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^^ Hwnnnpp ac OR. THE HERITAGE OF MADAME YALTA. On the Farm CHAPTER Il.-(Contd) Maxiine saw it was useless to in- list. Goorget evidently was hon- est with him. He had lucid mo- ments but his mind was quickly ob- acured. His brain resembled one •of those capricious watches that suddenly stop and start off again when vigorously shaken. "And the Countess Yalta, did vou know her?" he asked sudden- ly, as he led Georgct toward the Avenue de Villiers. "That I do. She is a friend of {grandmamma'' s. ' ' "Then you go to her house?" "Oh, very often. It is so pret- ty, and there are more pictures than at the museum, and she isn't .» bit prouder for it all, the coun- tess isn't. Whenever I go there ishe has served up for me â€" a queer kind of dish it is â€" fish roe on bread and butter." This way of designating the Rus- sian dish caviare, made Maxime .smile without diverting him from his investigation. "What does she talk to you .about?" he asked. "All sorts of things. Wait! the last time I saw her was â€" all I know is she was ill and received me on .& great bed like the one in the Louis XIV. chamber at Versailles. She asked me about M. de Car noel." "And could you tell her?" "I don't know ; it seems to me ' I hadn't seen him for three or four • -days." "Would you liKc to see him ' again?" "Oh, yes." "Then let us go to my uncle's. Vignory, may be, can tell us where he is. For my- part I don't know." "I will go wherever you wish, M. Ma.vime, but if I once set foot ia the oflSce they won't let me off again, and I like better to walk." "Xevcr fear. They will not keep you. You are free until you can make use of your arm again.'' "My arm! I had forgotten that, •but it is so ; I am one-handed for .'awhile yet, but I could run er- • rands all the sam«." "I answer for it Vignory will not . keep you, and that he will receive you kiudly too. They are fond of you there â€" my uncle and mv cousin • Alice." ' "She 18 so good; is it true she is ' to n)»rry M. do Carnoel?" "I believe not. He has left the house." "But ho will soon como back?" "No one can tell. I am trying ' to find him." After this reply the conversation ' suddenly ceased, to Maxima's ' jreat regret. Georgot, who had ' 'Chattered incessantly since ho left '' lais grandmother's lodge, now fell ' into a profound meditation. Max- • ime looked at him ouO of the cor- • ner of his eye, and fTom the seri- Vous expression on his infantine ♦countenance, he saw that the child \|was making prodigious efforts to •Collect his thoughts. Evidently the oame of Carnoel had awakened confused rociUections. The si- len e was prolonged, and while they passed down the Boulevard Malesherbes, Georget did not oucc open his lips. He suffered nimself to be led by the Rue de Suresne-s. and it was not until he had passed the door of the banker's houst- that \he recovered hif speech. Hold! ' he c;.'ied, "tliat lad has K)n my vest buttons and cap. It •doesn't keep him from looking like ^ft simpleton though." . Maximo did not see fit to inform 'the boy that the groom in question was his substitute. He exeusvJ himself also from making any ex- planations to the porter who came out of his hole and looked at Geor- get, come back to life, with a thunder-struck visage. He found Vignory busied in ar- Tanging the papers in the safe, and Vm seeing Muxinie he exdainicd. '"What, you again." " 'Again' is not very amiable, ut I forgive you, for you appear jko be ovpr head and ears in work. will f.ot disturb you long. I inly wiih to present a lad of your .cquaintance. What has become { hira?" he added, turning round. Georget had managed to glide hind him to avoid confronting e cashier, and was crouching WD by the side of the safe. To ring him before Vignory, Ma.x- le had to take the child by the liar. So here you are!" e.xclaimed le cashier, much surprised that ime had brought him a boy lom he had accused that very ming o{ being the author or ac- mplice of the theft. "You are red, theat But no, you have ly one arm. How is the other?" "The ottker is hanging to my neck. I only beat with one wing, but it's all the same, M. Vignory, if you want me." "Then you don't know that the patron has filled your place?" "With this great canary bird that I met just now ? I suspected as much. Hold!" he cied .sudden- ly, "you have changed the word. It was Mile. Alice, and now â€" " "How do y(ii> know that;" ask- ed Vignory, stupefied. "Because I saw it. .