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i DARE HE? OR, A SAD LIFE STORY CHATTER XXXVI.â€" :<:x)nUnue(l). "If I had as many gowns as the Medi- tferranean, how welWressed I should ber says ElizabeUi, with a smile. It Is the nrst time she had spoken since they had set oil on their return drive. She is Iving back, with her hands care- fully shielding in her lap a lew UUle crockery poU that she has bought ol a lai Turk for some children at her hotel. Her lacj kwks tired; aiid yet over its email area Is spread an e\pression of content that makes hU heart wami. Is It only Ihe pageant ot sky and ocean that tat called forth that look of real, if pass- ing, happiness on the features of her who is always s.i tremblingly sensiUvc AT Instrunjent for all influences of beauty and t^^uideur Ij play upon? or lias his own nelghborivjod anything to «av to U? Before he can give himself &n answer to this an.\ious question, she speaks again. "You do PKjt mind ray not talking to yoii, do you?" she asks, half apologeti- cally, and yet with a conOdence in his sympathy tbat'sttll further quickens the beats of his already not very still heart. ".Vo, I am sure you d<j not. Some- howâ€" it is a great giftâ€" y«ju always feel in I'lne with one. and one does not •.•hal- ter most when one is most greatly pleased, does one ? c a, what a treat you have given me T As she speaks, her humid eyes travel from his face to where, beyond the long Atlas range, delicately toothed and cut out. /tses the gokl-washeii snow ol the Kabyle mountains, that retire majesti- cally invisible on dull days, and only conie out, candescent and regal, when Ih-; great sun ndes in pomp, .\bove their heads wild plumes ol deep rose, that it seems ridiculous to call clouds, tufi the sky. Jim's look has fclkjwed his compan- ion's ; the chins of both are in the air : tht.- cheerful va et vienl of the boulevar>J is lost upon Iheni. They s.v neither the Frenchmen nor plump Frenchwomen drinking coffee outside the caffts, nor the idle indigenes leaning drape*! against the sM-waH. (Sever does that industrious race seem to attempt any severer e.\«.T- tion). "Thought was not ; in enjoyment it e.itpired.' But it Is brougbl back to life w n a jump. "Arretoz ! arretez T cries a female Toice. "Jim ! Jim ! do you not see us? Ari-elez ! arretez l" Obedient to his ears. Burgoynes eyes maUe one bound from the heavenly spectacle down to earth, and alight upon V.i Wilsons carriage, which, going in the same direction as himself, has just \ been brought to a standstill alongside j "Oh, Sins I,e M.irchant 1 is it you? I beg y«jur pardon, I did not recognize you a*, the first moment. One does not re- cognize people â€" does one? â€" when one is not expeclmg to see them"â€" is an in- tended sting lurking in this implication ? "How are you? How <jo you like .Al- giers ? I hop* .\Irs. Le .Marchanl is well. What a hng time it Is since we met ! I bop^ we shall see something of you." (.No. evidently no sting was m^ant. CecUia with all her faults, is really a gccd soul, and he will take her to hear tho band play ne.xt Tueaday.) There seems to him to be a .<!lighl fal- l> r in the Ujne with which Elizabeth re- spon'Js, and her voice sounds curiously small and low ; but that may be merely owing to its tlute quality, following upon and contrasting the otlier s powerful organ. It is not till the two parties have again separated, and that he is on^::* more sealed by her side in the fiacre, that he dares steal a look at her face to see how plainly w^ritten on it are the traces of vexation caused by a meeting which has produced in his own breast such acute annoyance. Go«jd heavens ! it is even worse than he had expected. Down the cheek nearest to him two good-sized tears are •mmistakably trickling. No dcubt the consciousness of the mysteri- ous story attaching to her past makes her smartingly aware cf h<5w doubly discreet her own conduct siiould be â€" makes her bitterly repent of her present uidiicretion. He is a strait-laced man. and it seems 'e him as if there were something grave- ly conipr«imising to her in this tete-a-tete drive with himself, in the known absence ol her parents at Hammam Blura. Why was he f«x)l enough thts morning to ad- mit to CeciUa that they had gone thither? \\<i had no business U> have lod her into temptation, and she had no bus;ness to have fallen into it. Remorse and irrita- tion giv^e a tartness to his tone as he says ". "After all. I do not think you need take it so much to heart." "Take wliut to heart T she asks, in unaflecled surprise, turning her lull I«ce, and her blue eyes, each -with one hot ram-drop diirmiiiig its slate-blue upon him. "Oh. I see !"