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Alternating with the date are superb fan-palms, of which it is difficult to realize that .it is their stunted, puny brothers which,_ anxiously tended, sponged and cossetecl, drag out a lan- guid existence in London drawing- rooms. Among their Tital fans lies “you seem to have a good deal of it; I sgppose, in your position; it is unavoid- a c.” He had meant an allusion to her situ- ation as bad third to her uxorlous par- ents; before his mind's eye has risen a picture of the little forlorn shawled figure he‘had seen ,tudyin its Italian RULES FOR SHEEP DIPPING. The best time for dipping is from one to three months after shearing. The sheep should not be overheated or thirsty at the time of dipping. If the Sun is very hot it is better to have. the draining pans under shade. jo OR, A SAD LIFE STORY' “Oh, Miss Le Merchant! is it you? 1 CHAPTER XXXVI.â€"{Continued). beg your pardon, I did not recognize you \V their mighty fruit, jike a bunch of grapes, a yard and a upon ropes of yellow worsted; ' avenue is intersected by a splendid alley of bamboos, leaves towards each other dimmed pointed Gothic arch of living green. arcade, stooping now and again to pick up a fragment of the peeled bark that looks so strangely like a papyrus roll ialf long, strung Io Half-way down its length the main which lean their smooth- inted stems and their luxuriant narrow across the interspace, and unite in 0. Jim paces objectlessly down the long illi. a mother-ofâ€"peari glaze upon it grammar with the ear s at upon its have left his lips, he sees how d fferent, of how cruel, a construction they may be capable. her, to see whether she has made that erroneous, yet all too plausible applica- tionâ€"a glance which confirms his worst fears. pocket-handkerchief which she is pass- ing over her trembling lips. “you are right. If the nights are cold, the dipping should always be stopped soon enough to allow the sheep time to dry before sunset. ‘ See that the preparation is properly mixed and the correct quantity of water added. Don‘t guess at it. Never hurt them in dipping. Always take care that every sheep is kept in the bath the full timeâ€"never less than > one minute nor more than two min» ules. Have the bath well and regularly stirred up from the botténi always beâ€" fore beginning to dip, and whenever nelincss; but almost before th words He snatches a glance of real terror at She has turned as white as the “Yes,” she says in a hollow whisper; In my position it is un- 'terranean, ' She is lying “If I had as many gowns as the-Medi- how well-dressed I should be I“ says Elizabeth, Willi a smile. . It is the first time she had spoken Since they had set off on their return drive. . back, with her hands care- fully shielding in her lap a few little crockery pots that she has bought of a fat Turk for some children at her hotel. IIer face looks tired; and yet over its small area is spread an expressmn of content that makes his heart warm. Is it only the pageant of sky and ocean that has called forth that look of real, if pass- ing, happiness on the features of her who is always so an instrument for all influences of beauty and grandeur to play upon? or has his own neighborhood anything to .say to it? Before he can givehimself an answer to this anxious question, she speaks again. . “You do not mind my not talking to you, do you?" she asks, half apologeti- cally, and yet with a confidence in his sympathy that still further quickens the beats of his already not very still heart. “No, I am sure you do not. Some- howâ€"it is a great giftâ€"â€"you always feel in tune with one, and one does not chat- tcr most when one is most greatly pleased, does one? on, what a treat you have given me i” As she speaks, her humid eyes travel from his face to where, beyond the long Atlas range, delicately toothed and cut out, rises the gold-washed snow of the Kabyle mountains, that retire majesti- invisible on dull days, and only come out, candescent and regal, when the great Sim rides in pomp. Above their heads wild plumes of deep rose, that it seems ridiculous to call clouds, tqu the sky. Jim’s look has followed his compan- ion’s; the chins of both are in the air; the cheerful va ct vient of the boulevard is lost upon them. They see neither the Frenchmen nor plump Frenchwornen drinking coffee outside the cafes, nor the idle indigenes leaning draped against the sea-wall. (Never does that industrious race seem to attempt any severer excr- tion). “Thought was not ; in enjoyment it cxpired.’ But it is brought bi. jump. ,’ “Arretez! arretez l” cries a female voice. “Jim! Jim! do you not see us? Arretezl arrctez l” ‘ Obedient to his ears, Burgoync’s eyes make one~ bound from the heavenly spectacle down to earth, and alight upon the Wilson’s carriage, which, going in cally to life w' ‘1 a \ been brought to a standstill alongside "inf his fiaere, by the solemnly beautiful ' yellow-jacketed native coachman. It is, of course, Cecilia's voice that has him, but oh, portent! apostrophizcd does his vision, so lately recalled from the skyey bowers, play him false? or is it really the moribund Sybilla, stretched beside her, with only.two instead of three cushions at her back, not on her headâ€"he did not even know that she possessed a color in her cheek the freshness of the evening air, or to the invigorating properties of the con- versation of the very ordinary-looking young man seated opposite to her? In a second Jim has leapt out of his own vehicle, and gone to the side of the other. It is a perfectly futile impulse that leads him to do so. Not all the leaping in the world from her side now can alter the fact that he has been driv- ing tete-aâ€"tcle ‘with Elizabeth Le Mar- chant, and that the Wilson sisters have seen him so doing; but yet it is a dim instinct of preservation towards, and shielding of her, that leads him to adopt this useless course of action. It is Ce- cilia who has summoned him, and yet, when he reaches her side, she does not seem to have anything particular to say to him. Sybilla is the one to address him. “A miracle! are saying to 'sprightly voice; a miracle ! “and well you may! This is the miracle-manger !" indicating with a still sprightlier air hci‘ vis-a-vis. a‘. the first moment. cognize peopleâ€"does one ?â€"â€"when one is not expecting to see them"â€"â€"i,s an iii- tended sting lurking in this implication? giers? I hope Mrs. Le Marchant is well. What a long time it is since we met! I hope we shall see something of you.” Cecilia with all her faults, is really a good soul, and he will take her to hear hr in the tone with which Elizabeth re- _ . _ spends, and her voice sounds curiously tl‘embhngiy SCI“5'1'1V9\snall and low; but that may be merely organ. separated, and that he is seated by her side in the fiacre, that he dares steal a look at her face to see how plainly written on it are the traces of vexation caused by a meeting which has produced in his own breast worse than he had expected. Down the one story attaching to her past makes the same direction as himself, has just‘ With a 1301‘" strait-laced heart give a jump,) he should a bonnet-and. With, the sun shining and the leafâ€"shadows amt @195“? 111 1161' ' dancing on the fretted balcony-wall, he CYO that may owe their origin either to invite her to some fresh junkct, he is I know you ing among yourself!" cries she. in (1 ins; later on in the afternoon he finds himself in the little French hamlet. of One does not re- ‘Ilow are you? How do you like Al- (No, evidently no sting was meant. be hand play next Tuesday.) , There seems. to liim to be a slight fal- and «explores in a new direction; owing to its flute quality‘ [Onovvmg upon sauntors down a rose-alley, where, and contrasting the others powerful 011”!me “HINOdCl‘fltP-ly high 11D 11111 it is not till the two parties have a gain OIICB IIIOI‘G such acute annoyance. Good heavens! it is even cheek‘ nearest to him two good-sized fears are unmistakably trickling. No doubt the consciousness of the mysteri- her smartingly aware of how doubly discreet her own conduct should beâ€" inakes her bitterly repent of her present indiscretion. ' lie is a strait-laced man, and it seems to him as if there were something grave- ly compromising to her in this tete-a-tete drive with himself, in the known absence of her parents at liammam llhira. Why was he fool enough this morning to ad- mit to Cecilia that they had gone thither? 