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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1907-8-1, Page 2i*•O.Fa4•Q O+o+o+o4-Q+O+O±O+o• O+Q+O+a+Q1, DARJ3 1 e OR, A SAD LIFE STORY CHAPTER XXXV[.--(Continued). "If I had as many gowns ns the Medi- terranean, how well-dressed I should be l" says Elizabeth, with a smile. Il is the first time she had spoken since they had set off on rheic return drive. She is lying hack, with her hands care - Tully shielding in her lap a few iittle crockery pots that she has bought of a fat Turk for some children at her 'hotel. Icer Mee looks tired; and yet over us small arra is spread an expression of ordain that makes his heart warns. Is it only the pageant of sky and ocean that bas called forth that look of real, if pass- ing, happiness on rho features of her who is always so tremblingly sensitive an instrument for all infiuonoes of beauty and grandeur to play upon? or has his own neighborhood anything to say to it? Before he can give himself 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 ant sure you do not. Some- how -it is a great gift -you always feel in tune with one, and one does not chat- ter most when one is most greatly pleased, does one? L.1, 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, wises the gold -washed snow of the Kabyle mountains, that entire majesti- cally invisible on dull days, and only come out, candescent and regal, wilco the great sun rides in pomp. Above their heeds wild plumes of deep rose, that it seems ridiculous to call clouds, tuft the sky. Jim's look has followed his compan- ion's ; the chins of both are in the air the cheerful va et yield of the boulevard is lost upon then,. They see neither the Frenchmen nor plump Frenchwomen drinking coffee outside the cafes, Scor the idle indigenes leaning draped against the sea-wall. (Never does that industrious race seem to attempt any severer exer- tion). "Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.' But it is brought back to life lv `h a jump. "Arretez t arretez r' cries a female voice. "Jim ! Jim 1 do you not see us? Arretez ! arretez l" Obedient to his ears, Burgoyne's eyes make one bound from the heavenly spectacle down to earth, and alight upon the Wilson's carriage, which, going In the same direction as himself, Inas just been brought to at standstill alongside of his flacre, by the solemnly beautiful yellow -jacketed native coachman. It is, of course, Cecilia's voice that has apostrophized hint, but oh, parakeet does his vision, so lately recalled from the skyey bowers, play him false? or is it really the moribund Sybilia, stretched beside her, with only two instead of three cushions at her back, wan a boo - net on her head -he did not even know that she possessed a bonnet, -and with a color in her cheek and a lustre 1n her eye that may owe their origin either to the freshness of the evening air, or to tee invigorating properties of the core 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. Itis a perfectly futile hnpulse that leads him to do so. Not all the leaping teethe world fromher side now can alter the Met that he has been driv- ing tete-a-tete with Elizabeth Le Mar- chant, and that the Wilson sisters have seen him so doing; but yet it is a slim instinct of preservation towards, and shielding of her, that leads him to adopt this useless course of action. 11 is Ce- cilia who has summoned him, and yet, when he reaches her side. she does not seem to have anything particular to say t) him. Sybilla is the one to address him. "A miracle! a miracle! I know you are saying to yourself I" cries she, In a sprightly voice; 'and welt you may! This is the miracle -monger 1" indicating with a still sprightlier air her Vis-a-vis. "Dr. Crump, let me present to you Mr. Burgoyne -Jim, our Jim, whom I have so often talked to you about," The person thus apostrophized re- sponds by a florid bow, and an over-gai- lant asseveration that any pehson intro- duced to his acquaintance by Miss Sy- billa needs no further recommendation. "It is an experiment, of 100180; there is no use in pretending that it is not an experiment" continues sho, with -a slight relapse into languor; "tiute- lowering her voice a little -they wished me to make the effort, It is a favorite allocation of Sybtla's that any course of action towards which . Oho is inclined is adopted solely under the pressure of urgent wishes on the part 111 her fatally. Burgoyne has long known, end been exasperated by this peculiarity ; hut at p18881e, she may say what she pleases ; ho hears no word of it for his ear is pricked to Catch the sentences that Cecilia is leaning over the carriage -side to shoot