â€" a sudden enli^len- ment coming to her wi th an instant, sj-ring to a camali«in â€" "1 see wliat you mean; but^^u are mistaken â€" I â€" I â€" it had not occurred to me : 1 was only think- ingâ€" only romenibenng that the last time I saw her was atâ€" at Valloiubrosa." Valiombnisa. Is he never to hear the last of Yallombrosa? Alternating with the date are superb fan-palms, of which it is diOlcuJt to realhw that it is their stunted, puny brothers which, anxiously tended, sponged and c<Daseted, drag out a lan- guid existence in Loodt-^a drawing- rooms. Among their Tttal fans Ues their mighty fruit, like a bionch of grapes, a yard and a half long, strung upon ro[>es of yellow worsted. Hall-w«y down its length the main avenue is inlersecte<l by a splendid alley of bamboos, which lean thetr smooth- joints stems and their luxuriant narrow leaves towards each other across the dimmed interspace, and unite in a pointed Gothic arch of living green. Jim paces objectlessly d<jwn the long arcade, stooping now and again to pick U|» a fragment of the peeled bark that i<xjks so strangely like a papyrus roll wilh. a mother-of-pearl glaze upon it Htj pulls it idly open, as if to finil the secret of some forgotten race written upon its shining surface; but if he reads any secret there, it is only his own. wliiTh. after all, is not much of a secret. He merely sees written there that it is t.» early to go home yet; that there is no security ttiat Elizabeth may not still be sUtmg on the terrace, stitch- ing away with h-^r gold thimble and her colorc<l silks. Th« sun, it is true, has U.'ft the garden, but he dep.irts thence over early. It will be safer to stay away yet half an hour or »>. Thus res<3lv!ng. he retraces his steps, and expkires in a new directiijn ; s.iuntam down a ros.;-a!lcy. where, climbing immo<ierately high up tall palms, seeming a? if they would stran- g't them with their l<3ag bowery amw, rose-trees wave for above turn in the still air; and upon them, though it is still but the nxinlh of January, when people are skating. blue-nose<i in Eng- land, creamy tea-roses sh«:iw their pale- "you seem to havo a gool deal of it ; I suppose, in your position, it ts unavoid- able." Hd had meant an alluswn to her silu- aUon as bad third to her uxorious par- ents ; before his mind's eye haj risen a picture of the little forksm shawled ugure he had seen studying its Italian graaunar with the door shut upon it* loneliness : but almost before the words have left his Ups, he sees h>3w different, of !>ow cruel, a construction they may be capable. He snatches a glance of real terror at her. to see whether she has madr? that erroneous, yut ail too plausible applica- iHjn â€" & glance which confirms his worst fears. She has tum«d a* whit*; as the p.ickef-handkerchief which she is pass- ing over her trembling Ups. "Yes.'' she says In a hollow whisp.?r ; "you are right. In my posiUin it is un- avoidable, and it is- cowardly of me not to accept it as sucJi." "I mean"â€" he cr.es desperatelyâ€" "I only meantâ€" I mean " But she does not suffer him to finish h'j uttered explanation. "It Is cold," she says, rising, I »-iU go home." He d'jes not attempt to accompany or follow her. CTo be continued). RULE-S FOR SHEEP DIPPING. Th» best time for dipping !s frooi ons t-i three months after stiearing. The sheep should not be overheated or tlursty at t.he time of dipping. If «ha sun is very hot it u betier to have the draining pans under shade. L' the ngtiis are cold, the dipping .sfcouM always be stopped so-jn erwuglx â- c ailcw the sheep time to dry before See that the preparati/jn ts property mixed and thrt C'>rr«<:t quantity cf water aiJded. I>)n't guess at it. Never hurt them in dipping. .Always take care that every sheep is kept in the bath the full tune â€" never less thaa fa£ minute nor more than two mia- u!es. Have the bath well and regularly slirriid up fnim the b«*»m always b«- f< re beginmng to dip, and wtKoever any sbippage occurs. Never allow drippings from the sheep t: fall on anything they are likely to eat. If rain come.