers refused to obey *It ill. x time for ceremony, so without a word Dick pulled the'pins out himself and ran to the ditch with the hat. It was of the varnished kind, and held the water well Back to the side of the bleeding wo man, and on his knees, With hi; handkerchief he started bathing the wound. He was filled with hoi when ho saw the extent of it. was a death-wound. He had no real medical knowledge, but enough to know that. N • be able down into his face, coward written there as plainly as on any street mongrel's. So he dealt with him accordingly. "You have murdered that lady, knew not | She will be dead in a few minutes, been This is her will; I want it witnessed, ijy able What is your name?" "Don't misunderstand me. Don't force me to deal with you as you dealt with her. By; God ! I feel tempted to ! You have killed a woman. With as much compunction I could find it in my heart to kill you --you hound ! Once more--don't misunderstand me. Fail to do as I wish, and, by the God in the Heaven above us, I'll kill you that very moment of your refusal ! When free I rendered three of you senseless; are tied up it would easy to beat your brains out.' " ' hought that this strong language--not a brave speech i man to make to a prison-think of Dick's position, jndings, the character of he had to deal with, and possibly an excuse may be found for him. "Now, promptly, youi And this time the gipsy answered the question : there was a look Dick's eyes he did not like. "Reuben Lee." "Can you write ?" "My r his handkerchief; just as mechanically he picked up two stones and put them on the edge of the handkerchief, so that the wind might not lift it away. Habit tells at such a moment : it is a custom with to cover up our dead. Then he turned his attention the auburn-haired woman, but found he could do nothing for her; the depth of her swoon was too great for him to probe. She needed medical attention. So he walked to the still crying girl, who had not changed her crouched position, and said : "I am going to ride away for help--doctor and police." That acted like a galvanic shock. her feet in a moment, clinging t "Do; ; lea '! leave t leave n He had never seen--he prayed that he might never see again--such awful agony of fear in a worn face. But no soft words would help in her case. She needed tonic, and he administered it, tonic of rough language. Pushing her away from him, he said st with i f yo "Those men ?" She gasped out those two word» as she shudderinglv looked round. "Are helpless, tied up. Will you stay or ride ?" "Mount then." He went to her machine, picked it up, and brought it to her side. "I can't ! I feel I cannot move a step. God forgive me for this clog it. S I can't help it'I" And the heartbreaking sobs were coming to the surface again, and her whole frame was shaking with her grief. He was at his wits' end He looked at her. She was a little woman, scaling perhaps six stone. There was only one course, and *he adopted it. He had not ridden twenty years without mastering his machine. His steed was of good make; it would bear a. double burden, ' he e id, ' sit sideways on this bar, and cling me whilst I pedal. That is the only way. Assistance must be got at She was as obedient as a child. He drew his machine to the roadside, and, standing on a mound of earth, put one leg across the saddle and a foot on the outer pedal. And she came; did as he directed her: pulled up her skirts that they might not catch in the pedals, put her arm round his neck, and so he was enabled to ride away, her deep sobs shaking him more than any rut in the road could do. At first he had despised the girl for her 'ear; now, poor soul, his heart went out (To be Continued.) It. The cold water revived Lady Grayne a little. She opened her eyes and moaned in her pain. Dick raised her head to his knees, and spoke cheeringly : "Vou are in a friend's hands; have no further fear; you are safe now." "My daughter ?" Such a feeble inquiry ! For answer Dick turned the poor bleeding head a little, so that she could see where her daughter was crouching on the roadside--see for herself that she was alive and well. Their striking resemblance made him think them mother and child; he was right. The girl, relieved at seeing her mother conscious, and yet shocked toy the bloodstained appearance of, face and dress (for bloodstains stand out on a white dress), called out : "Oh, mother !" And then the relief of tears came to her, and she cried and cried as though her heart were breaking. And slill Dick knew not what to do. He earnestly hoped that a cart, or even a foot-passenger would come along; but it was a side road, almost off the map, and traffic on it was of the smallest. He hoped in vain. "Wall you lie here