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CLOSEJUARTERS OR, THE HOUSE IN THE RUE BARBETTE CHAPTKH XIII. (Cont'd) "\\ith a. muck bow of much po- iiteness he took his leave, carrying with him the fuse <>f di.-imoiids. 1 have never seen him shiee. Last night in the Foreign Office 1 met sensational Press. "But, inous:-ui, statement! m the cried the Frenchman, "something must be done. Evi-n you, 1 presume, in- tend to lay hands on the principal i n ic in in i 'iv r -tn < IK n wiui v 4. mvi .,. . j Cuplain Oaul'ier. who told me of !"""> ,^ h:le lhc - v re wandering the rencontre on tho steamer. I about thc country each hour makes readily forgave him for the mis-i't easier for them t.. secrete the, take he had m.ide with reference diamonds) eo effcctua ly that no to my appearance, but it was- too i matter what may be the result tho that he sl.-mkl imagine I Sultan^will never recover his pro- "C'alm yourself, I beg," said the | barrister, with difficulty compelling "Yes," cried Fairholme, "if Hi himself to reason with this oxcit- hod been the night steamer " W policeman. "You speak as though we had in our hands every jot of evidence to secure thc eon- bad would bolt to Paris with a lady of theatrical ap[>carance in broad daylight." There have been letters here for Monsieur Beaujolais. They c-amo from London. He culled for them three or four times. I5KADY FOR MORE. "I am against the formation of bad habits, whether they be habits of laziness, of selfishness, or of Bun- day flying. 'Be sure,' we are told "Bobby '" exclaimed Kdith. "Ob, 1 meant, of course," stam- mered Fuirholine, "that by night (Janltier might have been more -aily mistaken." "Well, and what happened at the Foreign Office? 1 ' Brett's question recalled the younger people to the gravity of the '-one-lave. "First of all," "Fail-holme drove home, where said Talbot me straight viction of Dubois and his associ- ates before a judge." "But is it not so?" streamed the other. "No, it Bishop Burgess of Long Island, The last let- i apropos of his crusade against Sun- ter arrived yesterday morning. It' day (lying, said at a luncheon in is here now. I have not seen Mon-j Garden City : oicur Bcaujoluis since the previ- ous evening." He took from a drawer a packet of letters tied together with string, and the handwriting betrayed the contents of most of them. One of he detectives did not trust to Monsieur do Lisle's examination. He seized the bundle and went through its contents carefully, but this time Monsieur de Lisle was speaking the truth. There was only one letter ad- d reaped to Beaujulais, and it bore a foreign postmark. Brett tore it open. It contained a single sheet of notepapcr, without a date or ad- dress, or any words save these scrawled across the centre "Tout va bein." Ho placed the document and its envcl-j|Kj in his pocket-book, and then fixed his keen glance on the shopkeeper's pallid face. "What sort of a person is Mon- sieur Heaujolais? Was ho a French- man, about my height, elegant in appearance, well built, with long thin hands an<! straight tapering "Then what are we to 'do?" said the commissary, piteously throw- fingers, with very fair skin and big. 1 ! , , , color, dark hair and large eves set far from be.ng ( <Jecp , y ^^ wc n_ marke<1 eye . brows?" "That is he to the life,," cried the Tlislinn Hurgess. 'be sure your sin will find you out.' That is true, but it is also iii K out his hands and Drugging j him wel] I re r-all him now -xactly, his shoulders with the eloquent shopkeeper. "Monsieur must Icnow i true that, w-hcn your sin pays you !_ 1 1 i t i n.* was necessary to j/ r< , n( , h geaiun that betokens utter give some slight preliminary expla- nation before 1 made a- too midden appearance, so I remained in the cab outside whils-t Fairholme went in and f- >u rid Edith." "Ah'" said Brett, still surveying the reiliim ; but there was HO much meaning in his that this time it w;is tin- turn of the young couple to blush. "\\e d-d not take long to explain matters," continued Talbot. "I K-iit off messengers posthaste to the I'ndcr Secret. iry and others sug- He>img that if possible we KhouM meet at the Foreign ()fh'c. Within an hour my chiefs were g->od enough to fall ;n with my views, and there- fore 1 hid an opportunity to tell bewilderment. "Difficulty though it may be, we must first accomplish the main part of our work. In other words, we but I could not for a hundred francs have described him so accurately." "How long have you known him?" broke in Brett. "Let me think," mused the man, who 1ml now somewhat recovered must secure the diamonds before from his alarm. "He came here we collar the murderers." one day last week I think it was The Frenchman was silent for a Thursd.v because that day my moment. At last he said snhtiii:!