Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 October 1908 — Page 3

n® Escapade^ .1 POST MARITAL ROMANCE ° by cyrus Townsend i JLLL/6TPAT/ON6 5Y M | I S PAY WALTERS n 53 {COPYRIGHT, /9OQ &Y S I a? IMS HI G CW/WM/W) 1 Ja 4

SYNOPSIS. The Escapade opens, not in th« roTrance preceding the marriage of Ellen Slocum, a Puritan miss, and Lord Carrington of England, but in their life after settling in England. The scene is placed, just following the revolution, in Carrington castle in England. The Carringtons, after a house party, engaged in a family tilt, caused by jealousy. Lord Carrington and his wife each made charges of faithlessness against the other in continuation of the quarrel. First objecting against playing cards with the guests. Lady Carrington agreed to cut cards with Lord Strathgate, whose attentions to Ellen hud become a sore point with Carrington. The loss of SIOO,OOO failed to perturb her, and her husband then cut for his wife’s I. O. U. and his honor, Carrington winning. The incident closed except that a liking for each other apparently arose between Lady Carrington and Lord St'athgate. Additional attentions • —-oi-Lord Carrington to Lady Cecily and Lord Strathgate to Lady Carrington compelled the latter to vow that she would leave the castle. Preparing to flee, Lady Carrington and her chum Deborah, ah American girl, met Lord Strathgate at two a. m., he agreeing to see them safely away. CHAPTER VI. Lady Ellen Takes Flight. * “Now, will you tell me your plans?” began Strathgate as the three descended to the mall. “We must have horses and a vehicle of some kind,” she said. “Would not a post chaise do?” “There are three of us, my lord,” .-answered Ellen. “I see,” returned the earl, who was very much annoyed and put out by "the Infliction of this third party in what he had fondly honed would be a tete-a-tete flight. There was no help for it, however. He trusted to fortune to assist him to dispose of Mistress Deborah later. “Where shall we get this carriage?” “In the stables, of course.” She was thoroughly familiar with the lay of the land and the location of the stables. The coachman, who was unmarried, slept in a house by himself. Entrance was easy since the door was not locked. “Let me do the talking,” said sStrathgate. “He won’t recognize you if you stay back here in the darkness.” “Very well,” assented Ellen as the earl stepped over to the bed and roughly shook the coachman, who opened his eyes to find himself staring into the muzzle of a pistol. “Lie still. I want to borrow a pair and a carriage from your master. I’m driving far to-night and I want a good pair. No, you arc not to bother about hitching them up. I simply wished to tell you the facts so you won’t make any trouble.”

He opened his mouth to cry out. Strathgate shoved his pistol barrel ■closer to him, truculently remarking: “If you make a sound, I’ll blow out your brains. Now, do you understand? I don’t intend to steal the horses. You'll find them well at some wayside inn 20 miles from here. Meanwhile, we will have to tie you up and gag you.” “Very well, my lud,” returned Higginbotham, to whom the shining weapon was a powerful persuader. “Which are the best pair for traveling, I wonder?” queried the earl as he, Ellen and Deborah surveyed the long row of stalls. “I have heard my lord say that the bays were the most reliable horses he had.” “The bays it’ll be, then,” said Strathgate. He quickly selected the harness, led out the bays and in a few moments the two were attached to a light traveling carriage, “Where now?” said Strathgate when all the preparations had been completed. “We are going to Portsmouth, as I think I told you, my lord.” Strathgate was an expert whip and he found no difficulty in keeping the spirited horses going quietly over the grassy turf which bordered the driveway and as he had predicted, they got past the house without making a sound. But one obstacle remained between them and freedom—the lodgekeeper and the lodge gate. Ellen had forgotten it until they had gone something like a quarter of a mile through the park, when she suddenly thrust her head out of the window of the carnage and called it to Strathgate’s attention. “Let me attend to that,” returned the earl, confidently. “I have a plan. Do you keep close and let the curtains be drawn.” He drove close to the wall of the lodgekeeper’s cottage, hammered on the window with the butt of his whip, and when that functionary appeared, Strathgate boldly avowed his name and title and said that he was riding forth on a wager with my lord; that he would be back in the morning. The road from the lodge gate ran for about half a mile through the park until it joined the main road. Portsmouth lay to the eastward, to the westward was Plymouth. Having passed the lodge successfully, Ellen raised the blinds of the carriage and looked out upon the familiar scenes flying swiftly by them, for Strathgate had put the bays into a fast trot and the light carriage was going forward at a rapid gait. In a short time they came to the main road. Now Ellen knew the way perfectly. She was greatly astonished, therefore, to see Strathgate turning to the right. She lowered the window and thrust her head out once more. “My lord!” she called. Strathgate scarcely checking the pace of the horses leaned back to listen. “We wish to go to Portsmouth.” “So you said,” returned my lord. “Well, Portsmouth lies to the left and you are taking us to the right.” “You will be safer at my castle in Somerset than at Portsmouth, I think, my lady.” “But I don't wish to go tn your cas tie,” cried Lady Ellen angrily.

