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OW SHE WON,
. CHAPTER IV. -Continued. ally supposed he mighe
would be all oast be the sarae mold.
faney they
"Who tire you r she asks quivitly, .
The mother is silent for a reonieut.
with a e,carcely-defined suspicion width How can she tall her son the fault or
she tries to dispel by a. point-blank
. her basin/ad-Ws tether
' ?
father waa a very handsome
, .
•V
,our ladyship's humble aervant, hams she says, then, and with almost
Lord Isolate tutor. 11A ascent of doigust.
She looks at blm searchingly, but
"And
only meets tbe blank glare of the dark- so is Mr. Dare. Be looks ever
so handsome, sometimes, when his
blue sPectacle end a quaint' Ilulni°41 &mos fall off and you Lien see his eyes,
emile on the thin lime. fle has beautiful eyes raotber."
At the lants that he is daring to She 31111 i 100 at hiS Onthusittain,
joke, her delicate eyebrows corae loge th- " Your fattier was a young man, Rol-
er be a darkling frown, and seeing 131)0 le,,
Forgive me if 1 read your thoughts
is angrr, he hastens to apologize. ,,
" Mr. Dare is not old, only his hair."
"
, d
and wee amused by them. It oould not Lady Leigh laughsbut hathe to -
$00111 strange that -I of all men- tor been tbero he would have trembled
but
should be taken for a prince in dis-
at the boy's elear sightedness.
guise." . Children often see more than their
ders, and Rollo has been the
Be pushes back the long ham from wiser el
nly one to discover the incoogruity of
hie neck with a half laugh, in whieh, the long, iron -gray hair in juxtapo-
se at once she recognizes the absurdity
sition to the still young face. But, then
Of her susoioions, she joins merrn,Yd he has seen him without his spectacles
"I am 3'637 glad it is not SS' ana on them Colonel Dare ha depend -
honor of being edueated by a rorat ad &idly eel, the st.w.„5 a his dies
highness would be too much even for gots.,
my little Lord Leigh.
" And you do not regret taking me
without testimonials and with no Pre-
vious experience 1"
Isbell never regret that," she
answere ki
"I hope not."
And then, half wondering at the
gravity of the response -a gravity
so much greater than is necessary for
the occasion, she rises slowly from her
seat, and, with a little nod of fare-
well, leaves bim there.
For a long-time he remains motion-
less, thinking of their meeting and of
the confidence she has Placed in him
If only he might tell her of hie love
-11 love at first sight that subsequent
events have strengthened -and prove ther portrait, but when he has open -
to her that all is not over bemuse the
beginning of her life was so sad! He
loves her no less because she has been jest the ease and tooked for a moment
he returns it, with a gesture of dis-
scathed by suffering; the purestappointment, offering no remark, gold " Wen, Rollo, what do you think of
him? tisks Ins mother, timidly.
think he looks cross. I think I
" Was he good f" is the boy's next
question, with irrepressible ouriosity.th
The subject is so seldom breaed,
and he has luta so few opportunities
of learning anything of his father, or
Ins tastes unit favorite pursuits.
" Hush, my darling He is dead," she
answers gravely, arid her face grows
paler as she speaks.
But, mother, Mt 1110 see his Pic-
ture."
Slowly, as if mut% against her will.
and yet obliged to comply with his re-
quest. Lady Leigh leaves the room, and
after ten Minutes' absence, returns with
a ease in her hand.
The boy almost snatches Et away from
her, so eagee is he to nue. upon his fa -
is that tried by fire, and sorrow has
only helped to make her what she iso.
Perfeet woman, nobly planned
Would rather have Mr. Dare."
aieetArtirn, to comfort and. command." Hush I" si,,ys Lady Leigh.
Lady Leigh runs lightly upstairs to So stern is the rebuke eonveyed in
1101' room, and -when she divests herself that single monosyllable that the boy
s
ot her shawl, smiles at the reflection stops abashed, sad his eyes rill with
he meets; in the mirror. She has not Mars. Before they have time to fall,
failed to see the eonquest she has made, his mother catches him in leer arms
and is amused that her admirer should
be so old a
so u 1nti kisses him passionetely, half sob -
She cannot help feeling a little pre.ling the while.t- " Rollo, Rollo, my darling, did not
ified vanity at. the thought that she has mean to be unkind,"
not, lost all power to therm. Oft course
131 10 only an elderly tutor, unworthy
of her in every way; but stili -but
still, if it were net for those hideous
glasses, he would not be so very tin
looking, and even with thein his appear- Ills Power. but she herself sees nothing
ance 131 distinguished and ranch above ddirulous in it. .Is Ile not her all-
' his position. her king in whom all her hopes are
if there really be a Cupid. god of eentered, the only interest and love of
love, surely he must laugh in his sleeve ber lonely life 1'
at the turn things are taking. if only "Never mind loather," Saye the boy,
the ungainly form of the tutor is to Magnanimonsly-"never mind; I did -
keep these two from love, bis task will n't ery, you know, rind now let's have
not be toe difficult 5. one. Women do a genie together."
not always insist upon beatety in their Ante so mother and son are soon en-
gaged in a romp which has the effent
lovers -witness Titania's passion for
the weaver -and propinquity is a man s
strongest point.