- daughter Marie no matter what sively "In what way can I help ?" ] Marie did, I remember the date "By procuring for me from the | quite well now. He came in and chief of your department an an- , asked if I did not receive letters tborization to call in the aid of the for a fee. 1 said 'Yes,' and told a second, third, and fourth call, it generally finds you in." police wheii ami where 1 may de- sire their assistance." "But what of the house of the Hue Bonbonneric?" "You anticipated my next re- quest. Whilst you are looking to them my story exactlv as I have I that letter you must place at my repeated it to you. The result is; disposal two of your most trusty that 1 carry with me :v letter from t'ie I'li'ler Secretary in which he <-\|.laiin his views. I am already acquainted with his reasons, but I li.-i\e no doubt that he puts them be- f"i-- y>u quite clearly. He handed a letter to Brett. Its contents were laconic, but uninls t.-ikablc , "The inquiry in which you aro engaged," it read, "must be con- ducted with the utmost .--eerery and discretion. The grivc^t political agents. In their company Lord Fairholme and 1 him that 1 charged ten centimes per letter. He gave me his name. He always handed me half a franc and would never take any change." "Was he alone?" "Invariably, monsieur.." "Thank you. You will not be arrested to-night. I think you have told the truth.' The shopkeeper's protestations Fairholme and purpose visiting!,, , . , , i that he had given every .assistance the house to-night. , ,, , . in his power fo lowed them into They were convening in the coin missary's office at a laU? hour after Brett had quitted his friend in the Grand Hotel. Within a few minutes the two power the street. Brett, dismissed the two detec- tives and returned to the hotel, where he. and Fairholme found riqiith and her brother sitting up Englishmen and their French com- j f ,, r th<?m Whcn Talbot hcartl thc panions were standing outside N Bonbonnerie, and the, , (>d . ..j supno8C t i, a t -All goes well' ,. *.- , --,, ,-, Monsieur de Lisle kept m ,,. uis , hat j am stin a prisoner?" ac<- is attaehed to Us out- ? sma " sh "''- whose only significant "Undoubtedly," said the barris- -II. Hue f ""<J No trouble i.>r ex|ien:e should be allowed to interfere with the r->toni ion of the diamonds to their rightful owner. The British Gov- ernment will regard this as a most valuable service to the Slate, and Mi. T.illHit n commissioned to place at your disposal the full re- sources of the Foreign Office. You will also find that his Majesty's Ministers throughout Kuropc have been advised to give you --very as- whilst there is little rea that letters there. "Oh," snid Brett, when he n< in feature was a placard announcing tor - Tho )o t ter was p , )stcd _ might be addressed ; ,,, Hayraarkct. It came from your French host. I wonder what he wfll write now? By the way, where need this legend, "this is simple. ; is h<? , ])kl you Io8c sight of the We need not waste here." The four men walked inside, crowding the narrow space befor* a diminutive counter. Thc proprie- tor was supping in style, a* they | 8masnillR thc door . Whilst I tun to doubt that the various Kuro- pe.-in Governments will be ready to offer vou all possible support. The first consideration is the restora could perceive through thc top of the dour which communicat- ed with the sitting-room at the back. His feast consisted of a tan- tion of thc gems instact to the Sul tan ; the second, absolute teerevy as to the whole of t;ie circum- <nln<1 . f .. . .. - - 1 SMSBm JFi \ I f. *-!>%* v.i*i * v* k.-ird of thin wine, half a loaf of <>uff8 and u wr vitude. I hope bl.-u-k bread, and two herrings. thjs C()Uplc wil , not b( , brought to "Whew."' whistled Brett. "Read between the lines, this cominufr- cation shows the serious i.ature rf our i|ii-st. If those diamonds arc not recovered, u revolut-- >n in Tin- key i< t l ie almost certain outcome, and Heaven alone knows what ih;u me i -is to the Kuriipe.-tn Powers most concerned." "If you succeed," said Sir Hu- bert Fit/James, the Governmen- will make vou u baroiet." The man was (surprised by the sudden incursion of customers. He out looking puzzled and alarmed. "Have you any letters here for Monsieur Jean Beaujolais/" eaid If "No, monsieur." "Have you received any letters for a person of that name?" "No, monsieur." "1 suppose you never heard the name of Jean Hcaujolais before in your life'/" "I think not, monsieur." "Then," exclaimed Brett, turn- vou Huc-c u irai" n ' * . T t ed," growled Tal- '"* '!'"