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OR, A CURIOUS 7STERY EXPLAINED.
CHAPTER XX,
If any one had told Roy that hi
fate was to be eeriotisly'affected by
Mrs, Tames Horner, he would
scarcely have credited the idea
If tate life at Rowan Tree. House hac
gone on without interruption, if
Sigrid had been unable to find work
and had been at perfect leisure to
consider Roy's wooing, it is quits
probable that in a few weeks their
friendship might have ended in be-
trothal, But Mrs. James Horner
gave ' a children's party, and this
feet changed the whole aspeot of
affairs.
"It is, as you say, rather soon
after my poor uncle's death for us
to give a dance," said Mrs. Horner,
as she satin the drawing -room of
Rowan Tree House discussing the
various arrangements. "But you
see it is dear Mamie's birthday,
and I do not like to disappoint her;
and Madame Leehertier has taken
the idea up so warmly, and has
promised to come as a spectator. It
was at her suggestion that we made
it a fancy-dress affair."
"Who is Madame Leehertier?"
asked Sigrid, who listened with all
the interest of a foreigner to these
details.
first really gay scene which had met
s Sigrid's eyes for nearly a year, and
she enjoyed to the full the quaint
little eavalier's, the tiny court
ladies, with their powdered hair
i _and their patches ; the Red Riding:
boodle and Bo -peeps; the fairies and
the peasants ; the Robin Hoods and
Maid Mariana, The dancing was
going on merrily when Mine. Lech-
ertier }vas announced, and Sigrid
;looked up with interest to see what
the lady who was pronounced to
be "quite a. character" was like.
She saw a tall and wonderfully
graceful woman, with an expres-
sive but plain face. In repose her
expression was decidedly autocra-
tic, but she had a most charming
smile, and a perfect manner. The
Norwegian girl took a great fancy
to her, and the feeling was mutual,
for the great Mme. Leehertier,
who, it was rumored, was •of a
keenly critical disposition instant-
ly noticed her, and turned to the
hostess with an eager question.
"What a charming face that gol-
• den -haired girl has!" she said, in
her outspoken and yet courteous
way. "With all her simplicity there
is such a pretty little touch of dig-
nity. See how perfect her bow is 1
What is her name? And y I not
"She is a very celebrated dancin
mistress," explained Cecil. "
should like you to see her, for sb
is quite a character."
"Miss Fakir will, I hope, come t
our little entertainment," said Mrs
Horner, graciously, For, albhoug
she detested Frithiof, she had been
against her will, charmed by Sigrid
"It is, you know, quite a small of
fair—about fifty children, and on
from seven to ten. I would not fo
the world shock the congregation
Loveday, so I mean to make it al
as simple as possible. I do no
know that I shall even have ices.'
"My dear, I do not think is
would shock them," said Mrs. Boni
face, "though I should think per
haps they might not be wholesome
for little children who have go
heated with dancing."
"Oh, I don't really think they']
be shocked at all," said Mrs. Her
ner, smiling. "James could do al-
most anything before they'd b
shocked. You see, he's such a. be-
nefactor to the chapel and is so en-
tirely the leading spirit, why, where
••,,would they be without him "
Mrs. Boniface murmured some
kindly reply. It was quite true, as
she knew very well. James Hor-
ner was so entirely the rich and
generous head of the congregation
that everything had to give way to
him, and the minister was not a
little }hampered in consequence.
Whether Mr. Boniface entirely
approved of this •children's fanny -
dress dance, Sigrid could not feel
sure. She fancied that in spite of
all hie kindly tolerant spirit he had
an innate love of 'the older forms
of .Puritanism, and that his quiet,
home -keeping nature could not un-
derstand at ell the enjoyment of
'dancing or of character -dresses.
At length the great day came,
and Mr. Boniface and Roy on their
return from town were greeted by
a bewitching little figure on the
stairs, with curly hair combed out
to its full length and a dainty suit
of crimson velvet trimmed with
gold lace.
"Why, who are you?" said Mr.
Boniface, entering almost uncon-
sciously into the fun of the mas-
querade,
"I'm Cinderella's prince," shout-
ed Lance, gleefully, and in the high-
est spirits the little fellow danced
in to show Frithiof his get-up. Fri-
thiof, who had been tired and de-
pressed all day, brightened up at
once when Lance, who was very
fond of him, came to sit on his knee
hi that ecstasy of happy impatience
which one only sees in children.
"What is rho time now?" he
asked every two minutes, "Do you
thin keit will soon be time to gel
Don't you almost think you hear
the carriage Doming?"
"As for me," said Sigrid, "I feel
like Cinderella before the fairy
godmother came. • "You are sure
Mrs, Horner will not mind this or-
dinary black gown1"
"Oh, dear, no," said Cecil. "You
see, she herself is in mourning;
and besides, you look charming,
Sigrid."
