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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-10-19, Page 2THE iarR OF 11i1H OR �, THE STEWARD'S SON 4i:(+.3:i•Q Cry+):(4 -0:E$? nf$ E E 04-ti+iti-4,04- tb•:43 1:(+31+0 CHAPTER XVIII,—(Continued.) tion, and he was very poor compane Cyril went off laughing, and strode for hard -worked Jack Wesley. ftp the Strand with a light step and The next clay he wont to fnterviee a lighter heart, thinking of his pie atoms, the dealer, and from him re- ture and of his sweetheart, 'What paired to Harley street in search of was she doing now? ho wondered, Lord Newall, But his lordship had Wandering in the Park, and—and thiliking of him as he was thinking of her? Asking herself where he had gone, and why he had not seat her a message? "You shall not wait long, my darl- ing!" he murmured; "a few hours morel" and he strode on. But man proposes and Providence disposes, and the hours that stretched between Norah and him were many, instead of few. He did not return to Winchester street until night, and Jacte noted that his step was not nearly so lignt as when he had started. Jack was eating his supper of there. And there camp no message, chops and baked potatoes, accompan- no letter, from him. It she was not fed by bottled stout, which has. a downright unhappy that night, it charm for such men, when Cyril en - as only her loving trust that kept tercel the room they shared in con- her from being so. She sat opp?- and himself into a chair.mon, and flung his hat on the sofa site her father, the earl, at dinner not, and did not, return, and the days passed sniftly and noiselessly and C ell's heart was rent in twain between his le eging to see his sweet- heart, and his desire to carry out his plan and learn all about the pic turn be was to paint for the rambl- ing nobleman. And Norah? All that first day when Cyril was dashing from pillar to post, from Moses' office to Harley street, and from Harley street to Charing Cross Railway Station, she apeut in thinking of him. She walked through the park to the glade—the happy gladc—whero she haci twice met him, but he was no:, "Well?" queried .3 ace. "Well? It's not well, but bad," responded Cyril, impatiently 'I meant to be down at Santleigh to- night, an—" "Here you are instead, That's not very complimentary to me; but no matter. And what is the 'matter?" "It's that confounded old fool," said Cyril. "Meaning my Lord Nowell? How respectful these aristocrats are to each otherl Have you had any sup- per?" "No, nor dinner, nor anything, ex- cept a glass of sherry at Moses', which has nearly cut short my dis- tinguished career." "Then sit down, mai, and eat. There's a chop left—I've kept it warm for you, also a potato, like- wise stout. A banquet for the gods, to say nothing of a viscount," and he produced the chop and a potato from the patout cooking stove, and set them before him; and while he ato them, Cyril unfolded his grievous tale. "I went to Moses, and of course he was out," Cyril said. "I waited aa hour, or a year, I can't tell which with accuracy, and when he came in we got to busitless, Jack, it's you who have got me this work! Moses "Look at that pretty gtrl over knows that as well as I do.'" there," sho said, inclining her head. "Cut that, end come to the point." g d "Why, it is Mace South, isn't it?" "Well, he said that I'd better go p y I 1 t I 1 L ll 1 and she smiled admiringly. Newell, I tramped I think it is.' and see Lord treeand p I off to Harley street. A donkey in- d t 'f tl d "How "Ye -es, pretty she looks!" said formed me that his lordship was at Norah. "Don't you think so? That h 1'v I went to the crimson ros ' Me up her hair so his clubs the M to ae Minerva, and was told that his lord- self was t.hiuking only of the poor people aro the only 01nss which nicely; it is Thi the color that suits ship had just left. I'd pesse.o him I artist who lead won her heart and; knows how to amuse itself; the rice Ile•" in tie road, in fact." i stolen her troth, and then disappear- have lost the art of being happy. "yes," he replied, still more indif- "Title for the new song, 'She Passed ' ed. Hear how they laugh and shout! rerentty, "Yes. I suppose sho is Me in the Road,' " murmured Jack. Lady Feruda_e was delighted with Now, Norah, you aro not to get com-1 pretty, but I don't admire that kind 'When I got