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_ ion, and Neaera Witt;, and tae reckless
defiance of pgblia opinion, and all the
Feet of it! And George swore at him-
self for a heartless, distrustful, worth-
teas person, .quite undeserving to re-
ceive suoh a letter from suite a lady.
Aad when pilo .second letter mane the
next morning, he swore again, et 111M --
waif for leis meditated desertion, and by
all his gods, that he would be worthy
of snob favor.,
"The ohild'a a trump," he said, "a
regular trump! And she shan't be
worried by hearing of me hanging
about In Mrs. Witt's neighborhood."
The happy .reflections svbtole ensued
were'reppropriate, but hackneyed, being
in foot those of a. man much in love.
It is, however, worth notice that Lau-
ren refusal to think evil had its reward;
for if she had suspected George, she
would never bave shown him her
heart in those letters; and, but for
those letters, he might have gone to
Brighton, and—; whereas what did
happen was something quite different.
CHAPTER XVIII.
One evening, about a week after
'what Mr. Espioit called tbe final 08-
e,lendre, Tommy Myles made bis a'p^
pearance in the smoking-racmof the
Themis, Mort important matters
have ousted the record a Tommy s
marriage and blissful honeymoon
be Duane back to find that a negligent
world had hardly noticed bis absence.
" EfoW are you 1" said he to Sid -
Mouth Vane,
"Bow are you?" said Vane, rats-
inglie eyes for a moment from Punch.
Tommy est down by him. "1 aaY,"
be remarked, " this Weston business is
rather neat, We read about it In Swit-
zerland,"
Been away1"
"Of course I brave -•after my wed-
ding, you know."
Ah I Seen Punch ?" And Vane hand-
ed it to him.
I had a pretty shrewd idea of how
the land lay. So had Balla."
Bella ?"
" Why, my wile."
"Oh, a thousand pardons, I thought
you rather backed Mrs. Witt."
"My dear follow, we wanted her to
Alava fair play. I supper there's no
question of the marriage now?"
"I suppose not."
" What's the fair ASrs. Witt going
to dol"
Vane wanted to be let alone, and
Tommy worried him. He turned on
the little gentleman with some fereel she was being treated as badly as pos-
eity. " My dear Tommy," be said, "you , Bible -unkindly, negligently, faithless-
baeked leer through thick and thing! leo'', disrespectfully., He had asked her
and black+tutrded gorge for attack- j to Como; the invitation was as plain
as could be; without a word, she was
Ethrown over! In great indignation she
ing hes.,
„ Yes but—"• told her maid to pack up, and, mean -
"Well, whoever was right, yea while, stilted out to sea if the waves
would perform their traditional duty of
weren't, an hadn't you better say no. seething a wounded spun The task
mare about it 1" And Mr. Vane rose was a hard one; for, whatever Neaera
cad ti� Slke3 away. Witt had suffered, neglect at the bands
In fact, he was thoughtful. What malt was a grief of fortune had hith-
! cite vexed. her,
would Mrs. Witt do next, .and what; She frank the crowded parade, and
would George lesson dot Zane knew ;• strolled
she sat d heown water's
edee. Pre -
of eases where tbe accusation suggests e. yde
boat and surveyed the waters and
the crime; it seemed not unlikely that • the future. She felt very lonely.
if George had to bear the contumely George had seemed inclined to be
attaching to a connection with airs. eleactnt, but now be had deserted her.
Witt, he might think it as well to reap ; as e had
tense of a to speak
to.What
`richt
the benefit. He might not have sought Everything was veryvehard, and she had
to win her favor yet, but it was very done no real harm, and was a' very,
possible he might do so note. If ho f very miserable girl, and— Under the
didn't -well, some one would. And Mr. i Ic shade
osmg het moment when there
Vane considered that he might find it fvveeae no passers-by,,
Bat one who came from behind es-
caped her vigilance. He saw the gleam
of golden hair, and the slim figure, and
the little shapely head bowing forward
tomeet the gloved hands; andhe came
down the beach, and, standing behind
bar for a moment, heard a little
gurgle of distress. ,
I "1elp g your pardon," said he. "Can
Neaera looked up with a start. Tiro
upright figure, bravely resisting .a
growing weight of years. the iron -grey
hair, the hooked nose, and pleasant
keen eyes seemed familiar to her. Sure-
ly she had seen him in town!
"Why, it's Mrs. Witt!" he said. "We
are acquaintances, or we ought to be."
And he held out his hand, adding, with
a smile, I am Lord Mapledurham."
"Ohl" said Neaera.
