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CHAPTER, XXII.
'clock that evening I sat down
the new lodgings, with Carrie
me, and little Nan, a girl of
1 up cosily in bed with a basin
sago on a tray before her.
Ca delicious party. Carry had
a banquet of shrimps, water -
trotters, with raspberry jam
and to listen to her quaint
and watch her make havoc
the indigestible was the great'
I had . ever enjoyed.
re stalks and th.eere btrottersnd the
bones,
teapot empty, and the loaf a
tok than any house in Sebasto-
the siege, we, moved our chairs
ndow and began to talk:
isked me a hundred questions,
iwered them all. I told her all
cry of the Crimea and the death
and the heartlessness of Amy,
I had gone to Dartmoor and
old friend dead, and how I had
iondon, and why I had not beat-
aw until that day.
iy did you beat him now?" asked
e he insulted you," I said.
blushed, but looked immensely
and Nan said faintly, from the
• did right. Did he howl?"
her he had howled like a bull.
said Nan, "I shall get better
we talked on till after nine
hen I rose and said I must go.
and Nan exchanged glances.
come back again?" said Carrie.
bright?"
bright."
the bedside and took the child's
mine. "Are you better, Nan?"
etter now. You'll come back?"
i11 see me in the morning," 1
king her hair. She looked at
• y with her grave, young eyes.
ittle sigh, and said, "Good -night.
on."
villi come soon?" Carrie added.
-ou'll tell us about the soldiers,"
f course."
;bout the fields and the ships. I
en a field," said Nan.
hall see a field, my dear."
:1 one?"
vith flowers in it, only get better
rood -night" I bent down and
er, and she clung to my neck a
with one hand, answering.
ght, Willie, come real soon." And
; her; and Carrie saw me to the
my," she said, with a searching
ou won't leave me this time?"
1 not leave you, Carrie."
ized my hands and peered eager -
ay face. "Chummy, if you do,
Lie; and I—"
dear," I said, putting my arm
her, "I will never leave you
"Yes."
"I'm very poor, Carrie?"
"Well?"
"We might have hard times?"
"Of course."
"You expect that, then. But yet you'd
come?"
Carrie glanced at the bed.
"Nan held out her hand. "I'll come,"
she said.
"Well, Carrie," I continued, "you are
alone and I am alone. And you want a
friend, and I eannot spare you. So we
will take our chance together. If I can
get the money we will emigrate.' If not
we will fight it out in England.
Carrie nodded and smiled:
"Anywhere" she said;, "what does it
matter to chums?"
Then," said I, making a dash for it,
"when shall we get married?"
"Married?"
"Yes, dear, you will marry me?"
"Marry? Do you mean to marry
Really?"
"Carrie, Carrie," I said, perfectly start-
led; "what did you think I meant? What
do you think I am?"
But Carrie did not answer my question.
She knelt upon the floor, hid her face
against my knee, and gripping my hand
in hers, began to ere.
"Carrie!" I fetid, for I was alarmed by
this strange conduct, "`what is it? What
do you mean?"
The girl clung to me, sobbing and laugh-
ing wildly- 'Marry me marry me? Oh,
Willie. Oh, chummie. Shall I be your
wife r
I began to understand her now. I drew
her into my arms and kissed her. "My
dear," I said, "you are too good for me.
But I love you and I will take eare of
you. Will you promise?"
But at that moment Nan awoke, and
starting 'lip in bed called out, "Carrie,
what's the matter? He isn't going to
leave us? Carrie, don't! You frighten
me."
Poor Carrie ran to her' sister, laughing
and crying, took her in her arms, hugued
her, kissed her, and repeated a dozen
times, "Nan, Nan, Nannie! We are go-
ing to get married! We are Ding •.o live
with Willie. You shall be his sister and
me his wife."
I was so much affected by this that I
had a great mind to cry myself, but I
controlled myself and drew Carrie away
from ter sister.
"My dear," I said "you will make Nan
ill. Sit down and said,
quiet.'
Carrie threw herself into a chair and
laughed hysterically. Nan shook her
hair our of her eyes, regarded us in a
wondering way for a few moments, and
then said gravely, "My sister, Mrs. Wil-
liam llomer—ain't that prime?"
I turned to Carrie. "'Come,' I said, and
held out my arms. She came to me at
once. "Say yes," I urged, 'say yes."
"Yes, yes, yes," she answered, nestling
against me. "Oh, now I never want to
die! Never, never."
And then Nan buret into tears, and—
that was my wooing.
s• *
me?
i? Honor, bright? Never?"
• Carrie."