at Elizabeth "Oh, Miss Le Merchant t is it you? f beg your pardon, I dict not recognize you a. the first moment.. One does net re- cognize people --does ono? -when one is not expecting to sea then" -is an in- tended sling lurking in this implication? "How are you/ How do 'you )ice Al- giers? f hope Mrs. Le rllarehant to wolf. What a long time it i5 since wo matt 1 hope we shall see something-0f•you,n (No, evidently net ;Oleg eves meant. Coelia with all her faults, is really a .good soyi, and he wet take her to heal' the band play naxt Tuesday.) r. ' 'f'haro seems to hits le b0' a slight nal ter in the tone Witte Ntulctt'l llzabettl.ree spends, and her voice sounds cur1011s1y small and low; but 11111 may be merely owing to its 111tte quality, following upon unit contrasting the other's powerful organ, 11 Ls not till the two parties have agate separated, and that he is once more sealed by her side in the nacre, that be 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 such acute annoyance. Good heavens 1 it is even worse than ho had expected. Down the cheek merest le ltlnh two good-sized tears are uiimislakably trickling. No doubt the consciousness of the mysteri- ous story enacting to her past 'makes her smartingly aware of how doubly disoreet her own conduct should be-- makes e-makes her bitterly repent of lee0 present indiscretion. He is a strait-laced man, and it seems to him as if there were something grave- ly compromising to her in this tele -a -tete drive with llitneeu, in the known absence of her parents at Hamman lehira. Why was he tool enough this morning to ad- mit to Cecilia that they had gone thither? He had no business to have led her into temptation, and see had no business to have fallen into it. Remorse and irrita- tion give a tartness to leis tone as lie says n "Alter all, 1 do not blink you need take it so much to heart." "Take what to heart?" she asks, In unaffected surprise, turning her full face, and her blue eyes, each with one hot raindrop dimming its slate -blue upon him- "Oh, I see 1"•-a sudden enlighten- ment coming to her wt til an hestan1 sl•rtng to a carnation -"l see what you mean; but you are mistaken -I -I -it had not occurred to me; I was only think- ing -only remembering that the last time I saw her was at -at Vallombrosa." Vallombrosa. Is he never to hear the last of Vallombrosa? CHAPTER XXXVIL The latest waking impression left on Dines fancy is that it is the golden rule of Elizabeth Le Merchant's life to come ply with any and every request that is made to her ; moreover, that in her hind the boundary line which parts the permitted tram the unpelynttled is not so clearly defined as, did she belong to him (the naked hypothesis makes his strait-laced heart give a jump,) he should wish it to be. If, on the morrow, with the sun shining and the leaf -shadows dancing on the fretted balcony -wall, he invite her to some fresh junket, he is sure that she, will readily and joyfully acqulesce; that her spirits will go up like rockets at the prospect; and that her one anxiety will lee that she may be sure to hit in her choice upon the form of dissipation most congenial to him. He will therefore not invite her. He will have a greater care for her re- 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 are 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. Ile wanders about the great plain of the Melidge; he visits a Kabyle village, with its` hovels cower- ing among its hideous fat-Ileshed cac- tus; later on in the afternoon he linds himself in the little French lientlet 0l Biermandrets, and Anally drops down upon the Jardin- d'Lssai, the delightful b0tanie garden which is one of the many blessings for which Algerian France has to thank tho much-villpend ed Napoleon II. It is difncult for even the reddest Re- publican to think hardly of that dead ruler as he walks down the avenue of gigantic palms, that lead, straight as a dee, to where, lice a deep -blue gem far away, the Mediterranean shows "No bigger than the agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman." Jim walks along .beneath the huge dale -palms that give him a crick 111 the neck to gape up at ere he Can perceive their towering head of waving plumes fez up against he blue, They remind him absurdly 01 the pictures in the mission- ary books of his youth -the palm -tree, the log -cabin, the blacicamoors, and the missionary in a palm hat, es he the missionary, and is this inky negress in a black bonnet, scarcely distinguishable from her face, his ono catechumen ? Alternating with elle date are superb tact -palms, of which it is difficult to realize that it is their stunted, pmany brothers