"Yes," said the Marquis. "Nott, I
know all about it, and it's a burning
shame. And, what's more, it's all my
Melte"
"Your fault?" she said, in surprise.
"However, I warned George Weston
to tat it alone. But he'p a hot-head-
ed fellow,"
"1 never thought him tbat."
"He is, though. Well, look at this.
He asks Blodwell, and Vane, and me-
at least, he didn't ask me, but Blodwell
did -to make a ,party here. We agree.
The next moment -hey, presto! he's off
at a tangentl"
Neaera could not make up her mind
whether Lord Mapledurham was giv-
ing this explanation merely to aocottnt
for his own presence or also for her
information.
The fact is, you see," the Marquis
resumed, 'iris affairs are rather trou-
blesome. He's out of favor with the
authorities, you; know -Mrs. Pockling-
ton."
"Does he mind about Mrs., Pockling-
ton?"
He minds about Miss Pocklington,
and 1 suspect
Yes?"
"That she minds about him. I met
Pocklington at the club yesterday, and
bo told me his people bad gone abroad.
1 said it was rather sudden, but Pock-
lington turned very gruff, and said,
'Nut at all.' Of course that wasn't
true."
"Oh, I hope she will be good to him,"
said Neaera. Fancy, if I were the
cause
"As I said at the beginning," inter-
rupted the )Marquis, "len the cause."
You!"
Then he settled himself by her side,
and told her how his reminiscence had
Leen the first thing to set George en
the track of discovery, whence all the
trouble had resulted:
"So you see," ho ended, "you have
to put all your woes down to my chat-
ter."
"How strangel" she slid, dreamily,
looking out to sea.
The Marquis nodded, his eyes scan-
ning bar face.
'Then abs turned to him suddenly,
and said, "I was very young, you
know, and -rather hungry,"
"1 aro a sfnnor• myelf," be answer-
ed, smiling.
And --and what I did afterwards, 1
"1 camp to make my confession,not
to hear yours. 11nv: shall I atone for
all 1 have brought on tau? What
shall I do now?"
"1-1 only want some friends, and -
and some one to speak to," said Neaera,
with a forlorn little sigh,
Tho Marquis took bar hand and kiwi-
ed
is.ed it gallantly. "If that is all," said
he, smiling, "perlr'tps we may manage."
Thanks," said Neaera, putting her
handkerchief into her e�llooket..
That's rightl /nod -well and Vans
are hero too, and—T+
I don't much care about them;
but—"
"Oh, they're all on your side."
"Are they? I needn't see more of
them than I like, need I?"
The Marquis was not young, no, nor
inexperienced; ,hut, all the same, be was
not proof against this flat Lary.Per-
haps they won't stay long," he said.
And you?" she asked..
He smiled at her, and, after a mo.
meat of innocent seriousness, bet lips
wavered Into an answering smile,
' (To Be Continued.)
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BRUSSELS POST.
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CHAPTER. SIX,
Being a public character, although an
object of ambition to many, has Its dis-
advantages, Fame is very pleasant
but we do not want everybody in the
hotel to point at us when we come
down to dinner. When Neaera went
to Brighton -for it is surely unneces-
sary to say that she intended to go
and did go thither -she felt that the
fame which had been thrust upon her
debarred her from hotels, and she took
lodgingsof a severely inspectabletype, facing the sea. There she wait-
ed two days, spending her time walk-
ing and driving where all the world
walks and drives. There were no
signs of George, and Neaera felt ag-
grieved. She sent him a line, and
waited two days more.. Then she felt
worth his while to be the man. His
great relatives would cry aloud in
horror; society would be shocked. But
a gran will endure something for a
pretty woman and five thousand a year.
'Only, iyhat Slid George Neston mean
to do?
It will be seen that Sidmouth Vane
did not share Laura Pocklington's con-
viction that George cared nothing for
Mrs. Witt. Of course he had not
Laura's reasons; and perhaps some dif-
ference between the masculine and
feminine ways of looking at such things
must be allowed for. As it happened,
however, Vane was right -for a mo-
ment. After George had been for a
second time repulsed from Mrs. Pock-
lington's doors, finding the supportof
his friends unsatisfying and yearning
for the more impassioned approval that
women give, he went the next day to
Neaera's, and intruded on the sorrow -
laden retirement to which that wrong-
ed lady had betaken herself. And
Neaera's grief and gratitude, her sor-
row and sympathy, her friendship and
terY,ere all alike and equally deligbt-
u. to him.