110 had no business to have led her into temptation, and she had no business to have fallen into it. Remorse and irrita- tion give a tartncss to his tone as he says : . “After all, I do not think you need take it so much to heart.” “Take what to heart?” she asks, in unaffected surprise, turning her full face, amt her blue eyes, each with one hot rain-drop dimming its slate-blue upon him. “Oh, I see!” a sudden enlighten- ment coming to her wi tli an instant spring to a carnationâ€"“l 800 what you mean; but you are mistakenâ€"lâ€"Iâ€"it had not occurred to me; I was only think- - ingâ€"only remembering that the last time , I saw her was atâ€"at Vallombi‘osa." V'allombrosa. Is he never to hear the last of Vallombrosa? CHAPTER XXXV II. The latest waking impression left on Jim’s fancy is that it is the golden rule of Elizabeth Le ltriarchant’s life to com- ply with any and every request that is made to her; moreover, that in her mind the boundary line which parts the permitted from the unpermilted is not so clearly defined as, did she belong to him (the naked hypothesis makes his wish it to be. If, on the morrow, with sure that she will readily and joyfully acquiesce; that her spirits will go up like rockets at the prospect; and that her one anxiety will be that she may be sure to hit in her choice upon the form of dissipation most congenial to him. lie will therefore not invite her. Ile will have a greater care for her reâ€" putation than apparently she has for it herself. Not until the return of her par- ents, not until the difficulties of inter- course with her arc centupled and the pleasure minimized, will he again seek her. To put himself beyond the reach of temptation, he sets off immediately after breakfast on a long walking expedition, which he means to occupy the whole of the daylight hours. He wanders about the great plain of the Metidge; he visits a Kabyle village, with its hovcls cowerâ€" its hideous fat-fleshed cac- Bierinandrcis, and finally drops down upon the Jardin d’Essai, the delightful He pulls it idly open, as if to find the secret of some forgotten race written upon its shining surface; reads any sceret there, it is only his own, which, after all, is not much of a secret. that it is too early to go home yet; that there is no security that Elizabeth may not still be sitting on the terrace, stitch- ing away with her gold thimblc and her colored silks. left the garden, but he departs thence palms, seeming as if they would stran- gle them with their long bowery arms, rose-trees wave for above him in the still air; and upon them, though it is still people are skating, blue-nosed in Eng- land, creamy tea-roscs show their pale- ycllow hearts; fair and frequent, on the unpruned boughs, liberty above his head. in a circle of gigantic magno‘lias, which take hands basin. a little commonwealth of trees rolled into one, instead of a single tree. neath them benches stand. Upon one his negrcss sits, chatting Donne; thing with its little white profile, how while it looks in this deceiving light lâ€"lifted, al- though white, yet smiling, animated, and talking to a man beside it. and 'run the chance of contracting a spiteful Southern chill, in order to avoid Elizabeth ; running straight into her arms. nizc her companion, but a second look shows him that he is one of the in- mates of the hotelâ€"a French vicomte: and though Jim knows that. he is both consumptive and the father Of a family, that knowledge does not hinder the ris- ing in his breast of the jealous and cen- serious Elizabeth in throwing a great deal more than the necessary modicum of amia- bilily into her manner to him. body, lifts his hat, and walks away, it “Dr. Crump, let 1110 present to you Mix} botanic garden which is one of the hirgoyneâ€"Jim, our Jim, whom I have. many blessings for which Algerian so often talked to you about.” tl’rance has to thank the mueh-vilipcnd- The person thus apostrophizcd re-l of Napoleon III. spends by a florid how. amt an over-gab! It diflicult for even the rcddcst Re- lant assevcration that any