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Greed jr Gold Or, The Sign of the CHAPTER VIII, The cycle nuu no, .... .died many yards before Dick felt an increasing heaviness in his burden--Vere had fainted. His difficulty was increased. To carry a second body on one's machine is burdensome enough, fcv.it when that body loses the power of helping, it becomes a dead weight Dick was a good ride steer with his feet as easily as his ' hands. One of the- latter released, and with the free an clasped the girl' through with a knife, there had not been time to loosen the knots. The prisoners had been re! en sod, had gone; disappeared, without leaving a trace behind them. CHAPTER IX. Reuben Lee remained quiet venge then an I there. But her hatred at that stage was not quite j strong enough to make her break | through the traditions of the tribe-- i to make up one of her own to the Gorgios. choose to look at it--one. There Is a certain amount of decency even with the dwellers amongst tents. They have a system of marriage and giving in marriage; and if the ceremony differs from that of tho Gorgios, its effects are the same--the woman is treated with respect. In , view of a promise of the performance I of this ceremony, Miriam had given j herself to Reuben, and.the result had fhr. He i for tw ished t been just the same as 'it would have been amonst Christians : the man broke his word, and was still a friend of all; the woman was, metaphorically, pelted. The thing was know and Miriam . and till then On till he c outskirts of the t he did not meet a soul. When he did, he was so close to the local police station that he would have been wasting tame to stop, so he pedalled on, on till he saw the pur-ply-blue lamp with the words "Police Station" on it, and under that he rode into the station-yard. On a form against the wall some men were sitting, putting the finishing touch to the bright buttons of their tunics, and preparing for the march out they would presently make to relieve those officers who had been on day duty. "Catch me--catch hold of the machine ! Quick !" There was that in his tone as he spoke which caused the men to spring to the machine and hold it. "Help the lady off; she has fainted." "Where's your sergeant or inspector ? It's no use telling the story twice," said Dick, as he dismounted. "Inside, is he ? I'll go. Meanwhile, send across the road to the doctor there. Fetch him. Let him look to this lady, and tell him there are others needing him--matter of life and death." He rushed inside the station where a sergeant sat on duty at desk. "Are you in charge--authority ?' "What' " r of murder." "Murder ?" Lies struggling with three tramps three or four miles down the road. Here," he broke off, and drew a shilling from his pocket and addressed one of the i who had give the cyclist (who was carrying j away one of his victims) time to get. ' out of earshot. Then he gave vent 1 to a shrill cry, half bird-like, half ! beast-like--the gipsy call of distress, j Again'and again lie let loose this |cal, and presently*he heard it answered, and his heart beat ' Reuben was not a brave ----- was not being in the prese dead which caused him i with fear; it was what he knew the cyclist had gone to fetch--the police. He knew there was no hope for him once he fell into their hands. It would start with the grasp of the handcuffs and end with the hangman's noose. Hence his frantic --as nslia , then ras ashamed a gipsy can feel. The x particularly strong " i feel- ing that was, and that, went on, grew stronger.and stronger --hate. Had Reuben known it, he might have behaved differently; but when she threatened he laughed--she wai Lonths of the ! of fac , the CARE OF MILK. An authority on dairying says that "all the results of scientific investigation which have found such great practical application in the treatment of disease, in disinfection and in^ the preservation of various products, are almost entirely ignored in milking." On the above subject Mr. F. VV. Bouska says that this is not because tbe application of these principles is difficult or hard to understand, but rather because their value is not realized. Continuing, Mr. Bouska points out tho great pains that are taken in selecting and buying cows, as well as the care exercised in bringing up tho calf. It usually takes about three years before the ji i the c edit fc count. In addition to this, considerable expense is involved in the buying or raising of feeds of the proper character, so that the cow, together with her care and the feed she con- , ilea t get At the diet of wilful murder rned, but tho police on the track of the ; be « Jed the la- ther the sring ills ( till presently a girl leap-ed over the hedge into the road--' Miriam Lee. "Quick, Mirry-Jherc !" She ran to his side. "A knife. Haven't got one? Put your hand in my pocket this side. That's it. Cut