"The meanness of ill" she oried with
flashing eyes. "Oh, I would rather elle
than have a petty soul like thatl"
Gerald was, of course, the subject of
these strictures, and George was con-
tent not to contradict them.
He evidently," continued Neaera,
"simply cannot understand your gen-
erosity., Its beyondhiml"
"You mustn't rate what you call my
generosity too high," said George. "But
what aro you going to do, Mrs. Witt?"
Neaera spread her hands out with a
gesture of despair.
"What am I to do? I am -desolate."
"So am 1. We must console one an-
other."
This speech was indiscreet. George
recognized it, when Neaera's answer-
ing glance reached him.
That will make eem talk worse
than ever," she said, 'smiling. You
ought never to speak to me again, lir.
Neaten!'
"Oh, we aro damned beyond redemp-
tion, so we may as well enjoy our-
sclves.t'
"No, you musth't shock your friends
still more,"
I have no friends left to shorts ," re-
plied George, bitterly,
Neaera implored him not to say that.
running over the names of such its
might be supposed to remain faithful.
George shook his head at each name;
when the I ooklingtuns were mention-
ed, his shake was big with sombre
meaning.
"%\'ell, well," she said with a sigh,
"and now what are you going to doe"
"Oh. nothing. I think axe, of us
are going to have a run to Brighton.
1 shell go, just to get out of this,"
Is Brighton nice now?"
"Nicer than London, anyhow."
''Yes. Mr. Neston--?"
"Yes, Mrs. Witt? Why don't you
come too."
"At any rate, you'd -you and your
friends -be som,hody to speak to,
wouldn't you?" seal Newer , resting her
chin on her hand and gazing at Geurge.
"Oh, yes, yon must come. We tiball
be very jolly."
"Pour usl But perhaps it will con-
sole. Its to mingle our tears."
"Will you come?" asked George.
"I elan't tell you," she said with a
laugh, "11 must be purely accidental."
A fortuit°us concurrence? Very
well. 1Ve go to -morrow."
1 don't want to know when you
gni"
Ne. But we do."
Near'ra laughed again, and George
took. his leave, better pleased with the
world than when be arrived. A call
on a pretty et ranee often ]nus this ef-
feee; sometime •, let us acid, to complete
our Cem tions lite,', just the °epofde°.
"Wily shouldn't I?" he argued to
bins-lf. "I don't know wby I should
get allthe blame for nothing. If
they think it of me, I may as well
do it."
But when George reached his Twig-
Inge,
ad -
Inggs, he found on the table, side by side
with Mr, Blodwell's final letter about
the Brighloe trip, Laura Paddington's
note. And then --away want 73righ-
THE HOWSERS' ,TROUBLES,
"Wbat did that man want of you?„
asked Mra, Boweer ae 111r, Bowser roe
turned to his seat on the doorstep ea-
ter a quarter of an hour's interview
with a man at the. gate,`
"We -eve were :talking about hogs!"
stammered Mr, Bowser be reply.
"Hogs 1 You are not thinking of
buying hogs 1 We have only ,summer
rented this farm, you know, 'and have
nothing todo with the live stook, Be-
sides, we had a bog when we first
came bore, and you know what a time
we had eetth him,"
"But ho was only a soma/ hog,"
"He wee aorub enough, but why.
amid we have any sort of hog?"
"Look here, Mrs, Bowser," said , Mr,
Bowser as be got more courage, "1
are lonesome -positively lonesome for
a hag. We've got en empty pen out
thorn and plenty to feed a hog, and 1-
want a 'bog. Hogs go with the foam.
You don't feel as if you were out on a
farm unless you can hear the grunt
of a
hog, now and then. That's the
reason I've hired o bog."
"Hired a hog. Mr. Bowser!"
"Yes, hired or rented oraleased one,
just as you want to put A. I didn't
want to buy, but I did want something
in that pen, and so 1 gave' that farm-
er two shillings a week for the loan of
a hog. Hall have the animal over
here in the morning, and I shall take
more comfort fussing around with bin
than in all the rest of the farming put
together,"
'But -you -you" --
"I nkow I had trouble with the
other hog, but this is a different breed.
Tho other oritter and I didn't under-
stand each other, but this hog will be
all right. Heel come here prepared
to conduct himself in a proper man-
ner and be as one of the family, and,
I shan't want to brain him with the
crowbar or hang him by the neck.
He's a Merino hog this last one."
