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‘Alive or Dead?” ive or § The Strange Disappearance of Gerald Rathbone. By GUY THORNE. CHAPTER XI. Beef Tea and a Phosphate Solution. Sir William Gouldesbrough remain- smoking a cigar and feeling that the troublesome and unpleasant episode was well over. Thus Mr. Eustace Charliewood, man- about-town, made his sudden exit from Vanity Fair. Thus Sir William Gouldesbrough, F. R. S., had another secret to lock up in the somber re cesses of his brain. During the three days that he had been forced to remain in Brighton by the tragedy Sir William had seen something of the two ladies at the Pal- ace hotel. Both Lady Poole and Marjorie, dur- ing that time, had come insensibly to lean upon him and to ask his advice about this and that. A terrible gap had been created in Marjorie’s life, and, though Gouldesbrough could not fill it, he came at the right moment to com- fort and sustain: Before he returned to London, Sir William had gradually glided into a new relation with the girl to whom he had been engaged. He found his pow- er over her had increased. She was more despondent and subservient in her great trouble than she had ever been during the time when she was promised to be his wife and he must sue for favors. And Gouldesbrough noticed also that, though the girl’s grief seemed in no way lessened, her hopes of ever seeing Gerald Rathbone again seemed to be dwindling. The cunning words that he had spoken, the little hint of a vulgar Circe, was perhaps beginning to germinate within Marjorie’s brain. She was too loyal to believe any such ed in Brighton for three days. Eus- tace Charliewood had died two minutes after the lift-man and the scientist had burst into the room. The suicide had said no word, and, indeed, was abso- lutely unconscious from the moment that the shot had been fired until his almost immediate death. Sir William had made all the neces- sary arrangements. He had communi- cated with old Sir Miles Charliewood of Norfolk, he had expedited the ar- rangements for the inquest, and was, as the newspapers said, overcome with grief at the death of his old and yal- ued friend. During the three days the demeanor of the famous scientist was reported on with great admiration in all quarters He had known of nothing to cause Mr. Eustace Charliewood any trouble ot worry, and he was struck down by the loss he had sustained. “It shows,” many of the leading peo- ple in Brighton said to each other, “that science is after all not the de-hu- manizing agency it is popularly said to be. Here is perhaps the most famous | scientific man of the age grieving like a brother for his friend, a mere socie- ty man of charming manners and with- out any intellectual attainments. Mel- ancholy as the occasion is, it has serv statemtnt, but, nevertheless, it had an ed to bring out some fine and noble! ),conscious influence with her. At traits in a man whose private life has ; any rate, she began to cease discus- always been something of a‘ mystery to | . on of the mystery, and there was a the public.” | inting of a coming resignation to the The inquest was a short one. There : parg and impenetrable fact. were few witnesses. One or two inti- |" nis at least was what Sir William mate friends of the dead man Gouldesbrough deduced. Trained down from London—club friends, these | Watcher of the mind and human im- —and testified that they knew of noth- pulse as he was, pyschologist.of mar- ing which could have prompted the! \ejous knowledge and penetration, he suicide, though the dead man had been began to see, or so he thought to him- noticed to be somewhat denreseed for self, that’ all-was not yet lost; that it the last fortnightinn zr might well be that the events of the Sir William himself, in a shore but last few weeks would some day—not learned exposition given during the yet or soon, but some day—place him course of his evidence, pronounced it upon a higher ‘pedestal than ever be- as his opinion that Eustace -Charlie- | goye, wood had been suddenly seized by one ‘On the evening of the fourth day af: of those unexplainable impulses of eo bis “acrival Biv Witlaes ‘Goullee. mania’ which, like a scarlet thread, brough retirned to town. sometimes lurk unsuspected for years Tn: the: afternooushe hadsdriven “with in the pearly cells of the brain. Lord Landsend and Percy Alemare to His view was accepted by the coro-| the cemetery. came | ner and the jury, and the usual verdict | yt jad been a cold and blustering af- of “ porary insanity” was returned. | ternoon, and the plain hearse and the “He was,” Sir William had said at single carriage that followed it. had the close of the evidence, and in a trotted through the semi-deserted voice broken with deep feeling, “the | streets until the graveside was reach- best and truest friend I have ever had. | eq. The shivering vicar of a: neighbor- Our walks in life were utterly differ- | jpg church, whose turn it was to take ent. He took no interest in, nor did he understand, my scientific work. And I, on the other hand, took very little part in the social duties and amusements which made up the greater part of Mr. Eustace Charliewood’s life. Perhaps for that very reason we were the more closely drawn together. No