\nd before that there was another." The nephew and the cashier ex- changed significant glances. "And the trap," continued Geor- get, "the iron arms which, catch thieves? Ah! here they are." Maxime, as much agitated as his friend, took the child by the arui and led him toward the closet which the new partner of M. Dor- gercs had arranged for his private use. Vignory understood and fallowed. They pushed Georget in and shut themselves up with him. "You have fixed this little hole up nicely. It was so full of old papers there wasn't room for the patron's Newfoundland." "But you could get in, could you?'' asked Ma.xime, quickly. "Dame! I'm not as large as the dog." "Then you did get in some- times ?' ' "I believe so â€" tut I'm not very sure." "Try to remember." "I do try, but I can't." Ma.xime,made a sign to Vignory, who went apart with him to one end of the long, narrow closet. "Well, what do you say to that V ho asked. "Do you think I wa.<j right in suspecting this bov of be- ing concerned in t!."' theft?" "The chap must at least h;»ve furnished some indications to the thieves. But that does uot prove M. de Carnoel to be innocent," he added, timidly. "You supp'ise that he couiJ have had an understanding with Geor- getâ€" in fact, it is not impossible. Georget was devoted to him." "And does he know where he is?" asked the ca.shier in a husky voice. "Ho has known, most likely, but has forgottenâ€" like all the rest." "Do you believe this loss of me- mory is not acting '." "If it were, he would not have been .so in!i)rudcut. He was not obliged to commit himself as he has done. .\t any rate, it would he well j t) question him thoroughly. The sight of the safe has brought him I to the desired point. If I Ijse this opportunity, I might never recover it." â- 'Hey! Georgct. what are you thinking about?" 'Nothing," replied the c lild, "I was just waiting for M. Vij,iiory to send me on an errand." "M. Vignory has uothinn for you to-day." "So much the worse, f would rather be on the streets than in the waiting-room, though some- times .vou can have fun there too. Such droll iieople come in !" "We might lay a wager that you play tricks on them." "Never, M. Maxime. Mali'^orae must have told you that." "Why Malicome ?" "Because he don't like me. He is wrong. I could have had him sent off and I didn't." "You!" "Yes; I had only f.o tell that he! was never at his post, and that in I the evening anybt>dy can walk in the office as if it were a mill. I've done it mvself.'' i "Come : you always decamp when ' si.x o'clock strikes." "That's true. I h.ive friends who wait for me before the Madeleine at quarter past six. Still, I'm sure I have stayed here,- at k>asi. once, â€" when nobody was about, t re- member how afraid I was.'" ".\fr.aid of what'" "Of everything. At night the office is only lighted by the g is jet at the corner, the great safe looks like a huge giant, and mice are runni;ig under your feet,â€" it makes your Hesh creep." "They shut you up while vou were a.sleep?" "Perhaps." "And you didn't call to them to let .vou out?" "I don't know." "Then vou saw no one?' "No,-no one." "How did you get o\it?" "I don't know." Maxime stamped his To it with impatience. The exasperating, "I do not know," came back like a re- frain to cut short all progress. There was nothing left but to be gin again. I Vignory knit his brows and shrug- ged his shoulders. "Do you know Col. Borisoff?" "Col. Boriwff! That I do. I have seen him at least three times. I was here wh:n he came to get a box he had left with the patron. I don't like him, this Borisoff." "Why?" "Oh, first, because I don't like Russians. Neither does grandmam- '"t<\i'i t u 41. j« t u^,r' Denmark, the home of co-oper»- \Vhat have they done to her? ^.