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FIRST INSTALLMENT

“SAKFORr, QUEST, CRIktNOCO-

Tbe rtmsc aaa from th« Wan •rrired la Naw York cnly that «ft»nooe. and hla ooodc. town bon and bred, had already anbarkad epon taak of ah owing him the grew' city. They occupied a table la a eonewhat iScant corner of cca of New tort'a moat fa moo* roof gardes ita. The place waa crowded r>th din era. There were many notatfliUce to be pointed oot. The town

TeU me,’ _ wired, “who le the mas at a table by UnMlfT The wrattan apeak to bln

he wen a little.god. la ho

millionaire, or a Judge, or whatT" Too're In luck. Alfred," the New Yorker dqgfced. “Tb*t’e the moat Inin New York—one of moat Interesting la the world. Thafa Sanford Quest."

"Who's her

"Sanford Qceet la the groateat aaatir In criminology the world has erar known. He la a magician, a scientist, he Plerpont Morgan of hla profea-

win take your own maid with • T «. of oocree." Lord Ashlolgb contla •red. "Loeora la a good girl and I an we *he will look after yoa quite well, ban decided to enppleteenc Le

. do yoa mean that he U a de teotleer "Tee." be said simply, “yoe can call in "»at—Jna In the sane way yoa cocld can Napoleon a woldU 'inooln a aUteaman. He le a detec

do you think? Wen. Macdougal. He haa Bred la New York for some years, and yon will doubt lew* Bad this a

Srsat advantage, Ella."

^ Inim glanced over her ahoalder at the two aerranu who were .landing discreetly la the background. Her f/* - "P 00 P*lc. expreaelonleea face of the man who during the 1*« few yean had enjoyed her fa-

ther'a confidence

Fhr a moment a-qneer eesae of ap- •" ension troubled her. Waa it true, she wondered, that she die not like the man? She banished the a ought almost as soon aa It was conceived. "Yon are spoiling me. daddy " Ella

sighed.

“If you a Ink "I do not kno » * preaenuy." He laid npou tbe Unto a very faUlkr morocco case, stamped with a

oarried the ttepiagj d*r bruised, hla head swimming a m a larger ] tie. Budded) » gleam 01 light shone

Lenora croeabd the root the handle. Then aha tan— her mlatreea In’ triumph. "It to locked, my lady."

ported.

“Go down and ask 1 ■me up. 1 am going to hare t thing explained."

electric light

f a equate mirror

Towards this

they earned the girl and laid her in at (t opposite to It. to Just on the left.' Laura whispered.

Quest nodded.

“0!re me the banw"

turned away for a moment and

Something of her mtotreee' egila- ! disappeared In the shadows. When

tlon seemed to hare t

She walkril quickly to the back part of tbe hotel and ascended to tbe wing In which the servants' quarters were si tasted. Here she made h«r way along a corridor until she reached longaTa room. Rho knocked, and knocked again. There waa no answer. She tried the door end found I* waa locked. Then the returned to tbe UP and descended once more to the upon which her mistress’ apartment*

“Our diamonds!* Ella exclaimed Tbs Aahlelch diamond* !" Tbe necklace toy exposed to view.

Tn New Tor*.* Lord Aahialgb con tteuw!. "It to the castooi to wmt Jewatry la public more. even, than In lids

lute

of the rooms on the ground floor. '' sh i.-lagrspti end telenbone op ant st their Instruments

lYiee. by means of a small lift, be sa-

te tbe tor etory and entered

Utge apartment wrapped In gloom ntfl. ns he crossed the threshold, he

«*od the switcher of the electric ■U. One real^ thee that this • a man of tasted Quest drew np eeay chair to tbe wide-flung wln-

loW. touching a bell as he crossed tbe

im. In a few momenta the door waa ■fid and doted noiselessly. A •eg woman entered with a bundle

Ke leaned forward. With long,« le enter* a * fastened the necklace around hla daughter's neck. “It U j*r farewell presect to you," Uwd Ashlelgb declared El'*. Impelled by soma curious impulse which she could not quite understand, glanced quickly around to whom the manservant -aa standing.

of the suite without knocking and turned at once to the sitting room. "I am sorry; my lady—" she begi Then she stopped short. The lift boy. who had had a Utile 'rouble with ttartlur apparatus and bad not as yet descended, heard the eersam which broke ft.im her Upe. and a firoman ir an adjacent corridor came running up almost at the same moment. Lonora was ca her knees by her mistress'^de. EQa was wtfll lying in the easy-chair In jrtaich she bad been seated, but her head was thrown back la an unnatural /aahlou. There was a red mark Just across her throat. Lenora shrieked. -She's fainted! And tbe diamonds—tbe diamonds have

gone!"