which, anxiously tended, sponged and cosseted, drag out a lan- guid existence in London .drawing rooms. Among their 'rmlal fans lies their mighty fruit, like a bunch of grapes, a yard and a half long, strung upon ropes of yellow worsted, Half -way down ifs length. the main. avenue is intersected by a splendid alley of bamboos, which lean noir smooth. jointed stems and their luxuriant narrow leaves towards each other across the dimmed interspace, end unite in a pointed Gothic arch of living grroen, Jim paces objectlessly down the long arcade stooping nolo and again to pick Up a ?fragment of the peeled bark that looks so alrarigely like a papyrus roll with, a mother-of-pearl glaze upon it lie pulls it idly open, as 11 to find the secret 0f 0011110 forgotten race written upon its shining surface; but of he reads any secret there, at is only his own, whish, alter all, is not much of a tame etc merely 5865 wi'ittern (here that It is too early to go home yet; that there 14 no elicUrity teat Flizaboth mae Mt sill be ching 'en the toerdoo) stitch - ing away wlik. her?'gok i'.ttenibto and bee colored silks. Tine sun, Jt is time, has lett ilia garden, but he depal'ls thenen over oily. It will be safer to stay away yet half an hour or so. Thus resolving, Ile retraces his stets, and explores in el new direction ; matinees down a rose -alley, where, climbing hn noderalely thigh up telt pains, !seeming 'as if they would stran- gle them with their long bowery arms, tole -trees 11.1210 far 01/0ve 1101 111 the still air; and upon them, though it Is still but the month of January, when people aro skating, blue -nosed [n Eng- land, creamy tea -roses show their pale - yellow hearts, fair and frequent, on the tlnparuned boughs, rioting in Licensed liberty above his head, The walk ends lit a Circle 01 gigantic magnolias, which take hands round n square fountahl- basin, Each huge Trunk is, as it were, a little commonwealth of trees rolled into one, instead of a single bine. Be- neath them benches stated. Upon ane his negress sits, chatting with a French bonne; on a second there is also some- thing female and slender, something with its little while profile, how white it looks in this deceiving ligftt 1 -lilted, al- though white, yet smiling, animated, and talking to a mon beside it. He has dawdled .and. kicked his heels, and runt the chance of contracting a spiteful Southern chill, in order to avoid Elizabeth; and he has succeeded in running straight into her arms. He does not at the first glance recog- nize her companion, but a second look shows him that he is one of the in- mates of the hotel -a French vicomte ; and though Jim knows that ire is both con:ahmptve and the father of n family, that knowledge does not hinder the ris- ing 1n his breast of the jealous and cen- sorious thought that he has detected Elizabeth in throwing a great deal more Man the necessary modicum of amia- bility into her manner to him. As Sim conies into sight, the French- man clicks his .heels, doubles up his body, lifts his hat, and walks away. 11 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 ho had caught her squandering on the casual table d'hote. acquaintance who has just quitted her. You, too !" she says ; "why, the whole hotel seems to be emptied out into these gardens ; tho widow Wadman is buying violets -mark if they do not ap- pear upon Uncle Toby at dinner to -night. The vicomte—" "Yes, I saw you engaged in animated dialogue with him," lnterupts Jim, with slight .acrimony; "I had no idea that you were such allies," "Had not you?" rejoins she innocent - "lie was telling ole about his Eng- lish governess, what a treasure she is" -her ince dimpling mischievously - "and how wonderfully pure her accent. So it is -=pure. Cockney. You shohtld hear the little vicomte talk of the biby and. the pipers." He rewards her small pleasantry only by an absent smile, and she speaks again -rather wistfully this time. "Have you been on anther expedi- Uon ?" "No, not on an expedition; only a walk. I1" -yielding to the temptation of putting a question which no one would have judged more severely than he, had 1t been put by anyone else -"it I had in- vited you to do me the honor of mak- ing another excursion with me to -day, do you think that you would have con- sented?" 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. Her eyes are fixed upon the soaring date -palm, which stands, instead of a water -jet in the middle.of 1110 fountain - basin, and on which the last year's dead plumes hang sapless and ready to tall off, in contrast to this year's verdant vigor. 