“And do you imagine, my dear Lady Carrington,” chuckled Strathgate, who was greatly amused over the situation, “that I have run away with you from your husband’s house to defend you if need be by sword and pistol from your husband, for the sake of handing you over to some American sailor at Portsmouth?” “My lord!” exclaimed Ellen, thunderstruck by this open intimation of the earl’s feelings. “You must have seen that I love you,” continued Strathgate coolly enough, “and in short I am taking you to my own house. I shall know how to hold you safe there.” “You villain!” cried Ellen, while Deborah, overwhelmed with the horror of this revelation, for the conversation was quite audible to her, nearly fainted within the carriage. Ellen had been fumbling at her belt while this was spoken and in a fit of passion she suddenly reached up her arm and discharged her pistol full at the earl. He had just time, catching a glimpse of the shining steel of the barrel in the waning moonlight, to throw himself aside when the bullet whistled by his ear. The startled horses bounded into a run at once, and for a few momenta Strathgate had all he could do to control them. He succeeded in quieting the horses somewhat, but did not dare to bring them to a slow pace lest Elian should

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escape from the carriage. To attempt to jump from it, -which, indeed, she had thought upon, was too great a risk to life and limb, and, beside, it involved leaving Deborah behind. There was one thing she could do, however. After some tugging, she got the little window in the front of the carriage open and thus got access to Strathgate’s person. She thrust the barrel of her pistol up toward his back and swore she would discharge it unless he instantly turned the carriage about in the road. Ellen did at random shoot through the seat, but the bullet was deflected and Strathgate was unharmed. He was greatly relieved when she discharged her second weapon without effect, for he reasoned that it would be difficult, if not impossible,,for her to recharge them in the darkness of the carriage at the pace they were going, and he therefore felt safe for the rest of the journey, although he did not resume his seat on the box, nor did he’check the speed of the horses This was a fine end, or a fine beginning of her adventure, thought Lady Carrington, bitterly. She had never dreamed of this and she blamed herself for a fool not to have thought of it. Os course Lord Strathgate’s interest in her was a selfish one. Her escape would be discovered in a short time; his absence would be noted; the testimony of the coachman, of the stable boys, of the lodgekeeper would be had. It would be known that they had gone away together. She would be ruined forever. They had borne themselves gallantly. He judged that they had gone at least 20 miles from Carrington. A few miles farther on was a tavern where the ladies could be bestow’ed. The tavern keeper was a friend of his who would ask no questions. But fortune was on Lady Carrington’s side that night in more ways than one. For with a sudden jolt the fore-right wheel of the carriage sank into a deep rut. There was a crash as the wheel gave way at the hub. Strathgate was hurled violently from his seat and lay stunned in the road.