one will ever know, perhaps, the real underly- } ing goodness, generosity, and faith- fulness of my dead friend’s character. I cannot go into details of his private life; I can only say that the mysteri- ous seizure which has robbed society of one of its ornaments has taken from the world a gentleman in every thought and deed, a type of man we can ill af- fore to lose in the England of to-day.” Young Lord Landsend, who, with Mr. the cemetery duty fot the week, had said the words of the Burial Service, and in some half an hour all that was mortal of Mr. Eustace Charliewood had disappeared forever fram human ken. He would never stroll up Bond street in his fur coat any more. Never again would he chat with the head waiter | upon the important question of a lunch. No longer would Mr. Proctor, the mas- seur, set the little rubber hammers to beat out the lines of dissipation upon that weak and handsome face. Mr. Eustace Charliewood had resigned his membership of the St. James’ street clubs, and had passed out of Vanity Fair into the night. After the funeral Gouldesbrough Percy Alemare, had attended the in-| went to say good-by to Lady Poole and quest from London, looked at his friend | yarjorie. with a somewhat cynical smile as the His last words to them were these: deep voice of Sir William Gouldes- h faltered in its peroration. Mr. Alemare replied to the smile momentary wink. Both of the young men were very sorry that Eus- tace Charliewood had dropped out so suddenly. They had liked him well enough, but they certainly had not discerned the innate nobility of char- acter so feelingly set forth by Sir Will- iam Gouldesbrough and so fully report-| seem a cruel thing for me to say, Mar- ed by the newspaper men present. jorie, but I think it is my duty to say Afterward, in the hotel, old Sir Miles | it. Bear up and be brave, and remem- Charliewood had shaken the scientist | ber that I am always close to do any- warmly by the hand. thing I can in any and every way to “What I have heard you say, sir,” | help you and your mother.” he said, “comforted me very much. I And when he had gone the two la- wish poor Eustace’s eldest brother had | dies, sitting in the twilight before the been here to hear you say it. But | glowing fire in the open hearth of the James. is in India with his regiment. | hotel sitting room, had felt that some- Eustace did not come to us at Charlie- | thing, some one who had become nec- wood hall. There were family reasons | essary to them, had departed. of long standing why there was a Sir William Gouldesbrough traveled breach between his relatives and him-| up to Victoria in a Pullman car. He self. These, Sir William, I will not] sat in his armchair before a little table enter into here. But death heals all} on which was a pile of evening papers. breaches, and, remembering Eustace as | During the first ten minutes he had a bright and happy boy at Eton before | glanced through all of them, and only ‘we became estranged, I féel a father’s | One part of the news columns claimed natural sorrow. But let me say, Sir| his attention—that was the portion of William;>once~-more-that you have|the paper devoted to the “Rathbone lightened that sorrow/somewhat. I had | Mystery.” regarded my son as_living a useless He noticed that already the clamor and selfish Jife upon the allowance I| 2nd agitation were beginning to die was in the, habit ot; paying into his down. The shrewd purveyors of news bank. To rio sane ys was, ie ne were beginning to realize that mys- derlying stratum o se ‘and ni tery was not likely to be solved, and bleness in his er is! thdeed a| that the public appetite was satisfied “T shall go on,” he said, “doing all that I can in every possible way. And everything that I do I will let you know, and if I ean discover the slight- est clue to this terrible mystery you shall hear it at once. But don’t buoy yourself up with false hopes, that is all I ask. None of us can say what the future may have in store, but for my part I have not. much hope. It may polace.” )2! tt Eh 19awO) ost sen | » With it. Sir Witte & Bowed. ana “igif:| The two columns or more which had Mlies! x contthy ntlemanét! ‘been usual in the early days of Rath- see, whos sh jaa mot yeni ' bone’s disappearance had now dwin- him’ sont esi inn to a single three-quarters of a the: eventing Der mn. Sir William realized that the ic interest was already dying out. For a few ulputss, when ne had NEEECTIVE PAGE methodically folded the papers in a pile, he allowed his thoughts to dwell upon the recent incidents at Brighton. Charliewood had killed himself. What did that mean? It simply meant that Eustace Charliewood was out of the way. The. baronet had not a single regret in his mind. Despite the genial- ity of his manner to his late hench- ‘| man, when circumstances had seemed to require that, he had regarded him as simply a servant and a tool, and as of considerably less importance in the scheme of things than, say, a deli- eate induction coil or a new drum armature. Then there was Marjorie. In his quick, summarizing way, allowing no emotion to enter his brain at the mo- ment, Sir William reviewed that aspect of his Brighton visit, too. Well, that also was satisfactdry. Thing§ were going, indeed, far