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Greed For Or, The Sign of Arrow _^ . CHATER X. Tho belief that a bad man is necessarily all bad, has not a solid foundation. Most villains of the piece havo a tender spot; it may want finding, but it is there. This feeling is generally over a woman, and it is generally that same woman who is the cause of Justice laying her hands on the man. Tenderness is not a feeling it pays the scoundrel to indulge in. Perhaps that is the reason that its cultivation has been allowed to decay so much. It crops up occasionally though, to the villain's hurt. Even in villainy, to be successful it is necessary to be thor- In the case of Alfred Dubois, there was one of these oases of tenderness --for his brother Adolphe. And in Adolphe's heart the same feeling existed. Their parents' blend of Oor-sican and French blood perhaps accounted for the strength of it. Each would cheerfully have laid down his life for the other. And these two loving hearts were separated by the broad Atlantic. Alfred was wearing his heart out in Dartmoor Prison, Adolpho was coining money hand over hand as the proprietor of a gambling-hell out in the Wild and Woolly West. And when the hell closed, and the profits were counted and put aside, gladness came to Adolphe--there was ample to purchase the freedom of his twin broth- that she 1 place In <uid that widening Ii nil Miriam Lee, be« of character, occupying a low do opinion of the tribe sulky resentment of it was the breach. Ho stepped ii Ho spoke kindly to her, kindness melted her at one on receptive soil, that sarin fruit grew from it. Miri have answered Adolphe' call night or day; she was his willing slave. This was no novelty to Adolphe; both he and his brother had ever been kind. But. in this instance it a mere willing slavery: there nought of passion in the combination. And when he thought her gratitude bound her tightly to him, he pledged her to secrecy, and told her his real mission; and she swore to help him. all in her power. He knew she would, and she did. Adolphe was a vertible host in the tribe. Money is a wonderful power-purchaser, and a better education enables a man to keep it o'er his fellows; and when he told them of the doctor's advice that he should try the air of Dartmoor for the disease on his lungs, they listened. They had heard before of consumptives being ordered there.. And when at a subsecpuent interview, he told them how sorry he was to leave them, they--they had discussed the situation among themselves meanwhile, and estimated the loss his go- You may lock a scoff at the idea of a prisoner caping from it, but such things have happened. Money has a great moving influence, even in a quarry and on a farm; and when it is used as a lever with a warder whose pay is under thirty shillings a week, it helps the proposed escape along.' , Not that escapes are frequent--attempts at it are; the prison infirmary records show that. The warders have guns, and know how to use them. Their instructions are to aim low. So it happens that tho prison doctor should be an expert in the treatment of broken legs--he has experience enough. Dartmoor earth. Its The tion the artist had brought with him a firm-handled piece of timber, fashioned in the shape of a copper lid, only larger. This'he had put flat on tho peat surface of the moor and drawn a line round. Then he cut out a thick layer exactly that size, and fixed it to his copper • lid, where it remained, and probably remains to this day. Then ho worked harder than any convict on the neighboring settlement; but he was working to free his brother. At intervals a gipsy with a large basket of fancy goods came along, and if no one was in sight, entered ent. And when she went away itaggered sometimes under Dartmoor and!ed why they should separate ? Could heaviness of her basket, for it they not just as well go Dartmoor full of the earth the artist was way as any other ? The rushes were moving. He was making a deep in, and could be gathered there hole, deep enough for a man to stand easily, and for a few weeks the upright and move about • a paradise upon the they Adolphe thanked them with lips, and smiled in his heart; he through their friendship--purchased friendship--quite easily. But he ' ' his way. The caravan gradt wended its way Dartmoorwai Dartmoor, where the prison sti where his brother was. CHAPTER XI, When Nelson in Trafalgar drew the first serious check on Napoleonic Bank, and the map Europe looked likely to have a part left, o'er which the" French flag was not flying, it probably never dawned on the Admiral's mind that he would .land in a difficulty in rc-c-ic gard to the war prisoners--what to is little to choose. ^ j wi9 with than. But that difficulty Successful escape is nothing dreamt arose. The prison-ships overflowed, ' j ai*d ultimately a war-prison, to ac-j commodate seven or eight thousand mind men, was built on Dartmoor. This I tomb of the living, in altered form ) fre- j exists to this day. Nearly fifty the years ago it was turned into a con-ds to | vict prison, and so it remains. Pris-is a oners unfit for the hardest of hard omes labor, whose sentences are not under fall &ve years, are sent there. The