'is not that rather a tantalizing ques- tion when you did not ask me?" inquires she, with soft archness. "Yes; 1• sus- pest that I should ; I was so very happy yesterday; and although yoke told me the other night' -swallowing a sigh -"that you supposed I must love my own so- ciety, in point of Mel, I do not think 1 do.' After all, the sun is not quite gone; there are flashes of light in the verdant gloom, and green reflections in the water. And, yet," says ,tint thoughtfully, "you seem to have a good deal of 1t; I suppose, in your position, it is unavoid- able," He had meant an. allusion to her situ- ation as had third to her uxorious par- cels; before his mind's eye has risen a picture of 1110 %lite forlorn shawled (Mune he had seen studying its Italian grammar with the door shut upon its loneliness ; but almost before the words have left his lips, he sees 11015 different,. oI how cruel, a construction they may be capable. He snatches a glance of reel terror at her, to see whether she has made that erroneous, yet all too plausible applica- tion-a,,gglnncc which confirms his worst fears, She has turnedas white as the pocket -handkerchief which she is pass• Inc. over her trembling lips. Yes, site says'iis a hollow whisper; "you are right. In my position it is un- avoidable,and it is cowardly of me not to accept it as such." I mean" -he cries desperately "i only meant -1 mean- e But site does not suffer hint to finish 111s uttered' explanation.` "11 is cold," she says, rising. 1 will gr)He does ' not attempt to accempany or follow her. (To be Continued). FLOW HE PROVED IT, "I knew you Were a fool before 1 married you1" "I presume my proposing to you sat• islIed you 011 shot point?" ENOUGH OF HIS OWN. Prospective Stritoi-'-'Sir; f love year " riotjIi er.if A. Message for the Czar ++++++++44+++++++++ "Landlord, can I havo a sledge from here to convey me to the neureet M1 - way station?" The speaker was a man of somewhat severe and forbidding aspect, who had Just entered the inn of a Russian v11 - lege. "I fear not, sir," said the landlord. "Why? Didn't I see a geed -sized sledge in the yard as 1 came in, all Pauly for a journey?" -'Yes,' said the landlord, "and it is going the right way for the railway, but it is engaged." "Then aunty whoever has engaged it can Aad room for ins?" inquired the stranger. The landlord smiled. "I Lear ere one would be welcome," said he. Tho fact is young Ivan Dob- raff-a young loan well known here- hes secured 1t to take hit's and his, bride, and a stranger Wright not be welcome." "Pshawl They will want a driver in any case, and surely sleighing along these roads does not offer n2u0h chance for lovers' conversation: They might find room for ole." "Well, you can ask them,'+ sold 1,10 landlord. "Como this way." lee led tee way along a narrow passage, end knocked at a door. Almost before there was any time for response he threw it open, and the stranger entered. A young man and young woman were in the room, and they looked round when the door was opened. The stranger made a bow that would have done credit to a Frenchman, and hit first words were suggestive of French influence. "A thousand pardons for this 'Mee- sion, but 1 desire to ask a favor, 111 2s el the utmost importance that -I shall reach the railway without any delay, and there only appears to be the sledge you have hired available for tits jour- ney. Can you flnd -room for me?" The bridegroom looked doubtful, and the bride flashed a glance at him which plainly meant a negative. The siren- ger trapget• read the meaning in an instant, and befom* the young mal had time to answer he shut the door on the land- lord, who was lingering near. and, ad- vancing into the room, he said in a low to "1 will explain the urgency of the case: As you may know, there is an import - at State ceremony in Moscow in three days' time, and at all costs I must be there. I am the bearer of a message for the Czar, and I must deliver it fn. pe., Thersonyoung man sprang to his feet and saluted. "In that case, sir, our sledge is et ycur service. We thought of starting in an 'hour. Will that be conventent?" "1 will be ready," said the stranger, as he wiehdrew. "Breathe not a word of the secret I•have entrusted to you." So it carnet* pass that four human beings drawn by two horses started out on their journey an hour later, The stranger brought nothing with him ex- cept a small handbag, presumably hold- ing his dispatches, for he carried it in his hand all the time. He sat silent at the rear of the sledge, while the young people conversed as well as the' condi.