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REM. an? inch) 1 ts ., Tétnship o a Town p10 liable W TY the only paper in B‘Vel 91‘ IS 13038! “01; no," Said Luoetta quickly. “I was thinking ofâ€"what happens some- times when women get themselves in strange positions in the eyes of the .worid from no fault of their own." “It mus: “make them very unhappy afterwards.” In the siience that followed Farfrae appeared only conscious of her; to have passed from perception of Elizabeth in- to a. brighter sphere of existence than she appertained to. Luoetta, discern- ing that he was much mixed that day wont/10' in his merohantile mood and partly in his romantic oneâ€"said gaily to Lim,â€"- ' “\Ve‘f'l, don’t forsake the machine for us.” and went indoors with her com- panion. The latter felt that she had been in the way, though why was unaccount- able to her. Lueetta explained the matter somewhat by saying, when they we}? again in the sitting-roqzn,â€"_ :‘Y'our father was distant with you." sald Lucetta. Lucetta seemed to wince. “I do not -â€"of that kind precisely,” she said; “but; you may feel aâ€"sense of disgraceâ€"â€" shameâ€"~11) other ways. ” Lucetta was very kind towards Eliza- beth that day. Together they saw the market thicken. and in course of. time thin away with the SLOW decline of the “Yes.” And havmg forgotten the momentary m) stery of Henchard’s seem- ing speech to Luoetta, she continued, “It is because he does not think I am respectab'e. I have tried to be so more than )ou (an imagine,1mt in vain! My- mother' 5 separation from my father was unfortunate for me. You don’t know what it is to have Shadows like that up_on your life?! “Have you ever Bad any such fee”.â€" ing._ '3” said tLe Lounger innooqntlty. “It makes them anxious; for might nqtgnoighezj _ women despise the_m ‘3" â€"â€"-â€"r - 7 “Not altogether despise them. Yet no_t quite li‘ e or respect them. Luoetta winced again. Her past vvas by no means secure from investigatlon. even in Casterbridge. For one thing. Henchard had never returned to her the cloud of letters she had written and sent him in iher first excitement. Pos- sibly they were destroyed; but she could have Wished that they had never been written. “Oh no, madam,” said he. becoming embarrassed and defere-ntialli at the sound.0f her voice, though with Eliza.- bethâ€"Jiaue he was quite at his ease. “Np. 110â€"1 merely recommended that it 51191er be got.” \ “I haii occasion to speak' to Mr .Fayr- fraye the ogher day, and so I knew hlm this morning." ; Lucetta and Elizabeth looked out. up« on this. for though it was night, and the street iamps were lighted, they had. kept their shutters unaliosed. In the faint baiink of the fire they spoke more freely. Lucetta. seemed to be rather outside this train of sentiment, her acquaint- ance with the Scrlptures being some- what l'imiied. “ls the machine yours 2” she asked of Farfrae. The encounter with Farfrae and his bearing towards Lucetta had made the reflective Elizabeth more observant of her brilliant and amiable companion. A few days afterwards, when her eyes met Lucetta’s as the latter was going out, she somehow knew that. Miss Tempje- man was nourishing a hepe of seeing the attractive Scotchman. The fact was printed Cargo all over Lucetta's cheeks and eyes to any one who read a. small point far away. “But the ma- chines are already very common in the east and north of England." he added apologetically. “Yes, yesâ€"â€" It must be so !” Don aid admitted, his gaze fixing itself 01 Satisfied at last with his investiga- tion, the young man stood upright, and “W e are looking at the wonderlul new dri- -l, ” Miss Templeman said. “But practica"ly it is a Very \ Eupid thingâ€"is it not. 2" she added, on the strength of Henohard’s information. “Stupid? Oh no I” said Frafrae grave- ly. “It will revolutionise sowing here- about. No more sowers flinging about their seed broadcawst so that some fal‘lls by the u :13 sme and some among the thorns, and a.il that, Each grain 1"» ill 80 Straight. to its intended praoe, and nowhere else at all I" “Then the romance of the sower IS gone for ever,” observed Elizabeth- Jane, who felt herself at one with Faro frae in Bible-reading at least. “‘He that observeth the wind shall not sow,’ so the Preacher said; but his words will not be to the point any more. How thmgs change.” CHAPTER XXIV.