person intro- publican to think hardly of that dead timed to his acquaintance by Miss Sy- ruler as he walks down the avenue of billa needs no further reconnnendaiion. gigantic palms, that lead, straight as a “It is an experiment, of course; there die, to where, like a deep-blue gem far is no use in pretending that it is not an away, the Mediterranean shows _ '. ,, . l y. . Oi‘s'llfltlmc‘illt CQ‘ltllillii-i] fit? will», a “No bigger than the agate stone 5 "cl “’ “pse m 0 ‘1 5m” ‘ m _ On the forefinger of an alderman." lowering her voice a lill.lc-â€"“lhey wished me to make the effort." Jim‘ walks along beneath the huge It is a favorite allocation of Sybilla‘s date-palms that give him a crick in the that any course of action towards which' neck to gape up at cre he can perceive she is inclined is adopted solely under{ their fewering head of waving plumes the pressure of urgent wishes on the partl far [up against he blue. ThC‘y l‘C‘lllilld him long, absurdly of the pictures in the mission- cf her family. Burgoyne has . l .‘ I known, and been exasperated by llnslai‘y books of his youthâ€"the palm-tree, the blackamoors, and the peculiarity; but at present she may say! the log-cabin, Is he the what she pleases; he hears no word of missionary in a palm hat. it for his ear is bricked to catch the missionary, and is this inky negrcss in over-:1 black bonnet, scarcely distinguishable from her face, his one catechunicn‘? sentences that Cecilia is leaning the carriage-side to shoot. at Elizabeth : but if he He merely sees written there (Y. O The sun, it is true, has over early. It will be safer to stay away â€"-*â€"~>Xv-â€"-â€"-- yet half an hour or so. I Thus resolving, lie retraces his steps, WWW but the month of January, when s rioting in licensed The walk ends round a square fountain- 5 Each huge trunk is, as it were, Be- t with a French on a second there is also someâ€" female and slender, something '1 t 1 He has dawdled and kicked his heels, and he has succeeded in lie does not at the first glance recog- i thought that he has detected As Jim comes into sight, the Frenchâ€" man clicks his heels, doubles up his is evident at all events, that their meet- ing was a casual one; and the reflec- tion brings with it a sense of relief, coupled with a feeling of shame at his own rooted readiness to suspect her, on any or no evidence, which yet, on the other hand, is not strong enough, when she turns her sweet bright look towards him, to hinder the thought that it is scarcely, if at all, sweeter or brighter than that which he had caught her squandcring on the casual table d’hote acquaintance who has just quilted her. “You, too !" she says; “why, the whole hotel secure; to be emptied out into these gardens; the widow Wadman is buying violetsâ€"mark if they do not ap- pear upon Uncle Toby at dinner to-night. The vicomt-eâ€"â€"â€"" “Yes, I saw you engaged in animated dialogue with him," interupts Jim, with slight acrimony; “I had no idea that you were such allies." ‘ “find not you ?” rejoins she innocent- ly. “lie was telling me about his Eng- lish governess, what a treasure she is” â€"-her face dimpling mischievously~ “andhow wonderfully pure her accent. So it isâ€"pure Cockney. You should hear the little vicomte talk of the biby and the pipers.” - lie rewards her small pleasantry only by an absent smile, and she speaks againâ€"rather wistfully this time. “Have you been on another expedi- tion ‘3” “No, not on an expedition; only :a walk. If"â€"~yielding to the temptation of putting a question which no one would have judged more severely than he, had it been put by anyone elseâ€"“if I had iii- viled you to do me the honor of mak- ing another excursion with me today, do you think that you would have con- scnlcd ‘2" As he speaks, he departs yet further from the line of conduct he has marked out for himself by sitting down on the bench at her side. ller eyes are fixed upon the soaring date-palm, which stands, instead of a water-jet in the middle of the fountain- basin, amt on which the last year's dead plumes hang saplcss and ready to fall off, in contrast to this year's verdant vigor. "“ “is not that rather a tantalizing