"I never heard of a Merino ` bog I"
exclaimed Mrs, Bowser,
"Very likely. There are plenty of
things you never beard of, Mrs. Bow-
ser, but if you keep on living they
will come to you. 'There are Merino,
Southdown, Suffolk, Leghorn, Holstein,
and lots of other kinds of hogs, but I
selected this Merino on account of his
sweet and lovely disposition. You'll
be glad 1 got him when you see him.
That's all now. I was lonely for a
hog, have got one, and shall take a
heap more comfort than before."
Mrs. Bowser had no more to say.
She realized that if Mr. Bowser took
a notion to buy a rhinocerus to oc
cupy the empty hen house or a walrus
to take possession of the smoke house
nothing she could say would prevent
it. The hog arrived after breakfast
next morning, and when he bad been
placed in the pen and the farmer had
departed she went down to the pen to
view him. He was a long, lean, lank
bog, with three kinks in hie tail and
ears which portrayed a hungry and
grasping ohmmeter. He was as hol-
low as if he had been bored out with
an auger, and he had lost an eye and
received a dozen seers on his snout
while battling with a cold and cruel
world.
"Well, isn't he a lulu!" exclaimed
Mr. Bowser, after giving her two or
three minutes to take in all the points,
"He would be -for a dime museum 1"
she quietly replien.
You -you don't fanoy him?"
"He's worse than the other one 1 Mr.
Bowser if you had hunted the whole
of North"—
"That's yon -that's your way," lie
interrupted,as he danced around. I
go enc. hire a bog to make things
cheerful and homelike on the Sarre and
you lle awake all night to think of
something mean to say. G'way from
here 1"
"Can't I give you my opinion of a
hog?"
'No ma'am! Don't come near this
pen ! Don't come within ten rods of
A 1 You abused that other hog in tiro
most shameful manner, and that's
why he acted as he did, but 1'11 protect
this one from your malignancy."
Mrs. Bowser entered the house, and
Mr, Bowser leaned over the pen and
looked lovingly down on his latest ac-
quisition. The hog squinted back at
him with one eye and seemed to Leel at
home. 1iy and by he laid down with
a sign and a "woof" and Mr. Bowser
tiptoed away with a broader smile on
his face than had been there for a
week. He had just readied. the house
to tell Mrs. Bowser that all Merino
hogs were thorough cosmopolitans,
when he heard a sort 01 shriek and a
fall from the pen, and running back
he arrived just in Liege 19 See 'the hog
making another jump to get out,. The
bristles on his back stood up, his
single eye gleamed like a bicycle lan-
tern at midnight and he Menke,' his
Medi in anger.
"Darn your hide, but what's the
mutter with you!" growled Mr, ]low -
ser, as he looped the animal over.
The hog quieted down n sound of his
voice, end after walking around the
pen two or three times, uttered e
grunt of satisfaction and lay down
again.
fly George, but that's funny "I said
Mr. Bo ser.
"What is it?" asked Mrs. Bowser,
who had just arrived.
"t'hy, he was as calm es a frog pond
while I steed here, but the minute I
turned and left the men he went into
a« earn of fit: and tried te+ get out.
I've heard that was the way with
Merino brags," sagely observed f+ire
Loth"i', "They want the cnmpatly tri:
e human biting or they wont thrive
.Cut's try lien again."
They backed away n few feet aild
the hog ,pin ng up with a squeal and
leaped for the top of the pen and fell
hawk with a crash. WJo'u they hur-
ried ferreted they presented the same
picture ea before, with the addition of
an extra kink in his tail.
Whet in thunder Wye, 'epeen ails
the critter I" excla1ned 111, Bowser, as
lite here backed off and kept that
gleaming eye on him.
"It's just pas 1 saki," replied Mrs.
Bowser ; "he wants caunpauryo the
c•nmp.ny of a human being. You were
lonely for a hog, Youwill leave to
stela. right hero and give him the be-
nefi t of your soeiot
r "I'll le hanger' ifYI dot Tho idea
o_ at Mg frett.iog up in this fashion)
he'll either quit this tomfoolery or 111.
brain hint with the axe!"
"You'd better stay out here for two
or three days and nights, (anyway,"
suggested bl'rs. Bowser,
"Ohl.. I bad 1 Well, I don't stop
ane minute t If this blamed critter
lthinits he"s come bare to inn Farmer
Bowser lie can't get ,rid of tine idea
too soon 1 711 glue him human Penn
nanpy before I get through with bio
Lets batik off again.'