"I wish ;you could come too,"
said Cecil, gleaming at Frithiof,
while she swathed the little prince
in• as thick plaid. • "It will be very
pretty to. see all the children in
,Costume."
r "Yes," he replied; "but my head
wotilcl never stand the noise and
the heat. I am better here,"
"We shall take great care of
him," said Mrs. Boniface; "and
you -must tell us all about it after-
ward. Dont keep Lance ep late if
e tired, dearie oad-
he s ems to got t c , . G
eye, and mind you enjoy yourself.,"
A. children's party generally
does call out whatever good there is
In peeele. It wee, moreover, the
ma
g be introduced to her 1"
I "She is a friend of my cousin's,"
e explained Mrs. Horner, "She is a
Norwegian, and her name is
o Feick."
Sigrid liked the bright, clever,
h majestic -looking French -woman bet-
, ter than ever after she had talked
• with her. • There was, indeed, in
_ Mme, Leehertier something very re-
ly freshing.
✓ The pianist, a pale, worn -looking
lady, whose black silk dress had an
1 ominously shiny back, which told
its tale of poverty, all at once broke
' down, and her white face touched
es Sigrid's heart.
Boni
i "I think she is faint," sbe ex -
.1 claimed, "Do you think I might
offer to play for her ?"
t "It is a kind thought," said Mme.
Leehertier. She played extremely
1 well,. and being herself a born dan-
_cer, entered into the spirit of the
waltz in a way which her predeces-
sore had wholly failed to do. Mme.
Leehertier was delighted, and when
by and by Sigrid was released she
rejoined her, and refused to be
borne off to the supper -room by
Mr. Horner.
"No, no," she said; "let the lit-
tle people be attended to first. Miss
Feick and I mean to have a quiet
talk here."
So Sigrid told her something of
her life at Bergen, and of the na-
tional love of music and dancing,
and thoroughly interested her..
"And when do you return ?" ask-
ed Mme. Leehertier,
"That depends on whether I can
find work in England," replied Sig-
rid. "What I wish is to stay in
London with my brother. He has.
been very ill, and I do not think
he ought to live alone."
"What sort -of work' do you wish
for ?" asked Mme, Leehertier,
"I would do anything," said Sig-
rid, "But the worst of it is every-
thing is so crowded already, and I
have no very special talent."
"My dear," sail Mme. Lecher -
AN AUTUMN FROCK.
The little French trotting frock
illustrated above shows the pannier
overskirt, which is really only a
section of drapery turned in and
upward all round. The lavish use
of buttons and the huge size of the
big black velvet osprey -trimmed
hat are also features of the season's
fancy.
Sigrid went home in high spirits,
and the next day, when as usual
she and Frithiof were alone in the
morning --room after breakfast, she
told him of Mme. Lechertier's pro•
posal, and while they were. still
discussing the matter the good lady
was announced.
Now, like many people, Mme.
Leehertier was benevolent by im-
pulse. Had Sigrid been less at-
tractive, she would not have gone
out of -her way to help her; but the
Norwegian girl had somehow touch-
ed her heart.
"It will be a case of `Colors seen
by candle -light will not look the
same by day,' " she had reflected
as she walked to Rowan Tree
House. "I shall find my pretty
Norse girl quite commonplace and
uninteresting, and my castle in
the air Will fall in ruins."
But when she was shown into the
room where Sigrid sat at work, all
her fears vanished. "The girl has
bewitched mel" she thought to
herself, "And the brother, what a
fine-looking fellow! There is a his-
tory behind that face if I'm not
mistaken."
"We ,have just been talking ovei
what you said to me last night,
madame," said Sigrid, brightly.
"The question is," said Mme,
Lechertier, "whether you are really
in earnest in seeking work, and
whether you will not object to my
proposal. The fact is, that the girl
who for some time has played for
me at my principal classes is going
to• be married. I should only need
tier, "it seems to me you have a you in the afternoon, and during
very decided talent. You play the three terms of the year. Each
term is of twelve weeks, and the
salary I should offer you would be
£24 a term—£2 a week, you see."
"Oh, Frithiof 1" cried Sigrid, in
great excitement, "we should be
able to keep Swanhild, We could
have her over from Norway. Surely
your salary and mine together
would keep us all?"
"Who is Swanhild?" asked Mme.
Leehertier,
"She is our little sister, madame.
She is much younger—only eleven
years old, and as we are orphans,
Frithiof and I are her guardians."
Mme. Leehertier looked- at the
two young faces, smiling to think
that they should be already burd-
ened with the cares of guardian-
ship, It touched her and yet at
the same time it was a{most comical
to hear these two young things
gravely talking about their ward.
• "You see," said Frithiof, "there
would be her education, one must
not. forget that."