chief . labor is farming, the that the wonder is that more attempts to escape from it are not made. True, death has a hundred to one chance against a successful is-) the average inch under the peat land outside the boundary within which they were working* the comrmss was concealed. He could see the place clearly every day; an arragenieivt of stones led to it. When the fog came he was to dart to that place, lift the compass, and follow the direction ho had been given till he met a gipsy-woman with a basket of fancy goods. If lie reached her, the rest was easy. She would be at tho corner of the cross-road, with a change of clothing in the basket under the top layer of her fancy goods. So thoughtful was Adolpho of his brother, that he did not risk placing the goods in the cache for the fear of dampness-- the mist might not be thick enough for escape for days. And the cache ?--was within a few feet of the open highway, absolutely bare of any sign beyond the ordinary-level of the moor. And the very safety of the scheme arose from this openness. Pursuers might go over it even without noticing it. For a week or two an artist had been painting a picture on this very spot. The moor had no1 many travelers, and hours would go by without a soul passing. A close observer would have wondered that an artist should have such dirty fingernails--they were full of moor earth. But there were no close abservera. ibrella it eted 1 he LOSSES IN MANURE. In 1899-01, three series of steer feeding experiments were made at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station, comparing the gains obtained from animals kept without tying in a box stall and from those tied as usual in ordinary stalls, the former being watered in tho stall, the latter turned out daily to water. The results showed that by the former method a very large saving in cost of attendance is secured, without any decrease in the gain of live weight or any disadvantage, as respects the quantity of food required to produce it. The relative economy of the two methods is, however, not fully demonstrated until the value of the resultant manures is known; for these differ materially in the conditions of The n i the, t al! v cossessful attempts ities. But Adolphe mean_____ attend the scheme he had in for his brother's liberation. The fog and mist which quently roll over Dartmoor a helping hands which Nature le any plan of escape--and treacherous help too. Fog up and tho s-' fiirta ily; and what he this purpose the girl took away and scattered gradually over the face of the moor. It was cruelly hard work; but the Corsican blood told, and the labor seemed light. Just under a fortnight it took to complete, and thei it was ready. Within a yard of the excavation the land was some feet lower, and for that reason Adolphe had selected the site. Air was necessary in that chamber, for the lid fit with exactness, and the dip in the ground allowed of tho inlet of air, through yard-long iron gas-piping which was driven through the wall of earth. Only the most minute examination of the outer peat would show those small, black, round holes--an examination-it was ot at oil likely would take place. And then the place was furnished. Candles, matches, food, drink, cos-is, and shaving-ajfparatus he tl ■after, fro the And she waited. dors gun isks the falls ! by the shield him Alas ! t shines and 1 retires 1 , instead, i claimed r . which '■"■' prison grounds coi ill he ening. The ,convicts Most prisoners < int from pil ei ing. year by year, iequently wid-ire the farm- :ome inhabitant, jken reeds. The ->aled to outside man. But morcy is unknown. Every man's hand is against the convict, for there is a reward for the recovery of any escaped prisoner, and 'that no description" of thei that reward is ever in the mind of appear in these pages, the Dartmoor--the earning of it is ! The gipsy camp was pitched more profitable than the mere in- in half a dozen miles of the p dulging in a feeling of pity. Pity and Adolphe began his work t back seat in favour of first his lieutenant did all, early days shop-as dirty hands soiled the till; n< Dartmoor, they till the soil. The prison "and its surroi have been so often pictured ii formed upon a cement floor, and was kept under the animals, compacted by their trampling, until the close of the expirement; that from tin Is tied in the stalls and watered the barnyard wa; ry, daily remo/vod compact heap under conditions closely approximating those of a cover shed, except that it was n subject to trampling by the stock. The fertilizing constituents in food and litter, less those used in forming new animal tissue, were compared with those recovered in the two manures. The comparison is especially interesting because of the increasing use of the covered shed method in Pennsylvania. The trampled manure suffered little loss of fertilizing constituents, though less than two-fifths of the dry matter of food and litter was recovered in the manure. The covered shed manure lost one-third of its nitrogen, one-fifth of its potash, and one-seventh of its phosphoric acid. Only one-third of the dry matter of food and litter was recovered in tho manure. The potash and phosphoric acid losses