- tion ondition of the road would allow. After they had covered a number of miles they came to a very wild and for- saken part of the country, where a raere track served es a road through snow-covered desolation. At some dis trance to the right of 11e reed there stretched a forest, the edge of which male -tut abrupt line of dark hue against the whiteness of the snow-covered ground. It seemed as if Nature -lead schemed to give an effect of utter deso- lation. Even the young bride and bridegroom shared in the depression, for they be- came silent as the sledge reached this part, and watched the frowning edge of the forest, without finding any inspir- ation for a continuance of their conver- sation. Tien tsuddenly from somewhere out at Ihe•depths'of the wood there came a sharp, shrift, .and ,menacing Wind, and instantly the horses plunged with such violence es to almost unseat the occupants of the sledge. 'I'11en they set- tled down to run at a greatly increased pa"Wce, hat was tial, Ivan?" said the girl, clasping her husband's anti, "Was it the cry of a wolf?" "Yes," he replied. "It is surprising Mat any wolves should be so near us es this, but the severe weather may have driven a few farther this way than usual, But` leave no fear. '!'here wlil not be. many. Not enough to-" As if to mock his words, he was In- terrupted by a repetition of the sound, hut this lime with the answer of a chorus. Again the horses plunged, and the driver applied his whip. 'There was ne need for whip, however. The ani- mals knew the danger that was near, and they broke into a gallop, which made it difficult tor the occupants td the sledge to keep their seats, A fesv seconds of tense •tstlence• follow- td and then they could see a dark patch coming out from the forest at their side, and spreading out from, the. line of trees like a quantity 'of spilled ink, 1t . grew larger. . and larger, .and hien separated from the trees and came boslening towards them over the snow. Ivan drew hes breath • with e sharp hissing sound. Fie knew \what that dark patch meant; end he could see 'how terrible was the danger which threat- ened: it was et largo peck of wolves, evident- ly forced away from their usual quay - few. by extreme8 of hunger, - and, cone, Ing (nom Met side as they did, almost able to out oh the sledge as it went on Ile course, Soon the ominous dark patch began lc tido definite shape, Something 011 the foram of the wolves Could be dts- e rned, and thee' numbentt esllniated. Ivan reached down to the bottom oh time sledge, and then staddenly drew humseft up with a blah -suppressed cry of tis., n1ay, n r ulltl L fleeted the girl v, Wliut !s 1 ? ed g t 4 . Hee %rather-eleVet, den't'mite to l• ee Foe a•few seedirds he d10 not &pewee, with-pyotxr Irottblra," a .. and there, as 0118 fnejsted';lhe tepiled ,; "I have not brought my gun, l and unermedl" Fora few more seconds Ile staled helplessly at the approaching wolves, 1,10 then, rousing himself as 1f wilt% 1111 effort, he touched rho stranger on the 50 112, alt he shouted, for 11 was neeessery In shout, wit11 Iho wind whistling round their ears and the sound of sledge and hoofs -"air, are you 1111100? Have you revolver or pistol with you?" • The stranger looked at him with some- thing very much 111ce a smile, "No, sir," Ile replied. "Like the ma- jority 01 my countrymen, 1 um ileum - e0." The wolves almost cut itaenl off. They reached the track at a point the sledge had left only a few seconds before, and as they fell in behind to conllnue the chase Lha full horror of idto situation woe eviiicnt to the tugblives. They coulghouls,thee those hideous, ose ttu gaunt forms,, those eyes, and, above all, 'the awful look of determination, as if they were ebso- lutely certain of their prey, however lung the chase might be. The horses were straining themselves to the utmost, and for a while it seem- ed that the wolves gained very 111110; but Ivan saw no hope of escape, He knew the staying power of wolves, and be knew that the horses could not pee- sibly maintain their speed. The wolves were fn such numbers Mae oven a gun would have been of little value, and he was absolutely unarmed, Worse still, he Icnew that little more than a mile ahead 111000 WES a long !till, which would inevitably check the speed of the horses, strain how they might, and that would be the end. It seemed a long time before the end was reached although in reality. JL was only a few minutes. The sledge slack- ened its speed as the 11111 was reached, and %simultaneously there seemed bo be a movement throughout the pack et wolves, as If they knew that the prey was theirs. Rapidly they drew nearer in. their final rush.. Then for the first lime thestranger, who had been regarding the enemy with the sane kind of half -smile with which he had answered Ivan's question, roused himself up. He glaioed ahead rat the long slope in front of them, and Men called out sharply: "Driver, Is there any chance of our escaping?" There yens no reply. Either the driver did not hear, or he was too terrified to understand the question. "Driver," called the stranger, more imperatively, "do you hear me? Is there any chance of our escaping?" The delver cast a frightened glance over his shoulder and said: "No. Hea- ven help usl There is none." 