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2 Slenk that---" a tearful Buoy: anc ginning to. pierce through his ou were mot very. encouraging to me hg night! You did mol?" ~~ © 0 "There is so direct an interrogation ih of | thie last words, accompanied by so. con '| fiding &. look of aff on, that yet has an 'uneasy touch of doubt in it, that Jim is bliged 16 answer. i Le o, 1 did mot put 8 spoke in your. [wheel 3 but"~his honesty forcing the ad- 'mission---"I am not al all so sure that I 'am the last person who would have done] so, if I could." Byng has wiped his eyes to clear his + vision of the blinding tears, and has again directed 'them fo the note, which i{ he 'has all the while been alternately | his "he 'had. him 10 i p with the scalding torrents have made hist handsome young TH. : 'No right? en does it mean?" repeals B 'thied time, a hideous fear him, at. (ne sight of the young gL hat | If. may ker fi "me: ressing against his heart;<laying upon B a ey and crushing against his mouth, J : "1 seems blasphemy fo say so of any- thing that came from her hand," he says, poring for the hundredth lime over each bscure word, "but it. reads like non- not it? "1 shall niever mari ~what does she mean his head sadly. { sense; do : you! Ihave no right to 'marry any dhe akes own stall" at milking: time? Just to: this a liftle.: You will see that] n will act or not one cow out of a do: 0) not feel a', home in a stall where she is in the habit of going. { This means that '| something else. Tt may 0 tussle over the partition with another COW, Anyway, her milk will show a {ack in quantity and surely in quality. ~ Unless the bull is better than the herd, the next lot of calves will not be as goad ; as tie herd." a 3 The best machines on the farm are | the dairy cow 'and the dairy hen. Both} sltould have: the best of care. SHEEP NOTES, Quality in mutton can be improved by 'eurefu} breeding and feeding. It is not the man who: cures his sheep $0 much. as 'ther one who prevents their becoming sick whe makes the most out of them. To pay in the highest degree is a busi- ness that the sheep indusiry must con- iemplate, making the most possible out of the different products. Only 'the 'very best sheep, animals which are true to thir specie and varie ties of breeds and full of promise, should be selected for breeding purposes, The secret of successful + sheep = hus bandry does nol lie so rauch in ability 10 doctor diseased stock as starting with healthy flocks and keeping them healthy, Thrift in sheep is generally secured hen people think" enough: of 'sheep' to fake proper care of them, and are most Subject to disease when most neglected, No better food for sheep and calves can 'be wanted than well cured second- growth clover. Ii usually has. a gi Ing lian and more Jeaves than he I'but 1 'bright intelligence was clouded--(hat-- 'that her: dear little wits were touched when she wrote this?" "No, I do not think so." = #You-~you are not keeping anyiing y | from me ?"--coming. a step nearer, a lovely Elizabeth away, a 'account for such a as that wrought in Byng. ok lke. 1h I ho gous but a the | "That what? little quicker 1" 1 ng dale y no catastrophe' gonvulsively clutching his friend's arm--~ you--~you do rot know anything--any- thing that could throw light upen---upon this? 1 do not know whether you are conseious of it, but there is something in your manner that might lead me fo that conclusion. Do you know--have you. heard anything ?" % "1 know nothing," replies Jim, slowly, and looking uncomfortably away from stioner, "but I conjecture, I fear, believe that---that---" g _ For God's sake, be a ~ "That--that--there is a>a--a 'some- et pace or lwo, and his head. you medn? = Whal about? = 'Her past? puts u puts up his 'growth. In sheep 'breedng there is but one way af keeping the ideal sheep and that is by drying to improve it. Sheep are either deteriorating or else they are improving. | © As all qualities are either invented or \accidental, il is obviously dangerous lo nse 'a ram which has any glaring de- fects, even if they do mot show in his immediate offspring, for at some time or other these defects will be reproduced. . As a rule, that sheep breeder is most suceessful who breeds. as nearly in a siraighl line as the requirements of his flock for new blood will permit, and who is best able to judge the points of an éxpecled choice animal before they are fully 'developed. : LIVE STOCK NOTES. _ The noon meal of the horse should be of the most concentrated feed. ° Feed most. of the .grain then; and but little hay... At night give the most hay. It is nol easy for the horse to work hard with his stomach stuffed with hay. For {lice on hogs use equal parts of kerosene oil and buttermilk thoroughly mixed together, or one quart of kero- sene, one quart of soft. soap and one quart of grease or bailed fal with a gals 'flan ol soft: waler so as to thoroughly mix." Sprinkle lightly on the hogs two or 'three times ten days 'apart, 'When handling a horse self-control is sental. Don't gel oul of patience and fume it the animal does not do "you wish. Try again; [or pro- e poor -ereature. did riot quite 'understand what you expected it to do. ~décide what you want him to do, en give. your horse the order; £ the poor animal to guess \ you wan done. Na dood that recent oy riments or. {wo 'experiment stations {hat in comparison with dif: thods, he largest number of 'maize and karley, wilh ON THE OCEAN FRONT. La LANTIC CITY, N. J. STi] AR ass oun Sw Ld | [] A hostaley. sige of the bed rooms, averaging 19 fee aq! Every room commands an ocean view, Be h ating 'Telephone ii m . 