A stranger might have smiled at her
self-abasement, and at the gracious
pardon accorded by the young auto-
crat. who Is already beginning to know
CHAPTER V.
" Mother," says little Rollo, a tew
days uter, "don't you think Mr. Dare
talklike oundier
Lady Leigh starts. . • ensa-
'How can you tell, child.' Sou have
never even seen a soldier."
" No, but you have told me about
grandpa, and read to me about them
in books. And mother, he is so brave,
ani has such wonderful stories of the
war -that dreadful mutiny ill India,
you know."
" Was he there, then V"
"3 don't knew -perhaps he v, ss -he
has been everywhere, 'should think,"
replies Rollo proudly.
He 1380 very exalted ideas about the
powers of his tutor and would not; be
surprised at any proof of his prowess.
Then Lady Leigh remembers the dant
Saar on his cheek, and wonders le it
<mulct possibly be a saber cut. A. sol-
dier's daughter herself -her father clie.d
a hero's death at 13alaklava-she still
has a deep veneration for all sons of
Mars, even tbs meanest of them, and
of this man she feels sure that what-
ever he has done in the world has been
done thoroughly.
At first she resolves to question hint
herself upon the subjeet, and then na-
tural delicacy makes ber hesitate. Per-
haps he 11000 not WiSil his anteeedents
to be known. and surely she shouldbe
O he last to wish to peer into the past
of any one when her own has been so
dark and gloomy I
531111 conjenture vannot but be rife,
and often she finds herself wonder-
ing whether he was in the Crimea, pins
haps even at Halaklava itself at he r
father'a side, and whether it. was as
officer or common soldier he fought.
He looks old enough to have been there,
and yet bis voine 30 50 young, Altogeth-
er, it is a mystery, and one that ab -
tombs her more than is at ell satisfac-
tory. Her pride rebels against the In-
terest she takes, but strong as that
pride is it eannot banish the ever-re-
eurring' thoughts.
"It all comes from having been shut
no here so long that the most; trivial
inoident assnmes gigantic proportions.
It is not intereet in the man, but a
woman% natural cariosity whith has
been too much repreased."
Tins is vshat abe tells hersele, but she
is hardly deceived by wine she says,
It is easier to deceive others then to
deceive ono% self. Besides she has son
him oftener of late, and tho eonviction
hes grnwn upon her that he has not
naways been what he is now. Some time
In his life It has been his to sommand
and not to obey. If so, how his pres-
ent, life must gall him. In 501110 house-
, holds he would not feel it so moth -
i happy households whom misery had not
•
(013118 111U'40, ana who would have treat-
ed 111101 as oree of therneelves. Tint she
,-hating all men as she does, end de -
erasing Omit so thoroughly -how coin
• she lie more than merely eintl, noldly
kind?
"Mother I" erica little Rollo egitin,
breaking into her reverie, •
, "My 011141" t
' '"'78 'Nfr, leitre anything like what my
hither was?" '
0 thousand times nol"
"ow is he eifferent ?" he tontinues
ouriously.
Thae women tire not otiwitys alike he
loon% fon between awl his
Mother, for Instance, there is not the
elightest reeembhince t but of men he
has men 00 little that it eon be War -
of totally banishing the serious con-
versation they have had from the boy's
head, and from his mother's, too, for
a time. •
Colonel Dare is on his way to the lib -
very when the sound of soft laughter
anti Rollo'sehrjll ery of delight arrests
his steps. As he lingers, longing, vet
not daring to join them, the door of
elm room Where they are is burst open,
and Rollo comes out, his Mee arimson
111111) esti ement and pleasure.
' We are having such p,nmes, Mr,
11)OrP," he calls out, gayly, flinging his
httIe Funs ruund him, and looking up
into his face with a gleesome smile.
13)0 tutor stoops and strokes his ruf-
fled hair caressingly.
11 hat tan you playing, illy tiny ?"
"Shy widow."
A st ra nay mallet:asses the I odor's Ince
nt: the answer he reeeives, but he makes
nn imminent end Rollo goes on."
"Nether is 'shy widow,' of course,
tind 1 keep going oehind her chair, look-
ing different: every time, but she won't
have any of us," he coneludes, triumph-
antly, proud that his mother sheuld
.
r .
fecult to please.
" Then. then, bow are you going in
11030?'
" 1 think I'll tail an anil-mainssar
over my head, and then elle won't knew
wien it is."
" Tf sbe can't gee yoni• fete she ter -
'Minty won't bave ,you."
e A13311113," says the boy, with ti self-
eonfident smile, "the 1303,3; 11(00' 151)3111
go in AS My VOrr own self, awl then
I know she'll have me!"
He has dragged the tutor with him
into another rnom. and is looking ev-
erywhere for means of disguise when
suddenly nn iliP0 strikes hiln.
"Mr, Dare, you go in this time, and
go in afterward."
'?'he tutor startot. He would niost ver-
min e have refused bed a moment been
allowed him for thought, but Rollo, in
his Nigeria33:44, hes hurried him ;may ,
again. and before he hardly. knows 1
where he earth 13. whirl is his
mind -the hoy has (melted him into n
Lady Leigh's presence.