A doctor, hurriedly summoned, had Just completed a hasty examination when a police Inspector, followed by a detective, entered. This to your affair, gentlemen, not mine." the doctor said gravel*. “The yowng tody to dead. She has been cnwlly strangled wtthln the last five

carried a curved band of legible steel Quest took it from her. attached It by means of a call «t wire «• the battery, and with Arm. soft Augers slipped it on to Lenora's forehead. Then he stepped

hack.

"She's a subject, Laura—I'm sura of H! Now for our great experiment!" They watched Leaora Intently. -Lenora." Quest said, slowly gad firmly, "yonr mind to full of one subject- You see your mistress ic her chair by the fireside She to toying with*—- —

down.

The Inspector made a careful erar IcafJon of tbe rrvwn. TrO me.” he Inquired. "Is this the youag lady who owned the wonderful

"They've gone!" Lc "Thar've been stolen! tag them when I left

The Inspector turned to the tals-

• was wear-

Lenora? Look! Look! t mirror. What do you

use there?"

The gWa eyas had opeusd. They were fixed now upon the mirror—distended. tail of unholy things "Ti} harder, Lenora, ' ha mattered, his ew* breath laboring. "It to there in your brain! Look!" Fhr a single second the smooth oe of the ml/ror waa obaenred ro<a crept dimly like a picture Into being, a fire npor. lue hearth, a girl leaning back In her chair. A door in the background opened. A man stole out. He crept nearer to the girl —hla eyes fixed upon the diamonds, a thin, silken cord twisted round hla wrist. Suddenly she saw him—too late! His hand was upon her Ms face seemed to rtar. almost from the mirror—then blackni Lenora opened her eyei She was etlll In the eaay-chalr before the fire. “Mr. Onset!" she faltered. He looked up from some letters which he had been studying "I am so sorry," he said politely. "I reaUy had forgotten that you were here. But you know—that you hare been to sleep?" "Can I go now?" she asked.

A trap-door above hla h<

was slid a few Inches back. The flare ol an electric torch ahon- upon hie lace, a man's voice addressed him. "Not the great Sanford Quest? This sorely cannot be tbe greatest detertire ta the world walking so easily in-

to the spider's web!"

"Any chance ol getting out?" Quest

asked laconically.

"None!" was the bitter reply. "You've done enough mischief. You're j

there to rot!"

"Why this animus against rue. my friend MacdoogslT Quest -demanded 'You and I have never come up against one another before, j didn't like the life yon led ta I-’ew York ten years ago. or your Mends, but you've suffered nothing through me." you go," once more came the man's voice. “1 know very well ta what chair I shall be sluing before a month has passed. I am James Mac dougal, Mr. Sanford Onset, and f have got the Ashlelgh diamonds, and 1 have settled an old grudge. It not of ay own. of one greater than you. That's all, A pleasant night to you!" The door went down with a hang. "A perfect oubliette," he remark* to himself, as he held a match over hla bead a moment or two later, "bunt for the purpose. It must be the bouse we failed to find which BUI Taylor used to keep before be Smooth brick walls, smooth brick floor, only exit twelve feet above one s bead Human means, apparently, are use leas Science, yon have been my mistress all my days. You must save my life now or loee an earnest disciple. Quest felt in his overco*. and drew out tbe small bard pellet He gripped It In his ~ as nearly as possible underneath the spot from which be had been project ed. coolly swung hi* arm back, and 4ung tbe black pebble against the sliding door. The explosion which fol lowed ebook the very ground under hla feet For minutes afterwards everything around him seemed to rock. Thee Sanford Quest emerged, dust/ but unhurt, and touched a con

“Our Mend." he said, "I* goto* v be mad enough tn walk Into hel. even, when he finds out «.-hat b<

thlnka has happened."

“It wasn't any oi Jimmy* lot?" Sanford Quest shook Ms head. "Preneh." he *aid. "keep mum. bot !• was the elderly family jetalner, Mac doufTol i felt resile-* about him He hus lost the girl—he was marrier to hei. by the bye—and the Jewels. No fear of his slipping away. I aha!'

