I IN6I L ( r N6ERNATIONAL PflESS AsG’N -JC CHAPTER XI.—(t'ontlnaoil.) He approached the irate, nnd was About to knock, when he saw a Utle figure Hitting along1 the path before him. Ho recognized Dolores. Why was she roaming abroad alone on the roads at this hour? Was she watch ing for him? The young man hast ened townrd her, then paused at the •ngic of the wall to look at her. Dolores stood in an open space of the path, waving a fan. Her shadow was projected on the ground behind her in a long, wavering line. The dog Ploriosat beside her, gravely looking on. The girl’s face and arms, bathed by ♦he moonlight, had the purity of ala baster in contrast with the luxuriant masses of het black hair, and her eyes were dreamy, ns if she moved in a reverie. She talked to Florio in a low tone, and occasionally laughed. Now t Ahe advanced, mincingly, with skirts outspread, and profound curtsies, wielding the'fan, with naturnl grace, in her right hand, ns if at r. presentation. Again she abandoned herself to a gliding dance measure, wreathing her arms above her head, with the glittering fan held higli in the air. The childish vanity of smile and posture were obvious She imagined in rself to bo once more at a ball and in a tlreater. The spectator found tlie mere con templation of her light movements bewitching, but he longed to clasp her In his arms. ‘’Dolores!’’ She started, and eame toward him, with an exclamation of pleasure. ITlorio barked sharply. "Areyou glnd to see me again?” he inquired cngerly, seizing her hands. | “Oh. yes!” "Did you expect me to-night? I feared I should not bo able ta get off.” "1 always expect you.” Thou there was a moment of soft silence between them, during which „ he twined her arm around his neck, pressed her little head against his r m “ARB YOU GLAD TO SEE ME?” Inroad breast, and showered kisses on her hair. 4 Dolores drew* back half troubled, half ashamed, and, inspired by an in Ctinct of coquetry, once more unfurled her fan, making of the fragile weapon a barrier between them. "Look at my new fan,” she said, in * coaxing accents "The garden is too •mall, so I eame out here to play with it in the moonlight” . “Have you met any one on the ■goad?” "No one. The people are all in the town at this hour.” "The fan is very fine. The grand ■duke sent it to you at the door of the theater.” Dolores elevated her delicately srehed eyebrows in surprise. "You noticed the messenger, then?” ‘Of course 1 saw him,” warmly. "The prince broke my old fan, and he was very kind to remember the ac cident,” innocently. Lieut Curzon looked at the rich toy carelessly. The moonlight shimmered ' !on pearl, tortoise shell and feathers, with a pictured design worthy of ■Conito Nils, or of Rudcaux. on one aide. Tiny points of silver, or Ctecl, sown over the surface, glit tered in the moon's ray, as if diamond insects hovered and escaped with every turn of the happy owner's ■flexible wrist A subtle perfume ema jnated from the downy margin. **I will give you a dozen fans if you fg.wish,” said the sailor, in a slightly ag grieved tone. ’ Yes, bo was piqued and irritated to behold her cherishing the quite un warrantable gift of another man. Dolores smiled, with a sudden, daz ding gleam of snowy teeth between ; red lips, and turned her head, archly. At the same time she clasped, provok fngly, the princely souvenir to her bosom. "A dozen ftans would be too many, Coly what happiness to take up one or ••other at pleasure. No! You must . . wot touch me again.’*, She leaned toward him, and passed ■the fan, playfully, over his curling ■ .i \ y.'■/ ’« .*>■ ■ ’ ;•* hair, with a caressing movement. The young man stood before her in all the unconscious pride of his strength, and the moon shone on his golden beard, open brow, nnd straight features, which wore an expression of hauteur and vexation at the moment, while his blue eyes dwelt with fascination on (her slightest ges ture. Dolores paused and con templated him. “Ah, how good and noble you are!'' she sighed. lie drew her onco more close to his side. “Dolores, you are u woe bit ilighty to-night, but you must be rea sonable-” I am reasonable, and not at all flighty.” “Listen to me, darling-” "I listen!" “Yon belong to me. Yon are to be my wife. Wo will live and die to gether.” “Shall wo ever grow old, like grand papa?” meditatively. “Wo must grow old in our own fash ion,” he replied evasively. Dolores recoiled and unfurled her fan. “Let us always remain youmr,” she insisted, with a return of fantastic gaiety. “Dolores, givo me that confounded fan!” “No! No!” “Then you do value it more than any gift of mine?” The girl frowned, pondered a mo ment, closed the fan, and placed it in his nand without uttering a word. Ilis strong fingers closed over the frail treasure. “Would you mind my keeping it?” he teased. “No," with a softness which was alluring, tempting, almost