quietly," he said to the woman he was tending, "whilst I i for i liei'oi Dick went back to Lady Grayne' side. Raising her gently to a sit ting posture, he made a desk of on knee, and, placing the stub of ink pencil between her fingers, guided her hand to the foot of his writing. So the will was signed. Putting her gently back on the road, he walked over to the gate again. Then he unfastened the cord which bound the man's right hand. Into it he put the pencil, and, indicating- the place, said : "Sign your name--there under The gipsy looked up into the speaker's face, and once more was urged to assent by what ho saw there. Without a word he signed Then the hand he signed with was •efastened to the gate. Turing round, Dick saw the dying woman's gaze fixed on him, and he vent to her side; and he saw. too, iow right she had been when she had passed that verdict on herself-- that her minutes were numbered; he could see now that her life was fast ebbing away. "How powerless I am !" he cried. Vould to God that I could send for assistance !" le--a poor, feeble, wan smile, ■ or her face, and her lips moved. He raised her head, and held her hand, as he bent over to hear what she had to say. "Too late ! You have done all I could wish. Keep--great care--will. I can't thank you enough. I am--I And that was all. She never spoke again. He was holding in his arms a dead--murdered--woman. And he was in an agony of doubt--doubt as to what was best to be done. He laid the body on the grass, and mechanically covered the face with Will Hold a Whol ly 6,000 Feet. Steel is the material to be used by the Ontario Power Company in the construction of its proposed big flume on the Canadian side at Niag-Falls. This flume will be one of the largest steel pipes in the world. It will have a diameter of 18 feet and will be 5,880 feet loi The steel plates from which it v be made have a thickness of half inch and in putting them together over 200 tons of rivets will be used. Its diameter is so large that it would be impossible to put it together at any machine shop and ship it to Niagara, and so a temporary plant for building it will be erected on the Canadian side at Niagara. This temperary plant will consist of a power house, a machine shop, boiler shop, office and boarding house. To carry the parts from the shops to the point where will enter into the large flume pipe a temporary railroad will through underdrains into as separate and scattered outl< I practicable. J The service will he more 111 be lasting and efficient if this I done and the water will be lilt the best possi DISPOSAL OF DRAINAGE WATER I charge not The topic brings up a question j th«y havp which has frequently occurred to en-1 aml cl terprising land drainers, and at- , ooout tne onen loose or ' ing but clear water after ieen laid a month or two y has settled compactly tempts have been made gravel strata found in ties beneath the surface posal of drainage water so"!! the w There are rork of this but it has been confined, as I know, to the drainage of rhaps not larger by i from which has lieved of all sediment by passing through the soil, writes a drainage expert, Mr. C. G. Elliott. In the early practice of drainage in England, Elkington found in some localities that he could dispose of soil water by means of boring made to gravel below. It should be said that his peculiar art, for which he became noted, consisted in tappi ground water which saturated the soil above it. bringing it. to h drains, and leading it away by gr vity to a proper outlet. One difficulty in disposing of wat through wells is in ascertaining tl capacity and permancy of such : outlet. If a bed of coarse gravel can be found underground stream, and drainage water be delivered to it free from sediment, it may be utilized ar servo as a lasting and efficient on let. Many of these undergrour gravel beds, however, are in basil which lave a considerable capacity with only a small free-let. When the reservoir bee filled, its capacity is limited -by size of its discharge. If, for instance, it 6 cubic feet per care for only 3 ond, we have ai adequate and so This condition is apparently encountered in many of the irrigated sections which depend upon the reser-of dry gravel or soil underneath the surface to take care of such waste ter as may pass through the por-: soil in the process oi irrigating the lower depths. This gives per-: relief until the quantity of wa-which finds its way into these depths exceeds their capacity, when the work must bo supplemented by ificial drainage. DISCHARGE BASINS, "he theory is, and it is well sustained by practice, that where water pumped from a well which is supplied by an undercurrent or vein the : quantity may be discharged