better than*he had hoped. He had accomplished exactly what he had meant to do—rather more, indeed—and he had done so with singu- lar success. His position with Lady Poole and her daughter was perhaps stronger than it had ever been, even in the days when his position was, so to speak, an official one. Good again! And with that the cool, hard intellect dismissed personal affairs entirely, and with a sigh of relief the physical body of the man leant back in his chair, while the brain went swiftly and glad- ly into the high realms of science. At Victoria Sir William’s motor- brougham was waiting, and he was driven swiftly through the lighted streets of London toward his own house in Regent’s Park. He smoked a cigar and bent forward, looking at the moving panorama of people under the gas lamps as a man sits in an arm- chair and lets the world defile before him. And as he watched the countless throngs, streams that moved and pulsed in the arteries of the great city as the blood moves and pulses in the veins and arteries of man, he was filled with a tremendous’ exultation and pride. Soon—ah, soon!—he would be master of every single mind and soul that, housed in its envelope of flesh, flitted so rapidly past the windows of the swift-moving machine in which he sat. No secrets, great or small. noble or petty, worthy or evil, would be hidden from him; and he alone, by the power of his intellect and the abnormal force of his will, had wrested from Nature the most stupendous and mysterious of all her secrets! There was but little more to be done now before the great invention would be shown to the leading scientists of the world. - Already slight hints, thin rumors of what was being done in the laborator- ies at Regent’s Park, were beginning to filter through the most important scientific circles. A paper read by Sir William at the British Association, a guarded article contributed to the Nineteenth Century, propounding some most daring theories as to the real ac. tion of the mind, had already prepared some of the shrewdest brains in Eu- rope for a possible revelation of some thing stupendously startling in the realms of scientific achievement. A few keen and brilliant brains had realized, if Sir William was right ever in these preliminary conclusions, whither they tended. Lesser scient- ists, who eould not see so far, knew nothing. The man in the street was only aware that the great scientist had been working for years upon abstruse problems which had no interest to him whatever. But, nevertheless, in the highest cir. cles there was an indubitable stir and rumor. (To Be Continued.) THE UNRESPONSIVE GUEST. A Magazine Writer Tells of a Not Un- usual Type. Next to the person who never wants to be alone and can’t amuse herself for a moment, the deadliest guest in the world is the unresponsive individual who receives every new plan with a saccharine early-martyr smile that drives you to the verge of distraction with trying to guess whether she is enjoying herself or not. It is ghastly, and every summer I seem to have one of that kind, says a writer in Ainslee’s, Then there is the sort, too, who knows exactly what she wants to do, and does net hesitate to propose it. A second cousin of George’s came to us for three weeks last spring. She an- nounced boldly the first day of her stay that there was nothing she really enjoyed like going to the theater Well, to go from Summerbrooke, you know, you have to dine at a painful hour, drive four miles to get the train and then come out on a fearful local that stops at every barn door. We could have motored if the chauffeur hadn’t been ill, though even motorng isn’t always convenient, and the road into town is none too good. Every morning after breakfast that dreadful young person got the paper and read over the list of plays, and an. nounced what she wanted to see. There was really no diverting her—we simply had to make her. S$ Country Boarding House. “Look here!” exclaimed the disgust. ed boarder from the city, “The root leaks.” “Well,” laughed the crafty old farm. er, “you know you expected shower baths.” “But the hole is » big I can see the stars.” “Very good. Pas is the ‘celestial scenery’ I told you about. Too Much Exertion. bs Cholly—Why don’t you wear a tor hat all the time? You look so much better in one. Fweddy—Deah boy, to be always conscious that one is looking one’s best is too much of a strain, don’t you know. THE WINTER HOUSING OF POULTRY AND EGG FERTILITY Experiments at Utah Agricultural College, as Conducted The tests on fertility and egg yield were started December 1, 1906. Fifty whiter Leghorn pullets were divided into four lots as follows: Pen 2.—10 fowls—Artificially winter. Pen 14—10 fowls—No artificial heat. Pen 26.—10 fowls—In open front house. Colony house.