The room ie turned UllSiflP dOWil. 11.01- ,
Irt bee lately retTiVikil a boon from Lon-
don full nt all sorts of garner.' end, as
ho leis no other playfellow, hie mother n
often joins in the games with him, and ,
to -night has elmost been (merged into
enthuelasin herself lor her boy's era e
dent ddight. . It
iNnw she is geti leg tired; ,,hu has ,
been playing a very ono -sided puss -in -
She has chosen you, M. Dare 1.-13
bas chmen your Ile exelairas. •
But Colonel Dare only bows low 3.
fore the woman who is looking ati
dipent as an outraged queen.
I beg your pardon," be Bevil hum
flyor.go"tImlIstielloo right to intrude. 1-
And in good trutb be hes forgotte
himself -forgotten the part he has t
Plan, and tile reepeat due to the lad
from whom be receives his income o
4120 a year. It is with almost atom.
penitenee that he turns and makes hi
13017 Ora bor presence,
Lady Leigh is more vexed with her-
self than with him because she can-
not. feel really anary,,atevhal, she would
like to term hie impertinent pre-
sumption." She, of eouree, has not
been demived by the indignation she
choantirtilissisounmed to hide a navel sense of
be inatanalones 4einetaseneltaltelierea0
o On the Farm. lyk$
b. restlyel.11Verriva.seAlt- -111reVieist
THE FARZIER'S 0A.RDEN.
n It would seem but. natural to on -
elude Shut farmers of all °there would
51.
have a, bountifol supply of all the gar -
CHAPTER VI.
Lady Leigh has wisely Melded to ig-
nore the tutor's offense -in feet, she
mareely knows bow to allude to it
without loss of dignity, seeing that he
was more guilty in expreesion, than
actual deed. She cannot ening her
pride to confess wbat it, was 5110 SOW
for a moment glowing in his eyes -he
a mere sehoolmaster, she the widow of
a peer, herself of noble blood, and so
averse to all his sex -even those mem
hers of it who would be fit to mate
with her, won she inelined to marry,
When next they meet, 1m averts his
eyes, half expecting a. reproof, or at
1135,01, SUMO token of displeasure, but
she only says a few eommunplace words
and panics on leaving him still (unitize
ed 1(11,1 811011t. 1Vornen are always so-
otueh more self-possessed in much mimes
than men.
Soon, by mutest and, trwit consent,
the subject ts forgotten or at least
ignored, and they become very good
friends -better than bitty Leigh could
have believed she would ever be with
any mite again.
For some weeks past workmen have
been busy ronstructing a small Swiss
summer -house in the grounds, the
young lord's latest freak, and now at
last; It is completed, and WI three hale
gone out to 0ee the finishing L01.10108
put to it. Rollo is in ecelacies.
" is all lily very own, you know,
and no one can come in unless I ask
them," he observes, with quiet sails-
faetion. the first taste ot proprietorship
proving very sweet.
" You will have to give a house
warming," laughs Lady Leigh.
" What's that f"
Letgh explains and her SOO
takes up the idea in huge delight. He
will have a tea party that very after-
noon; his mother and tater are to be
the guests, and Tabithe, shall help him
to plan the feast. They --the guests -
are to know nothing about it until they
come and find the dainties prepared.
" Cume at five o'dock exactly," says
Rollo peremptorily, having no idea of
being kept too long on the tip -toe of
expectation, besides not liking to run
the risk orthe tea getting cold ancl the
cake- spoiling by a too close adherenee
to the rules of society, Boylike, be
has no sympathy with fashionable un -
punct
All day long he keeps running back-
ward and forward between the kitchen
and the summer -house, "011 hospitable
thoughts intent." Lessons are suspend-
ed, and the tutor spends an idle morn-
ing in the library, reading the papers
and speouleting upon the ohahges that
will have taken place before he goes
out again bane the world.
Does he intend to remain here so long
as 1110 8611111118 are required in the taise
character he has assumed, or shall he
aVOW himself and trust to her gener-
osity to forgive? Nan, shall he avow
more -shall he tell her of the love that
has 301011111 up in his heart extinguish-
ing all stem and would he here clianee
or euecess?
He starts from his seat and walks up
and down the. room in uncontrollable
agitation, when suddenly, lat the low
French window, he sees something that
arrests his seeps and makes him invol-
untarily look wound to see if any one
else is near.
It is the Heathen Chime, his face
pressed against the glass the better
to peer in and with such a grin of
aumstiment on his ram that Colonel
Dare Shudders end wonders to what
all this will !POO. better that he
should have confessed till himself than
be discovered like s common imposter.
" Come in; what do you want?" he
says, gruffly, throwing the window 03)-
031 nOl :Unmet dragging the young dan-
dy in put of sight.
But the Heathen Chtnen only grins
the more., and lifting his gems, adjusts
it to his eye.
" I only -wanted to me how Colonel
Hare acted schoolintister. By Jove I it
molter to suit 7011 111013, and appe really
you aro riot mach troubled with yoer
pupil I"
" The hoy has a 110? 1,1333' to -day," ex-
plains Colonel Dare, Stiffly.