-? on before t.hey ar» dry. keep them off pasture until after "t has ceased. When dipping twice alkjw an uitervsl of mH less than IS. or mors than 18, days between the dippings. L'nweaned lambs should be kept apart from dippetl ewes for a .'ew iiours aft*r dppmg. CR\PTER .\.\.\vn. The latest waking impression left on of his fiacre, by the solemnly beautiful | jims fancy is that it is the golden rule yellow-jacketed native coachman. of Elizabeth Le Marchant's lif-> to corn- It is. of course, Cecilia's voice that hasj pi^ with any and every request that is apostrophizixl him. but oh, portent '. I niade to her ; moretjver. that in Tier does his vision, so lately recalled from j mind the boundary line which parts the the skvey bowers, play him false ?- or is permitted from tlie unpermitted ts not it really the moribund Sybilla, stretched! so clearly defined as. did she belong to beside her, with only two instead of ; him (the naked hypothesis makes his three cushions at her back, with a bon- 1 strait-laced heart give a jump.) he should net on her headâ€" he did not even know i wish it to be. If, on the morrow, with that she possessed a bonnet â€" and wilh I ihe sun shining and the leuf-shadows a color in her cheek and a lustre in her dancmg on the fretted balcony-wall, he eye that may owe their origm alhcr to the freshness of the evening air. or to t^.e invigorating properties of the con- versation of the very onlinary-looking young man seated opposite to her? In a second Jim has U>apt out of his own vehicle, and gone to the side of the other. It is a perfectly futile impulse that leads h.ni to do s«). Not alt the leaping in the workl fmm her side now can alter the tact that he has been driv- ing tele-a-lcte with Elizabeth I.e Mar- chant, and that the Wilson sisters have Been him so doing ; but yet it is a dim Instinct of preservatkm Towards, and shielding of her, that k?ads him to adopt this uselescs course of action. It is t'e- cilia who has sumrooncvl him, and yet, when he reaches her sWe, she does not Bcem to have anything particular to say t> him. Sybilla is the one to address bin). ".\ miracle! a miracle! 1 know you invite her to some fresh junket, he ts sure that she will readily and ioytully acquiesce; that her spirits will' go up like rockets at Ihe prospect ; aifl that her one an.xiely will be that she may be sure to hit in her choice upon the fonn of dissipation most congenial to him. He will therefore not invite her. He wilt have a greater care ff>r her re- putation than apparently she has for it herself. Not until the return of her par- ents, not untU the difBculties of inter- course with her are' centupled and the p'.i."asure luiniiuized, will he agam seek her. To put himself beyond the reach of temptatKin, he sets off imm>>diately after brenklisl on a long walking expedition, which he means to occi-ipy Ihe whole of tlie daylight Iwurs. Ho warnlers uboul the great plain of the Metidge : he visits a Kabyle village, with its hovels cower- ing among its hideous fat-fleshod cac- aro saying to yourself f cries she. in a i fis ; later on in the afternoon he finds K\.<1L£UNG UOi? f often think of the loss that is su- yirllow hearts, fair and frequent, on the seamed by many of our farmers when unpnined boughs, noting in licensed \ they <lo not provide suitable pasture for ! liberty .ibove his head. The walk ends | their hogs, thus ne^essitaLng the feed- in a circle of gigantic magnolias, which | i.ng of mnn expensive foods during a take hands r')uiid a square fountain- j season when tiiey could, with very lit- basin. Each huge trunk i,*. as it were, 1 tls expense be kept m a thriving cundi- a little commonwealth of trees rolled J ticn en. pastures, writes "Hog-Haiser." m!o one. in'ttead of a single tree. Be- The hog is a posture lover. With pas- neath them benches