'Telephone in every room. ha 3 very room. CHARLES 0. MARQUETTE, Manager, magnificent ten-story 'fire-proof addition is just bei Tot aki the newest and most uptodate of Atianbio iby Hotebs oan eted, making uare, ed emt | wa we | tn en uy famony A new feature is the anusual bath attached with d fresh 3 - chamber. Temperature regulated | i with saa and. fresh water. Ohisyal Golf ef Thermosdads, the latest developmens in gos. Capacity 800. Write forillustrated TRAYMORE HOTEL COMPANY, D. S. WHITE, President. -------------------------------------------------------- eee terre es tm me ey MILLIONS FOR FEATHERS ERANCE .. HAS . STARTED .. TO. RAISE HER:OWN OSTRICHES. Trade School at Paris to Teach 'Work din Which 40,000 Women 'Make Good Things. More than 200,000,000 ostrich feathers are sold at retail every year in France. In Paris alone 40,000 women and girls make their living in their-manufacture. They earn from 70 cenls to $1.40 a day, A serious effort is being made to se-| cure the entite profit of the trade for | France by raising ostriches and produc- ing the plumes on French soil. The ex periment was begun five years ago. A site for the ostrich farm was se lected 'just oulside Nice, in the mast genial climate of France. It-is still a comparatively small affair, but an as- sured success. The beginning was made wilh fwenty- five birds imported from California, Later seven Abyssinian ostriches were added. These are considered the finest of all species. They are handsomer than fhe South African breed and pro- duce finer plumes. . The thirty-two birds have produced 150 others. This makes a- small equip- ment when compared with the Texas ond Califernia ranches, not to speak of the Cape farms, where it is estimated that there are 850,000 'oslriches in cap- tivity and. whence: 15,000,000. plumes are exported annually. . But the mulliplis cation of the flocks' is likely to : ADVANGE BY RAPID STAGES. The hen ostriches lay eggs {wice a year; good ones produce as many as 6) eggs. It is true that out of every 600 eggs. (he Nice farm only calculates ory bringing sixty birds to maturity, but even at that the management counts on: doubling. ils flock every year. As the "ostrich lives. about eighty years, and the oldest bird in the.{arm is only 69, it will be some%years before any death rate has to be ovarcome. ¥ Already the farm is a highly profit- able investment, Twice a day the birds are fed with a mixture of chopped hay, unrestricted "In sunimer baths are' pravided for them, in which they fake great delight, | {he | fenced In the season the couples wpal: a parlridge. They are covered wilh fluff more liké wool than feathers. They spend a day or so in the warmth of the. incubator; the second day they are taken into, the sun for a while; on the third 'and following days if fine; they are turn. ed lease IN A" FIELD OF CLOVER. 10 addilion 'to what they 'pick up' {hey are led morning and: evening on chap- ped meat, Their health for six weeks i3 'extremely precarious, At the age ol about two years the young ostrich begins to have plumage ¢! commercial value, Then he is pluck- qd like his elders every six months. The process is said not fo be painful as only ripe feathers are taken--that is to say, fealbers which are almost ready to moult. : Each bird yields about forty fail fea- thers, which are the most highly re garded, and forty-eight wing feathers. Each plucking of the bird realizes in the crude state about 1,000 francs or $200, The cost of feeding an ostrich at Nico is reckoned at about G0 cents a month. Counting in the general expenses of the plant, the cost of raising the birds; la: bor and all other expenditures, the out- lay 'on each bird is about 70 francs a year, or 814. As it produces in. its two phickings $400 worth of feathers, the profit is $186 a year. When the manufacturer buys his féa- thers al the farm at the rate of about $150 to $180 a pound, they ave flat, thin, stiff and dull in calor. They are placed in mechanical washing machines and after an elaborate cleansing the cock feathers come out an immaculate white, 'The hen feathers ave a dull gray. =~ They are bleached with - peroxide 'ot hydrogen, but they are never 'rated as highly as the nalural white ones. Dye- ing them Is quite an art. Those 'which are tipped: with pink or some other fash: fonable hue. which grades down imiper- ceplibly to the pure white, are the pro- ducts of AE A HAND PAINTING' PROCESS. They are tinted by expert workmen who receive $3 a day. : Outside .of France the biggest ostrich plume market in the world is about the London docks, The annual sales: there af feathers in the rough state are said to: amount ta. $6,000,000. we . Finished plumes sell in France at from $2 10 $10 'for ordinary specimens. Fine ones, however, run much higher: and $40 is a common enough price. For ex- traordinary. samples' {here rule, They. i sorts of fa