- ly away, fear you must with ' at ' ' )e nrrcstcd. These two gentlemen hot, "I will get even frenchman." "And when you succeed," Fairholme, in a matter- >f fac 4 / t< ne that indicated the wild improbahil itj- of HIIV other outcome, ")-,dth and I will ge.t married!" C'HAPTKll XIV. llrett now deemed it advisable to take the commissary of police fully into his confidence. The official promptly suggested that e.very per- sonage in Paris connected even re- motely with ithe mystery <iros Jean, tho Turks, the waiter at the Oafn Noir, and even the little thief "Lc Vcr" hould be arrested and ubjcctcd to a proccs verbal. Bat Brett would not hear of this proceeding. Ho quite firmly reminded the com- min8ary that the, wishes of tho Brit- ish Government must be respected In this matter, and the proposed wholesale arrests of peraomi, oome of whom were in no way coginant f the crime, would assuredly lad to ji itlieity and the appearance of and he nodded towards the de- tectives -"will take you to the Prefecture, where perhaps your memory may improve. The man blanched visibly. His teeth chattered, and his hands dhook as if with ague, whilst he nervously arranged sonvi small ob- jects on the counter. "I cry your pardon, monsieur," he stammered, "hut you will un- derstand that I receive letters at my shop for a small fee, and I can- not reinembi r the names of all my :ii8tomeirs. I will search with pleasure among those now in my possession to see if there are any for Mr. Beaujolaifl." "You are simply incriminating yourself," said Brett sternly, "if your excuse were a genuine on* you would first have looked nmoiw your letters before answering m> glibly that ilie name of Beaujolais was unfamiliar." "I bog of you to listen," cried the dismayed shopkeeper. "I hnd no idea you were from the Prefec- ture, otherwise* I would have an- nwered you in the first instance. Why doesn't she tako NA-DRU-CO Headache Wafers They slop he*<Uch promptly, yet do not contain any ot Jh dangerous drugs common In headache tablets. Ask your Druggist about them. 25o. a box. NATIONAL Dnu AN* CHCMICM. Co or CANADA. LlMITIC. 122 Till: SECOND MARR1AUE. Little Plea For the Much Maligned Strptuolbcr. At the outset it would seem that a second marriage must be easier to succeed in than a first. Nothinjr of the sort. Indeed, matters tend in a contrary direction. The novelty which characterises and pardons faults in early wedded days is missing at tho second marr"iage. A great deal of stuff sense and nonsense is talked about this mat- ter. In reality, it is out of the question to generalise upon it. Everything depends upon individual circumstances. Some second mar- riages are wise, others aro not. There is no broad reasons against such unions, and often there is much to commend them. This latter fact is abundantly proved by thc im- mense number of lightly successful second marriages which exist. But it is equally true that many second marriages are not success- ful. Some- are marked to fail from the very beginning. !' r example, take the case, of a man who re-mar- ries and yet wants to keep thc mem- ory of his first wife perennially green. There are many men who object to their second wife exercising her in- dividuality in their home. The place is probably dominated by the memory, the. influence, the tastes of his first wife. Is it fair to ex- pect thc second wife to have all things unchanged to live in a place, which in every direction breathes tne memory of her predecessor? No. A second marriage, must mean a fresh start. But the general cause for a second marriage failing is when it creates a stepmother. It is a most lament- able tiling that there are so many people in thc world who glory in making a terrible bugbear of a stepmotiier. They commence the onslaught. The future stepmother is condemned wholesale to the chil- Jiind Yard. Thc Frenchman aiuTdrcn. Servants, neighbors, friends. his wir, will be remanded on a Quality Tells ! ~~-~ The emphatic demand of the public ?* for Tea and "Salada" Only. Clack, Mixed or Urt colored Qreen Sjald Packets Only RefuM Substitute* FREE Sa|U M*ild on Enquiry. Addre.. : "SAIADA." Toronto. THE FARM Useful Hints for the Tiller of ths Soil AN UNDESCRIBED DISEASE OF . sale of, and in the inspection of, _ * ?_"'_ I? _- ..*-. -T-r-.T - = ! ULACHUEIUU. (By Dr. J. B. Dandcno, Bownian- ville.) By Blackberry is here meant what some people call thimbleberry, and what others call the long black- berry. The disease appeared .