—18 fowls—In colony house and on free range. Pens 2, 14 and 26 are each 10x10 feet with outside yards 10x100. The fowls had access to the yards every day during the winter and for several weeks when snow was on the ground were given no water. They apparent- ly did not suffer from the eating of snow or the lack of water. In fact heated in by James Dryden. scraps three times a week. Having free range, however, the colony house fowls undoubtedly picked up food whic was not available to the fowls confined in yards. The discovery as to the difference in the weight of the eggs,came as an incident of the ex- periment. It was not part of the regular plan of the experiment on housing, and the records do not show whether it was the food or the method of housing that is responsible for the difference in the weight of the eggs. The important point brought out is that the’size of the egg is influenced by factors under the contro] of the poultryman. TABLE No. 1. Fertility. Date Set. March 33 .. March 23. Average NOTE.—In the column headed ‘ amount of water put into the incubator usually half the maximum: and “None it was remarked by the foreman that he did not think the fowls had been healthier in any previous winter. The fowls in the colony house had no water when there was snow on the ground. The colony house was 6x8 feet in size and single boarded. A cloth curtain tacked on to a frame hinged at the top took the place of a window. There was no floor in the house. The winter was milder than usual for this section, the lowest tem- perature recorded being 13 degrees be- low zero. The fowls came through the winter in good condition with practically no frosting ‘of combs. There was no sickness, the only trou- ble being during. one night in a high wind when the house turned several somersaults down the hill, killing three of the fowls. Later the houses were staked to the ground. The lowest temperature in the main house was as follows: Pen 2. Pen lf. Pen 2% . Colony house Two cockerels were mated to colony house pullets and pen 14, and two oth- ers to pens 2 and 26. They were changed between the two pens every three or four days. Table No. 1 gives the fertility of the eggs form the different houses as shown by the incubator record, also the percentage of fertile eggs hatched. Pen 14 shows slightly better fertility than the colony house, though the dif- ference is small. The same males were used in pens 2 and 26 and the General View of records show the same fertility in each. It should be mentioned here that the incubators having the maxi- mum amount of moisture showed an average for all houses of 76 per cent. fertility; those having the medium moisture 72 per cent.; and no mois- ture 67 per cent., showing that the methods of incubation are responsible in part for eggs tested out as infertile. The average temperature taken at 7:30 a. m. was as follows: Feb. Pen 2 44 Pen i4 . 41.4 Pen 2% . 40.6 Colony house . 40.3 It will be noted that very little arti- ficial heat was given to the heated section, the aim being merely to take the chill off the house and prevent dampness. That the size of the egg is influ- enced by conditions under which the fowls are ‘kept was shown by this ex- periment. The eggs were weighed at different times and the table shows the average weight per dozen eggs from the fowls kept under different conditions of housing. As has been stated, the fowls were White Leghorn pullets, selected from the same flock and of the same age and divided even- ly among the different pens. They were all fed alike a dry ration with a stated amount of fresh cut butchers’ Per Cent, Per Cent. Fertile 3 Fertile Eggs. Eggs Hatch: 4 ¢ : Soda Bret. ia Romig Sd Be ef Seca eos 8 S22 DAA ROR mw & 2 GO BAe OBES ad at 4 7 81 2 15°. 38 6 7 52 43 <. 50 3 3 ies eRe 7 2 @ :: 3 r 8 40 4 5 7 rc) 7 : 54 7 ry i) 8 62 87 ar 19 64 12 pr 33 fer} 8 29 37 2B rr 38 4 86 5 86 70 means the M the medium amount which was maximum indic that no moisture was supplied. TABLE No. 2, Average Weight of Eggs. Per Doz., Per Egg, Ounces. Colony house Pen 2 Pen 14 Pens . 1.9 1.39 Table No. 2 shows that the eggs from the colony house fowls were about ten per cent. heavier than those from the other. fowls. There was practically no difference in weight of eggs from the different sections of the main house. Eleven eggs from the colony house weighed as much as a dozen from the other pens. The egg records .extend from De- ; cember 1, 19066, to June 20, 1907. The average yield. per fowl was as follows: Dec. 1 to June 20. 17% Dec., Jan., .. Ma % 3 46 April, May, June 46 44 OL The record of the colony house on the whole. In the four coldest months pen 2, artificially heated, and pen 26, open-front pen, laid most eggs. It was noticed that during zero weather the laying in the colony house was more quickly checked than in the warmer pens. The fowls in all pens were apparently in good health throughout the test, except that one hen died in pen 14 on May 7. A record of the weights of the fowls at the beginning of the pe- riod could not be found. On January 2 the average weight of the colony house hens was 3. lbs. each; of pen 2, 3.14 Ibs.; pen 14, 3.0: pen 26, 2.96. At the end of the period the weights were: Colony house, 3.47; pen 2, the Poultry Plant. 3.16; pen 14, 2.96; pen 26, 2.86 Ibs. As the weights at the beginning of the period were practically the same for all pens the later weighings would indicate higher vigor in the colony house fowls. Currant Bush Cuttings.