The horses, utterly tired out, were glad to stop. Ellen and Deborah were thrown against the front of the carriage, but beyond a severe shaking and some bruises, sustained no injuries. Surmising what had happened. Ellen tore open the door of the carriage, seized Deborah by the hand, dragged her cut and ran desperately down the road. She did not see Strathgate; she did not know where he was; she did not care. With all the strength of her stout young body- she ran down the road. She did not turn back toward Portsmouth, for she divined that if Strathgate recovered consciousness he would immediately imagine that she had gone that way. She was unfamiliar with the part of the country in which she found herself, but she had a general idea that the roads in either direction led to the sea, and her hope was to reach the shore. There was nothing that floated that she could not sail. The dawn was gray in the east. Ellen judged it was about half after four o’clock. They had been gone two hours from the castle and a half hour from the carriage when the road swerved to the southward and led from the forest to a little fishing hamlet on the shore of Lyme bay.; Ellen was too desperately anxious to get away to stop to bargain with anyone for a boat. She ran down to the little wharf jutting out into the small inclosed harbor and rapidly’ selecting the best of the little vessels tied there, she hauled in the painter, drew it alongside the wharf, made Deborah get aboard, laid five guineas down on the wharf where the boat had been secured, in the hope that the owner of the boat, would receive the money which was full value for the vessel, hoisted the sail, shoved away from the wharf, and under the influence of a gentle breeze ran rapidly out of the harbor. “I would Sir Charles Seton were here!” cried poor Debbie, who had not the advantage of Ellen’s extensive and intimate acquaintance with

the male sex, and who, therefore, did not share her detestation of it “And what is he to thee, child?” asked Ellen gleefully. “He said he cared very much for me,” returned Deborah, “yesternight in the library’ over the good book of Master Baxter.” “ ’Tis a gallant gentleman, Debbie,” returned Ellen. “But they are all that before marriage. My lord of Carrington I once thought was wellnigh perfect.” “But w’hat did he,” asked Debbie, “that you leave him thus?” And this heroine who had schemed and fought like a man for her liberty bowed her head upon the Puritan’s shoulder and wept like any other woman. Deborah consoled her as best she might, and in turn Ellen assured her that if Sir Charles really loved her he would follow her w'herever she might go. Who shall say in that assurance Ellen was not persuading herself that if Bernard Carrington really loved his own wife he would not be far from Charles Seton on the chase across the sea? CHAPTER VII. My Lord Hears 111 Tidings. The morning sun was streaming brightly through the window’s when Carrington glanced at his watch as he opened his eyes, and was startled to discover that it -was already seven o’clock. And he had meant to get up early that day to prepare himself the better for that interview with his wife. Hastily arising, he stole softly to the door opening into he r boudoir, tried the knob gently and found that the door was locked. He listened, but could hear nothing. Imagining that she was still asleep, he summoned his valet, bathed and dressed himself with unusual care for the operations of the day, and then returned to the door of the boudoir. Again he knocked, and more loudly. Receiving no answer, he fairly thundered upon it with his feet, to be met with the same silence as before. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Thicker cream, quicker butter. Now is the time to separate the feeding from the breedinglstock. Carelees methods lose mBn V a farmer a competence. S Poor, musty hay oi> X shou id never be fed to the hor ■ — f Shelter in the pasture so, rho qheen Essential to successful Much depends upon thj| ^ thod of ripening tne cream as to ' of butter produced. £ Q J Use water, clean and coK , k ing the butter Worked < you are almost sure to overwork The use of wide tires Qt to large extent the rutt ( P Qf the road. “ Between four and one-b Us and five months is the right time take the angora kids from the moth ers The horse that spends t he night in discomfort is in no cond ltJon for a good day’s work, any mor e than would be under similar « , nd{tions On the trip to town bi knick-knack for the childre Q and doQ - t forget the wife. A very lltUe 8 t brings back the sunshim ( and the gladness. A Cornell professor afte: . testg has found that milk can be pi . oduc ; d for 65 cents per hundredweigl lt and but , t at CentS per P< ’^d where the herd is fairly good an d the feed . ing and milking are carefu. handled Connecticut has a wonde a _ is shown by an advertisen ,„ nt ln nnp of her country newspape , s fob lows: “Full blooded cow fc r gale giv . Ing milk, three tons of ha ' a of chickens and several stove g ’.. Save the saplings of wood when clearing up land. asf th handy for handles to the vl rio ; g tools used on the farm To ma* them ig only a little work and * voy save money. - T