(Continue-d.) He turned to go away. Then some- thing seemed to occur which his step- daughter fancied must realily be as hallucination of hers. {A murmur ap- parently came from Henchard’s lips in which she detected the words, “You reâ€" fused to see me !" reproachiwlfly address- ed to Lucetta. She’ could not believe that they were uttered by her step- father; unless, indeed, they might have been spoken to one of the yelilow-gait- ered farmers near them. Yet Lucetta seemed silent; and then all thought of. the incident was dissipated by the hum- ming of a song, which {sounded as though from the interior of the machine. Henchard had by this time vanished inâ€" to the market-house, and both the wo- men glanced towards the corn-drill. They could see behind it the bent back of a man who was pushing his head in- to the internal works to master thEiI‘ simple secrets. . The bummed song went on:â€" “"I‘wâ€"s on a s----m-â€"r afternâ€"n A wee befâ€" re the 5â€"D wâ€"nt dâ€"n When Kitty wi’ a braw nâ€"W gâ€"Wn 1 Câ€"me ow’re the 11â€"213 to Gowrie.” Elizabeth-Jane had apprehended the singer in a moment; and looked guilty of she did not know What. Lucetta next recognized him. and more mistress of herself, said archaly, “The Lass of! Gowrie’ from the inside of a seed-drill â€"what a phenomenon l” 1 She stoically looked from her [bed- room window, and comtemplated her fate as if it were written on the top of the church-tower hard by. “Yes.” she said at last, bringing down her palm upon the sill with a pat: “He is the second man of that story she told me I” All this time Henchard's smoulder- ing sentiments towards Lucetta had been fanned into higher and higher in- flammg‘tion by the_circumstamces of the He crossed the room to her with a heavy tread of some awkwardness, his strong, yvarm gaze 11pm} henâ€"like the. sun bemde the moon m comparison 1y little remarks with curtly indif- ferent monosyfiflables, ihis looks and iacufities hanging on the woman who could boast of a more Protean variety in her phrases, moods. opinions," and also principles. than coqu Elizabeth. Lucetta had per- isted in dragging her into-the circle; but he had remained like an awkward third point which that circle would not touch. case. Day waftermdéirâ€" 'proved {0 him, by her silence, that it was no use to think of hing-Eng her rpund by hold- .-- A1Aâ€"‘e- ing aloof; sot hev {the in.â€" EnaJ 031,163 ugen ther agam, Ehzabeth-Jane being a n . The next phase of the supercession of Henchard in Lucetta’s heart was an. experiment in sailing on her, perform- ed by Farfrae with some apparent tre- pidation. Conventionadiy speaking, he conversed with both- Miss Templeman and her companion; but in fact it was rather that_ Elizabeth sat invisible in There 33 as something curious in the way in u hich Elizabeth, though the younger, had come to p‘lay the part of experienced sage in these discussions. “It may be fife years,” said she judi- ciall3'. ”,Or 33 ith a quiet life, as many. as ten. \Vith no love 3ou might calâ€" cuflate on ten ” “Yes. That is my :worst place, I know. How many years more do you think I shall last before I get hope- lessly plain 5}" - Nevertheless, Lucetta seemed relieved by the simptle fact of. having opened out the situation a Sittle, and was slowly convalescent of 'her headache. “Bring me a {Looking-glass. How do ‘Iappear to people?” she said languld- .iy. . . . : “\VeIIâ€"a little worn,” answered Eliza- beth, eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting; fetching the glass, she. enabled Lucetta to survey herself in it, which Lucetta anxiously did. “I wonder if I wear well, as times go!” she observed after a While. “Yesâ€"fairiy.” “\Vhere am I worst ?” “Under your eyesâ€"I notice a Tittle brownness there.” :YQS, Miss Templeman,” admitted Elizabeth, -"I would rather not__say.’