—Currant or gooseberry cuttings made now and set out in moist, partially-shaded ground, should readily root and form good plants by next spring. The cut- tings should be new wood made into lengths of about nine inches, cut- ting off all the leaves from two-thirds of the. lower length, which will be the part put into the ground, and cutting each of the upper leaves off about one-half. See that the earth is firmly pressed in about each cut ting; and stir the ground often. Egg Production.—For egg produc- tion the lighter breeds and late hatched’ pullets of the heavier breeds are best. Do not expect a hen that has laid well all winter to lay excep- tionally well during the summer. A hen that lays early is inclined to show a desire to sit early in the season. Eggs can be produced at a profit dur- ing the summer, even where all the grain has to be bought.—Prof. W. R. Graham, Ontario Agricultural .Collegé, iP HERITAGE OF CIVIL WAR. Thousands’ of "Soldiers - Contracted Chronic: Kidney Frogble While in the Service. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely, of Co. E, 17th Ohio, now living at 500 East Second street, Newton, Kansas, will interest the thou- sands of veterans who came back from the Civil War suffering tor- tures with kidney com- plaint. Capt. Ely says: “I contracted kidney trouble during the Civil War, and the oc- casional attacks final- ly developed into a chronic case. At one time I had to use a crutch and cane to get about. My back was lame and weak, and besides the aching, there was a distressing retention of the kidney secretions. I was in a bad way when I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills in 1901, but the remedy cured me, and I have been well ever since.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Precisely Defined. Knicker—What was the size of the fish he caught? Bocker—Between a lie and a fake. CREAM AND POULTRY. Top prices, quick returns, square deal. Ship to us to-day. Write for tags & p' 6 R. E. COBB, St. Paul, It takes a pretty stiff color to en- able some men to hold their heads up in the world. SOUTHERN WIS. CORN AND CLOVER. Land only $8, some timber. % terms. Evans Real Estate Co., Woman's Way. “What an actress that woman is! She pretends to be glad to see me.” “But you were a match for her?” “Indeed, yes! I pretended to be just as glad to see her.” THREE BOYS HAD ECZEMA. Were Treated at Dispensary—Did Not Improve—Suffered Five Months —Perfect Cure by Cuticura. “My three children had eczema for five months. A little sore would ap- pear on the head and seemed very itchy, increasing day after day. The baby had had it about a week when the second boy took the disease and a few sores developed, then the third boy took it. For the first three months I took them to the N— Dispensary, but they did not seem to improve. Then I used Cuticura Soap and Cuti- cura Ointment and in a few weeks they had improved, and when their heads were well you could see nothing of the sores. Mrs. Kate Keim, 513 West 29th St., New York, N. Y., Nov. 1,5 and a 1906. i KISSING DAYS. Observance of Ancient Custom by an English Fishing Town. Yesterday, says a late issue of the London Evening Standard, was “kiss- ing day” at Hungerford, a quiet com- munity on the western borders of Berkshire, renowned for its trout fish- ery and its faithful adherence to the ancient customs of Hocktide, which have been observed since the days cf John Gaunt, duke of Lancas who granted the rights and pr to the commoners. ybreak the town crier, arrayed in a new livery, took his stand on the town hall balcony and blew his lusty blasts on the historic horn, which is the symbol of Hungerfordian liberty. Then the “tuttimen” went forth bear- ing staves garlanded with flowers and made a perambulation of the town, kissing every lady whom they met and demanding a penny from every male householder. The sum thus obtained purchase oranges for scrambling among the crowd of children who fol lowed in th footsteps. The ladies took the kissing in good part, and the males paid up smilingly, Meanwhile the Hocktide ju was transacting more serious busin in the town hall, electing a constable, who is both a coroner and a ma also appointing keepers of the of the common coffer, bailiff, treeve and other ancient offi whose duties are rather obscure. FOUND OUT. or, po A Trained Nurse Made Discovery. No one is in better position to know the value of food and drink than a trained nurse. Speaking of coffee, a nurse of Wilkes Barre, Pa., writes: “I used to drink strong coffee myself, and suffered greatly from headaches and indiges- tion. While on a visit to my brothers I had a good chance to try Postum Food Coffee, for they drank it alto- gether in place of ordinary coffee. In two weeks after using Postum I found I was much benefited and finally my headaches disappeared and also the indigestion. “Naturally I have since used Postum among my patients, and have noticed a marked benefit where coffee has been left off and Postum used. “I observed a curious fact about Postum when used among mothers. It greatly helps the flow of milk in cases where coffee is inclined to dry it up, and where tea causes nervousness. “I find trouble in getting servants to make Postum properly. They most always serve it before it has been boiled long enough. It should be boiled 15 to 20 minutes after boiling begins and served with cream, when it is cer- ‘tainly a delicious beverage.” Read “The Road to Wellville” in pkgs “There's a Reason.”