IDO TIBETAN DEVILS

LAMAS DRAW FRIGHTFUL PICTURES OF THE FIENCS.

AH Misfortunes. Individual and Natural, Are Ascribed to Them May, However, 9e Fought and Killed With Swords.

N. Nicholas, reporting to the Geographical society on lamaaery life

* i Tibet, tayn:

Fantastic and absurd as lamaism la. there to. with one exception, nothing ta Cho that la Immoral or repugnant to western ethics That one eioep tlon to the belief In the "Dra" or devila Somewhere in the ioweet hell Rangee has chained the chief devil whose name la Sa-nln tie or Sa-tin-tae (not very far from Satan). Pictures of this fiend are In every temple. They j are made as horrible and revolting | as Tibetan Ingenuity will permit. At- | though Sa-tta-txe la a prisoner, he has under hla control legions of 1

• A “

■ It Is to h

“YouVs Had a Rough Tima, l have him here at the time 1

Arraat me " he ordered I am San fora Quest. I must be takes at oar*

t*e criminologist glftneed through >e papers quickly. "No further tartriee, I^ura?" She left the room rlroost noiselessly.

CHAPTER t.

habit of becoming lata for 1“ Lady Ashlelgh remarked, ■ha Bat down tbe coffee pot. "is — * upon your fkthar. As* rorwa,

■ta glanced np from a pile of cor iwnondeno* through which sh* bad a« looking a little negligently "Hoe* at all, mother. My corre■mdanc* Is Just ths usual sort of rub^—tavitatioo* and gosatp. Such a < of tavltaUoi's, by tbe bye" *At your aga," Lady Ashlelgh de■red. “that Is the sort of correspondm which you should And interest

"Mr. Mareham." ha said, "1 afraid tkto will be a difficult affal am gotag to take the liberty of cnJUuc In an expert. That yoa. exchange? I want number one. New York city— Mr. Sanford Quest"

''Certainly," Quest replied. “To

you the truth, ! find that 1 shall not I Acuity! -—1 to ask you those question*, after reached the

A messenger from tbe police sta-1 Inspector French happen ad to be 'just

Thay found a cab althout much dlf-

flvs o'clock when they

CHAPTER IV.

There teemed to b* nothing at all original In the met hods pursued oy the great criminologist when confronted with this tahlaen of death and robbery. HU remarks to the Inspector were few and perfunetpry. He asked only a few languid questions of Msedougal and Lenora. who were summon fid to Ms preernoe. Msedougal thru turned to leave the room. Lenora was about to follow, but Qreet signed to her to remain. “f should like to have a Hill* o> venation with you about you. mistress" be said to her pleasantly. “If you don't mind. I will ask you to ae-compp-ay me In my ear. I will send the man back with you." They descended ta tbs lift together and Quest handod tbe gtri Into hla car. They drove quickly through tbs efleut atraata. In a few minute* Ignore was Installed In as easy chair In Quest's Bli-

the perfect automaton. His eyes. In stead of being fixed at the back ot his master’* chair, were simply riveted upon the stone* A queer little feel In; of uneasiness disturbed Ella for the t It passed, however, os ta

ui his mind and let father > glancing as ay her attention was once ■as he promised! . Here more nttracted by tbe sparkle of the

Jewels upon her bosom.

“Yoa know 1 am not I'ka that, mothr " she protected "My music Is really *fi only part of Ilf* which absolutely inwabi to me. Oh. why doesn't Del*

’mas daddy, mum."

ford Ashlelgh tottered for a moirot to raia* the covers from the upon a aide table Afterwards fit*. «1 himself at the table. 1 heard this morning." he from your friend Delarey. Ella, rent Into the ma.ter very tally. The b*tance of It !s that for tbi first nr of your musical training he ad

?«ea New York.

havr not finished yet. This cabl*^ J." he went on. drawing a little •ta of blue paper from hi# pocket, brought to me ibis morning—' It out before him and

■tU t«rs A*hM«ti. Hsmbtln Ilouiw rior Bastand 1 find a magnlficvst pro- '*"> arranged for at Metropolitan Op*r» Mil* yi-ar. Hare takro ho* for "W daughter, ragagsd th* best profa*- “ ,n «h* world, and soeurad an apartst th* Lf.ur.rt. our me*i relect and ■"fortabl* residenital hotel ’Tndrruar.d brothrr la still In South Anwrlra, rr•rem* early spring, but will do our box I your daughter** y«*r of •tudr •» ^«aant *a poaatbk. Advise bar tall on • untay by Mauirennl*

“On

Saturday?"

