-- of has been tried, and the result is Or, THE RAISING OF ZWEIDORF.. CHAPTER XIII.--(cont'd) "Tt serves you. perfectly righty father. It would have been more tha our due, had there not geen one stone left standing of 'Golden Eagle.' We didn't eis to thrive when we took to harboring kidnappers, man- -steal- rs, and such like cattle.' That Gredel's aispceiiicn is by mo" means mere milk-and-water, Martha is well aware, but even the chambermaid stands aghast at the bitter tongue oe ---- dis- covers to-night. bbed of her mate, the doe "ievelope somewhat of the tigress. artha having so far failed in her designs for the rescue of Cas: par Zimmermann, feeling conscious of having veen thoroughly outwit- ted by the crafty Hoffmann, an all destitute of further advice to suggest that might succor that hap- less carpenter, sits > d and true of heart too, this girl, could she but 6eo possible action to be taken in this matter. But all she could think Caspar Zimmermann has been kid- napped. by these accursed Prussians and that Max Bauer lies in grievous state in the hospital of Zweidorf, with warrant out against him for inciting' riot and other tempestuous upheaval. "And you,' cries Gredel, stop- ping suaaenly in her stormy pac- ing, and confronting the handmai- den fiercely, "what have you to say, now all your fine schemes are lown to shreds, and have served Caspar no whit?) What next have you to propose? Quick, wench, cudgel your brains. You bade me not weep once to- day when I should -be doing. I dried mine eyes at your sdding. 'tears shall dull them no more till I wail for Caspar'tt death or shed them from impotent wrath to revenge tim, 'Think you Il labandon him so easily! No; by 'the Virgin, [| swear I'll leave no stone unturned for his rescue till I find the turf lies over his head." 'Gredel," said Martha, rising, "indeed I counselled you my best. ' " you may," replied the chambermaid earnestly. "Show me but how I can serve you a Caspar, and trust me to do my best. 'Tis my wit, not my will tails e. can think of nothing that may help him.' "Listen," said Gredel. "I have heard that «this Prussian king, if he be a hard man, is a just man. I intend to make a trial of whother rumor speaks truth in this mat- ter. Martha eaid nothing, but gazed with deep curiosity into her mis- tress's face, "His great camp is but ten leagues or so distant, and men say he is there commanding in person. Martha, I mean going to this camp of Mulich. mean to ask Caspar's liberty from his Majesty's own His own lips trepan honest citizens from their lawful callings. If he be just, as men say, he will right Caspar's wrongs; if he be not, God help me and Caspar, for we shall need it sorely," Martha listened to her mistress's speech in mute astonishment. Gredel apes in quiet resolute tones, very age from the fierce splenetic talk she had waged pre- ee to arriving at this determina- But how do you expect to win your way to the king's presence. Gredel ?" inquired «the chamber- maid. '"These kings are not easily come at as our councillors here in Zweidorf. Plain folks like you and [I will find it hard, I trow: to get speech with him "LT don't know; time to think of that when we reac Mulich. But when one loves, Martha, and the fulfilment of that love depends upon our own exer- tions, there is nothing imporsible. Had you told me yesterday,"' fon- tinued Gredel, with a faint smile, "that I could dare face the burgo- master and council as I did but a few hours since, I had said you nay. Yet my heart failed me not this afternoon." enough I did all 1 could think of myself, 'though, alas without avail. That :I was right in my conjecture that 'Caspar was entrapped into that fatal chest, and su smuggled with- 'out the city gates, I feel confident. I will stand by you in anything, but, Gredel, I am fain to confess I can see nothing we can do fu r than put pressure on thé council tu require strict investigation from King Friedrich of the case. 'the council!' cried Gredel with bitter scorn. "] saw enough of tturgomaster L'assauer and the council to-day. Had they shown but the promptitnde of men and the spirit of a sparrow, the Prus- sians would never have won though the gates. Small help we're tike to get from shivering hearts like theirs, [ ween hey fear this King Friedrich as if he was the foul fie:\] himself; No, Martha, 'tis ourselves must help ourselves. Ca:ar's safety, nay, life, you said | to-fay rested on me. It dves yet, | and I'll not fail him. But how to | serve him! how to serve him?" and ! Gredel vinee more resumed her tem- pe:tuous pacing up and duwn the rovm Martha sat silent; quick-witted | as she was, the business now seem- ed altogether beyond righting in| %weidurf. She had no more rever- | ence or belief in Burgomaster heat sauer and the council than her mis- tress, but Caspar Zimmermann ! auce clearly trepanned