_’ “You prefer not to, perhaps ?” Lu- cetta showed in her appealing tone hpw much she L'eant on Elizabeth’s judg- ment. “I cannot answer,” said Elizabeth- Jane, thougntfulily. “It is so dlfflcult. RHIYaBtS aAPope to setting that.” “This personâ€"a ladyâ€"once admired a man muchâ€"-very much,” she said ten- tativefbr. . “Ah," said Elizabeth-Jane. “He did not think so deeply of‘ her as she did of him. But in an impu-s1ve moment, purely out of gratitude, he proposed to make her his wife. She agreed. But there was an unexpected hitch in the proceedings; though 8.119 had been so far compromised with hlm that she felt she could never belong to another man, as a pure matter of conscious, even if she should wish to. After that they were much apart. heard nothing of each other for. a 'Iong time, and she fem; her life quite closed up for her." . ' ”Ahâ€"poor girl 1” , f‘She suffered much on account 0f him; though I shou‘hd add that he could not altogether be blamed for what had happened. At last the ob- stacle which separated them was proâ€" Videntiazl'ly removed; and he came to marry her.” “How delightful l” f‘But in the interval} sheâ€"my POOr friendâ€"had seen a man she liked bet- ter than ’him. Now comes the point: Coui'd she in honor dismiss the first 13” “A man she Liked betterâ€"that’s bad!” “Yes,” said Lucetta, looking pained at a boy who was swinging the town pump-handle. “It is bad! Though you. must. remember that she was forcs ed into an equivocal position with the first man by an accidentâ€"that he was not so weil educated or refined as the second, and that she had discovered. some qualities in the first that ren- dered him :‘Yess desirable as a husband than she had at first thought him to That night she became restless; in the morning she was feverish; and.at breakfast-time she told her companion that she had something on her mind:â€" something which concerned a person In whom she was interested much. Elizaâ€" heth was earnest to listen and sympa- thlse. ‘ It was aifl true as she 1had picturedâ€" s-he qouid have sworn it. Luoetta had a. helghtelned imminousness in her eye over and above the advanbed color of her cheeks. . “You’ve seen Mr. Farfrae," said Eliza.- beph». demmtealbz “Yes," said'Lucetta. “How did you know 2" ~ She knefit down on the hearth and took her friend’s hands excited-Ly 1n her own. But after 3.11 she did not say when or how she had seen him or w hat he had said. A seer’s spirit took command of Eliza- beth, impei‘ling her to sit down by the fire. and divine events so sureilty from data already her. own that they could be held as witnessed. She followed Lu- cetta. thus mentallyâ€"saw her encounter Donald somewhere as if by chanceâ€"saw him wear his Specialt look when. meet- ing women, With an added intensuy be- cause this one was Luoetta. Sihe de- picted his impassioned manner; beheld the indecision of both between their Iothness to separate and their desire not to be observed; depicted their shaking of hands; how they probabCIy parted with frigidity in their general contour and movement, only in the smaller fea- tures showing the spark of passion, thus invisible to all but themselves. This discerning silent witch had not done thinking of these things when Lucetta came nozseslessly behind her, and made her start. her as Elizabeth-Jane was beginning to do. Luoetta passed on and cuosed the street door. AS GOLD. CHAPTER XXV. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, Jan. In an address on “Horticulture and Health,” before the American Associa- tion for the advancement of Science, Prof. W. R. Lazenby discussed the nu- tritive value of various fruits, and showed that an average man who should undertake to live on strawberries alone, would have to consume eighty-eight pounds of them in a‘ day in order to. obtain a sufficient quantity of one of the most important elements of food, protein.~ But whale he was getting the proper amount of protein from the strawberries, they would give him sev- en times too much of another neceSsary compound, namely, carbohydrates. For- ty-four pounds of tomatoes a day. would supply nearly thenght quantity and proportion of protem, carbohydrates and fat, the three most essential constitu- ents of food. The chief value of fruit; consists in its acids, which are import- i ant to health. ' - l They say that you are working on a, _f_ly_ing 1113;011:1113, Genus. N64: fne. I haie in - fime to- waste on such foolishness. I’m getting up a perpetual motion- "You come to live in Casterbrid-ge entirely on my account," he said. “Yet now you are here you won’t