Spend a few days in 1 this fall cleaning up the ■ orchard the trees. The most m grounds and on some farms is the elected spot it is right there that thmrchard. and might be realized if thw best profit was given the trees. 1 right care Give the chickens a goo to roost at night. For airy place stock all that is requir®he growing weather comes is a sbeWd until cold and rain. Have the shßt er from sun structed that you can nßelter so confrom place to place. Biove it about Lumpy jaw in cattle ■ character and treatments of parasitic only where the disease i® is advisable pertlciaJ. The disease® B local and sucleaned from their ca'® masses are places filled with iodize<®ities and the It is a disease that mt carbolic acid, ble to and great care 8 111 is suscepticised. In most cases itß must be exerdestroy the animal. ■ were better to It is a common belß calves will do better that spring barn and fed hay and I kept up in the with skim milk rati® grain together turned out loose in th( ■-or than being ist on grass which i ® pastures to exfeed for young calves. 13 a non suitable question but what ay I There is little be kept up, especially I oung caif should calf and should be J® the skim milk some hay and a small ■ ied good, wholefor which he will gi | amount of grain However, this does I good returns, the young calves shot I not mean that together in some dar dd all be huddled conditions under fi £ stall where the unspeakably filthy ot soon become flies pester them ai and where the _ day long.

Amsi>»an r ■ ested ’ v,o^ will be interthe ^‘J'T^cora'mk"^^ in petitio^c^ . m egg-laying comMarch 4^^ 12 months ending of six fowl's each th ' ere were 78 P ens competition. The took part in the was White Leghor ading pen, which during the 12 mor s > laid 1,531 eggs better than 255^? an average of pen was only Lr s each. The second other pen of th® J eggs behind. An850 eggs, whic* 1 me variety laid only the strain than it ows that it is more mines the egg yiel e breed that deterpens, all of whit 1- Os 20 leading eggs, 14 were W1 h laid above 1,180 Block Orpingtons ite Leghorns, three dottes and one * . t wo Silver M yan- " White Wyandottes, The peculiar fa to light by hortieu c t being brought that the long-ke<~ —ltural experimenters duced generally o tping apple is provery hardy*. Th( n a tree that is not that the long-ke * reason tor this is duced on a tree epi^g apple is piolong time in whi that requires a very and also a long t ch to ri P en its wood its fruit. It is me in which to ripen process of ripen.' the slowness of the makes it keep fc tg i n the apple that ter. When a fru ' a l° n S time in w inthe next process t becomes fully lipe, of decay. The t begins, which is one time to ripen 3s— —ree that takes a long long time in wh s fruit also takes a and so is caugh IC h to ripen its wood, in localities wl : hy the early winter. Bhor t. .ere the season- are M