ques- tion when you did not ask me ‘2" inquires she, with soft arclmess. “Yes, I sus- pect that I should; i was so very happy yesterday: and although you told me the other night"-swallowing a sighâ€"“flint you supposed I must love my own so- ciely,_in point of fact, I do not think I do." avoidable, and it is cowardly of me not to accept it as such." only meantâ€"I ineanâ€"-â€"" hrs uttered explanation. follow her. WWW they do not provide suitable pasture for their hogs, thus necessitating the feed- ing of more expensive foods during 'a tie expense be kept in a thriving condi- tion on pastures, writes “flogâ€"Raiser.” pays a premium for the grain which he consumes; whileI without it he degenâ€" erates, gest out of condition, and be- comes an easy mark for disease. small litters, the pigs are weak, and the sows eat their young. selling grain at a poor market. great mistake to shut up growing hogs without enough variety in_feed to make them healthy. The longer the hog can be kept on pasture the better, for the less time will he have to be kept in the pen. ‘ ' est authorities on swine in Canada, has the following to say in regard to some of the most grown for green feed for pigs: able food for swine, and may be pas- turcd or out and fed to the pigs in the pens. were obtained bythe Ontario Agricultur- a'. College from feeding about twoâ€"thirds mcal ration and all the rape the hogs would eat. with small outside yards, and the rape was cut and carried to them.‘ This me- ; en a large range or the clever will likely “I mean"â€"he cries desperatelyâ€"“I But she does not suffer him to finish (I “It 'is cold," she says, rising. a home." He does not attempt to accompany or I will 0 d (To be continued). I 'S PASTURING IIOGS. f_often think of the loss that is su- tained by many of our farmers when C eason when they could, with very lit- C The hog is a pasture lover. \Vith pas- ures he thrives, keeps healthy and I It is be men who raise hogs without pas- ure that usually tell all manner of hard uck stories. Their brood sows have Feeding hogs without pasture means It is a exercise and a close pen without Prof. Gro. Day. one of‘ttie high- cnmmon crops that are Rapeâ€"This is an exceptionally valu- For fattening hogs, best results The hogs were kept in pens lhod of feeding gave more economical gains than fattening on pasture, and the bacon was of equally good quality. For breeding sows, however, pasturing rape is preferable, owing to the exercise the. animals receive. When on rape pasture, mature sows require little other food, but young growing sows require a moderate meal ration in addition to the rape. Vetches.â€"~i-Iogs will eat vetches even more readily than rape, but the vetch- es do not furnish so much food per acre. \r'ctches are ready for pasture a little earlier than rape. and if a part of the pasture lot is sown with vetches early in the spring it can be sown with rape after the vetches have been eaten off, and thus the ground will raise two pasture crops during the one season. V'ctchcs may. also be used as a soiling crop as described under rape. Hairy Vetch.â€"The seed of this crop is very expensive. There is no doubt,’ however that it makes an excellent pas- ture crop for swine. If not pasturcd too closely, it grows up quickly when the hogs are removed. For early spring pasture, it should lie sown during the latter part of August, so that it can make a considerable growth the preced- ing fall. About one and one-half bush- els of seed per acre are required. Green Ryeâ€"Fall sown rye will make a very early spring pasture, and after it has been eaten off, the ground may be sown with some other crop such as rape. It has not a very hiin feeding value and its main recounncndation is the fact that it gives early pasture. fir-d Clover.