,
• close to me, rubbing her thin Loudon and went with me to see my two
gainst my rough coat, and I kissed poor little friends, Nan was awed by
ids and forehead, and bidding her the apparition of "the lady," and could
Lher sister, set off to find fresh scarcely be got to speak, but Carrie re-
fer"in,self. ceived her with a, modest frankness which
1 Le ve her, and be a lonely, ws;s very dharming.
luau gain.. 'I laughed as . I As for Mrs.; :Itir'taitage, she was.kindness
away r o.; I •had, le,ne ehtin.>i to ;iteon,; one. teak the ;tvee fsietel+a5e:,gl od.
r s -s,' d . I :would; . 13 ? ` •• atm'ti;�9eak,a• at.•+cau 10emed' ,she 1
On the Farm
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WHEN TQ SELL HOGS.O
and Every 5 t. ound
a . of
1 write only from my own experi:
once of over twenty years in
ing hogs for the znarkct, writ
W. C. Holstand.
Different localities and di
feeds make a great deal m
less : profit in the keep of the
Some feed too long and
part of the profit, while .ot
not long .enough or liberally
to make what they ought?�i e•.'
I run all my hogs on a1fa1 a from
birth until soil,either for b 'ceders
or for the packer, and as sogn as
they weigh 200 pounds eaok, '_or
about that, I seal ar kill them. • `
If you are feeding pure-blooded
hogs (especially if the blood isred)
they will weigh from 175 to'. `225
pounds each at six to eight monthe
of age. I thingseven months olid; is
the best age,, and the most profit-
able hog we scan sell,
The younger you .sell, the less risk
of disease, the less trouble, time.
and feed it takes. The sooner you
sell, the more room and the better
care for they next litter.
The cheapest gain is made while
the pig is small. A pig weighs
about three pounds at birth. With
reasonable care it will gain on an
average' one-fourth pound a day
for the first ten to twenty days;.
So you see 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 3.34,1 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 heat e, 300 pound rod
of iron.
So I say it takes a little to make
a pig gain a pound per day. But 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), priees may go up. Others
will say, ""Feed. is high, I• will sell
(while they are not fat); prices Inas
go down." •
Don't try to get the market ready.
for your hogs, but get yoiu',:;, hors
The next day airs. Armitage came to
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Solomon Solom and'lite-oi
owed him, and my heart was as her adopted child, but Nan clung to
Merrie Islington was Merrier. I her sister, and would say nothing but
of be happier," I said to myself, "No, thank ou," and "Please I want Car -
ad had a fortune left." ria, and Carrie wants me." So it was very
t to a decent coffee-house, engag- soon agreed that we three waifs should
d, and sat down to write to Mrs. go together to Canada, and try to begin
e, of Fern Lodge, Bedford, the life afresh.
th whom my slater Alice had been all will be better, William," said the
ice. She, I felt sure, would help good lady; "I quite see with you that it
or girls. If not, I must. will be better to make a new beginning
CHAPTER XXIII. in a new place, and I hope and believe
you will he happy"
as perfectly gay and bright when "I will try very hard," I said. "I feel
on the morning after the instal- quite proud and confident since I have
1 the sisters in their new home. , found Carrie.'
had "done her hair," mended her "Carrie will make you a good wife, I'm
ut on a clean collar, and looked sure," said Mrs. Armitage.
pretty, and quite nice. "Rather!" said Nann, suddenly break
down by Nan's bedside and talked lug through her shyness. 'Carrie's good
I told her how Sebastopol was enough for anybody. She's as good as—
and how our men stood on the as—anything."
t Hill and watched the Russians Carrie only smiled, but what a smile
across their bridge of boate; and hers was.
thought when I saw the No. 66! wewvaiked �rtowards herthotel k" vheere did
rifle.
you cry? asked Nau.you meet this young woman?"
k my head. ""I was too weak and! "On London Bridge, ma'am."
ch confused," I said; "I fainted." t "Do you know much of her?"
nted twice, last week," said Nan. "I know that I like her, and that she
s horrid. So giddy,and hot, and' likes me, and that she is good."
you'd fell down a eep, deep hole. t "she is as good as gold," said the lady
raps you didn't feel like that; , emphatically, for which I thanked her
-ou was wounded, and its different. very warmly. Yes, for it delighted me to
ungry. Tell us about those funny; hear poor Carrie praised. I was in love
a." ' with her already.
ted how the Russians were said' And so we were married; and Mrs. Ar -
tallow and black bread, which was mitage paid our passage to Quebec, lent
ey had white teeth; and how the us a hundred pounds, and saw us set
es would sit on the floor and show' out to make a fresh start in a fresh land.
vhite teeth in kindly smiles and, That was eight -and -thirty years ago.
umphhum," and "yah,"and call' Now 1 am getting old, and Carrie's hair
nny," and want to shake hand& is white, and we have'a little farm of our
.y things,' quoth Nan, "when they' own, and children and grand -children
en trying to kill you." 1 around us. And Nan, our little Nan, is
we them," I hinted. a handsome matron and very proud of
arse," said Nan; "but that's dif her husband, the judge, and her son, the
They're foreigners, and you were doctor, and 'her grandson, the inidship-
for your country." • mite. And Mrs. Armitage's hopes have
they for theirs," I suggested. I been fulfilled, and we have been, and are
1 If they had won would they very, very happy, for Carrie is better
•. a here and—and killed people?" : than gold.