" And 011 Miler days as well, sup -
Prete. What lessors do you give when
ou do trarah Inn), Dare -ext rods from
he Army and Navy or the Army. List
undiluteci 1" goes on Mr. Arcade,
toweringly, havieg the generel and
of, altogether u nf ourolnd idea (hat sel-
lers can only tell,: on Um ono subject.
" What is the goni of all this fooling,
inner 3 11; can't be much amusement
you, 1111,1 it 011ly imperils my situ -
tion here, Why did you roam?"
" Rees use it's snob a e3130I1:11 joke, 1313,
11, Int I How does the 17111n hater tnke 10
he 'el de r ly gentleman WI 1.11 quiet
obits?"
"Rosie Grae er 1 1 tell you lam as -
toned of the part T nave played. Let;
he Silbjelet 11 1.011." •
"Ashamed I Why it's the best joke
I ever heard in my lite I"
"Then you must have been singular -
y untortuntete in your experience,"
curely.
" What do you mean ?"
"I Mean that it was neither a very
rillinni. 1101' a very creditable thing
o make a lady the subject of abet,
or le enter her house under sueh feese
retenses."
"Nonrense, man; you are looking, at
too gloomily by far. She'll be the first
• eatorne.i. hunt the slipper and blind
inn n's buff, ,,n'I has had some difficulty
in keeping up with the agility of her
nen. As 0 rest, she had proposed a
'nyder game.
She 10 seated In the metro of Ilm
room, her batik to the door, and her
head half turned, with an ttreh smile;
a mirror is an her hand, and, she does
netknow the tutor is there nail she
SP011 his features' reflected in it. tie has
been propelled along to Ity his
ri
own -excited pupil that his speetacles
have fallen forward, and f.or the first 11
lame tady Leigh gazes straight into
his eye,. without a naiisk of glass before
benz. Ae Rollo had earlier in the
evening, they were undoubtedly beau -
Wu] eyes, but 13. 35 not that she no-
tions new; it Is their expression, so full
of telesinnate admiration -or ie it levee
She starts to her fool and retirees
him, tint even as he met hen glance he
knew how tetrelees he had been, and in
ft 0)11111803. bad pushed the spectaeles
hark to their plane.
Lord Leigh clans his bends
ehildieb delights
to forgive you when it conies 011t -WO.
MOO always forgive faults committed
for their Bake," he answers, shrewdly.
"She win hardly forgive nee for mak-
ing her a jest -a by -word in the eounity;
and thee is whet it, will bet when this
story becomes known."
"Why ehould it be known ?"
"It is already known, I tempom, or
you would not be here."
Graver Monde le,ye his hand on the
solenclet Microliter end leeks Stead -
teeny in his eyes.
ere he gontinued,)
den eLhl furnish, 'rbis, indeed, should
bo, but alas 331 15 often the ease that
the farm garden is n mieerable failure.
I hese known farmers with more land.
then they euald properly cultivete, go
to town and buy garden vegetables,
5(0011 RS OS 1011S, 00,1)10140SP cucumbers,
etc. I cannot think, however, ears 5.
writer, this is a, common practice, but;
it ought never to occur. There are
very rnany farmers, however, who
grow a, supply ot the common vege-
tables, but never think of such a
thing as havint; tt supply of home.
.1 -
supply of garden frutts and vegotabl
Shonld be grown, but more than a
they are absolotely esseneiel to health
tmuntenence. Fruits and vegetabl
lr FROM BRITISEf 00113BI1
es
are cheaper than doetor% 3.1113. 5.11
S1101lld form the 3013.053300.1 1131031 oe ou
diet during the sommer seation, 11 an
one who reeds this bas never had
first -Wass garden, f hope be will Sta
0110 next spring.
a STATEMENT OF THE OUTPUT OF iiER
NINES FOR 1£397.
a no te 0018 903 I WI 4033»» 3(3(3 nee Predueed
rt Soy:0048s ilt 01•010-cood 30(041331 03
olic new rotostintes
The annual report of the Minister of
a Mines of British Columbia has alitlear-
isol, The apart Wall prepared by lkfr,
W.. et. Carlyle, now of the Britieb Ceti-
th
t aan 00111 FiQlda Company, but until
h a. few weeks ago .Provineirti mineralo-
gist., Ilo lens greatly aided in eompil.
y 11330 s ta t ist, I (. k; by the Monsen of the
e inepeetion of the inetalliferoas mines
set (1897) that makes it obligatory for
- owners to send in detailed state-
ments of produetion, and the 00055-
( 131011(10 is that the tnbles he gives are
very nearly mart and the report 18
the best and most complete ever got
out by the Province. The first teble
shows that up to 1808 British Colur-
1,io1 91rPd:1Od111 in17eruls00 less
ib:2,i38u;g0m11ccoaIileing
thettwo principal featurs, as the
t:0,vt
„, .4 59,317;473
Gob?, lode , 4,300 8e9
Silver,., 7,301,000
2,59271i:066108
Coal and coke -
Building stone, Meek, etc.,. 1,3.50,000
Other metals...