back to Harley street p p of a —cab, this time—the intelligent butler informed me that his lordship had just looked in to say that ho was off to Paris by the night mail on Impor- tant business. "Didn't know when his master was coming back, but knew that when he did he was g,ping to Brittany." "So you took another cab and tried to catch him at Charing Cross, said J ack. "1 did. And found the mail just gone; in fact, I saw the tail of it, confound ill Well, then i made up my mind that I'd catch my train to Santleigh, but when I got to Pad- dington I remembered what I'd pro- mised you, and wont back to Moses," "There's hope for you yet, young 'un," remarked Jack. "You are re- vealing the hitherto unsuspected ex- istence of a conscience. What mire- cies love can perform! In your case it has actually reminded you of a promise! But to ase Problem. He had left her with his she said, until the ball had coin - god1 got back to Moses, and he bog- god and implored nee not to leave love vows ringing in her ears, left' rimmed, London until I'd seen Nowell. He— her without a word about his ensu- Then she went and distributed the Moses—says that his lordship will ing absence, and her heart ached. prizes to the wieners in a foot race, come hack all of a sudden, stop a Ached daily and nightly, so that the; and of her own accord made up a few hours, and then dance o0 to young men who played tennis with tennis set with five young farmers Brittany, and"—he groaned— "X her wondered why she looked so dis and the sweetheart of one of them should have to dance after him." traught, and why she answered so. wltn played quite es well as the "Moses is right," he said. "That's absently. swells," and, indeed, Norah thought the amicable Newell's little eccOntrio All her thoughts, sleeping or wak-; rather better. way. You must stop and catch hint. fug, were of Cyril, of her lover who 1 They were in the middle of the set finish the dance?" Well?" had poured out his heart to her, and! when she heard a voice rinse behind "No—yes," she said, for at that "I tramped back to the house ft won her heart in return, and then her, and a gentlemen got her ball moment sho saw Lady Ferndale won't run to more than two cabs a !just left her. aur landed it to her, shako hands with Cyril, who directly day!—and left word that I'd meet i If he had only written one line, had 11. was tluilrtford Merton, IIe was afterward went to fleece, and the his lordship anywhere, any time, he , sent her one word 111y ivay of men- enrefutly dressed, anti cool and sell- two commenced dancing•, liked to appoint, and then I came sage, she would have been content;' possessed as usual, quite cool, "your maid has found a partner," home." but no we'd came from slim. though other people wero hat and said Guildford Berton. "We should She grew pale, so pale that. Lad✓ perspiring under the warm sun. Ile have been too late." Ferndale noticed it, and sugg,sted rc'maiieci just outside the court be- "Has she?" said Norah, her brain change of air to the earl. ' hied Novell, and never failed to [toldhis evebrowe. "Santleigh is the pur- e but be scarcely spoke, and, throbbing i>ai.lfully, "Change of air?" he said, raiiug 1 for .her, and kept her supplied with "Yes," ho said; Mr. Cyril Berne, De has just arrived, I suppose, and spirito, and this much talked of fete wns just the kind of thing he and Lady Ferndale excelled in. As the Santleigh carriage drove, into the avenue, Nurah saw a throng of People, gentle and simple, peer and peasant, strolling about the latus, which were dotted with tense e.nd marquees, all bright with flow- ers. A military band discoursed sweet music, and some of the spurts were already to progress. The clay, singular to say, was line, and evcry- body seemed to be in the hest Pos- sihlo humor, No•alt's face heightened for the first Limo Mum Cyrtl's absence, and as she looked out of the window, she said: "How happy every one seems, Pa- pa! Do you hear thorn laughing?" "I do, indeed," replied the super- fine earl, with a kind of groan. "And 1 anticipate a hot and noisy day. I suppose it will be possible to escape f rquite be a e 0130 is n e q " O11 ) • u w• not1 e too Ihcpoyo will > 11 theend," said tiredt c d ne to stayi k' . Norah,with a sinking at tate hean•t g "At any rate," be said, "you may remain. Perhaps Lady Ferndale can find room for you to -night." The moment the carriage stopped, Lord and Lardy Ferndale calve up, and Lady Ferndale kissed Norah a maternal warmth, "Isn't it delightful—the weather, I mean, dear? Lord Arrowdale, I thought you were never coming. Er- nest, I dare say Lord Arrowdale will start the next race for you. They have brought seine ponies, and Ernest has got up a little steeple- chase. Coon along to the marquee, dear; I want to show you how Prete tily they have fitted it up," and she carried Norah off, They found themselves surrounded that evening, and could scarcely long before they reached the huge speak a word. Cyril occupied her tent, a11d Lady Ferndale had to stop whole mind et. the exclusion of ani • while Norah received the homage of thing else, and tbo next day fresh her numerous courtiers. Each gen- tleman was anxious to carry her away, and show her the part of the fete for which he was responsible; ono wanted her to go with him and see the Punch and Judy which was per- forming to a delighted audience in a corner of the lawn; another Insisted that she ought to go and see the dowers in the show tent, aid a third declared that he had been waiting for Lady Norah to open the lawn tennis tournament. Ilnt Lady Fern- dale held her tightly by the arm, and absolutely refused to relinquish her. "No, no," sho said, "1 am going much of by all the eu1•ious women. to have her all to myself for half an The former declared her to be perfect hour at least." and Norah laughing - and altogetl;er• lovely; the latter ly was led away. found fault with her nose, and her "Everybody seems to be here," she "Every one recognuues that fact, manner of speaking, and her style said, as she kept bowing and smiling Lady Norah. What happiness to bo generally, to the groups of village people, who able to Ucsto'.v happiness on others!" Norah ought to have been happy, took elf their hats or courtsied to Norah laughed uneasily. A com- for there is nothing more delightful. her. plimett from Guildford Berton was to tho female breast, as we know, "Yes, I hope so," said Lady Fern not t' be laughed away ne than to be admired by men and en-: dale. "Wo wanted everybody to >om somehow compliments are. 'vied by woven; but somehow she. know that it was an open day.- "How - pretty the place looks, and was not. I "All Santleigh village is Metre, I how charmitgl;,, most of the girls are people called—people who had heard her praises chanted by Lady Fern- dale, and who, coming prepared to be charmed, were charmed up to the hilt. She had as niany invitations to luncheons and tennis parties as she could well accept, and for the next two or three days she went to one place and another, and found herself the queen an'i heroine. As Lady Ferndale had said, she was "a success." And a success means so luuch. For a girl it means being surrounded by all the admiring men and being made to obtain the coveted position, flow hail he muuaged It? The day wore on most successfully, and in the latter part of the after• noon, when the fun had waxed de- corously furious, Novell missed her father, 'Mei earl has gone home, 1317 dear," said Lady Ferndale, with n laugh. "I think Ile has behaved nobly, and I dldn't expect him to re- main he1f so long. He declared that he had enjoyed himself extremely, poor men!' And you aro to May the night with usl No journey Home alone and upsetting the carriage that a young man may rescue yowl 137 talo way, 1 haven't seen the hero, Where is h0? Be accepted the invite- tiou, but he hasn't come." Nor•rih's face crimsoned, then turn- ed pale, but Lacly Ferndale was too busy cutting cake for a crowd of hungry ohiltu•en to notice it, and Norah manageu to reply, with seem - in Indifference: g "IIas he not? Tam sure I do not know where he is." In the evening the largo marquee was cleared of its tables and rout seats, and. the dancing commenced. I hadinsisted u on Lady Ferndale a p Norah going up to Lady Ferndalo's rooms "to rest" for a little while, but Norah had spent the time super- intending n children's kiss -in -the -ring, and when she entered the canvas ball- room, she felt rather tired, not so I touch physically as mentally. Thera is notating that is so exhausting as hope deferred. All day long she had been looking and longing for Cyril, and now the shades of evening had fallen and he was still absent. Sho stood looking at the dancers in