Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 30, 1905, Page 6

ms wh iy ct Py ere Calumet Baking Powder Is Most Healthful, Wholesome and Economical The Great Prerequisite. “I'm afraid I haven’t more than half enough money to see me through on this F opean trip. Yes; I’ve got plenty for first cabin passage both ways, for first-class hotel bills, rail- road fare, hack hire, guide fees and all the necessary incidentals.” t on earth do you lack for, that will take so much more?” Tips.” Important to Mothers. E: carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, 4 and see that it r 30 Years, nd You Have Always Bought, Signature of in Use Haggling. s her marriage to the count real- n indefinitely postponed?” there was some little misun- ing, I believe.” the “But amount to much?” Only to about $500,000, I believe.” doe Ss misunderstanding GOLD IN CEMETERIES. st Figures There Are Millions in Buried Fillings. where I could go, right in this country, and dig up mill- dollars’ worth of treasure,” te “T know her ms of de Where would I go? To our ceme- teries. To the mouths of our dead. In the teeth of our dead enough gold is going to waste to enrich a small town. You have in your teeth $10 in gold. er has $5. Your father and mother have each $7. And there are 90,000,000 people in America. ow to each person’s teeth a half dollar’s worth of gold. You have then $45,000,000 hidden in our mouths. When we die this gold won’t be ex- tracted. It will be buried with us, ro take the gold from the teeth of i before burial would be neith- It would be idea to pass a law requiring old, which does no good in to be removed after death stributed in charity.—Chicago the er difficult nor gruesome. a good GET POWER. The Supply Comes From Food. If we get power from food, why not strive to get all the power we can. That is only possible by use of skill- fully selected food that exactly fits the requirements of the body. Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a poor fire is not a good steam pro- ducer. om not knowing how to select » right food to fit my needs, I suf- grievously for a long time from ch troubles,” writes a lady from a little town in Missouri. “It seemed as if I would never be able to find out the sort of food that best for me. Hardly anything I could eat would stay on my stomach. Every attempt gave me heart-burn and filled by stomach with gas. I got thinner and thinner until I literally became a living skeleton and in time was compelled to keep to my bed. “A few months ago I was persuaded to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such good effect from the very begin- ning that I have kept up its use ever since. I was surprised at the ease with which.I digested it. It proved to be just what I needed. All my un- pleasant symptoms, the heart-burn, the inflated feeling which gave me so much pain disappeared. My weight gradually increased from 98 to 116 Ibs., my figure rounded out, my strength came back, and I am now able to do my housework and enjoy it. The Grape-Nuts food did it.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A ten days ‘trial will show anyone some facts about food, “There's a reasen.” CONDEMNED PEELS” get Bias Mrs. E. Bagot Harte. “Oh! we won’t go into that matter,” was the short rejoinder. “Don’t refer to it again. Of course, the child must j be well cared for.” Another deep sigh from old Searle. Then his hands—as clean as hands can be made that have always toiled— grasped the offered money, three ten- pound notes and some gold. With a gratefully spoken “thank you,” he turned away and ‘walked out of the room. CHAPTER IV. As old Searle closed the door be- hind him, Sir George buried his face in his hands and uttered a groan of dismay. “What will this man do? How will he act?” He asked himself the ques- tions with staggering swiftness. “Will he let his daughter’s disap- pearance remain forever unaccounted for? His women-folk must doubted his discretion and secrecy, or they would not have kept him in the dark. I gught not to have sent him away so quickly, It would have been easy to get him to confide in me, to tell me more, and to place himself completely in my hands. How little did he suspect that I was his child’s murderer! Heavens, what a villain I'm growing! But Hilda’s happiness is the first thing I have to consider. Hang my own villainy! The latter and old Searle’s misery and anxiety are nothing in comparison to Hilda’s happiness! “The old man’s sudden appearance here and the unconscious agony of his words threw me off my guard. I ought to have kept my head better—asked him to sit down and have chatted the matter over with him. I did not even get his address. Of all the unmiti- gated fools, I am the greatest! If ever a man was willing to place him- self in another man’s power old Searle was to-day. He seems harmless and frail-minded, and glad to have mat- ters arranged for him. A villain would would have asked him for particulars, made notes of all he stated, spoken re- assuringly of taking immediate steps to trace his daughter, and promised that the whole matter should be thor- oughly inquired into, and sent him away believing that he had transfer- red all responsibilities from his shoul- ders. It would have been so easy to impress the necessity of secrecy on him—all lay in the palm of my hand to clinch. For darling Hilda’s sake I should have done it. But I let all slip through my hands.” “And now—now I shal have to pay a bitter price in ever-present fears of arrest. Arrest—and—” He