and in the | hands of the Prussians, and Mar- sould see no course to take in haif, save the invocation: of ers.on the subject. Such representation «as they might make Martha augured little good of. Herr Zimmermenn she | deemed trapped, nor likely to es- cape from the toils for time unde- They had done all they She could suggest nothing How a powerful man like Caspar could have been so easily tricked was beyond Martha's com- prehension, but that he*had been "somehow got into that chest the girl held fixed as that the sun shone in the heavens. What foul play - had led to it?) Had he been drug- ged? the time seemed scarce to ad- mit it. Violence would have arous- } ed the neighbors. It was'a cireum- stance past comprehension. t there stood the fact clear and in- dubitable. Von Hompesch and his men were gone,.and Herr Zimmer- ! mann and the chest gone with them. Suddenly Gredel stops abruptly in het walk and. exelaims, 'You! say*Fou wil? stand to me in aught! I may. require. of. 'you, Martha.; "Good, I dif avout to' put you te | vhe test. * I may depend -upan | ?' she con in \* ily, Martha could scarce conceal her surprise. That Gredel -was in no way deficient in spirit she had known for some time past; but that this girl, who had at the first discovery of her lover's danger ap- peared so broken down and help- less, had required the rousing of her own sharp tongue to urge her to do what in Martha's eyes seem- ed to offer the sole chance of res- cuing Caspar from the trap into which he had fallen, should now with high resolve project what the chanibermaid viewed as a very des- perate undertaking indeed, filled her with amazement. She saw clearly enough, that fraught with difficulty and some danger as it in- dubitably was, it afforded far more probability of procuring Caspar's liberty than any other scheme that could be devised. lf speech could but be had of the Prussian mon- arch, and he was just the man re- port said he hen assuredly Herr_Zimme fan's release was procured. But Martha deemed that j by no means ecasy*to accomplish. | She could) searce refrain from a shght laugh at the change of situa- tien between herself and her tress. A few hours back, was for her to think, to counsel ; now they had shifted this relation hip, and it was Gredel who plotted out and decided on their actions, The girl was transformed into ishrewd-witted, resolute woman: ;woman too, robbed of her lover and ! keen to rescue him, or revenge him, s as circumstances might aictate. | Gredel, meanwhile, stoud front- ing the tire and lost gazing into the embers as if se eking | :further inspiration therein, she raised her head and said slow- "We must start to-night; you will come with me or I anust go alone.' "Gredel cried Martha proachfully, "do you deem 1 could | let you start on this errand with ovt-me! I thought you knew me better," and the chambermaid"s disturbed face showed how much} she felt aggrieved at the bare sug "Come weal, come wor exclaimed vehemently, 'my re- my déar, and ser Deceived have | but you without iness. Try me, 'T flinch or fail yon. I been like the rest of us, 'go not on this journey me." "T can trust von, I knew, plied Gredel, with a smile, Gand forgive me if bitter words 'scape my lips to you awhile back, but} my heart is sore wrung; and we such times; ] But. ack, tee et's be' doing. t ther cart d}and hood myself."' | dist: ince, a | é In thought, | At last jplace is by your side in this wast | if | 7 '}Martha, as she pointed. - '}canwas-built town at their feet" "The camp! Gredel,"' exclaimed : the: Ps are 'Dear our journey's end | her =< ey ome to Caspar's rescue,' ap b = : are is the Fine' 8 ent of all those, think | . os Bs "It were hard to tell at this dis- tance, but I doubt not we shall easily discover it when we are once within the camp." (To be continued.) einen cured me when everythin else peel To all sufferers trons Inde estion, get sa and Constipation, f strongly advise them to t fruit medicine" Charles 50c a 6 for $2.50--or trial box, asc. Ate all 'sealers or from Fruit-a-tives Ottawa. may be. This matter is one which requires speedy looking to. Every hour is of consequence, and to- morrow's sunrise should find us halfway or more to. Mulich. Look to our conveyance while I c "IT will get Albert Klopstock and his cart --_ in less-than that. Cloak yourself warmly, for the night-air nips keen," -replied the chambermaid. "Never fear but what we will confront King Fried- rich vat all events, come of it what may !"' cried Martha, catching some of hav mistress's' spirit. An hour from that time, and such was Martha's diligence that Officer Haggermann had bid them God { BEAUTY AND UTILITY. A large number of prominent men in all four of the dairy breeds are very. fond of saying something like thi 'In our efforts to promote the dairy quality in our cows we. must not lose sight