stand. Upon one his | tures he thrives, keeps heal;"hy and negress sits, chatting with a French j pays a premium for iise grain which he bonne ; on a second there is also sonae- 1 consumes; while without it he degen- thing female and slender, something j erates. gest out cf condition, and be- wilh its little white prctlle. how white il|C';mc3 an easy mark for disease. It is Xt-r men wh«> raise hogs without pas- ; ture that usually tell all manner of hard j luck stories. Their trood sows have j lo.jks in thii deceiving hgtit :â€" lifted, al- though white, yet smiling, animated, and talking to a man beside it. He has dawdled. aniJ kicked his heels, and run the chance «jf contracting a s(.iteful Southern chill, in onler to avoid Elizabeth ; and he has succeeded running straight into her arms. He does not at the first glance recog- nize her companion, but a second l>X)k shows him that he is one of the in- mates of the hotel â€" a French vi-x)mte ; and though Jim knows '.nal he is both consntnptive and the lather of a famtiy, ttial knowledge d'>es not tiinder the ris- ing in his breast of the jealous and cen- s<.irious thought that he has detected Elizabeth m tiirowing a great deal more than the inec«sary modicum of amia- bility into her inauner to him. small litters, the pigs are weak, and • tht sows eat their young. | Feeding hogs witliout pasture means ] in i selling grain at a p«xir market. It is a ' gieat mistake t.) shut up growing hogs ! i.- a cUise pen without e.xercise and: without tiDough variety injeetl tu make , them healthy. The longer" the hog can ! t)e kept on pasture the tetter, for the less time will he have to be kept in the pen. Pnif. Geo. E. Day. one of the high- est aut.>y>rities en swine in Canada, has ti.o following to say ir. rvgard to some vl the most cominon cr-ps that are â-  grown for green feed for pi^; Rape. â€" ^This is an exceptionally valu- GOOD ^TO<JC PAYS. One of the greatest mistakes, and tljs most common, among our famiers "s the noti<3n that because they have ajk inferior niare tiiey should breed her M ^ c-jmnwn scrub horse because the ser- v;(!e fee is low. In thts way you ars sure to g»;t an infenor oiilt. But if you f-ay *5 or $10 more and breed to a Qrst- closs horse y-ou stand a show cf getting a colt tiiat will develop Into a horss that will sell for d-iuble wtiat you would get for y<jur scrub. The differ- ence in service tee is a small mstter, and it C4jsts no mcr« to ra^e i good celt than a poor one. 4 XiTT EVEN BEPORTED. "Father," said the young man. as V leaned on his hoe. "they say the balance 'it trade is against us as a nation." "They doâ€" eii?" "Knd that our bank reserves are ra^ idly dunimshing." "Dye fell me s-^r ".And that railw^iv e.xteosion has corns to a halt.' "Well, I nevsrr "And that Govtrnment securities ars substantially without a market." "N.5t .Vnd di they say anything about a fellow stoppuig to lean on his ti<je to talk, when he might just as well talk and hoe at the same time?" The young man resumed. .Vs Juii comes into sight, the French- 1 able food for swine, and may be pas- man clicks his heels, doubles up hi^ j lur<.>d or cut and fed to the pijp in the body, lifts his hat, and walks away. It , pens. For fattening h<)gs. best r>wults is evident at all events, that their meet- were obtained by the Ontario .\gricultiir- ing was a casual one ; and the rellec- a' College from tee«Iing about twc-thinls lion brmgs with it a sense of relief, j mtal rati.ju and ail the rape the hcgs coupled with a feeling of shame at his \ would eat. The hogs were kept in pens own rooted readiness to suspect her, on any or no evidence, which yet. on the sprightly voice ; "and well you may This is "the miracle'tminger r indicating with a still sprightlior air her ^vis-a-vis. "Dr. Crump, let me present Kj ycu Mr. Burgoyneâ€" Jim, our Jim, whom 1 have sc' often talked to you about." The j>orson thus aposlrophiziM re- spoiKls by a florid liow. and an over-gal- Isnl a.