have any- thing to say to my offer 1" . He had hardly gone down the stair- Case when she dropped upon the sofa. and jumped up again in a fit of doesâ€" Dfi-I‘ation. “I will love him!" she cried passmnately' “as for himâ€"he’s hot- tempered and stern, and it would be madness to bind myself to him, know- 111'8‘ that. I won’t be a slave to the Pastâ€"I’ll love where I choose!” Yet having decided to break away from Henchard, one might have sup- posed her capable of aiming higher than Farfrae. But Lucetta reasoned noth- 111g; she feared hard words from the People with whom! she had been earlier associated; she had no relatives left; and with native lightness of heart took kindly to what fate offered. He would not take it. “No, no; such is not for me, ” he said dry 1y y, and movâ€" ed to the door. At going yout he turn- ed his eye upon her. i my proposal ?" -_ , For the first time in them acqualn- tance Lucetta had the move; and yet §hf9 ‘FVfLS backward. “For the present. â€"'_â€"- JV“ r me~ffor your own good name’s sake. \Vhat is known in your natlve. Jersey may get known here.” , ‘HOW you keep on about ‘Jersey. I 3110 English.” _ “Yes, yes. Well, What do you say to I was that I call innocent all the time they called me guilty, you ought not to be so cutting! I suffered enough at that worrying time, when you wrote to tell me of your Wife’s return, and my consequent dismissal, and 1f 1 3H} f1 little dependent now, surely the DI‘IVHGB‘B is due to me?” . . ”Yes, it is,” he said. “But 1t 18 not by What is, in this life. but by what appears, that you are judged; and I therefore think you ought to_ 3400?“ . “That’é rather a; rufle W21} of. speak- mg to me,” pouted Lucetta, w1th “911m eyes. “Not at all !" replied Henchard hotly. “But there, I don’t want to quarrel Wlth ye. I come with an honest pro- posal for silencing your Jersey enem- le§ifiand you. ought to be thankful.” 110W can you speak so 1” she answer- ed, firing foolishly. “Knowing that my only crime was the indulging in a fool- lsh girl’s passion for you with too lit- tle , regard 1201' appearances,__an_d that “H’m. The fact is, your setting up like this makes my hearing towards you rather awkward.” “\‘Thy g), An answer was not really needed, and he did not furnish one. “\Vell,” he went on; “there’s nobody in the world I would have wished to see en- ter into this wealth before you, Lu- cetta; and nobody, I am sure, W110 W111 become it more." He turned to her with congratulatory admiration so fer- vid that she shrank somewhat, not- witlllisitanding that she knew him so we . “I am greatly obliged to you for all that,” said she, rather with an an ofusgeaking ritual, J “You may be obliged or not for’t. Though the things. I say may not have the polish of What you’ve lately larnt to expect for the first time in your lifgfilhey are real, my lady Lucetta.” .. Upon myqlife I didn’t know sugh furniture as this could be bought 1n Cais'terbridgg, ” he sajd. _ “Nor can“ it be,” said she. “Nor will It till fifty years more of civilization have passed over the town. It took a Waggon and four ho_rses to get it‘ here." “It is mu Shel}- “Yes, yes; I suppose it is. But you know, Lucetta, I felt directly my poor ill-used Susan died. and when 1 conld ont bear the idea of marrying agaln, that after what had happened between as 11: was my duty not to let any nn- necessary delay occur before puttlng thngs to rights. Still, I wouldn’tcall 1n a hurry, becauseâ€"well, you can g uess how this money you've come 1n- tornade me feel." “\Vhy, of course. I have called, Lu- oetta,” he said. “\Vhat does that non- ense mean? You know I couldn’t have hplped myselffiff I_ had Wishththat jg, if 1 had any kindness at all. I’ve call- ed to say that I am ready, as soon as custom will permit, to give you my name, in return foroyour devotion, and what you lost by 1t. in thinking too little of yourself and too much of me; to say that you cam fix the day or month, with my full consent, Whenever in your opinion it would be seemly; youhknown more of thesleuth-ijngs than L” with Farfrae’s modest lookâ€"and with something of a hall-fellow hearing, as indeed, was not unnatural. STRA‘N’BERRIES AS FOOD. A FALSE REPORT. (To be Continued.) early Yet” She“ said eva- At fuength, when