sprang to his feet and began pacing the room. Suddenly he pulled himself to a standstill. “Why should not I go after him? He can’t have gone far; outside the park gates at the farthest. I'll follow him as quickly as I can.” Not a second to lose before acting on the decision. Instantly he was ita into the hall. “George! What has happened?” It was Hilda’s voice that asked the ques- tion. “What—what—do you mean?” he stammered. “You look so terribly ill! A thou- sand times worse than you did half an hour ago.” “Hang it! Do I? Oh, don’t trouble me, Hilda.” Then with a quick change of manner he placed his hand play- fully on her shoulder and coined a smile. “I’m my usual self now, am I not?” he added. “I'm going out for a short constitutional now, and shall soon be back. Good-bye for the pres- ent. We'll have a game of billiards to-night, after dinner.” But she knew his playfulness was assumed. In silence she watched him walk away; then she stole up to her room and stood at the window which looked on the drive, waiting for his return. He reached the park gates, glanced right and left. “Nowhere to be seen,” he exclaimed, in surprise. “Yes, there he is, and— Heavens, he is actually speaking to a constable. Most probably he is bring- ing my name in. Hang it! I—I—what shall I do? I'll go to Erskine, ask his advice, tell him what has happened. How these limbs of mine tremble at the slightest thing!” . It was to the left that Searle had turned when quitting Carlton Park, and fortunately Arlington Towers lay in the opposite direction. Only once Sir George glanced around as he strode in that opposite direction. He dared not do so a second time, al- though it was a desparately difficult matter to stifle his desire to learn what was happening between Searle and the constable. “Yes, sir; Mr. Erskine is at home,” replied the footman at the Arlington Towers. “Well?” said Guy, interrogatively, as the visitor entered the drawing room. “What's happened?” he asked anx- iously, planting himself with his back to the fireplace. He did not offer to| then have | shake hands—to hold a murderer's hand was distasteful. “Her father has turned up,” swered the latter. “Traced you?” “Yes.” “Does he know or suspect the crime?” “Not in the least, so far. But he has placed the matter in the hands of the police. He knows I’m the boy’s father, and that is all he does know at the present moment; but the result of police investigations will be to bring more to light. I’m beginning to feel that my only safety lies in death. In the end I shall put a bullet in my brains I expect.” “Don't do that! It might be satis- factory as far as you are concerned, but it would give the whole thing away. I am a firm believer in suicide in many cases—hope I shall live to see it realized for poor wretches dy- ing of incurable and agonizing com- plaints—but in your case it would be playing down to a very low level of cowardice. If putting an end to your- self would legaiize your marriage with Hilda and make it clear sailing for her boy, I'd hand you my reyolver for the purpose this minute. But it won't. So far as your own peace of mind and happiness on earth is con- cerned, you will just have to forget that such a person as George Elling- ham, murderer, exists. With your last breath you must screen from the world’s hard treatment those two de- fenseless people—Hilda and her child.” “How the deuce can I do it?” “Notwithstanding that you are a J. P., you'll have to lie and do almost everything else that is unjustifiable for their sakes. It seems to me that the one person alone who could have supplied all necessary information to insure Hilda’s downfall has passed to the realm of eternal silence. Old Searle knows practically nothing, you say?” “That is so.” “You must keep calm and not look harrassed, or haggard, or painfully nervous. You must force yourself to live a life of superlative self-com- mand.” A momentay: silence followed, dur- ing ,which Sir George gazed with a hopeless expression out of the window, then he said: “J should be grateful to you beyond all words if you would dine with us to-night. In an hour or two I shall have righted myself again, I dare say. Seeing old Searle talking to that con- an- “stable was a shock to me.” “But my brother Reginald—you re- member having met him, of course— is staying with me. If you don’t mind my bringing him, we shall be very pleased to come.” “We shall be delighted to see him, too. A girl cousin of mine, Audrey Villiers, has come to stay with us for a fortnight. They'll both help to keep the conversational ball rolling. You don’t know how difficult it has been to keep up conversation at dinner during the last few days.” “It ought to be done, though. There’s nothing more unwise than allowing the suspicions of servants to be rous- ed, and letting them imagine that something is wrong. Wealth has many penalties, and amongst others is the knowledge that we are always under the observant eyes of the servants.” “That's only too true. I'm immense- ly glad to know you are coming to dinner to-night. I'd better go back now; Hilda will be growing anxious about my absence, as I said I should be only a short time away. Goodbye, for the present.” Again they parted without shaking hands. “Poor Hilda!” murmured Guy as the door closed. “‘poor girl! It’s over- whelmingly sad. However, there is nothing I can do, save keep her hus- band up would like to horsewhip him—at the very least—still I cannot help pitying the fellow for some things. Now I'll go and