-<sevcralion that any person inlrv- duce^l to his acqiiaintance by Mis< Sy- billa needs no further recommendation. hiinselt in the little Erench hamlot ot lUermandreis, and finally drops down uj«n the Jarvlin dk.ssai, 'the delightful botanic gar<.lon whk'h is one of the many blessings for which .Mgerian France has to thank the niueh-vilij.KMid- e-1 Napoleon HI. It is didicult for even lhi> reddest Re- publican to think hanlly of that dtKid ruler as he walks down the avenue of gigantic palms, that lead, straight as a "11 is an experiment, of course: there j die. to where, like a deep-blue gem far away, the Mediterranean shows is no use in pretoixling that it is not aa exporiim^nt" continues she, with a Blight relapse into languor; "but"â€" towering her voice a littleâ€" "they wisheil me to make the effort." It is a favorite allocation of Sybilta's that any course of action Imvarits which she is iijclinevl U adopted solely uiidffj tho prv>asureof urgent wishes.on llw i>art| ^ai up against he blue. They re<nind hiin ft her faniilv. yurguyne has k)ng| aKsurdly of the pictures in the raission- Wnown. and "been oxa.sperntixl by tlus.ary bot)ks of his youthâ€" the t>alm-lree. peculiarity ; but at pn-sent she may say ! tht log-cabin, the blackiinioors, and th what she pleases; ho hears no word of "No bigger than tho agate stone On the lorvUnger of an alderman." Jim walks along beneath Ihe huge date-palms that give him a crick in the I neck to gape up at ere ho can perecive j Itieir toweruig head of waving plumes It for lus oar Ls pricked to catch the itentcMioes that CA>;ilia is leaning over Vkt carriage-side K» sho«»t at EUxaheth : the blackiinKKirs, miSktnary in a palm hat, is he the njissionary, ami is thus inky negress in a black lionnet, scarcely du>tinguishable Iiviu her face, his one catochtuiH-n ? other hand, is not strong enough, when she turns her sweet bright look towards him, to hinder the thought that it is scar.'ely. if at all. sweeter or brighter than "that winch he had caught her si|uandenng on the casual table d'hote acquaintance who has just quilted her. "You, too ! " she says ; "why, the wivole hotel ^eeins to be eniptie*.! out into these ganlens ; the widow W adman is buying violets- mark if they do ivot ap- pear upon tiicle Toby at dinner to-night. ITie vicomte " "Yes. 1 saw you engaged in animated dialogue with him," inlerupts Jira, with shght acrimony ; "I had no idea that you wen.« such allies." "Had not you 1" rejoins she innocent- ly. "He was telling me about his Eng- lish governess, what a treasure she is' â€"her face dimpling mischievouslyâ€" "and h<5w wonderfully pure her ac<:rent. S-i it isâ€" pure Ox-kiiey. You sliould hear the liltfe vicomte talk of the biby and tltt? pipers." He rewards her small pleasantry only by an absent smile. an<t she speaks i^ainâ€" rather wistfully this time. "Have you been on another expedi- tion" "No, not on an expedition ; only a walk, irâ€" yielding to Ihe temptation of putting a queslivin which no t>ne would have judged nwre severely than he. had it been put by anyone elseâ€" "if 1 had in- vited you to do me the honor of mak- ing" another excursi«.>n with me to-day. liy) you think that you woukl have coo- son ietl ?" .\s he speaks, he d<^tv»rls yet hirther frem Ihe line of coivluct he has marked oat for himself by silting down on the bench at her" side. Her eyes are fixed upon the soaring dat«>palii>. which stands, instead of a water-]et in the middle of the fountain- basin, and on which the last year's dead pUimes hang sapless and ready to fall off, in conlrasl lo this year's verdant vigor. "Is not that rather a tantalizing ques- tion when you did i>ot ask hh'T inquires slK\ with soft archness. "Yes, I sus- liet-t that I sh»)uld : I was so very happy yesterday; and although you told me the other night"â€" swallowing a sighâ€" "1h!»t you supp<.>sed 1 must k)ve uiy own so- ciety, in point of fact, I du not think I do." .