the cord's." In a moment he was free Snatch-ng the knife from the girl's hands, he said • -- "Run down to the ditch--there's water there. Quick ! Bring it in that straw hat there " The hat. Vere had left behind her. As the girl fi led the hat, Reuben Meanwhile, Dick Causton became a close friend of the family at Grayne-wood Hall. He loved the girl whose fear he had despised; and in her grief and mourning for her mother, his heart went out to her. He hoped to win her. He would put his shoulder to the wheel, met-horically, aud his wheel, literally. in t libi ra > othe: rough-and-ready way endeavnur-d to bring thc.m back to conscious-icss. The water, when it came, clped. And presently the men were n their feet--dazed, but sensible. The girl looked round, and did ask a question: probably read story, or part of it, from the Miss Westcar trouble on 1 only been a question of widowhood. But she w: Work--he had t He knew not thi had but ono tenant me could imagine Re, lover; his whole tin "Not a minute, not a second, said Reuben hoarsely. "Ca Quick back Strike and clear. The the pub, there's a" good" fellowT joff for the police. One of the and get me a shi ling's worth of en> . « they catch brandy; I am wanting it badly." Then he resumed his address to the scrgeapt. "I mastered the tramp! _." _U>-8e^rriv Fied up ?--threi "Don't interrupt all, and then ioing as I want you to "What's that ?" "Order a couple of fli hotel yard, and with ha.f a dozen "Doctor's been posed one of the men. "Bailer," said the sergeant, and get two flies alongside--at And on that errand the once departed. "Now, sir go on with your----" "One of the ladies I have brought with l too frightened to stop; another is lying in a dead faint, and third is actually dead." "Dead ?" "Dead--murdered." "She' breathed her last in milk. Tho value of the milk "depends upon its keeping quality. If it is sold for table use it should not only keep until delivered, but a reasonable time afterwards to give satisfaction. If it is to bo made into butter or cheese it should keep well, because otherwise taints develop that may lower the value of the product enough to materially cut the price. At. the best the entire profit on milk is comparatively small, and when the qua]itv is poor ;t'may occasion A loss. It is deplorable that after so many laborious and expensive details milk frequently is more or less injured through lack of care just before it passes out of tho farmer's hands. The additional effort involv-kcep the milk properly is "ten compered tep on the lad-|wltn the routine involved before the 1 to climb she milk can be marketed, even in a igorge was a poor state. In this matter success o, Without anyjniay truly be traced to the little part. It had i things. For example, the mili ' 'me, thisj should bo drawn by a clean milkei glad that I into clean pails and pans; these uten-d, and j sils should be washed with hot wa-t ho .subtle drug j tor, a brush and such materials as she told her- ; salsoda, borax or washing powder, from any absurd feeling of j After this the vessels should be rins-: if people were in the way, j od and aired perfectly in the sun. The stable and cows should bo kept clean, for exclusion of dirt is one of the two principles of milk preservation. The other principle is cooling. This should be done rapidly by they are sending their fertilizers, than upon analysis. It is well for the farmer to understand thoroughly the products ho is selling, or the crops he is producing and selling off of the farm, and then strive to reach a balance in nature that will prevent a one-sided development of his soil. If the farmers throughout the length and breadth of our country would put more thought upon the sustaining of their farm and in keeping up the fertility of their land, there would be fewer mortgages, less renters, and many rural communities now going backward would become prosperous farming centres. BRAN AS A FOOD. One advantage possessed by bran is that it contains a fair proportion of tin, phosphates, and for that reason may be used with the ration in order to render it more complete. It is now advisable to feed it in the soft condition if it can be used ty sprinkling it on cut clover that has been scalded, although a mess of scalded bran and ground cats in the morning of a cold winter day is very invigorating and nourishing. Even when the food is not \aried some advantages may be derived by way of compensation for omission of certain foods, by the use of bran and linseed meal. Two pounds of bran, mixed with ore pound of linseed meal and a pound of ground meat fed to the hens once a day, allowing a pint of the mixture to ten days, will greatly add to the egg pro "ucing materials. As i food for chicks bran should always be scalded and allowed to stand for an hour or two in order to soften. ., of "the 1 scarcely Bprrerio'df MOST DEADLY OF