\-:re and there in this locality 'n JS1I, commercial ierliii^ers, the composition is usually given, i.e., so much phosphoric acid, so much potash and so much nitrogen, as '< the value depended upon these things. The value depends chiefly upon whether the original bacter- ial life has been preserved, and whether the constituents of the fer- o f t h c letter he remark- much time ! coupl( . n f tc r "your escape?" "1 did," laughed Talbot. Inspector 'But Winter did not. By some mysterious means lit- learnt a!! ab-nit Fairholme's action in at the Foreign Office that night he arrested the man arid the woman." "Winter is a perfect terror, 1 ' said Brett. "He dreams of hand- at )Uiy ratc U)at vmir namp will not be mixed up in it." "Oh, no. As soon as I heard the Under'-Secretary's wishes, I promply communicated with Scot in June and July. It affected the|tilizer arc favorable to the devel- caaes only, and seemed most ce- j opment of nitrifying bacteria of the structive where the plants were soil, and to those organisms which crowded or otherwise shaded. prey upon plant excretions. Description The surface of the j Certain fertilizers are adapted to canes became first 'brownish, then ] certain crops, and to certain soils, darker brown, and later whitish and the only way to find out which with minute black points scatter- j is to try them by using them on ed here and there in the surface. I part of the field so as to compare. While the fungus was working on J Another common error in this on the cane, the leaves stepped : connection that organic matter is growing and turned lighter green, j taken in by the plant roots. As a and later yellowish. The fruit de- j matter of fact roots absorb inor- vclopment was also arrested and ganio matter and water, but no or- the general condition easily appar- panic matter excepting possibly in ent to even a casual observer. the rarest cases, or under the most The Fungus The minute black peculiar circumstances. There is no dots proved to be perithecia of a j question as to the benefit to be de- fungus belonging to one of the sub- divisions of the ascoinycetes. These peritheeia are open and contain rived from barnyard manure, and this is not . because it contains "plant food" (for you could carry in mysterious charge of abetting a felony ftnd held in durance, vile un- til thtir testimony is wanted, shouldiwe ever capture UuboiH." At iSrett's request detectives were, hunting through Paris all that night and the next day for a sign of Hussein-ul-Mulk and his Turk- ish friends. But these gentlemen had vanixlied as completely as if the earth had swallowed them up. It was not until Brett and his four Companions quitted the train at Marseille!) late at night and the barrister received a telegram from the commissary announcing that the search made- by the police had yielded no results, that he sudden- ly recalled the existence of a door- loss' and windowless room in the Cafe Noir. Curiously enough he had omit- ted to make any mention of this strange apartment in his recital to the official. He would not trust to the discretion of the Telegraph De- partment, so on reaching the Hotel <hi louvre et do hv Paix he sue- 'ceeded, after some difficulty, in ringing up the commissary on the long-distance telephone. (To bo continued.) Manures, fertilizers and crop ro- tations will n\'' compensate for a lack of underdrainage of tho soil ; in fact, they only add bo the real expense- of growing crops without recompense. Good farmers use fertilizers for the permanent improvement of their soils. Poor farmers use them to get a little more to sell from their impoverished soils. The profit and pleasure to be de- rived from the use of horses de- pends upon how much they have been trained. Every eolt should be trained before he is put into hard work on the farm. relatives all join in trying to roi son the minds of the boys and girls against their father's second wife. Small enough wonder if under such pressure th children get perverted ideas. When the stepmother comec they look upon her with suspicion as being their natural enemy, z It i enough to harden the heart of the kindest and best-intentioned stepmother when she has all her ad- vances repulsed when her hus- band's children treat her with dis- trust and dislike. It is only na- tural, too, that where such in the state of affairs a strained feeling re- sults all round. The marriage can- not bo happy one. Of course, things ought to be dif- ferent. It is obviously unjust for people to prejudice children against their stepmother, just because in fairy-tales ster mothers are some- times cruel. The caws in real lifo where stepmothers resemble the storybook ogres taken by sflly peo- ple as a model, are few and very far between. The majority of step- mothers are ready and eager to help and love their husband's chil- dren, if they are allowed to. And when the children arc allowed to meet their stepmother with an un- biassed mind, they will usually learn to respect and like or love her. The lot of a stepmother is no en- viable one, and only a bravo wo- man will undertake it. Then sure- ly people should help rather than hinder. Second marriages can be very happy ones, and very helpful also. When they do not succeed. fail uvr is due frequently to tho mis chief-making and