'Then 1 will save you on one con- dition," said tine stranger. "Do you hear me, all of you? • 1 will save you en.one condition. Yea must swear bo me by the most snored eali% you know never to tell anyone haw I do it. WIII you swear? Swear that you will tell ne one how I saved you. Be qubdd There is 110 time to waste." -"1 swear%" said the drivel', but hard- ly knowing what he said. As if 111 a dream the young man and his bride repealed the words "I swear!" In a moment the stranger unfastened his hand -bag, and drew from thence a spherical object the size of a cricket- bali. ILean. right forward," he sleouted, "Keep down as low as possible. Now fora test." With the last words he threw the ball of steel isle the midst of the oncoming wolves, There was a vivid flash, a deafening report, end the animals were hurled in every direction, as if some demonaent farce had been let loose among theta. Some were blown to pieces, many were- killed, and atlll more wounded by that awful explosion. Closely pack- est acke,l as they were, a large number had come within the death -dealing circle. Those that were unhurt stopped for a moment, as if stunned by the force of the enemy which had attacked them. Then bhe instinct of hunger triumphed, and after the manner of their kind they fell furiously on the dead end the wounded. The sledge embed the top of -the hill, acid quickened its pace as it begun the descent- The l orses still did their best, end the driver urged them on for some time before he realized that the chase had been abandoned. The young, girl was gazing back in the direction from whence they had come, half dazed by the terror through which 'she had passed. It ail seethed like a dream to her, until she was sud- denly aroused'1)y the stranger, He did not say a word, but 110 seemed to be leaning upon her more and more heavily, untli at lest his head was al- most plllowed an her lap. Then, as she caught'sbght of the dead- ly pallor of his lace, elle instantly di- vined the truth. "You 'are hurt!" she exclaimed, bend- ing over him. Yes;' he gasped faintly; "our deliv- erer struck back at me. Cout'agel" said Ivan, trying to raise him to a store comfortable position, "We will soon have 'help for you." "It is useless," said the stranger still more faintly: "Pain has gone, and I shall be dead in a few minutes;' There was silence fee a short time, and as they watched the Ince of. the sttecken.man they felt that what he said was tru But she.a message," said 1110 girl, With a sudden 'recclleetton, '•.Whatcan we do? The messogo for tho Czar thaleyott had to deliver!"" Something,et. Hee a smile appear - oil o'n the face et bite dying thane and they just ,heard his whispered answer; "I gave it to the wolves.-tearsons lVeekly, Disease takes no summer vacation. if you need flesh and strength use Scott's Emulsion Summer as in winter: 118nd for iron .ample. score & &OWN0, 01.0m14111,Yero.la, Oeutltw ter. Add$1.0et an druggists,. • ONTHEFPij PAS't llillNo 11C)C S. I often think of the loss Mint is su- stained by inuny of cur Meiners when they do not provide su11ablo posture for !heir hogs, thus necessitating the feed- ing 01 01000 expensive foods during a season when they could, with. very lib leo expense !x11 kept in a thriving condl- 110n on pastures, writes "flog-ilaiser." The hog is a pasture lover. With pas• Lures lie thrives, keeps healthy Wld -pays a premium for the grail which be consumes; while without 11 he degen- erates, gest out of cauditfan, and be, 0011205 an easy mark for disease. It is. the men who raise bogs without pas- ture that usually tell all manner of hard luck stories. Their brood SOWS 111110 small litters, the Rigs are weals, and the sows -eat thee, yolltlg. Feeding hogs without pasture means selling grain al a poor market, 11 is a great mistake to shut up growing hogs in a close pen without exercise and wllhoul enough variety in feed to make them healthy. The longer' the hog can be kept on pasture the better, for the less !lite will he have to be kept to the pen, Prof. Gro. Ie. Day, one of the high- est authorities on swine in. Canada, has the following 'to say Int regard lo some of the most COnllllon crops that are grown for green feed for pigs; llape.