,they knotted. They bed retreated
twenty feet when the ho littered a
shriek of anger or an uish 02' some-
thing and caught the to board of the
pen with his Forefeet and hung there
As he hung be shrieked again and
agsin, and while Mrs. Bowser. ran for
tiie.bous° Mr, Bowser plotted up a club
anddashed forward, X. had bestow-
edtwo
wo whacks on the snout pointing
into the air when something fell on
elm and walked all over him, and root-
ed him over and over on the graes. It
was the hog -the whole hog -the Me-
rino hog which languished for human
sovietyy. Wbon he got tbrough with
Mr. Bowser he tools a tura around the
yard to get the geogaapbical location
91 the front gate. When he had got
it he took it running jump and carried
it off its binges and as Mrs. Bowser
loolced out of the window he was
whisking up the road in a olooud of
dust after a young-� mon on a bicycle,
She wont down to Mr Bowsor who was
sitting up with his baok against the
hen bouee door.
Well" she queried.
He didn't reply.
So your Merino hog is gone?"
IIe never winked,
"What you ought to base done was
to have hired some one at $30 a month
to give that hog his society, being you
couldn't spare the time!"
He gazed straight into the knothole
and wouldn't even scratch when a bug
bit him. Mrs. Bowser is not a re-
vengeful wife, and so she gave him a
gentle pat on the head and left him,
JUNIPER'S DEFEAT.
tee, •
Ile Invaded the Kitchen and Then *Led
Before the Enenu•.
"Bridget has been so cross and hate-
ful and impudent that there's been no
living with her to -day," said Mrs. Jun-
iper when her husband came home the.
other evening.
"Impudent, Mrs. Juniper?" ho replied.
"You don't mean to tell me that you
allow that servant girl to be impudent
to you?"
"Allow her, Mr. Juniper? That girl
would be impudent to an angel if she
happened to be on her high horse.
"Well, I'm not an angel by a long
shot, but I'd like to see her be impud-
ent to me and 12 she's been saucy to
you she'll have to apologize for it. "
"Don't you go near her while she's
in her present mood. You'd better keep
out of the kitchen."
"Well, I think I see myself keeping
out of my own kitchen it I want to
go into it. I will go into the kitchen
and I'll yank Miss Bridget O'Calligan
down from her high horse!"
Heedless of his wife's protests, Junip-
er went boldly into the kitchen and
said:
"See here girl, I hear that you've
been impudent to your mistress."
"Impudent to me mistress, is it? Be-
ad an' who are you to make a hie
oozy ay yersilf comity' out into me
itches to talk to me as ye talk to
our wife. Impedint, is it? Begorry
an' yer a foine birrud to say imped-
int' to anny wan an' if 01-"
"Look here, you-"
"Oim lookin' here all
roight, sorl
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ookin' yeez roight in de oye an' its
ridget O'Calligan who'll take de op-
porchewnity av saym' to yer ugly ould
face olivine she's lead in moind to say
ver since she kem into this house, for
1-„ e
"You impudent-"
"Aisy, now, aisy, me foine gintelmin,
or ye'lI lave me kitchen wid a dipper
' scaldin' wether arouse your back an'
he feet o' Bridget O'Calligan assistin'
ye out! Whin a man has the divil's
own tongue in 'is head as ye have whin
hings don't go his way he's no call to
se his word 'impedint' to army wan
an' whin he flings at me he'll get it
sint bank again, begorry, for it's not
me that's afford o' any two -legged
hing that walks the green_earth, an'
8„
1 tell you that-"
"01 tell ye to kape yer tongue stila
an' not chip in whin your betters has
ho elurel Open your jaw agin whin
teddy is talkie an' 011l mop up me
itohen flure wid ye an' pitch ye out
de windy afterward. Oi will that! Oim
of wanto take that) Oim not are
o tett impidincc from the Mike av ye
an' 01-"
But Juniper had fled up the back
tairs where he nearly went into an
popletice fit when Mrs. Juniper, who
ad been listening at the head of the
Lairs, said between her giggles:
"Well, now did you come out, Mr.
uniper?"
IYAFI'IR DENTISTRY.
love )OeIar,; ,Arc 9:stracrrci. (e This Secelon
of .lies,,.
The methods of extracting teeth
among tbe Heflin are barbarous in
he extreme, mad remind one of the
ortures of the dark ages.
'fire patient is placed on the ground,
nd four men are employed to hold hint
own, two taking his annus and two
his lege. Then the operator kneels
own beside him, and tasting a piece of
harpened ivory, steel, or wood, he,
almty prat:zeits to hack away at the
Inn until the offending torah is loose.
e then extracts it with finger and
humb, the patient having sixfdered ne-
urally unspeakable agonies.