of beauty." is the candid opinion of Hoard's Dairyman that no one thing has hindered. so much the progress of making large pro- ducing cows as 'this-vain-struggle after so-called beauty. We say 'so-called'? for the reason that no two men will agree on what they mean by "beauty." Some think delicacy of form, a certain: refinement o and legs, constitute "beauty. Others look for impressiveness, a something that goes with size, am- plitude of form, making what they would call a "grand looking cow." But the majority consider beauty to be a certain refin eminity of | form, which we see more in the Is- | speed on their journey, and-was left pondering as to whether he had | not once more committed grievous | error in allowing a cart'ta pass the | gate. Some idea indeed had _pos- coaand his much perplexed brains of | detaining them till sunrise, but Martha's shrill pletely paralyzed that worthy. / platoon of musketeers indeed would have shrunk from such encounter and Officer Haggermann was com- pletely cowed by the. vituperative demand, "whether, after conniving at the escape of Prussian kidnap- pers, he thought stopping honest women on their lawful business was to put him straight with the lads of Zweidorf!" Officer Haggermann, by this time aware of the uproar in the city, and no stranger to r- tha's late maenadic gifts, thought it best at all events to offer no piovaration to one whom he deem- ed had the ear of the mob; some- | what conscious by this time, too, | that it was possible he might be} stormily accused of lack of vigil- | ance on his post. Much reverence | for the democracy in their wrath} had Officer Haggermann. CHAPTER XIY. The imperfections of travel in those carly days of the last century are hardly to be understanded by the presented generation,--times in which roads might have been mor properly designated tracks. When ! fords, often rendered impracticable | by a sudden freshet, were the sub- for bridges; when those long purses even, dragged along in cumbersome carriages with six horses struggling at the traces) sinking often to the very gon and feeling content with an average progress of some half-dozen 'miles. in the hour. Things were no differ- ent in England than they were in other countries; and, in George _ ithe Second's days, the grandees of | land ony through much tri- \ i bulétion aa ardship in ew | | setureaeptognts and fro. We of the | 'pineteenth century think little of but a score or two miles fe hundred and fifty years ago | took some compassing. Our prede- cessors felt an anxiety about the moen of which we ure comparatiyely oblivious. They had a knowledge of quagmmires, ditches, broken gear, Hos ing their way, impassable fords i knights of the road, and utterly knocked-up horses, of which we have been brought up in happy T country round Zweidorf offered no immunity from the woes of other districts at that epoch (denominated civilized. The main lroad which ran through the town | was fair enough, but when you di- \verged into any of the numerous i bye-ways, they presented the usual ,. | character: sties [ have mentioned. . | The way to Mulich was one of these | | cross-country tracks. j The sun was high in the heav ronsa and Albert Klopstock Ky cousin this / of -the re'er-to-do-wecl Hans, and | a devoted admirer of Martha' 8), | | travel- Stained and Weary, .as the} Uitie Cart paimiully gainea a niu | j tep-and the trio looked down upon ' I the camp of King Friedrith. The | i white tents stretched far away in j the valley beneath them, and dark 4 tongue had com-/ tha | {s nre not masters-of cur tongnes at land bred type of Jerseys and ; Guernseys. Tortunately for the Holstein | i breed, and considerably so among ithe Ayrshires these notions of at- | tenuated refinement do not exist to any great degree Consequently breeders of these cattle, especi- ially the Holsteins, have followed the teachings of nature, with only one dominating idea,--since they got rid of the dual-purpose notion, --that of breeding for large pro- ducing animal alone. But among the Jerseys and Guernseys serious danger exists to- day of being led away from the final goal in a vain pursuit after beauty of form. ence the show-ring and its attendant ideas of cxtline keep crowding in upon us in every effort to breed large preducing animals with strong, enduring constitution. Wo hear a great deal said about the "straight back" when if we look S the great cows in any breed that have given name fame: to their breed, the straight back rarely pre- vails. Why is it that breeders and j judges are so unwilling to be guid- by nature in her effort to fash- ion @ cow that shall be a large pro- ducer? Delicacy of outline means too of- 'ten lack of ability to endure the strain of large production. In seventy-five per cent. of the }great producers in my breed, we ' find a certain rugged, angularity of