-This is an exceptionally valu- able food for swine, and nifty be pas- tured or cut and fed to lire pigs in the pens. For fattening hogs, best results wore obtained by the Ontario Agt•fCultur- a! College front feeding about two-thirds meal ration and all the rape the hogs would eat. The hogs were kepi in pens with small outside yards, and the rape was cut and carried to them. This me- thod of feeding gave more economical gains than fattening on pastau•e, and the bacon was of equally good quality. For breeding sows, however, posturing rope Is preferable, owing to the exercise the animals receive. When on rape pasture, mature sows requite little'other food, but young growing sows require a moderate meal ration In addition to the rape, Vetches. -Hogs will eat vetches even 01,010 readily than rape, but the vetch- es do not, furnish so much .cod per acre. Vetches rule ready for pasture a 111110 earlier than.rape and it a part al the pasture lot Is sown with vetches early hn the spring it can be sown with ,nee after the vetches have been eaten oft, and thus the ground will raise lvo pasture crops during the one season. Vetches Jelly also be used as a soiling crop as described under rape. Hairy Vetch. -Tee seed of this crop is very expensive. There is no doubt, however that it mekes.an excellent pas lure crop for swine. - If not pastured tco closely, it grows up quickly when the hogs are removed... For early spring pasture, it should be sown during the latter part of August, .so that it can mance a considerable growth the preced- ing fall. About one and one-half bush- els of seed per acre are required, Green Rye, --Fall sown rye will mice 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 high feeding value and its mail recommendation es the fact that it gives early pasture., Red Clover. -This crop es best suited fsr.paslure, and the clogs should be giv- en a large range 00 the clover will likely 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 se on hack and forth Mom year to year. For a 'short older hog pasture my own experience is that a heavy seeding of a mixture of rape seed, barley and oats is a good combination of seeds to sow, espeolally all land where clover does sol thrive. Experiments conduct - • at the vedette experiment stations in Canada and the United Stades kale cate that from sixty to eighty pounds of grain go larlher when fed to hogs 011 pasture.' than one hundi'cd. pounds of grain without pasture. 'Flogs can be grown so muah cheap- er on pasture Male there is no money In the hog that is .fed all summer from the pail. • RULES FOR SHEEP DIPPING., The best time for dipping Is from one to three months after shearing. ' The sheep should not be overheated o r thirsty at the time of dipping. 1 elle sun is very Phot it Is Delta' to have the draining pans under shade. If the nights are cold, the dipping should always be stopped soon 011011511 10 allow the sheep lime lo dry before sunset. See that the preperalton is properly rilixed and the correct quantity of water added, Don't guess alit. Never hurt them 121 dipping. Always take rare that every sheep is kept in Me bath the Hull dime -never less than one minute 1100 more 111111n two mh1- ules. Have the bath well and regularly 'slurred up from the bottom always be- fore beginning to dip, chid whenever a.ey stoppage 0011.111s, Never allow del.ppings from the sheep In fall on anything they oro likely 10 cat, if main comes en before they ora dry, keep then off pasture 1111111 utter 't has ceased. When dipping twice allow an interval of not less titan- 12, or .01000 then 113,; clays between the lippings, Unweaned' lambs should beJcept apart 11011; dipped attics ter a few 110,;rs niter dipping. (1000 STOCK PAYS, Ono of the greatest hntstekes, and the most comm0tl, ,among our farume's is the notion that bacouse they have an 'Meteor mare they should breed her ,10 i1 amnion 801Qb horse because the ser- vice foe Is low, In this way you aro SUM to get an inferior cal(, But. It you pay 51 or $10 mom and breed to a firsl- Classhorso-yotm,stnnd a show of getting a colt that will &erten into a home Mat will sell for double what you would get for y01te sera), The 0)11111• re.ce In service tae is a nattcl small Maher, � , Dint I!" 00018, at 111020' le'1'ulee tit :nett dolt' then a poor Mite . 