The time occupied in the operation is
(tett of long duration, sometimes ex-
eeiling over as mush as 30 minutes,
ut, of course, this varies according to
he strength of the tooth, Persons in
his country who make a practice of
tking an anaesthetic when having, a
ooth retracted would probably find
be op ret.iun es performed by the Kaf-
ir dentist a little troublesome, to say
he least• of it.
.BLUCIIER'S P1PE.
Lord Sheffield has lately added an-
ther rnieresting relic to the hetero-
�enuous collection of curiosities which
rnament iho walls of his cricket: pa811'
on at Sheffield Park. During his re-
cut visit to Belgium he purchased the
iohly ornamented pile which Blucher
=tied with Mtn during the Waterloo
ampaign. When the gallaniPrussian
as unhorsed and ridden over by the
reach cavalry at Ligny, his pipe fell
nom his pocket, but was subsequently
lscovered by a faithful follower, who
ffercd to restore it to its owner. 50
lensed was Blocher tit his. eonarade s
onesty, that he made frim a present
f the pipe svbieb bas now found way
nto Lord Sheffield's possession, ,
LGRTCU ITURE IN CANAB
Amonths even under a sited i1 bas been
t reduced in vain 00 per cent, Of course
the waste is much greater wheal It ie
e2cposod to sen and rain,
Especial attention is direeted, to the
value of moss dor bedclkig In stables
of oil kinds. It appeared that where
mosses were titled there was n0 040r per-
ceptible in the stable, and tests prov-
ed that the air was free from ammonia.
Moreover, the air-dried mosses absorbed
liquids �hptter than any other knuwn
bedding\ Besides all that the deeom-
1?osed mosses themselves were valuable
fertilizers, Mosses dried artificially
NATTERS OP .INTEREST pISCUSSED
IN A RECENT EWE BOOT{,
A eterliing hilewing 10 liegorie .to,ho ('Oh
lepton of Welts -crops that can be
mused. on liIIltatl Plots or {lronntl-tx'
perttncnts 31'lth. 1"olgllhers and Fodder.
Not eaten does ono find in a 'publ
document n more startling stateme
than bne contained on pages 222 an
223 of the bine beck issued by the Can
adieu' Minister of Agriculture on
experimental farms of the Dominic
A chemist of repute, Frank' 01 Slant
is employed In oonneotion with the
head. station, find part of leis duty dur-
ing the period embraced' in the report
'was to examine samples of water tak-
en from the farm wells of the region,
The report presents in tabular form th
results of the analyses made, and, i
credible as ft may seem, no fewer than
44 wells out of 51 that were used for
all family purposes were found to b
contaminated., There were, of tour
different degrees of contamination,
few being marked "not first-o1ase,mus
be regarded as suspicious;' &o„ but ev
of the seven not condemned, there wa
one marked "insufficient data for re
io
St
d were almost destroyed by,0c
the prose.
The nee of aboddy waste as manure
the
may seem curious to same readers,but
an analysis reported shows that a ton
n. contains 43.8 pounds of nitrogen, 8,4
o
t pfounpotdsashof phosphoric acid, and 3 pounds
,
CATTLE FEEDING
appears to have been very suecesseul on
the Manitoba farm, A pair of steers
that cost; 344.70 were fed for seventy-
two days, during whish time they con-
s sttnied• 2,710 pounds of native hat,
worth, $6,77; 4,120 bIounds of Cern en-
n- silage Worth $4.10; 814 pounds of wheat
Cho
Ivor th $4.07, and 334 pounds of
barley olrop worth 31,39-tm all they
ate up $18,35, They were then sold for
e 399,20, leaving a net profit, if labor he,
not counted, of $38.15, The gained an
se, y
a average of 1 pound and 11 ounces a
t day w weight.
At the head station experiments in
en feeding which were carried on during
s the winter showed that the cost of add-
-
!mg 100 pounds weight to a steer waw on
iho average in one row of cattl
port," and another marked "contains
large amount of saline matter of a pur-
gative character."
In Iris preliminary remarks the chem-
ist says that "Information received from
those forwarding samples shows that
many Sarmeis' wells aro fn the stable
or barnyard, or at best dangerously
near Isome polluting source, The re-
sult of this method is that too often an
infiltration of drainage into the well
has taken place. Indeed,' in many in-
stances the well bas been found to be
a veritable cess -pit."