30,02250:005805
Total
.„ -$112,413,486
The rapid increase daring the petit
seven years is in itself 5, smelted his-
tory of the growth of Provinmal mines.
tn 1892 the influence of lode mines first
began to be Salt, sinee whieh the in-
erease has been wholly nue eu metal-
liferous mines, the emit output, not in-
exeasing
RAISING SPRING CALVES.
afore than the usual ettention shoul
this season be paid to the raising 0
Delves for the use of the dairy, Farm
ens should raise enough of their bee
heifer ealves for the 990 of their ow
dairies, and If they eon do more tha
this there will undoubtedly be a. read
demand, for them provided they ar
a the kind wanted. The raising o
etook for the dairy is an im
portant feature of the business an
should receive mom than ordinary a
tention. Care should be exerciaed
seleeting the most; promising 00101515(0
1' rasgthat
s
grown atraevberries, currants, goose- and btentite-r. pro iduotln t
geestock-'andIjffulnilf
berries, blackcaps, etc. The question there is not enough of those on the
naturally arises, why do not farmers farm, tt will pay to get them from
have these luseuries in their 011'11 gar- cettuits°0u-Tessioti'A-lit, should ren1lem1PT
dens Principally, I believe, through a well-brTd eau tleLn aanal onir (91 three tr0y ro90)006.
thoughtlessness. They bane never and it may prove to be worth twice
thought that the luxuries could be or three times as much. There will
grown upon the farm. I wish to srly tflolsrove.uirrouibteadly 11:4(Itis 0,151e,rge trailed
most emphatically, there Is no spot of case tvheaan 17.ei Is entree go,rnehriagIlly. the
ground upon the farm that mall pay some parts of the country and parti-
half as well as a well fertilised, cularly in the West, where there is
well cultivated garden. As in other sahloauxrugepartion off, itahirs31,1aeltrdbrfle de,
things, there is a "know how" to gar-- But wherever ZhVer°caaves arne
dening. In the first place, the garden they should be well oared for from
plot should be long end narrow, 001'- the rinse and fed with special reference
3.0 Bring such space as 0)11,11 bo needed to tilevolteldr9°I'lltePlo2erwhfloarb thlecYria'trreci
y ty°
grow nal the vegetables and Mall for beer,
fruits for the family. The advantage
01 118 being long is that the rows may
be long, Ora \Olen being cultivsted
with a horse it =Ices less turning.
Let us emunerate the things every
farmer's garden should eontain. About
the first; thing to put in wUl be a row
of pees. If the garden strip is long
enough, it may be a row of these one-
half Lies length of the garden will be
sufficienl, for first planting, and in a
week- or two fill out the balance of
the row. This will give green peas a.
longer time, and even a third sowing
may be beat if one is an early variety,
Peas should be covered not lees thanl
pflUlti'intiltchheer4brdteisT 200 sndulIemlikteu breusul; utpo
on, et the time of plaming. Next to
TREAT COWS LIKE HORSES.
,Aim to keep the cows perfectly
Mean., 'Until you have tried it you
don't know what an economical and
Paying policy it is. Clean, dry bed-
ding for the nelleh settle goes a long
wny but it does not do all. Cows
shonld be daily curried the same as
horacs, Which not only removes all
stable compost anti dirt from their
flanks and legs, but keeps the skin
stimulated and conduces to the sui-
te/one health. And, as regards neat -
nom ana auxIliary to milk pyrIty, the
procedure goes without snying. No-
thIng, looks so "penny wise and pound
foolish" as to sea a dairyman brush off
the eow's udder preparatory to milk-
ing, while her flanks are covered with
afinldth.it Owner! egsemt ptaheractoi;soni'ybtoadssiey emlematn.
the peas will come a row of black seed ter to keep them so. SVIth a daily
onions and both onions and peas
skeane be put in as early as the eon -
&Won of Use soil will permit. These,
and in fact everything in the garden,
shuula be sown in perfectly straight
lines, anti do not crowd the rows too
01060 together, but give plenty of
room for sunlight and cultivation,
Next may cume a row of early beets;
these the housewife will use mostly as
greens for early cooking. Another
Imo- Weeniil be put in later tor winter
use, as bets for lkinter had better
not be too long growing. This will
ottildn to turnips, .31, little before the
first of :lune in this climate, two Or
More varieties of beans should be
planted.. The butter bean is excel-
lent fOr early picking. As soon as
the ground is warm, but not before,
half a dozen or more hills ol: cucum-
bers should be sown, end every weelr
thereafter up to July, put in one or
two hills. This will provide fresh
cucumbers throughout the mason. A
hill or two of mainner squash and. a
/OW hills of Hubbard squash, for fall
and winter, should be planted. 1, have
emen(1 11:. an excellent plan to get a
rich sod in the fail of the year, large
enough to cover the bottom of a tin
pan, cut into four quarterand put
ono side in the cellar. Provide some
good soil, and about the Ilene of
April, sow one or two seeds, Hubbard
squash, in the center of each of these
ou,arters. They will take firm root in
the SIXI and when the wee,ther'is warm
enough each section with its plant, can
be transplanted without injury and
they will be much more likely to ma-
ture. !these should be put some-
where tit the outside of the garde,
and vines trained to run a,lonst beside
the fence. Senna eitue in June is early
enough to put; in a row of parsnips.