feline. “Would you care if 1 broke it and cast it uway?” "No.” The muscular hand crushed feathers, substance and pearl stick before he was aware of it, and then he flung the wreck on the other side of the road. Dolores cast a bewildered glance at the broken fan, but mudo no attempt to recover it A tear rolled down her cheek. “You are a good little girl not to scold me for such clumsiness,” ho said, with real, or assumed -contrition for an ebullition of temper. “I did not intend to crush the thing. You shall have another to-morrow.” His arms were around her, his cheek rested against her face, bis mouth sought her trembling lips in a long, ardent kiss. For a time she yielded passively to his embrace, then she slipped away and paused a few paces from him. She trembled and grew pale, her black eyes flashed. Then she burst into passionate sobs. “You were cruel to break it!” she exclaimed. She fled away swiftly, closely fol lowed by her .little dog, and Lieut. Curzon heard the gate shut behind her. He waited irresolutely for a time, then departed, tantalized yet triumph ant, with the shy, half-unconscious kiss of Dolores still lingering on his lips. Lovg had come to him with a smile and a song. He would make all right on the morrow with the pur chase and presentation of a new fan. Little did he foresee the events of the morrow. A cloud swept over the moon's disk, like a veil. The gate of the garden opened, a figure emerged, noiselessly, glided along the boundary wall, groped in the path for some object, and as swiftly withdrew. The splendor of the night deep ened. The white hamlets slept, as if they were the tombs of the inmates, and the sea heaved and sparkled in the track of leviathan about to rise from the depths. Hursts of maudlin song and jest were occasionally audi ble in the port, while the ships of the harbor dreamed above their reflectioni in the tranquil waters. ChAPTEB XII. Kxpulalou. Il 'OULI> NOT leave the poor fan lying out there in the road,” Dolores 1 confided to her pillow when she awakened the nest ^ morning. Then she sought the fragments beneath the same pil low, where she had placed them on the previous night before going to sleep The moon had become hidden by clouds at the opportune moment when she had returned in search of the treasure. There was treason to Ar thur Curzon, and even defiance of him, in the act, For the first time in her young life she was required to ponder on the unreasonable and exacting character of man. The garrulous moods and prevalent crossness of grandpapa was a different matter. Her admiration of the handsome offi cer, and the affectionate gratitude awakened in her heart by his geniality and generosity, were mere surface ripples of sentiment as yet in her nature. Her slumbers had been broken by ' •••'“ .^v' .*-«-*■. ■ -• •• ■ aft - > • *1. - >V -if*- -‘y r agitated dreams and feverish starts of wakefulness, when she lind listened to those confused and intermittent sounds below stairs, which indicated that Jacob Poultry was roaming about the Watch Tower. In addition, the Cavalier of the pict ure seemed to stand on the threshold of tier chamber and reproach her for some fault. 11 is voice was muffled, vague and monotonous, like the rhythm of the distant sea. tSiie could not distinguish his words. Wliat had she done'.’ Dolores could not under stand. Stic rose, made her simple toilet, and ate her frugal breakfast with a healthy, young appetite. Her grand father had been up for hours. He did not notice her. 'The amenities of con versation were rare between them. The girl took the fun in her hand, und contemplated it with sadness. She shed a few tears over the wreck. Ah, how beautiful it had been only the previous night, with the moonlight sparkling on the span gled surface,' The fingers that crushed the pearl and tortoise shell structure must have been very strong, and the anger of Arthur Cur zon deep. Did she not feel some sweet, feminine docility of subjection to the muscles of this Samson? Tie was jealous,” said Dolores, aloud, and a dimple deepened in her soft cheek. She glanced at a little mirror; al ready she was a woman. The discov ery frightened and enchanted her. The broken fan still claimed her sor rowful tenderness and regret. "Wliat shall I do with it?” she de manded of the Knight of Malta, paus ing before the picture. The Knight was mute. She went out into the garden, ir reselutely. A bee from £is hive in the “Ills ARMS WERE AROUND HER.” rear of the Tower settled on her wrist She did not fear the insect. The bees made famous honey. “What shall I do with the fan?” she repeated, obeying1 a childish impulse to question Fate. The bee was mute, and, after bask ing, a downy, golden body, on the ex tended arm for a moment, spread gos samer wings, and flew away, as if about to keep a business appointment in the kingdom of the thyme. “What shall I