\ftor all. the sun is mil quite pme; there aro Hashes of light in lh<» vtrdant gtoom, and green rellcctit>i»s in the water. "And, yet." says J.iu thoughtfully. Uvilh small outside yanls. and the rape was cut and carrie-I to them. • This me- thod cf feedmg gave more economical gains than fattening on pasture, and the baxjn was of equally good quality. For breeding sows, howevtr. pasturing rape is preferable, owing to the exercise i the animals receive. When on rape pasture, mature sows require little ctt\er feed, but young growing sows n^-quirc a QKiderale meal raUon in addition to the rape. Vetches. â€" Hogs will eat vetches even iicnc readily ttiaji rape, but the velch- e<i do not furnish s<j much foo«i per acre. Notches are ready for pasture a little earlier than rape and if a part of the pastitfe l<jl is sown with vetches early in the spring it can be sown with rape after the vetches have been eaten off. and thiw the ground will raise two pasture cr«ips dunng tiie one season. Vetches may also t>e used as a soiling crop as described under rape. Hairy Vetch.â€" Th.>> seed of this crop u very e.vp«'nsivc. There is n«j doubt. h>-wever that it makes an excellent pas- ture crop for swine. If not pastured t<j ctoscly. it grows up quickly when the hogs are removed. For early spring pasture, it should le sown during the! latter part of August, so that it can make a considerable gniwth the preced- [ ing fall. .About one and one-half bush- j eis ot seed per acre are required. i Green Rye. â€" Fall sown rye will make a very early spring p>astijre. omd after i it has been eaten off. the ground may t)o sown with some other crop such as rape. It has not a very high feeding value and its mam recomincnJation is tho fact thai it gives early pasture. Red Clover.â€" This crop is best suited f jr pasture, and the hogs should be giv- «'u a large range or the cl-ivcr will likely be killed out. It i> espe«.-ially useful for breeding sows. It it is used, two pas- tures are necessary, one to seed down wlHie the other ts being pasttired and s«j on back and forth from year to year. For a short order iKig pasture my own cxponeiKx- is that a heavy seeding «..( a lutxlure of rape seed, barley and oats is a good c<imbinat».5n <l s<»ls to s«-w. csiwctally on kJ»<J uhere clover vlves not thrive. Exporunenls cottduct- (• I at ttv various extxTiiiK'iit stati<iris ii! Canadit and Ihe United States indi- cate that from six'y to eighty pounds of gi'am go farther wh«^i fed to bogs on |.>aslure than one hundred pounds of grain with'>ut pasture. Ikigs can be givwn so much cheap- er vn pasun- that thor»; Is no nK>ney in Ihv' hog that is fed alt suninier from the ^&il. THEBES KNOWLEDGE FOR YOU. The f^^rporal was one day drilling a batch of raw recruits. "Why is it. ' .he said to a bright-look- ing chap, "that the blade of >our sabre is curve«i uistead of straight?" "The blade cs curved." the recruit aa- swere"!. "m order to give more force to fie blow." ".Nonsense." said the corpora!. "The blade is curved so as to fit the scab- bard. If it were straight how would voii get it into the curved scabbard, you id-ot?" WHY WILLIE WE.NT. The following excuses were rec- ently bmught by two pupils:- "Dear Teacher.â€" Kindly excuse John's absence from school yesterday aftet^ n«:on. as he lell m the mud. By doing thv same you wUl greatly oblige hu tn<jlher. â-  The other read: "Dear Teac.ier,â€" pteas© excuse Willie's aijsence last Fri- day, as he had to go to the hospital after his sore iwse." HE GETS T. Edgar- "D«3es your m>3ther ever giva rou anyihmg when you are real goodr JiiniiiiC â€" "N-i; but you bet she gi'^es it lo me good and proper when I ain'l." SAVES LIFE. "Do you think that it prolongs a man's life to be insured?" "Y'es." replie<J the man. who had jtBt been interviewed by ta agent; "it does something l«^>wafds keeping turn from â- being talked lo death." « TIME HAD EXPIRED. Mrs. Na^^ger- "Pertwps you recall, it was en a raUway Iraitt that w« first niet, and " Mr. Nagp-râ€" "Yes; but Us to.) l^ta now for me to sue the compoiiy tor damages." ^^. HOW HE PHONED IT. "I knew you were a f-ol betor* I named youl' "I pnsume my proposing to .vou sat- i»fled you on thai i>oinl?" ENdGH OF HIS OWN. rrospei-tive Suitorâ€" "Sir, I love your daughter." Her Fatherâ€" "Well, dont couje to ms with vour troubles." IMS TIKK'BLE. "Mv trveiKl." said the philo.sophe*, "you should try to be ccutenl witb wtiat you tiavc." "I am." said the man who had b«e« gittinbling. "It is what 1 ain't got that I am dissatisfied about." FILTERED. Teacherâ€" "Now. Harold, can you trti me what water is?"* Small Haroldâ€" "Yes. ma'am. Us inudl viih Uie dirt taken ouL"