must be explained by seepage of liquid manure into the clay floor. The loss of nitrogen is, howdver, chiefly due to volatilization of carbonate of ammonia. The money value of the fertilizer constituents lost by the second as compared with the first method, is equivalent to §2.50 for each steer abled for six months. Therefore, enure, if prepared upon a tight floor and with such proportion of itter that it can be trampled into . compact mass, loses very little, if any, of its fertilizer constituents so as the animals remain upon it. method of preserving steer ma-is therefore distinctly superior lat of,the covered shed, though j method may not always that observ- SOME DAIRY ADVICE. Use only pure bred cows. Do not cross different breeds hap-hazzard. Do not keep more stock than you can feed well. Pair healthy animals, then the progeny will be healthy. progeny will produce pier yield, ancl if possibl cow value be secured Keep a record of t herd book), by whit I h,? hit ter j mctlu ex^it as treat 1 edW. this Wperii REFORMS FROM NOVELS GOOD THAT HAS FOLLOWED MANY WORKS OF FICTION. Charles Reade's- Novels Were Successful to a Remarkable Degree. villi 1 is greatest in modern fiction, rangely enough, there exists ays a popular prejudice t such works, yet some of our >vcl- cflected reforms their books. The chief of them was, of course, Charles Reade, and it is a striking fact that his four most successful novels were written solely with the idea of educating the people into a proper frame of mind as to four 'crying shames'; and in each case he was successful to a remaek-able degree. It will readily be understood that any wide-sweeping reform needs the support of popular opinion; and "It is Never too Late to Mend" not only suggested the reforms of which our prison system was in need, but people to appreciate ■ed. and e "Hard Cash," probably 3 the The c rlf shoul and i cows are milked, the full benefit o The calf should hi clusively the days. foui HOW A MAMMOTH DIED. the mammoth which has been moun ed for exhibition in the Zoologies Museum at St. Petersburg. Tl .all s 5 found buried un.de .undrf and i f Jh ihed at various stage vation. Dr. Otto Herz, leader ,n expedition organized by the Petersburg Imperial Academy, took the photographs, and some oi these have been presented by Dr. ilensky, director of the Zoological Museum, to the British Museum; two of them are reproduced in the article in Nature. According to the g-eneral report published by Dr. Herz, he began to excavate the specimen t the f i. disco this year, especially icure young stock at ; to feed this winter, I. Funk. I am not ipart, and sharply e vviist. Proceeding hack-he left side he unexpectcd-ith the hind foot almost nd it gradually became evident that the hind limbs wcre completely turned forward beneath the body.' Dr. Herz tffoii removedrtho skull, and found the well-preserved tongue hanging out of the mandible. He also noticed that the mouth was filled with grass, which had been cropped but not chewed and swallowed. Further examination of the t'lujtd'c-lH-st°"was filled with clotted blood. It is, therefore, natural to conclude that the animal was entrapped by falling into a hole, and Suddenly died fro: a blood vessel neai making an effort t n by the r I lie :ked another very grave state of things; it struck a terrific blow at private lun- vvere not only to a great extent free from state control, but were often used as privat prisons for perfectly sane people. "Hard Cash" drew public attention to the way in which some of these places were conducted, and demonstrated two truths which alarmed every one because they menaced every one--that not only could a sane person be incarcerated in an asylum, but, once, there, stood small chance of ever being able to TROVE HIS SANITY. The abuses of trade unionism wer« attacked by Charles Reade in "Put Yourself in His Place," in writing which the author drew largely upon actual occurrences. Trado unionism was at the time of the publication oi this novel simply a system of tyrannical selfishness and narrow-mindedness, which threatened to ruin British commerce. The book was written in such way that it appealed to every man and woman who could read. Employers and employed read it, and were convinced of the justice of the arguments, so entertainingly advanced and so skilfully cloaked that there was nothing canting in the book. "Foul Play" was less than any of the other three books mentioned a novel with a purpose. Its chief aim was to entertain. But. incidentally, it aimed a blow at ship scuttling for the purpose of robbing Lloyd's--a species of crime very common and profitable about the time this work .vas first published. It led to soma mportant reforms in ship broking, which practically put an end to an ■miiig state of affairs, up to that nknown or unuppreciat- Dr. Toll nal rang out. guide him strj he fog [ any I .tight .. He would' be nearly fifteen minutes running distance between the boundary and herself. The moment the signal reached her ears, she started singing. She had a deep, powerful voice, and "Way down upon the Swannee River," despite the fog, rang over the night., i for t that i have not yet proved that to in satisfaction. Through