^^ ^ farmers, is generally] 'Many things in former times,-- | recognized as the leading dairy \ hmgs that I have forg..tten ; and ,„^,„t^^, ^^ ^^^^ ^,j ^^^,^ ^^ .» j,^^^^ , I don t like the way he talks. One j^^^ ^j -^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^ . might suppose he was a hand-or- ; „f ^^^ experts who spent a sun. -er THE D.\NES .\S DAIRYMEN. a hand-or- • Grace de he was gan grinding out the urace u« j„ ^^ studying dairy methods. D^eu^ »Vhatfun I had taking him ji^ ^ ,,„,j^^j^ recently publisl,e„i off that morning! He saw me and ti,eir observations are given as ful-i I began to gnwl -at me, and 1 might I ijj^.g ._ i have fared badlv if M. Vignory) ,,_,, 1, i„'» J • * n.„„ " The million dairy cows of Den- hadn t opened lust then. „„_i. ._ c j ; . i • 1 ., _ _ ,, , j^ ! mark are confined almost exclusive- I -M. Borisoff would have dtone ly to two breedsâ€" the Danish Hod. I well to give you a lesson," said of Zealand, and the Jyske. or Black IVisnory. "The patron didn t pay ! and White cow of Jutland. Both' you to make fun of his clients and listen at doors." Ma.xime hastened to resume the of these have been developed with- in the last 35 years from the native , stock of the country bv careful se- conversation, feirinx that Vig- ; lection for milk production. The } Dory's ill-humor would spoil every-! Red cow is a product of a cross of i thing." I Schleswig blood on the native ra- 1 "Bah'" he said, 'everybody has I ther scrubby cattle. The result is :a right to laugh a little. And Ija race of fine dairy cattle weighing ! don't think much of Col. Borisoff from 1,000 to 1,100 pounds. They EVERY PART PERFECT TTHE secret of the perfectiou of * our nc'.vly designed No. 1317 Type Telephoue Set lies in the fact tliat every part of it â€" every individual piece â€" is itself abso- lutely perfect. The perfection of the whole is attained through perfection in the parts. Examine the transmitter, for USercample â€" standard long-di.stance type you will fiud it, â€" or the receiver, with its construction that bars out all local noises to spoil transmission. Or look into the generator â€" the ringers and gongs, â€" the switch hook â€" or any part you like, You won't find a better n-.r.il telephoue Uiau this made ail)- where. P 13 C r i--^l us tell you the story of this tele- r R d Ci pbcnc â€" it will co.st you one ceut (for a f5r\/\|r )/ost card) to know it â€" all the'Jetails of pUjl j^ t !ie rnstruuient itself as well as full par- lictjlars of every step necessarj- in tile ori^anizalioa of ii niral telephone company. Writ" a.niUslt for Bulletin No. siitâ€" it'sFr**. either. Did he get his casket?" I "No, for it was not there." I "Some cue had taken it away?" , l.e asked eagerly. I "For certain." ! -Who?" I "Wait; let me think. It wasâ€" I now the fog is rising in my head. jl had the uaiue ard it ha.s Hown." I "Ladislas r' said Maxime, at a ' venture. I "Yes, that is it,' clapping his hands. j "And the hdy?" ; 'The ladyâ€" what lady?" /Mdftnf ERN ELECnUC cried Georget, ar-j dark red. with black muzzle, medium size, deep body, medium bone, fine skin and well developed udder and veins. The Black and Whites of Jutland have been dc- , , , veloped from the beef breed in- use | """''= ^e«<^ P^"" ^"^, tlian ca" ^ in earlier times. They arc a larger ^rown on pasture that necessarily breed than the Red" cows, resem- '»'?* .""" ,'"'1','^ cropped fairly close. Kling the Holstein-Friesians in col- ! ^.'"