an absent, preoccupied fashion, and so lost in thought that she started palpably when a voice at her side said: "Will you give me this dance, Lady Norah?" It was Guildford Burton. A refusal rose to Norah')) lips, but she checked it. If she refused him now he would probably ask her again, and, thinking that it would bo best to "get it over," she yielded. To hen surprise, he danced admir- ably. With the cool presence of hind which characterized hive, he steered her through the large crowd with an apparently effortless ease, and unlike most man, found breath to talk as he danced, "What a delightful day it has been!" he said, 'Thanks to Lady Ferndale—and yourself, Lady Norah" he added in a lower voice. "To me?" said Norah, "Why to me'?" "Because you have the spirit of the whole thing," he said, quietly. She missed Cyril, with his hand -1 am sure," remarked Norab, "How some face gild his frank, honest eyes.. happy they all seem!" Where had 111 gone? Whyhad fru "Yes," said Lady Ferndale, trium- not sent one word to her? 1 pliantly. "I flatter myself this is All thecounty was running over ht rather better than the usualgarden rhapsody about Lord Arrowdalo's' party at which people stroll around daughter. La•ly Norah, declaring het•; bored to death and trying to look to be the mostbeautifulan most' as 1 they were amuse It's a charmingwomen this season or any' dreadful thing to say, my dear, but season had produced, and Norah her-. tt. is perfectly true, that the poor dressed!" silo said. "Yes," Norah')) popularity. pletely knocked up before the even- face." "I told you she would be a sec fag. You mustn't let them tire you "No?" said Norah, with surprise. cess," she remarked, triumphantly, out, as they will do if you permit, "I think I. should like to go and to the earl. "You men don't know • then. I want you to save yourself !speak to her," she added, seeing that what that means, but we women do,' up for the deeming t0 -night. You' 13ec a had stopped dancing, and was She may. and probably will, marry can't imagine how well most of the' standing againvt the back of the a duke, and whoever he is, Norab people dance, Some of our village marquee. will be too geed for him." 1 girls can waltz es gracefully as if � "Certainly," he said. "But mayn't And Lord Arrowdale had bowed 1 they haci gone through a course of we finish this waltz?" and smiled, and waved his white,; lessons under a celebrated professor -1 "Thank you, no, I will go now. scented handkerchief complacently.! ft comes instinctively, you know,; Sho will be sure to be dancing again It seemed to hien only right and nee. And, Norah, you won't mind dancing' directly." tural that a daughter of his should with some of the young nten, the' He offered her hie arm, and they bear away the palm from the daugh-i tenant farmers and such like, willlwera making theft way tewnrd the tors of all other men. He was pleas-' you?" radiant Becca when Norah saw a ed, but not surprised. i "I'll dance with anyhody—every, tall figure enter the marquee, and Tho day 0f the festivities at Fern- yody," saki 'elevate promptly; but.stan'd for a moment looking roma dale Park drew near, and still Norah' even as she spoke, her heart ached. lune. It was Cyril; Cyril at Matt The blood surged to her face, and her heart seemed to stand still for a moment, and then she was seized with a desire to fly to him. But al - had heard nothing from Cyril. i Why was not Cyril here that she All day site thought of him, and at might dans with him? night she looked from her window at ! She made the round of the tents the stars and seemed to ask them with Lady Ferndale, alcl of course a what had become of him. train of admirers, some of whcnn int - For many a night she lay sleepless, I pdored her to promise them a dance, most instantly a. revulsion of feeling trying to account for his absence, his but Norall smiling refused. She set in. She had been waiting, long - silence, but she could not solve thea would not engage herself to any one, ing for hint all day, but now he was here, woman-like, she felt angry with him, Why had he kept away from her? Why had he not sent a single word to tell her why and where he had gone? "There—there is a terrible crowd," site faltered, scarcely knowing what she said. "11 doesn't matter; I can speak to her later on," "Very well," he said. "Shall we "Good boy. More