look up Reggie and tell him that we’re dining out to-night.” The person in question was com- fortably ensconced in one lounge chair with his feet on another, fast asleep in front of the library fire. “T say, Guy!” he exclaimed, waking up startled, “the dead-aliveness of this place is beginning to eat away my natural cheerfulness. I have been here a week and we have dined out nowhere, been nowhere, and seen no one worth mentioning. The life of a hermit or a monk does not suit me. Could you obligingly ask a few pretty girls and their mothers to tea? You can entertain the latter while I enter- tain the former.” Reginald Erskine was twenty-four, tall, well built, handsome, and with an exhilirating laugh. Many people liad been heard to remark that his brother had the cash and he had the good looks; and this was a true state- ent. “I don’t think there are any pretty girls in this neighborhool,” replied Guy, in a preoccupied voice. “Not? Then where do those come from whom I saw in church last Sun- day? Two sat immediately under tke pulpit—deucedly pretty girls, too!— and in the center pew of the center aisle there was another pretty girl, and in the sixth pew there were a, couple mde, and—’ i to the mark. Although 1| “It seems to me,” interrupted Guy, “that you spend your time in church locating the best-looking girls. Per- haps you will be pleased to hear that we are dining out to-night at Carlton Park, and that a girl cousin, Audrey Villiers by name, is ‘staying there, Until Ellingham married she was his next-of-kin and heiress to his income and all his possessions.” “Audrey Villiers!” exclaimed Reg- gie, springing to his feet, assuming a pleased and lively manner. “By Jove! That's luck! I met her at the Dan- vers’ last year, and we had.a most in- teresting flirtation. How long is she staying here?” “About a fortnight, I think!” “Tl do ditto, then, as I have not taken vows of celibacy—the case with you, evidently.” “Whenever you choose to marry, Reg- gie,” said Guy, ignoring the last re- mark, “I will let you have a thousand a year allowance, provided you always live on nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds, and after my death there will be this place for you, and your chil- dren after you.” “Thanks, old man, awfully, for the thousand a year. As for all the rest, I would prefer to hear that you con- templated matrimony too.” “I shall never marry.” It was said in a tone of complete finality. A mo- ment Guy added quickly, “Never refer to the subject again, please.” The quiet dinner party at Arlington Towers passed off satisfactorily. Prob- ably Audrey and Reggie would have described it as a very great success, for they found themselves at liberty to roam about the fine old house by themselves, enjoying a delightfully prolonged tete a tete. Together they inspected the picture gallery and the excellent library, the pride of the El- ilnghams. Audrey enjoyed being show woman to her ancestral belongings, to all of which she had been heiress for a brief period. “And now I’m poor,” she observed with a smile, “that I think of running a milliner’s shop or an afternoon-tea resort in Bond street.” “If you'll do the latter I'll be your most regular customer,” replied Reg- gie. “I thought you were one of those strong-minded people who never took tea,” she replied, demurely. “That doesn’t matter. I should not allow my non-tea-drinking theories to stand in the way of meeting you.” They were sauntering through the conservatory now, and Reggie had just decided that its subdued light suited Audrey’s complexion and her manner of looking up into his face better than the glare of a fully lighted room. These discoveries caused him to resent the fact that they were ap- proaching the drawing room. Hilda was singing now and Guy was turning over the leaves of the music. The song was one which they had heard her sing three years before, when his chances of winning her for his bride trembled in the balance, and as he listened his thoughts drifted back to that time of vacilating hopes and fears. Now she had risen from the piano, and the two who had paused at the conservatory door entered. General conversation was resumed, and bowed on energetically until the two guests rose to leave. It was a beautiful moonlight night, erisp and invigorating. Just for a brief moment Sir George and Guy stood together on the steps. “I wonder if Searle has gone home or is staying in the village?” said the former. “He’s gone home, I expect,” was the reply. “He is certain to have done so on account of his boy.” “Yes, I did not think of that. Good night.” “Good night,” repiied Guy, as he en- tered the carriage. His surmise was correct. Searle had returned home. At least he was now within half a mile of the isolated cottage which he had shared several years with his daughter. (To Be Continued.) THE RICHEST HUNDRED MILES. Black Hills District of South Dakota Holds Its Own. “Notwithstanding the great devel- opment of the mineral wealth in the Goldfield and Alaska fields, the rich- est hundretl miles in the world is in the Black Hills district in South Da- kota,” said A. K. McAdam of Dead- wood. “Not only does this region have the largest gold mine in the world, but it also has the greatest number of producing claims of any one section. In some places the opin- ion seems to prevail that the Black Hills are becoming exhausted, as far as gold deposits are concerned, and that a few years will end the pro- ducers. “No idea is more unfounded, for for this country is just beginning to reveal its wealth. From reports made on government surveys,- it is esti mated that the unmined gold and sil- ver through the hills is worth fully a billion dollars. Careful mining en- gineers say that even with modern machinery it will be impossible to ex- ‘thaust the Homestake claims in less than a century, and this mine alone hag sent nearly $100,000,000 to the mints in gold bullion. There is rea- son to,believe that deposits fully as valuable are yet unlocated.”