do with the fan?” the girl inquired of the pigeons, the flow ers, the dog. The pigeons ceased to coo, and looked at her with bright eyes; the flowers swayed on their fragile stalks, and hung their heads, languid with their own fragrance. Florio bounded through the reeds, and again emerged, uttering a sharp bark, as if to claim her attention for the retreat which he had discovered in the middle of the clump of plants. Dolores caught up the little animal, and bestowed her usual caress, a kiss on the nose. “The very spot!” she exclaimed. “I will bury the fan, Florio knows more than the pigeons, or the bees.” She glanced about in search of her grandfather. She had once offended him by digging at the roots of hb flowers and attempting to bury a broken doll. Now she would ask him to accord her a tiny corner for the fan's grave. The gate was half open. She looked out, and beheld the old man traversing the path in the direc tion of the high road. He was* evi dently bound on some er rand. She must await his return. When would he return though? Surely there could be no harm in hiding away the fan among the canes! Her life had been so meager of incident, that this one ac quired importance in her estimation. Impatience overcame all scruple . She once more sought and found a broken, rusty knife, and, kneeling, thrust her arm through the barrier of stems to scoop out a little hole in the earth. The clump of canes should shelter the spot. The task was rudely interrupted. A claw-lilie hand grasped her shoul der, and she was dragged back with violence. Jacob Dealtry had entered the en closure, and discovered her occupa tion. Ue pounced upon his grand child in an accessof fury. “Yon jade! You devil's imp! Wliat are you about, now?” The words seemed to hiss in her ear, awakening puinful memories “1 am not hurting the Hovers in the very least, grandpapa,” she pro tested, in an aggrieved tone. She was older and stronger than when she had attempted to inter the doll, and need not fear to confront him in a tit of anger. She must learn to brave him. Neverthe less. the rage of the old man made her quail. She rose to her feet, trembling in every limb, and averted her head. The crisis was terribly brief. One moment a white face confronted her, with the pinched features drawn and contracted, and a pair of gleam ing eyes projecting from the sockets. And the next she was thrust out of the gate, with her dog, and the bolts drawn. (TO BE COSTUCCED.) ■; * ‘ -5' , -T. n--. ' ' O' "V ' . ■ DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Successful Farmers Operate The Department of the Farm —A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. HE GRO WING ' poultry should be pushed to maturity. Unless the pullets are well matured before cold weath er, they will not lay before spring. If your are rais ing turkeys and ducks for the fall It la the large fowls that bring the most money, and they should be forced In growth a3 much as possible. The faster they grow the better the meat, and the larger they grow the more money they will bring. Do not feed corn; the ob ject tow is growth, not fat. Bran is an excellent food for growing fowls, but it should be well scalded or it will cause bowel trouble. Do not induce the hen to wean the chicks early. The chicks that remain with the hen until they are well feath ered will grow faster and thrive bet ter in every way than when the hen leaves them early. As a rule, old hens will not wean their chicks until they are pretty well grown, and for this reason old hens make better mothers than do pullets. Be sure to keep the growing pullets free from lice, as that pest in itself is the cause of more deaths among grow ing poultry than anything else. If growth has been checked by the pres ence of lice the young fowls will al ways be less vigorous than they would have been if they had not been infected with them. Thick, sweet cream is bet ter to grease the heads of young fowls afflicted with lice than melted lard; it' will kill the lice and not injure the fowl, as lard is apt to do. A very critical time for growing poul try i3 the time they shed their downy covering and before they are fully feathered. At this time they should be well fed and kept well sheltered at night and during damp weather. They are more liable to roup at this time, and exposure to cold and dampness is apt to result in this fatal disease. Lime water and sweet milk will as sist in feathering. A diet that will greatly assist in feathering is prepared as follows: To a pint of boiling sweet milk add two well-beaten eggs, let boil until the consistency of jelly, add a dash of red pepper. When given to the fowls place in a cool place in the shade to prevent its becoming sour. Grit of some kind is as essential for young poultry as for adults. It is one of the requirements of nature. Place grit where they can get at it and see how eagerly they devour it, and you will be convinced that it is a necessary part of their bill of fare. The lack of grit will cause indigestion and bowel trouble. A constant supply of it within reach all the time will cause them to consume more food and thereby make a more rapid growth and reach matur ity earlier.. It is important for growing fowls to have shade, where they can retreat out of the hot sun. The extreme heat of the sun is debilitating to growing fowls and will retard growth. Duck lings are very sensitive to the heat of the sun.