Get good and give good is a good j rule. A small farm well-kept is better than the big farm indifferently run. More sheep well-handled will mean a more fertile farm and more money for you next year. Know your cows and do not board through the winter the cows that do not pay their way. The butter flavor can be huproved by adding a tablespoonful of granulated sugar to ten pounds of butter. It is a good plan to put finely cut hay with the grain to compel the horses to masticate their feed properly. Make up for the scantiness of the pasturage at this time of year is made u. with corn stalks or other succulent feed. Make your farm a veritable gold mine by careful managing so that everything that is raised is turned into gold. Spray the stables occasionally to TTriVe out the flies. A good fly spray is a good disinfectant, and will purify the air of the stable. Mo’ting is hard on the poultry. Feed well at this time so that they may come through the period strong and ready for the winter laying season. So.. the chickens at this time and dispose of all the superfluous ones. Don’t winter over the old hens, except such of the trusty ones as you want to keep for setting next spring. A poultry keeper of New Jersey has found a new use for the box kites. He flies them over his henneries and says they scare the hawks away. Worth trying. It is the gentle, steady rainfall as well as the even-tempered man which does the most good. Violent tnunderstorms and violent tempers do lota of damage. Mange is a germ disease. Hogs thus afflicted should be washed clean and then dipped. Any dip sold by reliable firms for the purpose will do. More than one application may be necessary Keep a level head when the work is crowding. Think quick and do the most important thing first, then the next. Don’t get rattled, but do one thing at a time.

Liquid manure is the most valuable part, often containing as much as 60 to 75 per cent, of fertility. Plenty of bedding will help to save it. it you have not a cistern into which the liquid manure is drained. No two horses any more than two people require the same amount of feed to keep them in condition. You must study your fmIUMIJ । I—LLj. with judgment to secure the best results.

Do you know how to ground your fence wires to prevent lightning doing damage to stock? Simply thrust a length of heavy wire several feet into the ground down the slue of occasional posts, and staple to the fence wires where they cross. Boys should learn* how to sharpen their own knives, hang up their caps, hunt up things that are lost, be faithful to a trust, brave In the face of danger, plucky when a pain or hurt would make them cry, helpful to everybody human, and kind to beast and bird.

It does not pay to let the cows get down in their milk because pasturage is short. If you want them to go . through the winter with a good milk flow, keep them well fed, for it is al- 1 most impossible to bring the cow up to full flow when once shrinkage has taken place. Tent caterpillars are becoming more numerous every year. I'here ought to be laws enacted in every state for their extermination. If every farmer would see to It that his own premises are kept free from them it would be the means of much benefit to fruit trees, young and old. Decayed and ulcerated teeth or teeth which have worn uneven will put a horse out of condition quickly, for the animal cannot chew his food properlj and indigestion follows. Look to the horse’s teeth, doctor the sore gums, draw out the decayed teeth, even up the good ones, and you will put jour horse into the way of returning health.

The worst thing you can do to the horse that refuses to pull is to beat him. Be kind to him, caress him. allay his excitement by speaking and stroking his neck, and leave the team alone for 10 or 15 minutes. Then urge them on again, turning the horses a little to the right and left, so as to get them in motion, before they feel the presence of the load behind them. Drive about 20 paces and stop again, before the balky horse stops on his own account. Then caress and start again. A writer in the Century Magazine on “The Future Wheat Supply of the United States,” declares that wheat farming in a majority of the wheatproducing regions of the United States is still carried on in a slothful and careless manner.” continuous wheat cropping destroying the soil productivity. “It is to be hoped.” continues | the writer, "that the present wheat lands of the United States can be i utilized for wheat production for many I generations to come; but this can be I done only by making wheat alternate with other field crops in the scheme of cropping, instead of growing the crop continuously until the land must i undergo a period of renovation before ■it is again productive. If systems of agriculture could be instituted on all ' the soils of the United States in which i the grain, grass and cultivated crons i were alternated, the fertility of our eoils ccnld bo indefinitsly maintained