'1'hese will keep in the ground all win-
ter and are both palatable and healthy
in early spring. Several rows of
sweet corn will be needed, beginning
as early as the sal will permit, with
one of the rilrlior varieties, and plant-
ing later %-arietiee at different times.
As early as May there should be a new
strawberry bed. elanted. These, too,
should be put in rows, and two rows
twelve to fifteen rods long, will be
ample for any family. These most be
kept thoroughly cultivated during the
entire season, shoithi not; be less than
four feet ionize lxitween 1'013143, and.
kept in hills or ellowect to form mat-
ted rows about two Net wide. I pre -
ear npstled rowat. Thu rows that were
set Met May shoula have been covered
lost November with leaves or some
coarse manure, and during the winter
tr. coating of wood rashes will be good.
This sprang the covering should le
raked in between the rows when plants
begin to start. This Nt ill serve as a
1111111thkeeping the ground moist, end
frttit clean, and keep down most of
the weed& After fruiting thent
should either be mown down and a
new lot of vines allowed to grow,' or
else thrned down and reset with new
planes. Alt any ritM, set out a new
bed every spring. Any one who he03
not tried it, will be surprised at the
amount oe etrawberries they Call grow
on IWO rows fifteen rods long, Out-
side of those may be a roiv or two of
black caps, one of red raspberrioa and
a row of gooseberries. There are
other things that ma,y be grown, such
ILO spinach, toparagns, tete., hat a good
bed of celery should not be forgotten,
Now, if the farmer will lay out his
ground in the eall, plow, and during
the Winter manure it thoroughly, and
put in the thinga enumerated and
then take the time he has been in the
habit oe spending gossiping with some
neighbors, or 13. 511137 be pitching quoits,
he will find in his little garden plot
sonanthing that will tiekle las perste
and, Canso a broad smile of satisfaction,
to Met upon the countenallee Of the
women folk; Theee ought to be con-
siderations enough why an abundant
change of bedding and a daily eurry-
bag the feat is aecomidished•
THROWING FDED AWAY.
There are many ways of reducing
the enst of milk, but the one that
shoulit receive the first consideration
Le the cow. Is she it goo(1 onet rt
she is not, then the problem of 11030
to make cheaper milk is a hard one
to solve. I believe that one first-elass
001)' in a herd, of scrons would, if the
owner were an observing man, soon
be the means of lessening the cosi; of
the milk ill that dairy by replacing
the scrubs with good rows. When
en observing man notices the differ-
ence in yield between a good cow and
5, poor one it sets him to thbaking, and
he e.00n finds out that it does not
pay to keep poor eow,s. When one
good cow will yield es much as three
poor ones, it does not require muelt
intelligence to see thee; tbe extra feed,
taken to support three COIN'S instead
of 0110 39 j11531 that 3/11/0h feed thrown
tavay.
PUTTING ON SLUM BUTTONS,
While sewing en shoe buttons seeine,
end doubtless is, a eimple matter, there
is a right and a wrong way to do it,
and whether it is dime the one woe
or the other makes quite a differenee
in the long run,
Most people provide a long thread,
w.hich 111 1,1013804 Prom one button to an-
other as ithe sewing goon on. When
env bul Lon breaks off or wears out the
Go ead 'with hiorti it is sewed, the
glitches gradually work loose, 11111 11001)
the next button is missing. In this way
three or four buttons may beeome
loose at once Ilari may all eoine tiff
wiin a few *lours.
If instead ef son ing with a long
thread the Mittens are put on sepal. --
a teas and the bread is fastened se-
curely after 11110:3711, 0 hero' is less
wear and drawing back and forth of
U he threade se one .tvalks, and if une
Intten betennee loose, or is lost alto-
gether, no other button< is in the leant
elected.
Some /adies put a strong eerd
through the eye of the 'lotion aftec 131
is paned through the Khoo, end seev
it firmly on either Nide oll the eye. .11,
is bet ter to use short pieeee of cord or
an ordinary roiled elms Wee. Nadi
short piece holds a. Itattort, and is fleet-
ly sewed et either end, thus securing
the buttons one by one, and that
without danger of looting thern all in
05.017 one of the numbig becomes
1133113(3.
11ECUI,1AR VOCATION.
There is a kind of employment, a pay-
ing one, too, which is peaulier to China
alone, sass an exchange. The Chinese
name for this trade literally signifies
gossip -monger. A. number of ladies,
usually widows, make it thole' besinese
to ooneel; gossip, ehinehat and stories
of tell kinds, with which they repair to
the houses oe the riob by Tenting a
small drum which they carry for that
purpose, and offer Mein services to
amuse the ladiee of the families. When
it is temembered that shopping, Calling
and attending 'while assmnblies is al-
most entirely forbidden the fashionable
women of Minas the Ivoloomo these
datues are Oven May be intagined. They
aro paid according to Mee time employ-
ed, at the rate of 60c. per hour, and re-
ceive, besides, many Vahlable Preeente,
On them accounts, they osually rater°
from busenese in easy circumstances,
bat are sale teener to de 50 unlese ado -
ally obliged, so enngonial is their ee-
cuttation to their fendnIne tastes.