"But at the high -schools it is "very
cheap, is it not madame?" said
Sigrid.
"About ten pounds a year," said
Mme. Leehertier, "What is your
little sister like, because if she is
at all like you—" •
'Mere is her photograph," said
unfastening
Si grid , her writing -
ease and taking out Swanhild's
picture. "'phis is taken in her pea-
sant costume which she used to
wear sometimes for fun wheal we
were it the country. It suits her
very well, I think."
But she is charming, cried
c �i d
Mme. Leehertier, "Such e dainty
little figure—etch well -shaped lege!
My dear, I have a bright thought—
an inspiration, ,Send for your lite
dance music better than any one I
ever heard, and that is saying a
good deal. Why do you not turn
this to account?"
"Do you think I could?" asked
Sigrid, her eyes lighting up eager-
ly. "Do you really think I could
earn nay living by it?"
"I feel sure of it," said Mme.
Leehertier, "And if you seriously
think the idea is good I will come
and discuss the matter with you. I
hear you are a friend of my old
pupil, Miss Boniface,"
"Yes, we are staying now at Ro-
wan Tree House; they have been
so good to us."
"They are delightful people—the
father is one of nature's true gen-
tlemen. I shall come and see you,
then, and talk this over. To -mor-
row morning, if that will suit you,"
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to me each afternoon bring her al-
so in this fascinating costume, She
shall be my little pupil -teacher, and
though, oe course, her earnings
would be but small, yet they would
more than cover liar education at a
high-school; and she wouki" be
learning a useful profession into the
bargain,"
(To be continued.)
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On the Farm
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WHEN TO SELL HOGS.
I write only from my own experi-
ence of over twenty years in rais-
ing hogs for the market, writes Mr.
W. C. Holstand.
Different localities and different
feeds make a great deal more or
less profit in the keep of the hog.
Some feed too long and consume
part of the profit, while othens feed
not long enough or liberally enough
to make what they ought to make.
I run all my hogs on alfalfa from
birth until sold, either for breeders
or for the packer, and as soon as
they weigh 200 pounds each, or
about that, I.sell or kill them.
If you are feeding pure-blooded
hogs (especially if the blood is red)
they will weigh from 175 to 225
pounds each at six to eight months
of age. I think seven months old is
the best age, and the moat profit-
able hog we can sell.
The younger you sell, the less risk
-of disease, the less trouble, time
and feed it takes,' The sooner you
sell, the more xoom and the better
care for the next litter.
The cheapest gain is made while
th•e pig is small. - A pig weighs
about three pounds at birth. With
reasonable care it will gain on an
average one-fourth pound a dao
for the first ten to twenty days.
So you eee it doubles its weight
in twelve days, and at 65 cents per
bushel for corn, and $i.50 for 100
pounds for shorts the first three
pounds of gain cost about 3% cents
per pound, allowing eight pigs to
the litter for each sow.
I figure on 'the rule that it takes
only a small amount of fire to heat
a baling wire, but it would take a
lot of fire to hest e, 300 pound rod
of iron.
So I say it takes a little to make
a pig gain a pound per day. Bub it
takes about eight to ten ears of
corn per day and some slop to make
a pig hold its own,
Some men say, if the market is
low, feed longer (even though feed
is high), prices may go up. Others
will say, "Feed is high, I will sell
(while they are not fat); prices xray
go down."
Don't try to get the market ready
for your hogs, but.get your hogs
ready for the market, Sell them
when they are fat and not before.
Keep the kind that top the market
and you will make money if feed is
high.
Registered hogs gain faster, bring
more money for the breeder, and
make more pounds of meat out of
the grain fed them than any other
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If it be undertaken to kill them
by grubbing out the briers' and
brush it is indeed a hard job, and
the briers will sprout for years, but
if the brush is hacked down and let
dry, then burned over, the land can
be effectually cleared by pasturing
it with cattle and sheep.
A few years ago I had a field
overgrown with greenbriers and
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briers so dense that it was impossi-
ble to get through them, let alone
?rub them out.
These thickest patches were burn-
ed through. The fire killed other
briers, then in a few months they
too would burn, so I made it a rule
that whenever I found a• patch of
greenbrier dry enough to burn I
would set fire to it,
The pines were all cut down, and
when they got dry, they too were
burned.
The briers were kept down by the
stock grazing over them. Whenever
a young brier appeared it was rip-
ped up. ..By the end of the third
year the brier roots were all rotted
and the pine stumps were pretty
well rotted, so that the land could
be plowed.
STRANGE CUSTOMS op' INDIA.
Superstition Has a Good Hold on
the Natives.
Parrots are taught in India to
spend a large portion of their time
in repeating the names of gods, and
such a spokesman brings a great
price, especially among business
men, who imagine that by owning
such a parrot their spiritual trea-
sures aro accumulating while they
attend to their usual occupations.