stout?" said Jack. "For Heaven's sake don't look so miserable,What are you afraid of?" ":afraid ofl" echoed Cyril with •a sigh. "You don't understand! I est air in England, my dear Lady though Norah would have, intinitcly left Santleigh this morning without Ferndale. Why should she want preferred going attar the balls her, a word to—to her that 1 was going change of air?" self, he raid his ministering' in so and I can't write to ler and tell her, At last came the fourteenth the,, quiet and unohteus:ivc a fnsition that why I have come away and whore 11 day of the Ferndale fete, "Harman ; sho l")uld not very well decline it, ami What do you think she thinks? "That you have thought over ,your bargain and have repented of it." "Ah, jack, If you only knew her!" •'All women are alike from Hee "downward," said Jack, cynically. "She will think that you have got OVer your love IR." - "Don't say that, Jack, I—I can't teenth Norah was, If Darman and, the game Meng over, he asked her is bear to hear you. Chaff me about Becca were to he be believed, irresie-t fel him take her to the refreshment anything else, and I don't mind, but Norah is sacred!" Jack understood, and lapsed into silence for a time, but presently meg- gorged a stroll, and the two men Bellied' out, as they had often c+one before, and went to a piano of 1110use• went much patronized by their kind" but- all through the music, and the and Detect South had been engaged j And yet from the moment he ap- for days past upon a dress for:imam], her pleayur•e 1n the game Norah, and thoegh it wee only of 1 seemed somehow to ileertege. While he plait nun's veiling with violet! was near, she found it impossible t', smocking," as the latest feminine coeent'ate her attention on the fad is called, they had put their }game, and hie sial, impassive pros. And me the morning of the four -1 sho turned to him alnirwt coldly when hearts Into it. ( encs seemed to (ilri,s chi e a ll, an.I tibia. The dress suited her to 1'r' 11/1!, faction. ! She meld not, vary well refuse, but "You look lovely, my lady," !she walked beside, hila almost salell- But Norah only sighed es shy 1 1:•. Pbr 'waived Chet, g,m'•rctlly so naturally chooses an old friend for a partner." "An old friend?" asked Norah in a low Voice, "Yes," ho responded. "What a capital bared, isn't it'? Oh, ,yes, 110cca and Mr, Burne are very great friends, I believe," ('Ib 130 Conth11ued ) ALL WOI:tIC, It's labor, labor, over day, As through this life wo go; We used to fan the heat away, And soon we'll shovel snow. .Tackson—"I don't SOO why you thanked theca, What was the use of ; silent himself, he taikerl (111110 fluent- €hn111d bo dissastilled, Von get looking lovely if Cyril would not he I ly, Wird got; her genie lemonade anti $50,000 With - your wife. Wean 't there to see her? Iwaitel upon her with the gnlet, um,:that enough?" .Tolmstin—"Olt, the Even the earl nodded his approval; obtrusive manner with which he ha I money was enough, but tato wife was as he surveyed her through his gold attended her at ten11il, to )nnch1" dimming and the songs, which were gyeglassee. It flattered 1!s vanity All the inoreing he seemed to In ,_,.,,,— thnt his dad ht•r should be the ad -alt +nod and itrst-sato in {,heir way. gHca' ler, cull to h°1' srrrat lurnb'0- 1, Cyril fhopgttt of his >ettiililil sweet. mired of all"a1:.•rvel's: aver, I/O orrupr,•d the piece next but lie --"`bo you easily believe ignur. heart, 131111 saw her lare 1/51 0/ v, i!1 a1,r, 1.r,r'1 1',•mink, undertook day at hmr:h, 111,1111111 11111111115 half it anco is al 'sal" fdho---"I dlott'1 the light of love and trust 111111 Mime 1! 1 1,, I.. i, ,.ae ! it through con tibzel men had schemed and plotted 1t'now, You seem to 11'0 happy," The Standard of P rity CEYLON TEA for Matchless Qtaaiity is far ahoad of any other Tea. Sold only in lead packets. 