—Farm, Stock and Home. Caro of Ducklings. These little animated, orange feath ered—downed, we should say—objects have very little need of a mother, ex cept to brood them at night, and except they are hatched quite early, when the weather is cool. A good-sized hen can care for a large flock of them—as many as fifteen or twenty, perhaps. When first hatched, it is better to confine them in a low, movable pen made of boards, say six inches wide, and any length convenient. The pen may be made either square or in the shape of a triangle. In either case it is a wise plan to nail thin boards across the cor ners, thus affording the ducklings a shelter and refuge from sudden storms and the sun. If the coop be placed where some tree will throw its shadow across it so much the better. This is especially necessary after the latter part of May. Water, in shallow ves sels, should be plentifully supplied, and in order that one may be perfectly sure that the birds will be all right in the morning, an empty barrel should be placed on its side within the pen, with a nicely-fitted and ventilated cover for a door, and the ducklings closed within this temporary yet quite serviceable structure, otherwise one may be miss ing 1n the morning. It is better to keep them within this enclosure un til they are large enough to get out, by which time they will take care of them selves. The enclosure can be shifted about, so that the ground need not be come befouled. Ducklings are not very particular in the matter of food, as they will relish and thrive upon the coarsest fare, pro vided only that it is always given fresh and sweet. The following is a for mula for a model food for young duck lings: Ground white oats, sifted, three parts; sharps, four parts; bran, one part; ground oil meal, one part. When using it, first mix the different ingred ients in a dry state, then take only a sufficient quantity of the mixture for one feeding, and after salting it slight ly, Ecald thoroughly with boiling water, and when cool enough, feed. It should not be wet enough to be sloppy, but only sufficient to soften and swell the broken grains.—Mark Lane Express. Liming Egga.—In liming eggs the most tedious and ticklish part of the work is puting the eggs in the pickle. This may be greatly simplified by using a tin basin punched full of inch-holes, nrd large enough to hold six dozen eggs. The edges of the basin should be cov ered with leather, and it should have a handle about three feet long. Fill the basin with eggs, put both under the pickle and turn the eggs out gently; they will all go to the bottom without breaking. This basin will be found equally useful in dipping the eggs out when it is desired to remove them from the pickle.—N. Y. World. Look out for vermin now. there Is nothing that retards the prosperity of a flock of fowls like these pests, and this la the season they multlpiv. Oleomnryarlnn vs. nattrr. These arc some figures given oat by the Produce Exchange, Chicago: In 1894, In the United States, there '■were manufactured 70,000,000 pounds of oleomargarine, equal to the product of. 600,000 cows, of which, in Illinois, there were made about 60,000,000 pounds, equal to the product of 450,000 cows. During the above period, the agricul tural producer for the raw material en tering into a pound of butter received sixteen (16) cents, while under the same conditions, for the raw material enter ing into a pound of oleomargarine he received three (3) cents. This difference represents a loss of thirteen (13) cents on every pound of oleo sold and con sumed as butter—over $8,000,000 In the United States and $7,500,000 in Illinois. It is a conservative estimate that eighty (80) to ninety-five (95) per cent of the oleo consumed is consumed as and for butter at the price of but ter. Every pound of oleo thus consumed takes the place of and destroys the sale of a pound of butter. It is further true that it is the yellow color or the shade of yellow color ar tificially given to oleo that enables it to be sold and consumed as butter at the price of butter. In other words, it is the means where by the fraud is committed and the pub lic deceived. The consumer is thus defrauded and cheated—but everybody is a consumer, therefore in thi3 connection the terms consumer and the public are one and the same thing. But