the situation became embarrassing Jenny Lind, with ready tact, ran forward to the foot'lights and sang “God Save the Queen,” which was caught up at the end of the solo by the orchestra, chorus and audience. The queen then came to the front of her box and bowed, and the opera- Was re- sumed. The queen, refusing to appropriate to herseltf that which she imagined to be intended for the artist, made no ack- nowledgment, either from the stage or the _r9yal f box. It happened that the queen entered the royal box at the same moment that the prima domna stepped upon the stage. Instantly a tumult of acclamation bnrst from every corner of the theatre. Jen- n'y Lind modestly retired to the back of the stage, waiting till the demonstra- tionoof loyalty to the sovereign should subsxde. was a first appearance, for it was the beginning of her season at a place Where, the year before, she had won unparalleled fame. This is all rot about pure grit u 1n- 11ng success. HOW SO: I sank a fortune 111 a glindstone fac- tory. It was on a night when Jenny Lind was to sing at Her Majesty’s Theatre that the queen made 'her first publzic appearance after the memorable Char- trst day“: For the great artist, too, this There is a pretty story told of Queen Victoria and Jenny Lind. It belongs to the year 1848, and shows how the mod- esty of two women, the Queen of Eng- ‘Iand and the queen of song, made a momentary awkwardness which the gentle tact of the singer overcame. â€"â€"â€".. “H V ‘VVII 7 inches in length. The bones were larger, and are pronounced to be those of a man. , Some twenty-four years ago th‘ree leaden coffins were found within 100 yards of the same site while work- men were digging with‘ a View to lay- ing the foundations of a Noncomform- ist chapel. No care was taken of these, and they were disposed of as old lead. Several Roman cinerary urns have been dug up at different times near the same locality, as well as many Roman coins and other antiquities. The main question is, \Vene these lead coffins Roâ€" man or Christian? On the same side of the town there is a public recreation ground called the “ \Vong,” an old Sax- on word for “field.” \Vere they Sax- on? From their lying east and west the correspondent is inclined to consider them Christian. Their somewhat rude construction, as well as the absence of any kind of inscription, also incline him to suppose that they were originally inner “ shiells ” inclosed in a wooden ex- terior, but no trace of decayed wood was perceptible. Human Remains ling out of the Grave Near llorlu'asilc. An interesting discovery bias been made near Horncastle, England. says a correspondent. In the outskirts of the town Mr. G. W'. Smith, seedsman and greengrocer, was employing a laborer to dig gravel on his premises. About 2 feet below the surface the man’s “pick ” struck against something hard, which on investigation, proved to be a leaden coffin. It was embedded in the gravel and in a fairly geod state of preservation. The sides and ends, however, had lost cohesion between themselves and with the lid, the lat- ter being also broken in the process of uncovering it. Owing to this want of cohesion the upper soil had fallen in and filled the interior. This was carefully removed, when there was dis- closed to view a perfect skeleton, since pronounced by medical experts to be that of a female. The coffin was 5feet 2 inches in length, the body, of course, being rather shorter. Last week, as the gravel digging was continued, a second leaden coffin. was exhumed about a yard to the north of the former. This was in very much the same condition, the lid only being rathier more broken in extricating it. This coffin was 5feet JENNY LIND AND THE QUEEN EXCAVATIONS IN ENGLAND DISPROVED IT. The Chronicle is the most wide 13' read newspaper published in the County of Grey. e Protect our ideas; the may bring y'mi {width Write J HN WEDDERB RN 00., Patent Anor- neprWaspingtqn. D. C_.. _for thgir $1.800 prgzo one: Wantedâ€"An Idea 3: LeRoy Pill Co Victoria St.. Toronto. Can. T HE lUXURY 0F SECURITY Circular and Cross-Cut Saws Gummeed, Filed and Set. I am prepared to fill orders' for Steam Engines, Horse Powers, Separators, Mowers, Reapers. 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