in-. without raising the water sur-of the well. How much more a well will take is a matter of conjecture and must remain so results are obtained by actual I have personal knowledge of mmon house well which received arid cared for a 2-inch stream of from pumping works for four years and was continuing to last account, but thi 5 be s TURKEY RAISING. ; discharge i; cubic feet per s >utlet which is hatched at them, for if weeks' differei $25,000,000 M $500*00 THE ROMANCE OF SOUTH AFRICAN ESMONDS. Wealth Beyond the Dreams of Averice Was Tapped on De Beers Farm. .try : ■ full :e even than that of gold-; for the story of South Afri-miond discoveries i appenings more startling e ic than most fiction, story of the finding of the first id has often been told--how- a : the name of O'Reilly, travel-uth from the Orange River, a night's rest at the farm, of one Niekerk, in the Hope listrict; how the farmer pro-tov his guests inspection a I of pretty pebbles picked up ; children; and how O'Reilly red among the pebbles a dia- 1869--that a stroka me Farmer Niekerk's itive chanced to show , which, profiting bj u-ience, he recognised of considerable value, t for $2,000 worth ol Htopet M'ld < raised and will pay for them-;s in bugs destroyed. In the fall whole grains and change as for other fowls. WHEN TO PICK FRUIT. There is an opinion held by many growers that apples keep belter if they are picked before they are ripe, as a result the fruit is often picked and packed before it is fully grown. Tests in cold storage show hat fruit that has not been allowed o become fully grown on the trees s usually damaged to a considerable •xtent by scald, and that it is also ihrivels somewhat. For the best remits the fruit should be ripe, but lot what is termed "dead ripe." If iverripe it does not keep well in cold storage, and should not be used for exhibition purposes. WANTED--ANOTHER EDISON. ' weigh- (1 eighty-three carets, is now valued it, £125,000, and is the most treasured of all the iewels of the Coun-ess of Dudley, VICEREINE OF IRELAND. 9t is a striking illustration of the rony of luck that these were the little the Vaal Riv by hundreds diamonds of the flume t built along the handle the steel, moth contract that to build the flume will take from ten to sixteen months. It was intimated some little time ago that the Ontario Power company would uso California redwood in the construction of this flume. It was also intimated that other woods would have favor, and the fact is a careful search was made and a thorough investigation made of other notable flumes carrying water in the coantry. These flumes are not so lumerous in the east as they are in he west, but after all the research iteel has been adopted as the mater-al to be used. Advocates of wood claimed that a steel flume w< and rot out quicker than flume of wood, but the fact was dent that should the flume be built of wood steel hoops would have bo used to make it firm, and these >od just as much chance of going pieces as the all-steel flume, "he flume will extend from the fore-bay of the Ontario Power Company along the base of a bluff at the of Victoria Park to a point just below Table Rock, the famous vii int, and there its waters will be -erted through penstocks to tu ics to be installed in a pow house at the water's edge. The ume, from an engineering point, ill be well worth watching during i, for no doubt it will mportant features. was within 200 feet of a stream and ] idl was sunk to river gravel. Streams are known which disappear in sand beds or rock crevices and emerge a lower level. These instances, as well as the fact that wells have been occasionally successfully used for small systems of underdrains, indicate that underground outlets may be used if they can be found. As is well known, the results of sinking wells in calities is to bring water toward the surface with such force as to preclude their use for the reception of surlace water. What is known as the dry well sunk into open gravel is the one best suited for the purpose. The problem assumes a more perplexing nature when we consider the hey j disposal of surface water in large quantities. The uncertainty of the capacity of any subterraneous outlet Fortunes Untold Await the O ing Inventor. ■ re Edison need be going t|1(, ( about the country bewailing the' ,ni,„. ;ftes of those who preceded him. | TjlnR j are possibilities all about us i jn fift only knew how to utilise them. 1 ed f|j There is plant life, for instance. We 000,0 o j have killed off many Species of tory 11 j birds and mammals; others are rap- ' given nds of any lear Hopetow later ten thousand isacking the banks ol sacrificing their lives hrough disease and the futile quest for of South Africa." •alth far 