interference of people who, in reality, are not at all concerned. many asci and each ascus contains I; your vest pocket all the "plant eight spores. The wall of the as- 1 food" that a load of barnyard ma- cus is very hyaline and can not be j nure contains) but because it al- seen readily except with careful j ways supplies abundant favorable bacteria, and abundant nutritive material for them. It has also a neutralizing effect on all plant ex- creta, and it produces in the soil a pood phpsical condition relative to the water supply. No mistake is made in applying barnvard manure or other excre- ta, but in bringing and using com- mercial fertilizers, "patent medi- cine chances" are taken. Follow- intr this will appear an article on fertilizing the apple orchard. Bowmanville Statesman. buining. The asci are shaped much like those of Plowrightia morbosa, and the asco-sporcs are two-celled. The paraphyses are also very hya- line, about the same length as the asci and one-fourth the width. Remedy All the diseased plants should be cut out :ind burned as soon as the disease is man/fest. From my observations the disease will not likely be very destructive unless the plants are crowded. COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. The use of commercial fertiliz- ers has been one of tho most baf- fling questions with which the farm- er has had to deal. If the appli- [ cation of commercial fertilisers to the land had generally resulted in success, there need be very little said, because they have been in somewhat general use for a quar- ter of a century or more. It is easy to find farmers who arc not loud in their praises of such fertilizers, and the reason probably is that they have not always been a suc- cess. Millions of dollars are spent annually in the United States, and hundreds of thousands in Canada for commercial fertilizers, and it is safe to say that at least half of this large amount is wasted, not because the fertilizers have, or have not, certain elements in their composi- tion, but because they are not al- ways suitable to the, land to which they have been applied. There is generally an erroneous notion regarding infertile soil, ex- hausted soil, or over-cropped soil. The prevailing idea is that such suil in infertile because it lacks Boyal Bank of Record Year plant food, (I have never yet met a man who could give a fair defi- that wrong. Soil is infertile i $ss,294 000. of something it has, rather Shltobb Gun STOPS COUGHS HKAI.STHKI.UNOS Net Profits amounted to 18.5b\' on Stock, while Liquid Assets HUW stand at 484% of Total Liabilities to the Public. Once more The Royal Bank ok Canada is able to report in its Forty-second Annual Statement all previous records broken. iiuion of "plant food "T whatever j Deposits increased over $10,000,- t is. This is in nearly all cases | 000, which brings the total up to Liquid assets amount to $47,738,000, being <j)'- a per cent of the total liabilities to the public. Actual cash on hand, balances on deposit with other banks, and call loans in New York and London, England, exceed 3'.' per cent, of the total liabilities to the public. Total assets increased during the year from $92,510,000 to $110,52S,OCO.'Net profits amounted to $l,15L',2-9, showing an increase of $200,913 over the previous year equal to 18.58 per cent, on the capital stock of $G,00,000. Commercial loans amount to $59,646,000, being C7.55 per cent, of the deposfU. As will be seen from these com- pariaoi-t, .he Bank has experienced a wondr s fully prosperous year. than because of something it lacks. Plant excretions are the chief cause of infertility, and it is in the decom- position of such material that the application of fertilizers of anv kind proves of value. Commercial fertilizers may remedy such condi- tions but, in the majority of cases, they do not, hence a loss and waste of time. To apply a commercial fertilizer with some prospect of success at least three things are necessary, (1) a knowledge of the effect of the previous crop ou the soil, (2) a knowledge of the crop now to be grown and its relation to tho ex- creta of the previous crop, (3) a knowledge of the biology of the '1 ^^ soil. Up to the present time thene things are only very vaguely known, consequently the use of commercial fertilizers ia more or l*ss like the- use of patent medi- cine. The defect is only occasion- ally remedied. Moreover, many of the eousnvr- cisl fertiliters, in the process of manufacture, have been heated to a temperature no high aa to be de- structive of all bacterial lite. Such MICB. CSNTS are of very doubtful value. In the THE SERIOUS OBJECTION. Mrs. Snoops "Stop that flead- .sh racket, children. Your papa is talking to some one over th* tele- phone and I can't hear a word V says." KD. 5 WWII