^ '» "'^ '^yf * '^'''<'' l"""' «• or and .size, but are shorter in log^'**' econ..m.v of feeding during the and deeper in body than tho Dutch \ ,^"'""'f .';â-  P'actically no grain is cauwiD Masafactcrtri ca4 aa»9ucn ci all e^iyarttis ucd i« tb« c oflf ^ctiâ€" . o|i«ratMa ud fluktcaaac* ol Pttwcr ^luts. AUrcaa rMV rnfrnt o^fkc. MONTR£AL-Cat. HiXre tUac & Cv Ste. TOItONTO-S3 Fraal ». W. RECIMA CA1£ARY VAMCOlJVEB-SltPMd<rSl.W. WUO((rEG-SMHe«TAn. fed while cows are on the grass. .\ few dairymen feed a little oil cake to their best milkers. "The cows are put into the stable in the fall and not let out again un- til the following sprin.i^. They are fi-d all the straw they will eat, and Georget be^an to reflect, and re- 'sense in selecting and breeding for-"''' ;-»» "^''•'•»g<-- [ P<>u'«l-'' -^^ l»»y •-0 plied slowlv: !milk nrodu.tion alone and the ef-! ,'.'^ ''•'""'*:. "^ '."''^'' ^f ''''^'"' ..r i-j 1. ii 1 J r » i;»i_„ <• • t .i . ^'-'^^ pounds ot gram ner day, con- "I did not se.? the lady. Ladislas ficencs of these cows is a most , „•,.„„ , i i i u i â-  , <! 1 â-  -I â-  ' I i; 1 . I si!-fng of oilcake, bran, bar ev and 'one. [striking evainple â- â- ' â€"'â- â- â€¢' '-- ° , .*.» j 'The one that owntd the horsesjto such a high degree in thit Ladislas trained; you spoke of ! years has been due to the h?r to me." ! skill, intelligence and cow. Both of these breeds iiave; a dislinctiv conformation and are> g' od economical producers. | "The development of the breeds; ia to ;J0 farmers' â-  couimon i was alone. â- Think the same who left the Rink with , me. You know I r et there a wn- ; man ; that I came away with her. land that you followed us." j "Don't tell me that. M. M.ixime ; that mixes me all up." j "Then let us go back t.i Ijidi-- I las. He didn't like Boris'iff. as he : stole his box ?'' "Borisoff is a brigand." "Good! But what did he do to Ladislas?" Georget put his hands over his foreheafi, V ut ra*<',; no answer. "I cannot," he murmured, with a despairing exprt s.'.iou. It is over. I know nothing more." Maxime was desperate. He saw that his friend thought the scene ridiculous, and still doubted the good faith of the boy. Vignory in this affair could not bo impartial He thought of his vanished rival who was still formidable, and cursed the fever of investigation that had taken possession of Max- ime Dorgeres. "What good is to be done by bringing up all this?'' he thought; â- 'aud what use can be made of tb«» of what well. It was, perhaps, ai:cf>inplishi-d in a short time if good; systematic work is done ai>.d com-i 1111)11 .•"Cnse and judgment are exer-i ci:< d. While many of the bulls use«d ai-' young and untried, they are always inelividu.-iJ.s of merit anil: from cows with large records. • Cnlv the best heifers are rai.sed and with the record of the dam and the qualities of the sire kiKiwn tiicir selection is conq)aratively • simple, and no belter cow can be raised than can be bought on the' iipeii market. The i)rice of cows is fnuu $H0 to $90. some of the best. ;iveraging as high as ijIUU. .so that: it is also profitable from the finan- 1 cial standpoint to raise the young stock to replenish the herd. Hei- ! fer.s drop their first calf at from tw<i to two anel one-half years of ag> and if they prove to be good, producers are usually kept in the: dairy until 1- years old. when lliey an- fatteneel for beef. In fairly: ftood condition ce)ws Ijring 5',-^. cents per pound. Old, thin cows bring les-s. : "The cows are treated with kiiiil- ; ness and every effort is made to : have them t oinfortable at all limes. I Oil many farms the cows are legii- 1 cows â-  oats, the grain being fed accord- ing to the milk How. "Many of the dairymen on the SMuill farms milk three times a day. having ten cows to the milker. On the large farms thev usually milk twice a day, having from 15 to iO TRIP ON (JREVT E.VSTKRN. Fauiuu.'