Lips; if they could." ! Ah, dear wife. How good she has been;
I'm glad you took them prisoners.' how patient, cheerful, gentle; bow grate -
y really eat candles? Horrid crea• fill, for every little kindness shown to her;
That's worse than fat pork. 1 how tenderly, absurdly proud of the poor
at. Tell me some more. Tell me •devil of a soldier who so "generously"
the fields." ! made his own sad life happy by marry
panted upon the be.uties of the ing her—thirty-eight years ago.
Nan was deeply interestediThirty-eight years ago. Ahl Carrie,
she said, in a dreamy way, "red! Carrie, brave heart, true heart; what do
ptL r'Tones? and real skylarks, not
hard 'that Nan should s ay with her
ready for the marke
'who "t -
, t
'Keel') kited t• `at
andm
. you will make o
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r twd::y;it .+�!p,!`S'Si'rn.:a£. Ota •: ,�..,:.i'
aking 'to reolear them, says ''
•x ,egg,
,d'ertaken to kill them
nut the briers and
b h ' eed a hard job, and
sprout for years, but
e ir vhy. ''hacked down and let
,theVneliged over, the land can
13 �effectt�t cleared by pasturing
it' ith b t ed: sheep.
A feet rtt"s' ago I had field
overgrown with greenbriens and
pine, Ther e Were patches of green-
bliens to dente that it was impossi-
ble to gat thlyrugh them, let alone
Out)ca
them rt:;
These thlek t patches were burn-
ed through. lie fire killed other
briers, then in a few months they
'toi w*uld burn,, so I made it a rule.
that whenever. I found a patch of
greenbrier dry enough to burn I
would'eel fire to it,
The: `lies were all cut down, and
":when they got dry, they too were
;Luined„ F .
he "'•;: ` ; ;w ere kept down by the
egnethem. 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.
IS
YOUNG WINE'S M.T.&It & •
Some Saga Advice to the Newly
Married Woman.
How a young woman plots and
plans before she becomes a bride!
She resolves to do this and that,
and a great many other things' be-
sides, but never for a. moment does,
she think of the man she is' going
to marry. She makes up her mind
that she will be supreme in the new
home ; her 'husband—but he will
have nothing to do with the home t
She 'tells all her girl friends, and
invites all of theist to visit her
once she is settled down. Oh, her
won't object; rather, will
he be delighted !
Now, this sort of thing may cause
bother; for, granted the young hus-
band and wife settle down, what
happens`! The husband cannot
have his wife alone after his busi-
ness day; every evening one or two
of her old chums are about the
house, and. what is more, they
treat the husband as if he were a
cipher. The worm turns at last, of
course, and then there is a fine to-
do ! The young wife is amazed... Zs
not the home her own'? Cannot she
invite whom she pleases to visit
her? And so on. But eventually
she realizes how £oolieh she has
been, and then the husband gets hischance.
Young wives are very liable to
draw up regulations which their
husbands are expected to obey.
Thus, a man may not smoke in this
room, nor in that; his coat may not
be brought into any room it mast
always be taken off in the hall and
hung up. There are scores of ruler:,
in truth, for the husband; but does
the wife draw up rules for herself ?
No; and, if her husband drew up
rules, and insisted on her obeying
them—why, the young wife would
soon be on the way towards her
mother's home!
The fact is that a. young wife be-
lieves her husband to be one thing,
and one thing only—namely, a
money -making machine; beyond
that he hardly counts. And it is '
strange that, as the wife views the
husband, so do all her relatives and
connections generally.! Of course,
a man—a husband—is'a money-
making machine ; but he is some-
thing more, and must be taken into
consideration.
Certainly, let a. wife rule the
home, but let her always ask. her
husband's opinion on this or plat;
a man is greatly pleased if his. wife
giv e' him, the ininression that his
views ion the naming et the :'oome,
are vastly important. Thus can• a
wife pander to the vanity of m;an;
and, believe me, a man is as vain
as a peacock!