legislation seeking to protect the public from fraud is not class legisla tion, and it is further true, that legis lation against fraud is not class legisla tion. Whenever a pound of oleo is sold at the price of butter, a fraud has been committed—committed not only on the producer who is deprived of an oppor tunity to earn sixteen (16) cents and in its place has an opportunity to earn only three (3) cents, but also on the con sumer who pays the sixteen (16) cents and gets only the value of three (3) cents in return. Therein lies the fraud. *' An Ideal Dairy. Probably the most Ideal dairy In ex istence Is that of the Princess of Wales, in which not only she, but her various daughters, have learned to make the most perfect of butter. The walls are covered with tiles presented to the Prince of Wales, who placed them here as a surprise to the royal dairymaids. They were made in Bombay, and' are tf a deep peacock blue, the rose, sham rock, and thistle being intertwined, with the motto, “Ich dien.” A white marble counter running around the room holds silver pans of milk from the Alderneys grazing with out. Above this on broad bracket shelves of marble is a collection, in every imaginable material, of cows, bullocks, and calves; Italian and Parian marble; alabaster, porcelain, terra cotta, and sil ver—all gifts. A long milk can, paint ed by the Princess Louise to match the Indian tiling, stands in one corner, and opposite is the head of the Princess’ pet Alderney, with a silver plate re cording her virtues. Here the Prin cess sometimes churns in a silver churn, and in the next room the butter for the family is made and sent up fresh every morning when they are in London. The day’s supply is made up into little pats arid scrolls all ready for the table, and the Prince requires a special order of pats. Not a grain of salt is allowed in them, and they are made the size of a half dollar and the thickness of three, with either the crown, the coat of arms or the three feathers stamped on each.—Ex. How to Keep Cheese. Cheese must not be kept in a warm and dry place. The best place is a cel lar such as would be called dry, which will anyhow have some moisture in it, and some is necessary to the proper keeping of cheese. Dark ness is preferable to light, and a low temperature, but not lower than 55 degrees, is desirable. The cheese will become moldy on the out side; the mold is permitted until the I surface is covered, when it is scraped off and the cheese is washed with water at 80 degrees and all the mold is re moved. It is then wiped dry and greased with sweet oil, or butter, un salted, to HU the pores in the crust. It is thus left for a few weeks and this is repeated. In this way the cheese slow ly changes its character, improving all the time in flavor arid texture. It be comes fatty by the charge of some of the caseine into a kind of fatty matter, and a peculiar mild aroma is produced quite different from the intolerable 3mell of the coarse kinds of semi-putrid cheese known as Limburger, or some of the overcured German cheese. The cur ing described is that practiced with the Brie and the Roqueford cheese, as well as that finest of all kinds, the English Stilton. As a rule we do not give requi site attention to curing our cheese, at*! hence its want of high quality. The curing of cheese is a slow process that requires skillful control, or it becomes decomposition. The secretary of agriculture has Is sued a bulletin relating to the exten sion of the trade in American agricul ture and other products in the world’s markets, Germany being the country treated of in this bulletin. Consular reports from German commercial cen ters are appended to show the feasibil ity of extending the market for Ameri can products in their respective fields of observation. During the six years ending December 31, 1893, the foreign commerce of Germany increased 8.7 per cent, as compared with an increase of one-tenth of 1 per cent in that oi Great Britain, a decrease of 3.6 per cent in that of Prance during the same period, and an increase of 3.3 in that of the United States for the six years ending June 30, 1891. A Lockjaw Remedy.—A writer in Clark’s Horse Review gives his ex perience in curing lockjaw, in which he says: “If a nail is picked up, get it out, of course, as soon as possible, then get a half pail of hot water—as hot as the horse can possibly stand it —pour in plenty of vinegar and also I plenty of salt. This is all, only it must be so hot that at first when you put the horse's foot into it he will puli the foot out of the water; put in again and keep on doing eo until you can hold the foot in steadily. Hold It in half an hour or longer and repeat it again after two hours. Do this four times the first day. In nine cases out of ten it will save the horse." 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