* Slenniship Was Coinfor. I able Uoal. "You can say what you please about the old Great Eastern," .said a traveller who has crossed the ocean twice <ir more every year for almost half a century, "but she was a ^rand idea. The trouble was that the ielea wa.s almost fifty years ahead of its time. It has taken the world all that time to grow up to a Great Eastern, as exemplified by tlio Lusitania and the Mauretania. "I made my first voyage to Eu- rope in the Great Eastern. That Iwas in ISCii. It was the first timu : the ves.sel sailed into Liverpool. I She had accommodations for 10,0fl«l [ passengers, but there were only cows to the milker, requiring two joo in her on that trip, and one-half hours, night and I 'You know she had both a pro- moriung to do the milkiug. Ipcller .iiid paddlewheeis. As long "llie cows are allowed to go dry 'as she kept going it was .ill right, fn.insi.x to eight weeks. To supply | f,„. ^1,^, ,„oved along .stcadiiv and In- Danish export trade of butter . majestically, but one day we were an even flow of milk is required |,;,il,.d bv a .small French steamer the year round and most of the ti,at hael mail to .send to Euroiw cows fi^sh.-n from Sept.Mnber tojanj we stopped short in midocean May. The male calves .and any ; while a boat put out fnmi the other heifers not needed for future cows i vessel. arc .sold for veal from three to i -Well, how it happened 1 don't four weeks old. Calves are not al .know, but the huge mountain of a lowed to suckle their dams. They Ue.sKel seemed to lose her balance, a IV fed whole milk f..r the iirstisho wabbled about th,-re in a week. After this it is gradually [jr^adful fashion. Pas.sengers and hangetl to skim-milk. and this is I stewards were hurled about in fcii to the heifers until they four to six months old. From time on they are raised "â- â€¢â- â€¢^^cverv direction, and as for crock- this i ery. I don't believe a whole plate testimony of an idiot?" j And drawing Maxime aside, he | la'l.v Rvr)omed. Tethering Uk- <^.«.-, ^j^^^^^ said in his ear: joe grass is usually coniiiienceel the.' "What are you hoping to arrive! fore part of May. for a portion of at ! That this frightful gamin knew ; tbe day at least. and aided the thieves is evident,; "The soiling crops u.scd are rye. oats aud |M;as. oats and vetch, and clover ;md grass. These are hiiiled to the barn and fed green, or pas- 1 tiired off by tethering the cows i .'.long the edge. In some sections where tiie farms are small all the "'" pasture 1 f„- cj,p anj saucer was s.-<vc<l from during the summer and in winter | (i,,, wreckage. "On the vessel was every snrt of general cargo, including live stock. land as for provisions, why, we had I better food and fresher than you inisunder- ran get on a liner tci-day. We had are given hay. straw and roots and somctiiiK's a little oilcake He who dare not be never sa.vs understanding. but what of it' For my part. J have seen enough of Georget. Take him where he came from, and let use talk of this no more." "So be it," replied Maxime. a little piqued. "Come. Georget. he adeled. pushing the child toward land is under cultivation and the the eloor. Vignory maele no effort cows are kept in the barns until t.) detain him. The friends shook the oats and peas are nearly ma hands and separated without an tuie. when the cows are tethered other weird. Vignory resumed his : on (h- so during the month of July, verification of accouiiLs. Maxime .after which they are ti.o ripe to be passed through the office and went, well relished. The cows are then out with Gcorgtt. fi.ange-d to the second crop of anything worth absolutely fresh meat, fresh milk anel freshly killcel chickens. "Kven in speeel the Great East- ern was in advance 'if her time, for it took us only eight days to get to T..iverpool." He was by no means of the same eipinion as his uncle's partner this headstrong Maxime. The boy's si- lence on certain points served only t>i stimulate him in the cha.se after discoveries : urged him forward in pursuit witho"it regarel to where it would lead, and without respect of persons. He had an unexpected meeting in the gateway with Mile Dorgeres, guarded bv the inevitable ; , _, Mine. Mart.iaeau. She had grown i^'"'' European. countries il re.