Another error the young wife is
liable to make is this --she has a
quarrel—slight, maybe—with her
husband. She feels she must con-
fide in someone, so she foolishly
turns to a neighbor who has al-
ways seemed friendly and sympa-
thetic. A terrible mistake—one
liable to get her into a peck of trou-
ble, for it gets all round the dis-
trict that she and her husband can-
not hit it off, and the man in time
hears of it; then the fat is in the
fire with a vengeance. Why, if a
wife quarrels with her husband, she
-should not mention it, even to her
own mother, far less outsiders.
Really, the young wife is liable to
snake so many errors that even to
refer to all of them would fill this
paper for the week.
Money is another thing. Couples
fall out over that, but usually the
man comes out best there, as he
earns the cash, and, therefore, can
hand it over or retain it. Yes;, a
husband can always punish his wife
by withholding the weekly or
monthly "`pin -money," . or greatly
reducing the amount. That soon
brings a wife to her senses.
THE DEPTH OF MEANNESS.
Little Jonas was the son of pen-
urious parents, and the son bade
fair to outdo them in frugality—a
fact that worked extreme hardship
upon Bobby Graves, his seatmate.
Bobby came home one night look-
ing so depressed that his mother
asked the cause of his trouble.
"It's that Jone Peterbo 1" burst
out Bobby. "He's just about the
meanest thing ! He eats my apples
all up, and he never gives me even
a bite offen his, an' my apples are
good an' his ain't—very ! An' to-
day he made me do his 'rithmetic
zamples, 'cause he didn't know
how, an' he wouldn't even lend me
bis pencil to do 'em with!"
ROMMIIMMIMMOMINNIMMEMINNYINI
high.
Registered hogs gain
money for thee
make more pounds of
the grain fed them th
animal on earth.
I not owe; and now, my dear, '"I shall
never want to THE EeD, never."
SILK FROM HORSE FLESH.
s�toose, and Eying about? Biggs'
imbley-sweep, had a la k, down
s Court; but it didn't sing much'
it bad the gripes, rai Biggs said
vin' to eatin' too much 'emp seed.
to the fields? Carrie seen some
Carrie's been in 'Ide park. Oarrie'a +firman chemists are reported to
to Ammersmith an' Greenwich.
ou, Carrie?" have succeeded in utilizing fibrous
' said Carrie; "and now you go animal refuse—such as the flesh of
p, and stop chatte.ing."
shriveled her shoulders, and put- dead horses—for making artificial
er thin hand tnto mine, turned silk. Treatment with acids disinte-•
and closed her eyes. later the flesh into its ultimate
t her then, and sat down in the grates
air. Carrie came and set on a fibres, and these are givers a silky
t my feet. 1 began to talk but': appearance, withgreat durability,
rie," I said, "how old are youl" by a kind of tanning process. The
smiled softly, and rubbed her chin threads produced greatly resemble
her thimble thoughtfully. "About
n, she said, "I think. those Of. the Wild Silkworm, are
td you--" said I, very Inifidently. about two inches long. They may
you want Inc to go away?" be vulcanized like true silk, and
forbid," she exclaimed, looking up
aired anxiety can be made airtight, and water -
you no friends?" tight by immersion for a couple of
a soul pi the world but Nan and hours in a caoutchoue bath under a
ounmie.' -
tld you --like to live with me?" pressure of four atmospheres, The
looked, at me with quint, serious material seems to promise, some
ass
'• than silk a con
and ever, amen!" She showed her insulatign' ate,, though
teeth in a smile. She smiled as ver,
y and sweetly' as a child. 1 attempts , to spin the fibres into
to =o to America"! threads" have not yet been suceess-
and nodded.
aye?„ thing cheaper ' k for
r, brrl r,
elder,. arida
;int of t e f,
other
RECLEARING OLD FIELDS.
There are mane old fields that
have been thrown out years ago and
have so grown up with scrub timber,
green briars and other filth that it
looks to be almost an impossible
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THE FLOOD OF GOLD.
Enormous Output of the South
African Mines. -
As to the prospects of a cessation
of the flood of gold attention is
called to the fact that in June the
mines of the Rand produced 753,936
fine ounces of gold, compared with
684,576 ounces in June, 1911, and
625,181 in the corresponding month
of 1910. The outturn was valued at
£3,202,517, against £2,907,854 in the
same month last year and £2,655,-
602 in June, 1910.
The total Transvaal output for
1911 reached the enormous value of
$170,286,718 of which the Witwa-
tersrand Mines produced $163,239,-
341. From the total output $67 -
779,057 in dividends was distr.-
bated• '
Approximately $35,000,000 was
paid on the Witwatersrand Mine
during the year in wages, not in
chiding about $5,00.0,000 in salarie'
The total number, of stamps i
operation on the gokl mines of t
Transvaal in December, 1911, W
10,195, an increase of 420 in twel
months ; tube mills in operati
251, an inerease d 61.