Year,
Yearly
Areount„ Inc. P.C.
1800,.. .. $ '2,008,803 ...
1891... 3,521,102 .35
1892„, „,. 2,978,530
1893... ... 3,588,413 .fi
1894 4,225,717 ,18
.., 5,613,042 .33
1896... „.. .. 7,507,950 .34
1897... ... 10,455,2138 .40
Compared wialt 1890-
1808 3807
Gold, placer .....-$ 514,026 $ 513,520
Gold, lode ,..... 1,244,180 2,122,820
Copper .., ...... ...... 100,926 266,285
Silver... ... ,.. moss 2,100,089 5,3172,836
Lead- ... ,.. .„ - 721,834 1,390,017
Coal, tons 2,240 lbs2,088,060 2,648,5132
Coke.. ..... . ...... .., 3,075 89,155
Otber materials 15,000 151,000
Produetion by districts-
Cariboo- 1896, 1897.
Harkerville„ „at 82,000 $ 65,000
(30551)31110 MOut.11 .. 51,103 35,000
Lightning Creek .. 53,000 25,000
leeithley Creek .. 197,050 200,000
Total for Cariboo.$ 3,94,050 6 325,000
*Cassier m .., 21,000 87,060
Kootenay, East 154,427 153,790
West Kootenay -
Ainsworth. ... 345,626 440,545
Nelson ...... 525,529 789,215
Slocan „1,854,011 8,280,686
Trail Creek 1,248,860 2,097,280
Other parts „, 14,209 157,977
Total Vtrest Koote-
nay .. $4,002,735 $0,765,703
Lillooet $ $8,605 $ 30,840
Yale -
°memos 131,220 142,982
Similkameen „„ 9,009 25,100
Yale .., 05,108 58,680
Total Yale 206,078 51 226,762
Other distriete a15,000 • 0,800
Grand Total .. .. .44,816,955 $7,507,551
',For Cassiar the produntion of $25,-
000 in 1896, from Oreinec0, was lately
reported. .
While the results aro not phenomen-
al, the increase of the output of lode
mines from $100,000 in 1892 to $7,050,-
000 in 1897, and with an increase of 65
per neut. in the past: year, commando
attention. That 1898 will see it euh-
stantial increase is now assured from
Um amount of ore now In sight in the
different districts, and front the fact
that the amount of customs returns
Lor shipments of 0111 f or January, 18913,
\vase $1,193,458, as compared with 6075,-
506 in 1897 (these shipments from West
Kootenay only).
The report notes also the inereased
immense o?. eatable 10 the Province.
WHAT SHE WEARS.
The famous woman', Annie S. Peck,
1111)0 has been noted as having sealed
the neetterhorn and broke the record
on Mt. Orizaba, going 8,000 feet into
the clouds wore flannel undergarments,
a waist of serge, 11 woolen sweater,
knickethockers and leggings of sage -
vein) duck canvas, widish she made her-
self. She wore the heaviest kind of
winter boots, and a ehoeruaker in Swit-
zerland put an exert,- piece oll heavy
leather over elle wbole lower part oe
the shoes, teaseled. heels, and then near-
ly covered thetu with male. In many
of her trips She ha,s worn ematoppea
gloves, but tor the Neneterhorn 81)0 11006
woolen mittens, A eubstanlial comma
hat, tied on with ribbon, and veil, as
well as smoked glasses, complete her
outfit, She 1111.1005 3.1)31 promotion to put
cold aeeem on her face before facing
the severe weather.
. PRETTY NEEDI,ECASIC.
A pretty and useful needltease is
made of, 1315.130 (it ooze lenther, Oluchee
long by 331-2, 111104 30111 Velvet or clime
ois akin poekets, which elm be lettered
▪ th etching silk. the leaves for the
needle/3 are or white flannel, button -
boleti with delientely colored 81.11), u,nd
the case closes with ribbone oti an em-
propriate color,
DISILLUSION.
What? Hogaged a SooOnd time, !loose-
ly ? You NOwed 1.icI; 031> 0010 could ever
make its deep ani impreesiog eipan you
as Miss Dirclly
know it, But tbe sweet delution
WaS enmity <levelled When I called
upon her father to tisk his consent te
13 eulieri.
Many Marriage Customs.
Marriage le a rolento subject, ol
course, liut et isn't hale so soleirm 15)
an Anglo-Saxon country, where the
parties to the have an 0113030)1 110
ity for old-fashionea eourtship.
The Chinese bare an elaborate wed-
ding eeremonial. It begins with pre"
se/nts and the reports of astrologers
The parents then corresponsi. The girl';
father offers his " ogly and ill -Lowered
child "-for eutal is Oriental etiquette'
The father of the boy, not to be outdone
10 politeems, deseribes his sun as
"slothful, indigent and weak In in-
telleet." The bride's proeession, for
whieh even a mantlarin must (013105 11157
300e13 to the bridegroom's house and is
c-arried over the threshold.