form. The large paunch--a big basket--almost always accompan- ies the power to produce heavily. And yet the large paunch and the rugged outline do not suit the pre- vailing notions of beauty. We believe breeders should look after two things in their breeding: a constantly increasing wer to produce well and strong, enduring constitution. Now, the latter too frequently does not accompany: the refined beauty type. We must study more the phy- siology of dairy breeding. That will teach us that certain things do not harmonize well, such, for in- stance, as beauty of form and con- stitution ; beauty of form and large capacity for production, wet the chief aim and end of breeding be the production of bulls of strong constitution and~prepot- ency and cows of a vigorous, ample type of body. To this end we must 7 study well the limitations of form as nature prescribes them in the est specimens of the ; We must remember always that we-cannot go beyond the nature of anything. All there is to breed- ing improved animals of any kind is to amplify or increase the fune- tion we so much desire. To do that we must look for the natural form.of such function. If we inject artifice of the main no- tions of oiitline, of beauty or of fancy of any kind, we will do so at the sacrifice of the main purpose we aro after. Consider, first that the animal body is a mechanical jcontrivance. Everywhere in mé- hanics the machine must have a 'fen suited to its function. The ' great ruling idea of nature is func- a With the sewing machine i s sewing, with the mowing mauling lit is mowing. Each machine must have form suited to its purpose, its function. Here is the bed rock idea in nature, In animal machinery the law is the same. We are after the production of milk making mach- ines that shall work most harmoni- ously and enduringly to the end of milk production, - Keep breeding to the best milk producers, the most ample mother, and nature will take care of the form. e will give us the form best suited to, that pur- pose if we keep our false artificial notions of beauty out of the way. But we must be obedient first of all to the physiological laws nature es- tablishes for the accomplishment of her purposes. Beyond nature we cannot go. , a ee Much In Little. Tommy--lop, what does multum In parvo mean? Tommy's Pup--Multum fut parvo is J.ativu. my son. It means-- er--vwell, baven't you ever seen n fat wowan fn a bathiug suit?--D'lilladel- Phla Record. aEEneeneneseeeeeess apn an Distinction, Milly--Is this picture like your fa- \ber? 'Tily--Of course not, silly! It is like father when he bas bis picture takes.--DPuck. Freedom. There are limitations to every man's freedom. r one who is unwilling to recognize this oe world ia not a good place to Eve i ee A SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY." Psalm 103: 4, 5. Beneath these fair Canadian xia This summer day we meet The choicest gifts to pgs While you we gladly greet. i prompts one OT iends te With. feast and voice and pen, May gladness crown your natal dag At three score years and ten. Those whom you loved long yeara 0 ag ; Are loved and cherished yet; Their lives, while shadows longes grow You' never will for, rget. They oa have passed beyond that lin Which _--s the lives of men; But you are here by grace divine © At three score years and ten With nd you loved your voice te aise Who journeyed with you here: They ote with songs of endless pr Before the throne appear. You think of their exalted state And hail its glories then, While you this birthday celebrate At three score years and ten From lasting good and passing ill You have not failed to glean Those treasures which are meant te fill The heart with joy serene To us you speak with cheerful voice OF things beyond our ken, While in your birthday we rejoice At three score years and ten. And --- yau calmly homeward May ager rejoice to That guided by conduits loves The best is yet to be. May you enjoy through coming miles Of mountain, vale and glen, That Il6ve which now upon you smiles At three score years and ten. T. WATSON. Granthurst, Ont., 1910. on ee A Matter of Vests. ut we'd rather kiss a fighting country g 4 than a fighting town girl. When a girl re- sists a man usually kisses ee hair, and thero's n sort of dead taste to jute that you don't notice irfreal hair. neenteeg England. We have' much to learn from Ene- land in the way of hygiene. England owes her great superiority in that re- spect a gr laws and regulations, and a the cheanness of "'necos- sary' Stood. --Paris Hygione. tA > Cures olde nome heala gareat endfons Which of Th ese Pictures Best Ropresents Yorr Siable ? F your Stable interior is well to tear dotn tn of Concrete. the entire Stabl enonia 7.) "puilt of Concre {s the modern --and is san e farmer oust cA material, skilled labor. 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