|uires but was still lovely, and her , ""'<^'> '""''e 1"''^ ft"' Pfa'" t^' '•'P*'" A flaTimii]^ usc«I the saine as lemon or Tnnilln> By dif&uivine urmnulaled sugar in Wiiter hm adding Mn^vlriiie, a delicuiu* syrup is niaiK- anJ n s)Tiip bcitpr than maple. Mht*lcine is sold tif grtKcrs. If not acod 50c for 2 o*. bottle and tet-ipebook. Cr»»ccnt Mfe. Co.. S â€" tUa, Wiu GASULINE LAUNCH 23 foat long by 6 Feet Beam. Fairbanks-IKorsa Marin* Dnubla CyUnder Engln* paler sweet face brightened .as shci)«»r- ceived Maxime and Georget. (To be continued.) Protect - -4. • - â-  irada Koutes, lu undertaking to build cruisers Canada is not only planning witli a view lo her own future, but is pro- riding for the protection of the trade routes left unguarded by the Dread- noughts, so that Ureal Britain may not be taken by famine in time ot Iciiiber. When this rye becomes ripe in June they feed clover and when this is mature, about -July 1st, 1 ats anel peas are fed. .\fter these Ih" second creip of clover is ready. It umst be remembered that in the re< tei after it is fully headed than in the central states, thus making the soiling .season much longer. It is the general rule to pa.stiire until short of grass, about July 1st. and then soil until the grass is good again. The cows are left on pas- ture until October, the exact time ilepeuding upon the season, thus making the period cows receive green feed extend over nearly six! months. .>_...>..- i'„..ij .u», I < '"The cows are' seldom turned to! â- tress. C/ould theri; be a service of â-  . • r» i u <. > lu j more »it»l importance to the Empire? Pft*t«''e ««» Denmark, but tethered â- Daily Phoenix, Saitkatooa. by means of a halter on the head ; and a rope or chain IS to 20 feet; long, which is attached to a ten- inch pin driven into the ground. The cows are moved five times a day, from three to six feet, depend- ing, upon the amount of feed. In this manner the crops are grazed off without waste from tramping. The great advantage of this system o( tethering is that tiie orop« can be allowed to grow two or three feet high and yet be eaten down with- out wasting, thus producing much vcr, which by this time is from l:>j '*' t:) l** inches high. Some dairymen j practice partial soiling all the time, ! cultin?; green rve the last of Mav, â-  «. . -, .., /•â- â€¢ l « i â- , •> rn -i , which was sown the previous .^ep- 1 Sttecl With Gonboy Autcniobue Top and largo Very strong: Hull built for heavy seas. Boat wicker chairs. Complete outjatof tools etc.. all in firs > class order. In use only a short time. I his Bout is Wmv^ UM al u Sacrillcc ul .\l;ovc h'm Bur. 2e, 73 West Adeiaids St., Toronto. PitiabU Ignorance. The case made known to thj IoimJ authorities recently by the officials oi the Children's Aid Society, of hovi a mother, son and two daughters, h»a alt died ol consumption within a short time of one another in the sani« house, in which at the present time three rcmaiiiiiif children are expoa- ed to infection it an illustrattve in- stMien of the ignocaiice still prevalent ill rrfard to tuberculuai*.â€" Ottawa JiMttnid. HOTEL TRAYMORE O.N Tilt; oa:.\N kront. ATLANTIC CITY, N. A n«« (•kCur* il Ik* aamaal A BkoltnMt tM>-e**i7 »f.mnot kildltira ii Jb*» Mm a«ni»l*t*d, mkklni lliit fkiati, «li*n*wM* m4 Ms,t op'W'tek* •( AtlMtio Cikr Knur ilM d tiM k*4 n»m*, M«ra(lu( I* tâ€"% •««ar«. Bt«i7 ra»B Msmkads an •otkii 'law, sftvk UtmlMa witk •» %» I tratk w «Ur ('h»k|. flMi la •T*t7 •k*ak«r. Ttn^rkior* r«(«IM*4 to TlMni*«4K<lt. th* litt*.l il«t*ln|)ia*nl !â-  •iMiakMtUM. T»l«9k*a« U ar^rr rMOk UsUyrl'ilH**. CMMit; »oi Writctor iliuilrktwl I CHAKI.B5 Q. MARQUBTre. .MawiCM'. TRAYMORE nOTBL CUnPANY. D. 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