Then the bride grovels before the
stool on white)) her husband Perebee
This symbolizes a. slavery so vile that
Chtuese girls eometimes commit suicide
to emape ; more often girl babies are
killed at birth by their parents.
Japanese politeneas is like the Chin-
ese ; female aubjeetion is the same, bat
the rlational good humor makes II; more
tolerable. There is a beautirul symbol-
ism in the lighting of the torches, when.
the bride's and the bridegroom's lights
I are permitted to mingle.
In the room niacin the eereraonial
sake is drunk there is a dwarf fir tree,
a plum tree 'in blossom, semboliziner
the woman's beauty, a tortoise, signi-
fying longevity, and a (wane.
The Persian wadding includes a, toreh
light proeession of the bridegroom and
hia friends to the brkill'S houee, secures
her and retaums to the beating of
drivals. An Arab wedding lasts 801185)
days, The husband seat his wIfels face
after the ceremony is over. It is then
Prover for him to ory out in (relight
at its loveliness, and then, as in the
Behr " the triesed of the bridegroom,
who standetli and beareth JIltm, rejoice
lag greatly because of the bridegroonfe
voice -the people outside the tent
raise an answering cny. ln Turkey the
bride stands behind a SUre011 during a.
part of the ceremony, and is firse seen
al; its conclusion. A Moorish wedding
is also a seven days' affear.
There is a clever oustora some:it:nee
followed La Persia. A. orowd of young
men rush into the feasting crowd, cap-
ture the guests and shut 111000 8130 30 110
dark. room. They pay ransom to get out,
and the money 18 added to the brides
ilsoorewrltui
-alolmestahnieneg like our wedding-
" Marriage by caprture," is symbolizt
ed he ceeetnonies all the world over,
except ill such places l'hero it is Still
the habit to secure a ivife by knock-
ia3g her down first, as the Australian
does with his " waddy " or his "
nulla," The Chinaman, if the parents of
his intended are obstinate, earries her
off ; the Abyssinian carries his wife
round her own house or to his own;
8.11311 1)0. Nabyle carries Ms bride across
the threshold, as do also the Chinese
and the Swiss in some parts.
The Diemen have a sham fight, in
which the bride's party drive the bride-
groom% into his own village; and in
00/110 1311d3 tribes like the Anneees the
brisk runs from tenit to tone before
fleeing of the bride over the threshold
was and is the most eritioal period of
the wedding -04,y with all races, not
even exeinating the Anglo-Saxon. 'rhe
lifting of the bride over the threishold
or her stepping aOl'OSS it is the signal
In Persia, Arabia and, among the Kopts
of Egypt for the sacrifive of a goat, or
a sheep. Among the Annexes the bride-
groom kills a lamb in front of his fas
ther-in-litw's tent, and tbe ceremony,
but for the running of int: hridel from
one tent to another, is complete.
'Among the Zeiddi, a mot of Kurds
in tele eastern highlands of Asia Min-
or, IVO are told that the bridegimone
when pronouncing the marriage -oath
stands in running water so as to wash
away the binding nature of his prom-
ise. The Cherokee bridegroom, after
making tbe usual presents, takes the
maiden to a small stream, where the
two join hands over the running wee
ter.
The Macedoninne; wedding -cake, a
most important feature of these Greek
weddings, is placed over a bowl of wow
ter and danced around.
• NEWS OF THE NAVIES.
There aro two crab -lees awl a torpedo
gumbont under construetion us. Yok-
osoka, and a battle ship end a firet-
<limes eruieer are soon to be had down
at the same yard.
When ordering nicats remember that
beer wimp, boiled, loses one pound of
weight in every forte, and when roasted
eighteen ounces. Mutton loses even
more than beef, This should be thought
of where muesli 1.0.00.1. is used.
.eimpty yield° jars ,can be refilled
with pickled 030305 11o11 one d,ozen
eggs fifteen minutes, then throw into
mid water and 611011 them. .13o11 sev-
eral red beets, eliert them, and put
them in the jar tvith the eggs. Heat
enough, vinegar to maw Um eggs, add
salt, popper, and all kinde of spices,
and pow, over the eggs. Komi them
, tightly eoverect.
Parsley is used in many dishes for
masoning as well 0.5 garnishing, An
easy way of chopping persleY Is to dip
the sprigs in boiling water, 111 whieb
,5, piece of soda et the size of, a pere
1 has leen dissolved, and let them stay,
there a moment, when they will tenni
a bright green e place them anon
board., and with a sharp knife cut the
leaves quickly into partieles; when
powdered parsley is desired place the
• sprigs, after teking them front the
boiling water, on a plate irt a 6300 oven
for a fow moments; when the parsley
is dry it can readily 13e made into posva
der by ru.bbing it through a sieve.
BROICIA THU :LITTLE.
'rhis coffee, roy dear, said Xickles„
Melinda nee of what mother used to
Make.
Does [3.0 4113133' 1 exelliftnea his wife,
a pleased loolt coming into her far% .
Yes ; and she used to make about the
worst, 001100 I ever, dyable,