Ells almost

' nhsll now." Lord A»hle'gb as'd “"»r yon to talk over and d'seusa ,l * matter for the rest of tbe day. 1 dinner time tonight you can tell me J'’ r doclalon. or ratbar w* will dls’n h together."

CHAPTER I

i am t« take It. 1 believe." Lord began after dimer that *»» t “that you have finally decided. I » to embraqo our friend Irelarey * bastion and to leave us Saturday T'

h 3 ’ dowtag ayes.

CHAPTER III.

Tbe streets of New York were covered with a thin, powdery snow as tba very luxurious car of Mrs. Delarey drew up outside tbe front of the Lt land hotel, a little after midnight. Ella Iraned over and kissed her bostsa* "Thank you. dear, ever so much, for your delightful dinner," she exclaimed. "and for bringing me home A# for the music, well, I cant talk about it. t am Just going upstairs Into my room to sit and think." Tfcr car rolled aft Ella, a Urge umbrella held ever bor bead by the doorkeeper, stepped up tbs IllUe strip of drugget which tod into tbe softly wannad hall of the Leland. Behind her cam* her maid. Lenora. and Macdougal. who bad boon riding on the box with the chauffeur. He paused for a moment to wipe the snow from Ms clothes as Ella crossed the hall to tbe left. Irt'nora turned toward him He whl«pored something iu her oar For a moment she shook. Then she to rood away and followed ber mis uas up* airs Arrived ta bor apartment. Ella threw herself with a little sigh of content Into a big ras)-chair before the fire and ga»» herself up for a fvw momenta to reverie. log stirred epoo the fire She loaned forward laslly to replace K and then stopped short. Exactly opposite to her was a door which opened on back hall. It was used only by the servant* Just ac she waa la the act of leaning forwara Ella became cooacioe* of a curious hfclludnaltob-

Tbe meld hurried ta froL' the next

"Lean back and make yourself com foriablc," Queet Invited, as be took a chair opposite to her. "I most Just look through three papers." The gtri did as she was told. 8he opened her coat The room was delightfully warm, almost overheated. A sense of rest crept over her. Bbc was conscious that Quest had told down the letters which he had been protending to read. His eye* were fixed upon her. There was a queer look In them, a strange new feeling creeping through her vein* Quest's voice broke an unnatural

"Ton art anxious to telephone someone." be said "You looked at both the booths as we came through the hotel Ther. you remembered. 1 think, that he would not be there yet. Telephone cov. The telephone Is at your right hand. You know tbt number." Hhe obeyed almost at once "Number 700. New York city." "Yoe will ask." Quest continued. • whether he la all right whether the Jewels are aa/e" mre was a brief sllsnce then the girt'* voice ' Aro you there, James? Tea. I am Lenora Are you safe? Have you the Jewwla? . . Where? . . You are »nre that you are safe? . . . No. nothing fresh has happened " You are at the hotel." Queet said softly. "You are going to him " 1 cannot stoop." she continued "I am coming to you." She set down the tacelver. Quest leaned a little more cloarty over her. ■'Tim know whore the jewels are bidden," he enld. 'Tel! me - here?" Her Ups qulvnrod. 8h.9 made no an-

'Aayc

bis volo

There from a

half srou

Very good." Quasi concluded "Yon need not tell me. Only remember this: At nine o'clock tomorrow morning you will bring thus.- }owels to ttux apart »eut. . . . Rest quietly now. I

rant you to go tn sleep."