VISITS WITH ^INGLEBY On the Wing. frill * A deaf mute recently gave S4O for a phonograph. A phonograph ought to be worth that to a deaf man. ☆ ☆ ☆ There are folks who could pay the grocer more promptly if they didn't spend so much time paying old scores. ☆ ☆ ☆ Many a bachelor would have been married long ago had he possessed sufficient capital to buy a diamond engagement ring. ☆ ☆ ☆ “Life seems brighter in the morning,’ sings a Denver poet. That depends upon what a man has been doing the night before. ☆ ☆ ☆ Some men don’t go to the club evenings because their wives have a club for them at home. This Is good either way you interpret it. ☆ ☆ ☆ I am not in favor of women lawyers. After she had broken a few wills, it would be too easy for her to break the hearts of her successful clients. ☆ ☆ £ A man can come home late, bang the screen door, fall over a chair and cuss volubly without waking his wife, provided he doesn’t care if she hears him, but if he is trying to sneak in. he cannot crawl on his hands and knees softly enough to reach the bottom step of the stairway before she will pipe him in the dark! ☆ ☆ ☆ In these days of ennui an automobile helps because it provides an opportunity for the seeker of thrills to take chances. When he palls at this, he stops at a saloon and gets drunk. Then he staggers out and runs ths automobile. This combination either has the desired effect or kills the man —and a man might as well be dead now a days as not be entertained. o o o A Seer.

f J -Jr k Oh. he sought to tell her fortune As he lingered rather late. While she blushed as rosy colored As the embers in the grate! Then he took her hand so dainty And she felt her pulses thrill. As he held it snug and tender Very much against her will! As the firelight flashed and flickered. He bent low above her palms— Reading forecasts with a vision That was destitute of qualms! “You will wed,” he said, “next Christmas — Wed a dark man. tall and strong. Who will love you and protect you— Love you tenderly and long!"

“And this bold. Intrepid wooer. Where is he?" the maiden cried. “Just at present," said the prophet, “He is sitting at your side!” , “Oh, I don’t believe in fortunes'” Gasped the maiden in affright. But the paper said, last Tuesday: “They'll be married Christmas night!” ; o o o Tragedy. ( A New York woman married a light-house-keeper but later discovered that while he did light jobs, he expected her to do all the heavy work. One night while trimming the lamps, he became enraged at her and made it unanimous. Unlike the lamps, she went out. Now she is suing for divorce on the grounds that he is not a good light-house-keeper. o o o Dry and Hot. A Missouri paper wails that it is so hot over there that horses have to stand in water an hour every day to keep their shoes from coming off and wagons are going around with their tongues out. The river bed is so dry it has to be sprinkled before vou can go fishing. The catfish kicked up such a dust that it choked to death 13.000 cattle who were searching for a drink of water. The railroad set a pond on fire and burned up 17 wagon load l of bnH frogs. The ground is so hard that crawfish holes .ire being pulled up. sewed together and shipped to Texas for gas pipes o o o

Courteous. Last spring we asked you to take time by the forelock and pay up your back subscripshions to the Bugle before summer arrived. No attention was paid to this, so we now respectfully ask you to pay up your subscripshions before winter arrives.— BingviUe Bugle. o o o Saving Money. “Only seven days to October and hotter than the hinges of a bake oven.” complains a Michigan editor. Don’t get peevish, brother. Remember it will soon be time to print that notice about bringing in stumps on subscription! Picking Out a Job. "Work.” observed the reflective deadbeat —"work is all right If you can get the sort to suit your individual needs. 1. for instance, wouldn't object to calling out the stations on an Atlantic liner.”

In Burns’ Land. The “Auld Brig.” over which Tam o’ Shanter fled when his mare lost her I tail, is no longer used, but is protected as a sacred historical relic. A new bridge has been bui- a few yards above it over the “Bennie D on ”

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A Common Regard. “Just bacß from your vacation?” “Yes.” “How was it?” “Fine. I haven't but one regret.” “What’s that?” “I wish I had waited until next month to take it.’ “Why?” “So I would have it to take.” An Inopportune Query. “For whom do you intend to vote at the next election?" “I dunno,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “I ve got too much work of mv own just at present to mix into this rivalry for holding gover’mens jobs.”—Washington Star.

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