—Milwau- kee Sentinel. —_—— Objectionable Epithet. Mrs. Nuritch—I told Widow Downes to send her boy to you and you'll give him a position—— Mr. Nuritch—Well, I didn’t give him no position. He came with a note from her an’ she said in the note: “I must find employment for my boy, even if he works for a mere pittance.” The nerve of her callin’ me “a mere pittance!”—Philadelphia Press. _ ‘ { - Plowing in the Fall. I do not believe that plowing in the fall can be recommended for all soils and localities, but I do believe it should be more generally practiced by all farm- ers than it is. I always do all of the fall plowing that I possibly can, es- pecially where I intend to put in corn the coming spring. If sod is turned mder in the fall the amount of plant ood will be greatly increased for the srop the next summer. I have also noticed that there are not as many cutworms, grubworms and _ cornroot worms the next spring as there were the spring before if the ground is plowed in the fall. Every pest that the farmer can get rid of he knows it to be for his own good to do so. The surface of-fall plowed ground is drier in the spring at planting time than ground not so treated and some farm- ers might think that it does not con- tain as much moisture, but I find that it does. The rainfall is enabled to better penetrate the sub-soil which al- jows the surface of fall plowed ground to dry more rapidly. If you have not experienced fall plowing, try it, and you will find that fall plowed ground has a drier surface and contains more moisture at planting time in the spring than ground which has not been plowed in the fall. I believe in locali- ties where there is much rain during the winter, it is better not to harrow the fall plowed ground in the autumn, especially where there are fine clay soils that run together and pack down. If we have a dry summer we will find that fall plowed ground will yield better crops than spring plowed ground.—J. §S. Underwood, Johnson Co., Ill., in Farmers’ Review. Food of Root-Tubercle Bacteria. As yet our scientists know but lit- tle regarding the great world of bac- teria that has been opened to us in this generation. We have supposed that the tubercles on the roots of pod- bearing plants were supplied their nitrogen by the bacteria, which- took it from the earth and from the . air. When lime has been added to soils, the bacteria have in many cases been more vigorous, but this was judged to be due to the neutralization of acid by the lime. It may be, however, that these bacteria actually use lime and magnesium as a part of their food. A French professor, H. Flamand, has been making some experiments .in the development of tubercles with wa- ter cultures. The different kinds of pod-bearing plants behaved very dif- ferently. Thus, vetches refused to produce tubercles, unless they were supplied with magnesium, while both vetches and beans showed they must have either lime or magnesium if they were to produce tubercles. Potash salts and lime salts stimulated the de- velopment of the root tubercles. Now the question is, do the bacteria re- quire these elements for food? Scales on the Farm. So far as possible, farming opera: tions should be reduced to an exact science. The old ways of feeding by guess and even buying and selling by guess should give way to weighing and measuring everything. In the feeding of grains and ground grains, scales rather than measures should be depended upon. Different kinds of grains vary greatly in their weight, and if a man tries to measure them out he is sure to give more at one time than at another. Some of the brans on the market differ exceeding: ly in this respect. Some of them are very light, being hardly more than the hull of the wheat, while others are quite heavy and consist largely of middlings. If a man has scales, he ean very easily feed about the same amount of food each day, and there fore become better informed as to the requisite food required to produce a certain effect. Scales can now be bought at a very low price, and a few dollars invested in scales will give good returns indirectly for many years to come. Vitality of Seeds. The practice of sprouting seeds between layers of blotting paper does not give absolutely accur- ate results, except to show what per cent of the seed will germin- ate under those conditions. If a lot of seed be divided into two portions and one lot be placed between sheets of wet blotting paper and the other be actually placed in the ground, the lat- ter lot will show a much smaller per- centage of germination than the oth- er. It is one thing for a seed to sprout under ideal conditions; it is quite an- other for seed to sprout under hard conditions, which obtain frequently when the seeds are covered with earth, and are put in at varying depths. Sewage Farms. In many countries of Europe the large cities are disposing of their sewage by means of sewage farms. A large part of the sewage of Paris is disposed of in this way. 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