Many of the dancing girls in In-
dia, belonging to the temples, are
called the wives of the gods. At
an early age they are united in
wedlock to the images worshipped
in the temples. This strange matri-
monial connection is formed in com-
pliance with,the wishes of the par-
ents, who believe it to be a highly
meritorious act to present a'beautt:
ful daughter in marriage to a sense-
less idol.
The only foreigner who -ever saw
the inside of the great Temple of
Juggernaut was an English officer,
who succeeded in gaining admis-
sion'by.painting and dressing him-
self like a native.
When the Brahmins discovered
that their holy place had been thus
defiled they became so enraged that
all the English residing at the
station were obliged to flee for
their lives.
Suspecting their pursuers to be
more desirous of gratifying their
avarice than their revenge, they
strewed silver money by the way,
and. while the natives stopped to
pick it up they gained time, and
succeeded in reaching a place of
safety.
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THE JUKES OF SOME JURIES
AMi?SING l'LEA.SANTRILS BY
"xI001 MEN AND TRUE.
French and English ,Tories Aro
Not Without a Sense of
Humor.
A stag !hunted through the foreati
of Fontainebleau took refuge in the
garden of st certain Madame Bnouil-
lot, The lady's son refused to give
the animal up unless paid the sum
of five pounds oompensation for the
damage it hacl done ; but itis request
was indignantly refused by M. Le-
baudy, the master of the hounds,
who declined to accept any reaposi-
bility,
"Very well," said 'the young man
coolly; "then we will keep the
stag,"
He did so, and they killed and ate
the animal.
The master of the hounds brought
an action for heavy damages, Ma-
dame Brouillot counterclaimed.
The jury, with perfect gravity and
due solemnity, ordered each side to
pay the other four pounds dam-
egesl
So much for a French jury, The
French are notoriously a lighter -
hearted people than ourselves, but
it need not he imagined that Bri-
tish juries ars without a sense of
humor, says London Anewers.
"MANGLING DONE HERE."
Three years ago a rather famous
case was heard at the Old Bailey
concerning a certain coupon com-
petition, alleged to have been run
in an unfair manner. While the
defendant gave evidence, the jury
long the following notice over the
side of their box:
"Have you no horns to go to?"
Later, when a lady wee in the
witness -box, this notice was die-
-played :
"Cheer up, pretty lady. Your
time will. come."
Another witness was greeted
with:
"Mangling done here,"
While the appearance of a fourth
caused a change to:
"House ft>ZL"
Sometimes a verdict is returned
so utterly at variance with the evi-
dence that one can only suppose
that the twelve good men and true
were actuated by some subtle idea
of humor by no means unconscious.
A clerk who acted as accountant
to a London firm was charged by
the head of the firm with embezzle-
ment. He admitted his guilt, and
went home and
CUT HIS THROAT.
The wound was not immediately
fatal, but caused an abscess, from
which he died afterwards in hospi-
tal. The jury summoned to the in-
quest, returned the amazing ver-
dict of "Death from natural
causes."
Great amusement is sometimes
caused by the quaint excuses given
by people who are summoned to sit
on juries for not serving.
An actor was among those called
to serve on a grand jury at the Lon-
don Sessions.
"I am not qualified, my lord," he
said.
"Why not?"
"Under an old Act of Parliament
an actor is a rogue and a vaga-
bond," was the startling reply.
Amid loud laughter, ho was ex=
eused. '
In out-of-the-way parts of the
country the verdicts returned by
men who have probably .never be-
fore sat upon a jury are sometimes
very amusing.
"Death by small -pox, accelerated
by neglect of vaccination," came
from a West -country coroner's
jury, and caused a grin all round.
But it was not so funny as the rider
to another vets -Het given by a Suf-
folk jury in a.ease of acidental poi-
soning by carbolic acid. The fore-
men gravely remarked that "Tho
jury, is of epinion that the public
should be warned of the dangerous
nature of this diabolic acid."
GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY?
The foretnan of a Limerick jury,
which was trying a prisoner for a
murderous assault, came out and
told the court that the jury was
"unanimous—nine to three in
finding the prisoner not guilty,"
He was deeply hurt when the unani-
mous parity were ordered to retire
again,
At Cardigan a man was tried for
tittering a forged note. The jury's •
Verdict to this ease de•serves to be
put on recent -I:
"We finll the prisoner guilty of
telling"stories about the note, and
think he (eight to pay back the
money, and: have three monthe Inc
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'WHO GOT PUNISHED. •
A little girl} about threeY ears. old
was sent ups airs and told to' sit on
a certain (Alai wits in the cor-
ner of her ore, as a punishmsn•t
for soreethin she had done hub a
few minutcri efore.
Scorn the nonce was broken by
the little outs question r •est on .Doo'
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