Bhs obeyed without hesitation Quest watched, tar a moment, her | **%« wi regular breathing Than ha touched tag Into a bell by bis *Ms Laura aatared #1 Tba U * «“* | fc ( l|

tlon hi hav* very w

tie and "Tak. ' where! The i

Then he

"Nub

terod, I hla boui ~He°bl thr. art! revolvei tubs tan stepped return e<

"Wbe

lady?" 1

in B

boarded

Quest

lays they going off duty. H# recognized Quest

>o that * j with a tittle exclamation. J 0rk I “ Qot rotlr n** br lrg me here

w* know | Quasi explained "se as to get away

n*al ! from the mob "

repeated, j "Say, you've boon in trouble!' .wnareira ,n, »* cto ‘ »«*'*♦* leading the way

Into hla room.

tha Xwir " B,t 0t 411 «*Pl0*l00. IhstA all." ] Q»«*t replied "J shall b<- all right ! when you'vr lent ms a clotbesbrusb " ! ’The Ashlelgb diamonds, eh?" tbe Inspector asked eagerly. I " "I shaU have them at nine o'clock j this morning." Banford Quest pn.r - toed, "and flhnd you over the mu derer somewhere around midnight."

uh street

U feeling rocket—a e of hard Then he had Just

"No I

l way Juat eat< to a al

Queet slept for a couple ol hours, had a bath and made a Intourely toilet. At a quarter to nine he sat down to

breakfast In bis rooms.

"At nine o'clock." he told his aervnnt. "a young lady will call itring

her up."

door was suddenly opened. Ironora walked In Quest glanced tn sur-

prise at the clock.

"My fault!" he ciclafV "We are slow, aood-moroingjr yjj ignore!'' She came straightable Hhe laid a little packet upre « table Quest opened It coolly. Tfe^shlfilgh

diamonds flashed up

ly a pur j«t Lenora to tjphalr o

"Prepare a , 'rootr

ordered "Ask alls* Hoci bare. . . I .aura." he add! secretary entera,.. "«.|| vou look after

this young oldy?"

A few minutes later Inspector French w«« announced Quest nodd-d

in a friend I/ mannar. "Some coffee. Inspector*"

"I'd ratbm bare thoee diamonds'" Quest threw them Hcbtly across the

tabla.

Tbe ic specter whistled. ' And now. French, will you be here, please, st midnight, with three men.

lento

t, having dong thr .he h4< »Uh the

grew. He rho floor was fall

Yon've a way of yonr own of doing things. Mr Quest." ye In spec tor admit* ed grudgingly. "MosUy tacky," Quest replied. "Tak* a cigar, and so long, inspector. They want me to talk to Chicago on an other little piece of business." . . . a few minutes before mid night when Quest parted tbe curtains of a room on tbe ground floor of hi* bouse In Georgia square and looked out Into the snow-wbit* street. Then be tamed around and addressed the figure lying as though asleep upon the ■ofa by the Are "Lenora." he said. "I am going out. Stay here. If you please, until I re

turn.”

He left the room. For a few moments there was a profound silence. Then a white fare was pressed against the window. There was a crash of glass. A man covered with sprang into the apartmen.. He moved swiftly to the sofa, and something black and ugly swayed in his hand. "So you've deceived me. have you' be panted "Handed over the Jewels, chi eked me. and given me the double cross' Anything to say?" Msedougal Iraned forward, white face distorted with pasxlon. The life-preserver bent and quivered bo hind him. cut the air with a swish and crashed tall upon the brad | The man staggered back. The I weapon fell from his fingers. For a j moment he was paralysed. There was I no blood upon bis hand, no | silence inhuman, unnatural! „» looked again. Then the lights flashed out all around him. There were two detectives In the doorway, their re volverw covering him—Banford Quest, with Lenora in the background. In the 'adden Illumination MardougaTs horror turned almost to hysterical rege He hrd wasted hi* fury upon a dummy! ^ "lalr^ ' men," Quest ordered. "Hands up. . /ugsl. Your number's

up."

The handcuff* were upon him be-

fore ho could move.

"What about tbe young woman?"

the Inspector asked

Ismora stood In an attitude of dw spalr. her hiuid downcast She had turned s little sway from Macdougal. Her hand* were outstretched It was as though she were expecting tbe

handcuffs

devils whose buslm

humanity.