40c, Soc, and 6oc. per 11. By all Grocers. Black, Mixed or Green. Highest award, St. Louis, 1904. ' L1' z ON THE FARR aW ZL9GeP'ti FALL CARE OF COWS. We are nearing the time when the cows will begin to go into the stable nights writes a correspondent. With some of us this will be when the frosts commence, and with others, who have comfortable sheds, it may be a little later. There is a tendency on the part of many who aro other- wise good farmers to postpone the flay just as long as possible. We dread the work of cleaning stables, and the task of keeping the cowa clean is more or less burdensome to us. But more and more we aro coal- ing to see that the success we make of the season's work dePonds upon how the year rounds up. The late fall milk is the richest of any of the season, and if we can keep up the supply we will add considerably to the profits of our work during the year. It is some work to keep a lot of cows clean in the stable. No one will deny that. But the farmer who cares anything for the real comfort of his herd will willingly do all in his power to make them as neat as possible. Here are some of the things he will do: First, he will have the platform on which his cows stand slant backward slightly. Not too much, for that would tiro and perhaps pornanentiy injure the cows that must stand upon it such a large part of the tine. Hu will see to it that the long cows stand where the platform is longest and the short ones on the shorter planks, He will do his best to have the stanchions which keep the cows from creeping up at tines when they are apt to foul their sleeping place. Ile will provide some kind of litter ou the Boor for the cows to lie on. This may be straw, if he has it Le spare, and there is nothing better for the beddinP than clean straw. Some have a way of putting the horse manure under their cows for bedding. This surely must give the cows rut pleasant smell and more or less! taint the milk. If horse manureis used at all, it should bo in the gutter behind the cattle to absorb the liquid Inanutlro. This is a most essential thing; for 1 the roan who lets this part of his; barnyard fertilizer 'drip through a holo bored in the stable floor, in that way deliberately robs himself. There, aro not so many of us can alfordto! do this, aucl yet it would scare us if we knew what losses we incur every year through that auger hole in the, stable Boor. But bedding and littering the gut- ter is not all that needs to bo clone Ito insure neat cattle, There remotest the most particular work of all. The man who would keep his cows. !clean will have a good currycomb? and brush and keep then in tie' a stable within handy reacht nary 1 time, and he will use them, too, Every day the comb and brush must be called into play. With me I telco the Sine for this work when Ivy cows! coma into the stable, after having been out co drink in the forenoon, 1Thou the sides and flanks aro com-; Iparatively dry, so that everything may be removed with little effort. At first sorno of the cotes will not relish the comb and will step about uncomfortably, But they soon gee over this, and in a little while one may clean off a good sized herd in a few minutes. I have cows that will stand about at the work, just as readily as any horse, and they seem to enjoy being cleaned off. One 19 rase nma»asa-osmaceraraa �.,.•�•. .t. pi some conditions the gain from the u..e of Scott's Emulsion is very rapid. For this reason we put up a fifty -cent size, which is enough for an ordinary cough or cold or useful as a trial for babies and children. In other conditions the gain is slower—health cannot be built up in 'a day. In such cases Scott's Emulsion must be taken as nourishment; a food rather than a medicine. It's a food for tired and weak digestions: gene for free sample SCOTT f & BOWNE, Chemists. 'Ibrenle, 005. pee. and $1,00. All dragglets cow 3 have Hill stop luting anilhang • h' d I t in^• groomed, hot to oftn tt' „e > d ,� as ft site tools 11 sight of comfort u,• p• have thio h the lases)) els 1 a e 1'o g } , doubt site docs. Time the man who is tidy about his barn will brush his cows before ho milks them morning and evening with a cloth of sum° sort. An old bran sack is better than nothing, MCN HAVE NO MONOPOLY , WOMAN WHO Im!M'IES ti $10,000,000 A TEAR. Many Women Who Aro no lvlean • Rivals to Men in tato Art of Amassing Riches, One 115111')) so much atnd so oxclu- lively of malemillionairestlutt 0110 in apt to lose sight of the fact there 1ncd1 have 110 monopoly of million - making, and that thein pre , many women who are 110 111ea11 rivals to 11.0111 111 the are of areaseleg riches. Quite recently liars. Herman Cel- richs, who is said to be the (motet - est atic1 shrewdest business woman In 111e world, has, so they say, been coiling looney at the rate of $10.