Although it is not unlikely that only
samples of suspected water were sent
to the chemist, it is a fair inference
from the result of the analyses that
a 37.75, and in another 9.36, no acoount
being taken of labor. In other expert
rents the cost of 100 pounds of added
weight event up as high as $17.60, and
the lowest cost noted was 36.13 for each
100 pounds gain. The most economic
fodder used was a mixture of corn en-
silage 50 pounds to the ration, and out
straw, 6 pounds to the ration. The
most expensive fodder ration included
20 pounds of cut bay and 40 pounds of
roots. With all the dodders the cattle
got 2 pounds of oil cake, 2 pounds of
ground Peas, and 2 pounds of ground
'barley
A report onyexperiments with forest
Mees gives some interesting statistics•
of growth. For instance, some poplars
that were but one year old were set
out in 1890. Their average height in
the fall of 1895 was 24 feet 2 retches.
The circumference of the trunk one
foot from the ground was 111-4 inches.
Three-year-old canoe birches set out in
1889 had attained a height of 21 feet
2 inches in the fall of 1895, and a dr -
in
oumf�ttrth.
ereuce of thirteen inches. The,
silver -leafed maples of the same age
were 22 feet 6 inches tall, and 13 inches-
Thereatest girth attained by any
trees planted under such circumstances
was shown by Scotch pines, Ivhich
reached a circumference of 151-2 inches.
The 'increase in the girth was in no'
case more than two inches a year.
Black walnut, butternut, four kinds of
ash, black cherry, Austrian pine, white
and Norway spruces, and white pine all
thrived well, although the soil inwbich
they were set out is described as "of
poor quality, and has had 110 manure."
It would appear from the vigorous,
growth the trees have made, says the
writer, "that good soil is not always
essential to rapid tree growth."
Last of all is to be considered ,
THE FRUIT DEPARTMENT.
To those who think of the grape as the
product of sunny France and California,
and the peach as the special favorite of
the warm climate of the Maryland pen-
insula, this report would prove novel
reading, for the value of the peach
orchards of Ontario in 1893 was esti-
mated at two and a hall million dol-
lars while "the planting of .pears,plums
and grapes has been steadily on the in-
crease." The tomato, another warm
climate product, "cam be successfully
cultivated over the greater portion of
these provinces, and at a profit, if they
can be disposed of for even 25 cents a
bushel.' An attempt was made to
reach the English market with a ship-
ment of 610 packages of pears, peaches,
plums, grapes, and tomatoes, but that
wee a failure, because the steamer was
not fitted for carrying them. Some
apples, in the same steamer, however,
brought a profit of a dollar a bushel,
HALF THE WELLS
on the farms of Canada are improper-
ly located or unprotected from pollu-
tion.
Next in interest to the exhibit of con-
taminated farm waters in this blue
book is a point in the report on, the
products of cultivation on the experi-
mental Sarins although no effort was
made by the writer of the report to
bring out the point in question. A
very large part of the work on the ex-
perimental farmswas devoted to testing
different varieties of seeds in order to
learn the kinds best suited to the Can-
ada climate and soil. In carrying out
these -tests plots of from one -twentieth
to one-tenth of an acre was sowed, or
planted, each with a different variety
of one kind of seed -say, oats or wheat.
These plots were cultivated all alike,
and harvested separately, and a record
was kept of the products of each plot.
These records now appear in the form
of tables showing what each variety of
the various kinds of seeds tested was
good for.
But in addition to the small plots of
a tenth of an aore, there were larger
plots devoted to some especially prom-
ising varieties of seeds, and it is to the
remarkable difference in the produce to
the acro of the small plots and that of
the large plots that, attention should be
directed. For instance, in oats one
varietywhen moved in the tiny plot,
produced at the rate of 73 bushels and
8 pounds to the acres When sowed in
a five -acre plot, the yield was but 44
bushels and 22 pounds to the acre. An-
other variety that produced at the rate
of '74 bushels and 4 pounds in the tiny
plot yielded only 45 bushels and 6
pounds in a five -acre plot. A spring
wheat that in a tiny plot yielded 30
bushels and 40 pounds to the acre pro-
duced only 21 bushels end 39 pounds
in a plot thirty times as large. Yeas
that in a plot of one -twentieth of an
acre yielded 39 bushels and 30 pounds
to the acre produced only 21 bushels
and 4 pounds in a field.
So the report runs through a long
list of experiments., There rs no de-
viation from the rule that the field
product varies from, say, one-half to
two-thirds of the product where small
plots were =Riveted, No explanation
of the wide difference is offered. The
prodigious yield obtained from a small
plot is of interest also in the fact that
it shows holy small a farm is needed
to produce all the food that an ordin-
ary family could consume. In fact, it
is plain from the tables in this book
that a family of six or eight persons
could, by carefully selecting their seeds
and properly cultivating the soil, se-
cure very great variety of grains and
vegetables and keep a horse and a
cow and Fatten a pig every year, and
keep a sufficient supply of poultry on
FIVE ACRES 011 LAND:,
perhaps less would suffice.