the college of agric we have been conducting experi along that lino on our farm ai expect to have some very inter and valuable figures which will the bursting of the heart while extricate itself. bo ice surround-not that of a videntlv formed1 hus quite likely ■as quietly brow- ed. A Yi ORLD-RENOWN reform by famous story ED CASE :tiori was the effect oi Cabin." It was thij •y which started the great movement by the North-of America against th« Southern States, which had the con. sequence of some millions of slaved freed. Mrs. Stowe littls .u Id j she x ™id 1 hough, It V who, id did ; clothes goin had thrc There is practically a ring round from door to door with her basket. Dartmoor prison. It is easy enough ! of fancy goods, found out the war- 1 s to get outside the prison's pre- ders with the largest families, and 11 cints--only to find a waiting hand, those the most poorly off. Adolphe '< waiting to enpture the prisoner. To Iwanted their names and conditions!] break through that ring in prison the poorer a man is the sweeter is 1 garb is a tiling read of in books, the music of iingling monev in his' 1 but the official records for such anii - bullet foi peri fully c consigned it ler than to the prin-ndeed, she scarcely i would have more lan a slight moral effect. But no ork of fiction ever had such a idesj.reading influence as "Uncle om's Cabin." Dickens and Thackeray both also WOMEN MARRY LATER. !S at Which Men and Worn r. Long, in a printed fply to stion in the British i'Jouse anions, states Uiat the im > at which men and W mien ha s searched i The broad arrow is too prominent If a convict could change his clothes before leaving the prison grounds : that mighty "If" ! Adolphe had his plan outlined foi his brother's liberation. About part of it there was nothing novel. a bribe. And £ severenee, tho until the wardi gang in which I found. And th dint crept >vels. The 1 tal in putting an cations by demons his best drawn cha influence o' reforms by their • was instrument nd to public exe-rating in one ol actors their brut->r morbid-minded ^By '"Oliver Twist" Dickens did much to promote reforms in the administration of workhouses. Ho evidenced the many weak points of the poor laws as they then stood, and stirred up public feeling against Hich condemned e po the t used to travel with fairs--for they were dwellers, but of tl: Things had bettered had made money--nc . the which ' well-lined purse, the warder was bu before human--he had his price. Besides, I their hands, < French jn this case, there was not m then house-true Romany. I Ju ith them. They ' go, matter how, And and they left French, the offi ted of him; his ris ist to take letters passing a stiff"- , being v ritt • for a the tents for bricks and mortar. ; 0„t suspected that In their show they had given a was being hatched under hashed-up performance of the Mas- nose. The letters were h kelyne & Cooke type, and a false the instructions in thei bottom to the van enabled the man .The convict swallowed the escaping from the tied-up box to I and then swallowed the letter conceal himself. It was satisfactory selves; chewed over the instr to the audience In front of the as they could see under it. trick was never discovered, that was wihat gave birth to idea in Adolphe's mind. If public were deceived, why not police ? Adolphe can.3 from America money; and th; possession of m enables a man to surmount dif ties and move mountains. Its tual moving power is as great faith is said to be. Ho had a avan built after the old type, " ' l of the Lee his He • able chewed (he pape The the safest method of destrtue And j The basis of tbe plan wa the mist. There was nothim the that, it was the basis of the the convicts' plans for cscaj 'fog has its drawbacks : a with apt. to get. lost in one;/ and go round i ficul- | back to the place I ac- ! w^hen, in the case and foggy weather, l L-"-i Darti the direction she had indicated fore she could say more. Thoy i (To be Continued.) NATIVE INDIAN FOLLY. With great difficulty WHEN TO PI sely planted, t he the soil may haw h vegetable mat i the that the convicted criminal holas Nickleby," too, had con-de effect in reforming many 3 schools by suggesting to 3 the greater rare they should effect i "Mai i Chiizzle-chcckfng NOT A CENTAUR. tural difficult The int •use love for all kinds of sporty the king of England has ans rendered him anything approach! ig a capable performer in h of it himself. He never could lea n to play cricket, which, enough, was a peculiarity also of botii of his brothers, the duke of C mnaught and the late duke of Edinbu rgh. esty has done more than n Europe to promote and horse racing, yet he is no- toriously litary career he had many tumble. In his subaltern the crack regiment, the Tenth has sars, he was continually t of the saddle, and if it d have pronounced him a was a welcome He v them, and kopt He wa s willing stood2 i^ncerTo mastei rarely 1 tnds. ■light fa! int o eil when ho je_ n his bunk a deal. And the guard against th o pay for help and ; compass. The moorland ar. therefore he never prison is reclaimed at the i it. A liberal pay- about twenty-five acres per ■ 'tention. I Adolphe knew the identical and, 1 the unhappy man.