- 000,000 I.0: 000,000 a year by clever specula- tion in railway shares. Mrs, 001'- 1 of the late ricks is a daughter Senator Fair, from whole no doubt for she has inherited her talento making money. Oniy two years ago she revoked the power of attorney L k th• 0 0 given her husband and. o g n management of her affairs into her own hands; .she sold out all her real Ever part10le of filth should eo estate }iuldings fn San Francisco, Every went, to New York, and, while cclip- brushed away, so that 110110 1110,7 findshag her rivals in lavish and origin - precautions will take cows throug its way into the milk pail. Theseh at entertainments, has found time to the w111101• season, so that they will come out slick and neat In the spring. 4 DAIRY NOTES. 'A cow in any way worried, will not do her best. To run a cow to pasture is throw- ing money away. Butter color will not cure defeats in grain or flavor. Nothing over goes in the pail that has not gone into the mouth, Motherhood in its development is the object sought in the profitable dairy cow. So far as possible discard all cows develop objectionable habits natural- ly. It is always the case that sweet cream poured Into that which is sour does not all churn. While a good mincer must be a make the satlsfaetory income of nearly $1,000,000 a month, Another American lady -hustler is Mrs. Richard King. So extensive is Mrs. King's faros that it is bounded on one side by forty Willes of barb- ed-wire fence; it is an HOUR AND A HALF'S 'DRIVE from Mrs, King's front door to her front gate; and she employs an army of over 300 cowboys to tend her 200,000 cattle, and the ponies they employ number 1;200. Mrs. King has long passed the stage when she could, if need were, sign her 1101110 to a million -pound 0hegate, and she can proudly say that she owes her riches very largely to her own business acumen. Mrs, King bas a fair and formid- able rival in Ito)). Nat Collins, known. throughout America as the good feeder it by no means follows "Cattle Queen of Montana," Mrs. that a good feeder is a good milker. Collins has had a career of romance A heifer is valuable in proportion and adventure such as 03)011 s1e to the feed required by her to ,Hake would not care to repeat. From a poulid of butter; childhood she has lived her strenu- Above the food of production that ous life on the plains and in the goes to milk, a cow demands food cf mountains of Montana; she has bean support in proportion to size. kidnapped i13 In nearly all cases the dairymen prisoner for months by then, and who make the most money are the she still bears an ugly scar as a most liberal feeders. memento of a too -well -aimed toms. Whatever mills or beef is produced, hawk. must be wholly from the food that In later life she acted as cook and tho animal eats. scout for a freighting train, and A poverty stricken cow, must Ilrst spent years travelling between Den- ali all supply the wants of her s;,•,,- ver and the bail'=ouri River, "Hardly a day passed," she says, "without an Indian fight, for the savages wore constantly swooping clown on the trains anti KILLING THE FREIGHTERS or driving away the stock; white at (lines the buffalo wer0 so thick that Both quality and quantity must we would lie compelled t0 stop our be taken into consideration whin the train and shoot among them to value of e. dairy cow is estimated, drive them o.trny." Abort twenty The ago of perms cream and its tad- years ago Mrs. Collins took to eat - felinity of ripeness has a great tical tle-roaring and dealing, and, al- to do with the effectiveness of ))spat'- though she is said to have amassed e, ion by the churn, online;)), she stilt personally con- -Phe size of the fat globules is de- aducts her train -loads of cattle from pendent upon the lanced of the cow and the length of the time sheMontana to Chicago. : has Mrs. Dotty Green is said to make been in milk. _'---- -1 income of little less than tem before she can possibly give rich and plenty of it. There is 110 more Important fac•t0r in producing good butter than Lha,t of the temperature. With brine salting when properly done, all of tato washing required is to put In proper shape for market. ff sweet cream be nixed, with well dealings in $ 0('0 by her slaver deal ripened sour cream the latter separ $53,0stoc00,0a aura. ))gurus, Scene ware ago atce first and washes the 11u1hurned sweet cream into the buttermilk. Poor milkers