A series et experiments that inter-
est the dairy farmers was carri,'d on
to learn how to get' the most valuable
fodder from an acre of ground. The,
!.pest results were obtained ay sowing oats
and peas of prolific kinds 19gether, in
one ease, and oats and parley in anoth-
er. e'let green weight -of the first crop
was from six tons 800 pounds to six
tons, 1,800 pounds to the nem, while
the cured weight was from three loos
101 pounds to three tons 1,200 pounds.,
In the case of oats and barley the green
yield weighed seven tons 1,900 punnets
to the acre, and the cured product four
tons 200 pounds, Under the most fav-
°rahlc birrumstances the yield of dime.
othy hny on the same kind of land was
a tittle over two tons (cured) to the
Gere.
A largo amount of space in the re-
port is devoted to manures. As an ex-
periment a pile of 8,000 pounds of mix-
ed horse and cow manure was weighed
out rind stacked ander a shed where it
could not be reached by the rains, but
could dry out end rot well.. .It was
weighed once a month thereafter, and
et the end of three months the weight
hada been reduced to less than one.
half, while at the and of nine months
1hti weight was but 2,606 pounds. Im-
mediately below the table which sbcws
the enormous loss in weight is found
the following par
Groin the resultsagraph: obtalncd from
tcsts'Which have been enatla during the
past eights years as to the action of fart-
rlizers on crops, it would appear that
the notion of fresh measures is almost
meetly beneficial ton per ton with
that: of rotted mermen in the growing
of meanly sle .'
That is to
all sayt0si, whencrapsa pilo of roan•
tiro ems leen allowed to lie for three
THE POPULAR OPAL.
Lovers of the beautiful opal will be
glad to learn that net only is it no
longer considered unlucky, but it has
become a supreme favorite with Queen
Victoria, who is fond of giving it away
as a keepsake. It was Scott's novel of
"Anne of Geieastein" 31111.011 brought
evil import upon the rainbow -tinted
gem and caused people to shun it. Jew-
elers in vain endeavored to dispodo of
their wares, but Sew people could be
induced to buy these lovely stones. An
old superstition forbids the picking1, up
of an opal, as you pick up somebody
elm's bad luck. The Empress Eugenio
refused to accept ai magnificent parure
of opals presented to her by Napoleon,
although it wits artistic and costly. The
ladies of the German collet have never
hem dominated by this absurd super-
stition, anti 0001' the opal with pleasure.
During the last few years a reaction
5118 taken place, and Amuriean 00111e11
are accepting the magic, gent Many
superb designs are seen at the jewelers,
one of Bret latest being a golden eagle
with outstretched wings thicket stud-
ded with opals, the edges being incrust-
ed with tiny seinfUllaut diamonds. The
shimmering, changeful fire of the opal
renders it suitable for articles of jew-
elry to be worn in the evening, the
h •Int glllering upon the evanescent limes
of the. lovely gem in a moat fascinating
ofabutterflies, dragon -flies and tie beetles
ie. °pals associated with emeralds and
Memonds. '.these stones admirably ex-
press the brilliant heauty of the in-
sects. In tlncinnt dim+'s the opal was
considered a luelty stone, anti wits be-
liered to be imbued with all manner of
supernatural virtues. These stones
were offered by one friend to another as
°ill leis bringInend acuviltSfaras ttrine oto .tht
he
wearer.
p1 PROLIFIC ARISTOCRACY,
Small fainil:es are bardly the rule
among the English "meter ten," The
average is seven or eight; The Queen is
the mother of nine, and the Princess
of Wales of six children, Lord Aber-
gavenny is the father of leo, the Duke
of Argyll of twelve,tis' Dowager Count-
ess of Dudley is the m"Llrer of SC0e11
children, the Earl of Llleamero b0ast,a
of eleven, the .!earl of Inchiquin cf four.
teen, the :Carl of Leicester of eighteen
and the Duke of Westminster of fife.
teen.
AT T17E 1VRONG PLACE.
Who was that fine Making gentleman
at the clear, Jane?
I don't know, mine, I told .itian that
he had called at the wrong ,rouse,
did
Ilow?y' in the world do you know ho
mum,•no hill to present,
Because he had ' ' , 1 ..•. 1 •
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