1H1 'YOUNG FOLKS DOOOOOD�'OOOOOO OO* LI'1TLls DISCOVERERS. Prod discovered that drifts piled high Aro trade by the 511011'-tealhers out ab the sky, One at a lime 1 Maud discovered 'its sweet, to help others All, as well as her sister's and brothers, If only a little, Willie discovered the tallest ratan Cirdw tell acid strong, us any boy can, Little by little. Amnio discovered, and 'lis certainly true,. That hours pass swiftly wale something to do, Great or little. Tom discovor'ed that dolints ere made By having a place where the pennies are laid, One at a time. I wonder now if you !happen to know That characters, evil or beautiful, glow Little by little? TINY'S ALARM CLOCK. Tiny looked up front her slate as iter big brother Bent caste in one day with an odd -shaped paper bundle 1n his hands, 'tiny ran to meet hint. "011, Tient, what is it 7" she asked, seriously. "Anything for '»ter' "No," said Tient. Such a wide -wale) puss ns you are doesn't need aids to early rising;" and he untied the strings and opened the package. "Why, it's a clock 1" said Tiny, disap- pornled. "\Vo've got havoc clocks now, tient. W11at matte 3'ou brhlg anotter4" Kent began winding the little clock. "You just listen," ho said, \\'hic•t-r. l Mattie, rattle, rattle 1 Whir -r t What a way for a clock to strike 1 "It's an alarm clack," explained Kent, smiling at Tiny's wonder. 'We can set 11 so that the alarm will strike at any' lime of night and wake us. You know I have to leave home before daylight sometimes" -for Kant was a railway engineer. "flow very, very funny 1" said Tiny, with sparkling eyes. "Goes off all Ie self, without anyone touching it 1 011, how I wish .I had one I" "There's another funny thing about it," went on 1fool. "If people don't mind the alarm 1111011 it strikes, but think they will sleep a Mlle longer, they grow less liable to be waked by it, and soon It doesu'L make any impression at all." Tiny oonside'ed. "I wish I could have one all my own," site said again. "tit must be such tun to hear it go off." 'You have one," said lent, gravely. "1? An alarms clock?" Kent nodded. "Where?" "night in There," said Kent, with his hand over Tinyn heart. "Well, I don't believe it ever went off," laughed Tiny. "Yes, 1111 sure 11 has. Wait till you feel like doing something won. That 111110 clock will say, 'Whirr I Tiny don't 1' You see if 11 doesn't." 'tiny laughed and went back to her esanples. Soon a call came from the kitchen ; "Tiny, dear, I wank you." Tiny's mouth begat le pout, but she suddenly called out cheerily, "Yes, main, 011a.' and danced out of the roam, look, ing back to say, "It went. off then, Kent, good and loud." Kent nodded and smiled. "I thougisl it wauid," ltd sled. And at of you little tones 1vf111 alarm clocks mist be sure to answer tete first call, or they will ring n11d ring in vain, and turn you out good-for-nothing men and woolen. FIO\V CO3IMON SENSE SAVED THE PUPPY. "Charlie, Charlie, come cited.: I" called Mabel in a voice shrill with terror ; "Otto puppy is in the cistern." • Charlie obeyed instantly, dropping the old pan into which he had deposited swarms of potato bugs. Even the swift thought that they 11'culd all 11101 onto the vines and have to be gathered over again did not stay his footsteps. What were o few 120126' work, even though hard and disegn'ooable, when compared wfl.h lice 1140 01: its boatdlful Newfoundland puppy? Flo thought it would be the wa'k of a few minutes to rlscele the little fellow. An old tin pail was at hand, Mabel brought the clothesline, and, In a mo- ment or 111E0 the pall descended info Iho black hollow. Charlie floating it close to the puppy, and al Ilse sennc gine coiling to hem in coaxing end endearin tones. But, the poor %lite al 1111111 found IL im- possible to fasten his feet 11)0n the hard and shining sides of the pail. 'Ile strug- gled bravely, at iso same erne crying pitifully. Mabel, W110 w'aa watching comely, at last began t0 cry loudly es site saw the puppy's repeated vain attempts. "He's going to drown, 1 know he is," sihe sobbed aloud; see, 11e can hardly keep Ills head out of the water now."' 'I'ha hired matt was just (hiving 11110. the Hurn as she, made this.outm•y, Ile dropped the reins on 111e Ihoi.s0's 1)10;1(, and with a few, strides, reached Iho cis• leen and gave one glance into 115 depths. Ho next jerked the ciothesUhe (wetted so that ho had %told of the end Ilea ley 011 theground, at .the same lime calling lo Charlie, "Gel nee that wooden pail on the steps there." The wooden' pall soon stru0k the 150100 close to the puppy's heed. Ile lhrcw Mit his feet in one last desparta° effort, They clung fast, and in (lather mmnonl the poor little soaked body was On Charlie's arms. "How did you happen to think .et the wooden pall?" asked Mabel, 1ooleng at the hired man 111 awed admiration. "Common sense, butt's at," said the Man,'retureing 10.•hts waiting horse, "'Common sense,'" repeated Mabel; "leen • ow let vu know s go and "tot m0thrr, y she's always Saying Met IA better'te Wee Cpvgtitgrl .000 than .tatett0