never have mills fever, they have not nerve 91311e' 011011511 to either give milk or get up a fever. Butter properly worked with brine and closely packed and kept away pence daily, does her own modest from the air is the finest keeping marketing and cooking, and leads butter in the world, generally as Spartan a life as if Tho natural failing of? in the flow her income were $,a instead of nearly' of milk during the lactation period $100,000 a week. in a modern dairy has been found by Russia boasts a splendid blusiness- various observers to be about 8 pn• woman. in ]rime Woleska, who is cent per month, and the decrease 111 mistress of hundreds of thousands of the production of fat about 7 per acres of land anti a score of villages cent. per month, During the last and small towns. Every da,y site couple of months of the period (lOVOtes sevOrni hours to the per- a somewhat mere rapid falling '111 sonar supsryisior of her vast estates takes place, and in conference with ler fortune was estimator) at $eti -- 000,000; and yet this romarlablo woman works longer hours and harder in her office than any lady clerk travels to and fro for -a few I3IJTTE1L FLAVOR. The favor of butter is due to solu- ble fats. These vary somewhat .It different times, duo to the period of lactation, the feeding of dry feeds, etc. As tho lactation period ad- vances, the soluble fats decrease: Thou also decrease when the ed>WS-11t•o f0 odry Mode o c p HER HUNDRED AGENTS, while ng petty detail rotating to a cotl:age or fame is 100 small for her attention, Senora Cousins, who owns vast es- tates in South America.,' ani whose fortune is said to exceed $200,000,- 000, is another woman whose mil-- 11 n f+ cis r feeds rich in 1'0- 1im10 are allied to groat business ten. gffls. The ))rues., tvho fnh0111,3l 011 the ether hand. succulent feeds great wealth front ler Father, has increase the so1110510 fats, 011 do adders enormously to it by her skil- feeds rich in ca'bohydratSH, flaw- mot maltngonlent of 'her possessions; Vete it wouldnot clo to feed mucin in ftict, s0 shrewd and clover Is she Corn which is richt 1111 carbohydrates that the lata .Jay Gould cleclILrtul for the Halts of inal`easing 1..110 flavor' that if she lilted she might amass of the butter for it would decrease wealth compared with which the for - the amount of butterfat unless wail }.unr, of the richest rasa-millio,airo balanced as sumo protein' would sarin poverty, Butter Stas its highest flavor in Annan,:;' other lurl,v owners of mil- er. and July, "Oho H,lage-feta herd 110118 who ther r.xhibi15l1 a wonder. - contains produces abettor of good lase- fel capacity in exhibi•inir and ad - or, n'he feed is ableu.ant sail else ding to them are Maio, Hardee, who 001)1.0105 the desirable cnrbohydratos' as a fourteen -year-old schoolgirl in "tnliggius puts a great deal of thought into his work." "Yes," said the sarcastic person; "}to tv0rks ton nrifnut(s and then thinks about it for an hour mut a (Marler," First Parishiovcrr—•"I think we ought to raise Di'. Thirdly's salary " Seconal Parishioner—"I don't: Ho is Such a conscientious man that he 3000111 feel bound to preach longer sermons," Iruggecd—"Miss Lovelylipz and I. lead quite a WarintttaOussion nautili; matrimony last evening," Mgl100zem —"And who got the better of it?" I3ugg111'd—"Tho meteor isn''t closed yet, but I'm hoping' it will result In a tie," 'I. + 11Tnv s she very extravagant?" a, t7" 111111111 Pca•1.1 She speed fu• 111011- l'v NO 111011! 111.1 :v1y that she ie some- time- tibiae (1 to be eont.ent with an ILA 11; 1 ccn1,11ee.lan.." a Guatemala convent was wooed and won by President 'Barrios, and whose fortune in roughly 1135,000,- 000; rind Miss Mary Gatrct.t, of Bat- time>re, who has oracle herself, more beloved by her charity than envied for her millions—l.ontlon Pit. -Tilts, "Then you have no sympathy for the deserving poo'?" said the elute- icy worker, "Me?" retorted the self-made mar, "Why, sir, T have nothing but sympathy." Young Itushat3—"try dear 'I3els'l, T muss: say that this puddler( doesn't*, testa very nice) Wife—"All imag- ination, doer; it says -is the rookery bask that it tastes exeellrnt," "17n man can do anything' 05011111 his will," said n 1110ir ehysirin n. "Can't b0 1.11011('11?" 1 N11 h 1,1 Ile /1<8. "Don't t gel, up 1':1 w0, n eicieek six mornings avul,0 Week agains't my trill?" 9 1