Lamaist devils do not tempt man as the Christian devil does. Temptation, according to the lamas, is merely ths result of a man turning Ms back on Bangor. The devila of Tibet injure, molest and destroy mankind AM tha misfortunes of life are the work of tbe “Dro sickness." Business, misfortune and calamities, both individual and national are caused by devils. They are not diriy “persona!." but also rampant and omnipresent. Almost every Uma has seen a devil an I has had n personal encounter with him. DevOn hate lamas because of their piety, and take c pedal delight In attacking: them. Devils are greatly SLtrald of guns. During the devotional exercises a Tibetan rifle was fired three Um e every day to scare the devila They may be fought and killed wfth •word* More than one tarn* has told me how ho has slain a devil My only unpleasant experiences in th# lamasery have resulted from the belief ta devils. Sodenye suddenly ran smack on* afternoon. He stripped himself to the waist drew fait sword and shouted that devtls were fighting «g«iA*w Cho. The Keapo and I were compelled to sit on Bodenye'e chest toe nearly tn hour before he returned to * normal stats. I promptly discharged him end sent Mm to Ts Chira La. The direct cavse of th* outbreak w*» his secret smoking of opium ta oelourating New Year's day. but hla {inland Ms peculiar manner are traceable. I hellers, to themorbid talk of the lamas about drfBfe* And Incarnation* and Ma-ba-ga. ~

tot of It

Mj other servant Ylckl. Ms sleep one night and fell down" »■ statra On tha following evening, when Kenpo dropped ta far n little chat around thn hopen. Ylch! turned to Mm os to a father confessor and. told Mm bow a devil had gripped him by tbe throat and then had burled him downstairs. The Kenpo looked worried and said that the Drw were evidently at their old tricks again end were hovering about tta lamasery. He advised me to lire my rifle tin se limes I did so, and this greatly reassured the Konpo and

Ylchl

Later Yield described to me tb*~ devils appearance. It was precisely the same ns the horrid picture of tbe Sa-Un-tXQ that to parted on the wall of the residence of tbe Living Itaddhn. Ylchl had looked and shuddered at the picture so often that It had at last developed Into s nightmare. Lamasery Ilf* to almost certain to get on the nerves of any man who takes It too seriously. If tbe average American believed as lamas do and lived their sort of life, he would bt, s candidate for a lunatic asylum within six month*

“You <

ran let her alone." Sanford

Quwt said quietly "A wife ran nnt give evlder.ee agulnst ber husband, and besides, | need her Hhe to going

to work for me."

Macdougal was already at thn door, between tbe two detective* He swung around Hla voice was calm, almost clear—calm with cono-ntmtlon of

hatred.

’You are a wonderful man Mr Banford Quest." h« sold. “Make the moat of your triumph. Your time to nearly up. there Is one coming whose wit snd cunning, science and skill are i'll conquering He will brush yoa ay, Banford Quest like a tty Wait

Fvka"

You Interest red "Toll mi ■ great master*"

1 shall tell you nothing.' Mscdoug

i will hear nothing, nothing. Suddenly you

i snail ion yoa r al repllfe "You ! you w11lC_o» noth I will find yourself o

1 then the .«d. It la c

struggle

tain *

They ie<l Uiui as ay. Only >. taalbed. sobbing. Quest we

"You've bad « rough Hum. Iwnorw. ic said, with strange gentb-om* Errttspe the briabter days are eoa.

Cement From Beets. It has been discovered In Franot that tin excellent cejnent la one of tba brrrodtv'- ufaeture of

beet sugar. Th tbe beets are*? heretofore been'1

•1st" largely of carbon? water, and from 70,000 t tmated 1.000 tons of carbonated obtained: to this 1.100 tons of clay U added, the resulting product being J.I6J tons of excellent cement. The ecum 1* pumped Into Urge tanks, where It I* allowed to dry partlallr Finely divided clay to then mixed with It- th- mixture Is thoroughly amalgatuaUHt by beaters tor an bear and torn.*! in a rotary sta The cllnkm 1 to then removed and Klverirad tats

Catch . jtn Swrastees. An annoying, although not at sit serious dtsraar of the skin, which ufton attark person* la the late autumn Just after they hive put on woollen underelotbee or sweaters. Is now believed to be caused by some unknown fungas In tbe wool. The garments doubt less become rontamln ated by tbe tangos wblle laid away 'vr Um (iimrerr. It |* anted that no woolen garment should be put oe until It haa been thoroughly sterlMind. using ordinary soap and bot water and ca.efully -try tug

War Horses to Farmer*. In order to assure 'be spring seed lug. the I-tench war department has decided that horses retired from th* army shall be sold oolv to thr farmera. Each buyer le obliged to preeont a cor Uflc-ita that he Is a former sad needs bOrt-W J