SNAKES. Brazilian, Rexstile Whose Bite is Invariably Fatal. The fer-de-lance is one of the most deadly poisonous snakes in the world. It is common in Brazil and somo of the West Indian islands, and was particularly so in the forests of Martinique, now destroyed by the volcano. The head is flat and tri-angular, the length five to seven feet, j a horny spike at the end of the tail rasps against hard objects. The bite is almost instantly fatal, and : even when in mediate death is avert- i ed serious and eventually fatal trou- | ties may set in. The creature which fears the ist i 1 bra ing a walk to the very limit pent's striking range and begin feint, teasing h trying to draw his blow. A mo and the triangular head, ing from the coil flashes swift a moved by wings. But swifter the stroke oi the armed paw d; the horror aside, flinging i into the dust. Nevertheless, pussy does not 1 gt ' ■ertical pupil. Again the d; itroke; again the beautiful r.g; again the living death, is hurled "ic scaled skin is le eye socket has Once light, quick, cutting blow. But the tri-gono;-ephalus is blind, is stupefied. Before he can attempt to coil pussy has leaped upon him, nailing the horrible flat head to the ground with her two sinewy paws. Now let him lash, writhe, strive to strangle her. lift his head; e and he lies still; the WHO IS EESPOHSIBLE ? WE ARE MORE OR LESS SINNED AGAINST BY OTHERS. But Nothing Can Free a Man From His Own Share of Responsibility. A young man who had to be taken to the lock-up is reported to have said with reference to his moral re-sponsibi Ity : "I am unlucky. You see, the world is divided into two kinds of people, namely, the caught and the uncaught. I am one of tho former class. I am very sorry it happened. I am more sinned against than sinning." Ever since Adam got into treuble and then tried to crawl out of it by throwing the blame on Eve, and Eve, instead of acknowledging her part in the dereliction, triod to fast-on her guilt on the serpent, men and women have been excusing themselves and accusing others. There is something mean and cowardly about this, but it is the deepest acknowledgement to the un-escapable majesty of the moral law. To be condemned for wrong doing and to acknowledge to one's self that such condemnation is just is rather a hard punishment to hear without trying some sort of make-one else as responsible. Of course, no one ever escapes the results of his own ill-doing. A man is what he does and EVEN WHAT HE THINKS. But some people are pleased to think they have escaped behind a denial or" a sophistication. As a matter of fact, they have carried themselves, with all their defects and with this new guile of attempted deception stamped on their souls along with them, behind the disguise. It is always possible to say that in tho intricate complexities of society we all are more or less sinned against by others. The innocent suffer with the guilty. But in view of the persistent self-deception with which we clothe ourselves as with a tere and ask. what wrongs we, perhaps, may have done ? And then instead of crawling out of our responsibility, face it and bear it ae best we may. Moral weakness got the'young man into the lock-up, and a still greater moral weakness led him to conclude that he didn't, deserve to be there. His cynical division of the world into the caught and uncaught reveals a profound mental and moral disease for which, perhaps, as the young man indicated, he was not who'ly responsible--"more sinned against than sinning." Science is not an unadulterated blessing. There always comes with it a crowd of vague superficial ideas, MISLEADING AND BANEFUL. One of the most hurtful ideas of our modern scientific development is that Tho Every out-sult of pre-s plexus of responsible are changeless lawi come is the inevitable l interacting tilings ant fits as perfectly as a wheel. and what he does or thinks or feels is but the outcome of the forces playing upon his brain, and the old i tion of a soul, morally : for its thoughts and actions, as an exploded myth. Now let this sort of teaching percolate, in popular form, down among the peorlo and the tendency to free one's self from moral responsibility ■will very quickly seize upon the new idea as a way to throw blame from the moral agent upon his environment. "I didn't do wrong," he says, "I am simply caught while others escape. I am sinned against "nning." idmitted that what the sentimental Frenchman said has much truth in it, that to know all would be TO FORGIVE But it must be observed that it is to forgive, and forgiveness has no meaning except as a remission of wrong doing. The error that materialistic science has brought with it would imply that to know all would be to find moral obligation a •vidently been rod up the recollection , and liked the food. Faith, good faith, / is a strong point; but ; Miriam might have had her