'beyond the .arice" was tapped on m near Dutoitspan, and re being picked out of oi a farmhouse near the sous Bultfontein mine. Do ti. even when it, was known held a treasure of precious stones, was sold for 930,000, and later exchanged hands for $500,000. How excellent a bargain it was even at the larger price can be told from the fact that it has since yielded nearly '525,000,000 worth of" diamonds in a single year, and that its original value has been estimated at more than §500,000,000, or nearly seventeen thousand times the price originally paid for it. >stead beneath which was ■e-house of the imberley EXCESS OF FEMALES. The report by the statistical officer of the London County Council upon the Registrar-General's Preliminary Report on the Census of 1901 has just been issued. Some of the facts are interesting. The females in London exceeded the males by 252,-371, there being 1,118 females to every 1,000 males, as against 1,116 for "every 3,000 at the census of dering the s over males, i of the large numbe nust be of female B brought ntry. 1 it has been ascertained by ly experiment, lends but little encouragement to such undertakings. Especially is this true when we attempt to relievo a tract of considerable area from rainfall which is at times excessive. Lagoons and swamps, by reason of their location, usually gather water from a considerable area outside of their recognized boundaries, making an outlet with variable flood capacity of prime importance. In fact, it is a problem which taxes the skill of engineers to the limit by reason of the varying quantity of rainfall and those climatic conditions which occasionally bring about unforseen contingencies greatly affecting land drainage. DIFFICULTIES MET. Could an outlet of sufficient capacity bo secured by means of wells, the difficulty of screening or filtering the water so completely that the receiving gravel in the wells would not become clogged by sediment would be a formidable one. Considering a small lagoon of 500 acres only, it might be necessary to remove 1 inch in depth of water each 24 hours for a time from the surface. This would require the Alteration and removal of 1,500,000 cubic feet of water 24 hours, or 17£ cubic feet per second. There are locations where ai times this capacity might be required, but of course it is a flood example and should be conslrl-red as such. Tho rational treatment of such ise.s where it is desired to utilize nderground outlets is to first as-;rtain if a water-receiving bed can be reached at a practicable depth, and by various tests determine if ese wells will care for any consid-able quantity of water. A single le of tile might be discharged into test well and tho effect noted. If tho result should be encouraging, wells could be sunk to the :tratum at several points on ict which could be made tho outlets for small system of underdrains, the object of the work being discharge all drainage water approaching desti cause in some way they use to us. Of the inexnau wealth of the native plant-life our country, how little do we n And consequently the valuable ber is rapidly disappearing; beautiful forests are doomed t< st ruction. of eight S of t Kxploi with- md South What of plants that as weeds ? Fortu and honor await t thistle, dog-fennel, wild clo^ the hundreds of species i that are now not merely use :o the agrii ng , •nod the Bultfontein and Du-•itspan mines, were later saleable , $3,000, representing the gratify-g return of $300 for every $5 GRIG IN ALLY 1N VESTED. In spite of the marvellous harvest eWod by these South African dia-nnd companies, it is stated that the stones found nto the the i be i itself with The cro sultivated i ial in ine The supply . fail; The I •ought causes them to the flood has the same effect upoi ti. Surely they could be put t< e use ? Perhaps the paper-uiak Hll find them convertible whei last of the "soft," woods hav been ground into pulp; perhaps ii other manner they may bi made a source of revenue. The youthful scientist might wii great prize by devoting himself t weeds. AS NAMED. HOW THE MINE \ Up in the Black ITil kota is a mine with e A prospector day strolling o aid ) hills on a lit -jping from one rock to another the man chanced to dislodge a bit of stone. As he picked up the chipped rock to toss it away his eye fell on a little thread of yellow. It was gold. When the mine had been staked out and the claim filed at, the land office the question of a name was raised. His wife asked him The r ui led s •etly. And from that da.- Though the rain be rou Every rain-cloud fades i Light is streaming fron Sing it so, believers ! RIGHT TO SMOKE The Paris Corrections upheld the contention ol who argued that he ha< id the eyei rid flies-the skies-