â€"â€"'i‘his crop is best suited for pasture, and the hogs should be giv- be killed out. It is especially useful for breeding sows. If it is used, two pas- tures are necessary, one to seed down while the other is being- pastured and so on back and forth from year to year. For a short order hog pasture my own experience is that a heavy seeding of a mixture of rape seed, barley and cats is a good combination of seeds to sow, especially on land where clover does not thrive. Experiments conduct- e:l at the various experiment stations in Canada and the United States indi- cate that. from sixty to eighty pounds of grain go farther when fed to hogs on pasture than one hundred pounds of After all. the sun is not quite gone; grain without pasture. there are flashes of light in the verdant “10 or on pasture that there is no money in Ilogs can be grown so much cheap- the hog. that. fed all summer from the gloom, and green reflections in water. I “And, yet,” says Jim thoughtfully, pup. most common, among our the notion that because they have an. inferior mare they should breed her 15 a common scrub horse because the ser- vice fce is low. a colt that will develop that will would get for your scrub. , fence in service fee is a. small matter, and it costs no more to raise a. good any stoppage occurs. Never allow drippings from the sheep to fall on anything they are likely to eat. If rain comes on before they are ry, keep them off pasture until after It has ceased. When dipping twice allow an interval f not less than 12, or more than 18, ays between the clippings. Unweaned lambs should be kept apart from dipped ewes for a few hours after dipping. GOOD STOCK PAYS. One of the greatest mistakes, and the farmers :5 In this way you are are to get an inferior colt. But if you pay $5 or $10 more and breed to a first- lass horse you stand a show of gettin into a» bore double what you The differ- sell for olt than a poor one. _____-__&I - NOT EVEN REPORTED. “Father,” said the young man, as he caned on his hoe, “they say the balance of trade is against us as a nation." “They (Ioâ€"eh?" “And that our bank reserves are rap- ‘idly diminishing.” “D‘ye tell me so?” “And that railway extension has come _ to a halt.’ “Well, I never!" . “And that Government securities are Substantially without a market.” “No! And do they say anything ‘about a fellow stopping to lean on his hoe to talk, when he might just as well talk and hoe at the same time?" The young man resumed. ' ’1‘ THERE‘S KNOWLEDGE FOR YOU. The Corporal was one day drillng 4-. a batch of raw recruits. “Why is it,” he said to a bright-look- ing chap, “that the blade of your sabre is curved instead of straight?" ' “The blade is curved,” the recruit an- swered, “in order to give more force to the blow.” “Nonsense,” said the corporal. “The blade is curved so as to fit the ‘scab- bard. If it were straight 'how would you get it into the curved scabbard, you idiot?" '2‘ \VIIY \VILLIE \VENT. The following excuses were cntly brought by two pupils:â€" “Dear 'l‘eacher,â€"-Kindly excuse John's absence from school yesterday after- noon, as he fell in the mud. By doing the same you will greatly oblige his mother.” The other read: “Dear Teacher,â€"â€" Please excuse Willie‘s absence last Fri- day, as he had to go to the hospital after his sore nose." ’3‘ [IE GETS T. ‘ Edgarâ€"“Does your mother ever give you anything when you are real good?" Jinnnicâ€"~“No; but you bet she gives it to me good and proper when i ain't." â€"â€"â€"â€"__!V.â€"_â€"-â€"â€"- SAVES LIFE. “Do you think that it man's life to be insured?" _ “Yes,” replied the man, who had just {been interviewed by an agent; “it does something towards keeping him from being talked to death.” *.__-.._. TIME II.»\D EXPIRED. Mrs. Niggerâ€"“Perhaps you recall, it was on a railway train that we first. met, andâ€"â€"â€"" Mr. Naggcrâ€"“ch; but it's too late now for me to sue the company for damages.” I‘CC‘ prolongs a .___â€"â€"-)Ia I-IO\V IIE PROVED IT. fool before i “I knew you were a married you!" “I prcsumc my proposing to you sat;- isflcd you on that point?" ___.. ...»3.- .._... ENOUGH OF HIS OWN. Prospective Suitorâ€"“Sir, I levc your daughter." llcr Fatherâ€"“Well, don't come to me with your troubles." IIIS TROUBLE. “My friend,” said the philosopher, "you should try to be Content with what you have.” . “I am," said the man who had been grumbling. “It is what I ain‘t got that i am dissatisfied about."- is FILTERED. Teacherâ€"“Now. liarold, can you tell me what- water is?" Small Haroldâ€"“Yes, ma‘am. with the dirt taken out.” It's mud