Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 October 1908 — Page 3

i Escapade^ A POST MARITAL ROMANCE ° KO by cyrus Townsend mady^K JLL ÜBTBAT/ON<§ BY M j PAY WALTER'S n ® t oWo {COPYRIGHT, /9O 8 BY j I lib W G CHMPT7AA/) y

SYNOPSIS. The Escapade opens, not fn the rotnance 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 had 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 Strathgate. Additional attentions of 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, an American girl, met Lord Strathgate at two a. m., he agreeing to see them safely away. Ellen fled, Strathgate driving. He attempted to take her to his castle, but the left him stunned in the road when the carriage met with an accident. She and Debbie then struck out for Portsmouth, where she intended to sail for America. ' CHAPTER Vll.—Continued. Suddenly Carrington thought of the door not often used that opened into the hall from her bedroom. He cursed himself for a fool for not having thought of it before. He ran thither at once in spite of the fact that his conduct was attracting the attention of the servants passing to and fro about their various duties. He tried the handle of the door, which was shut, and found it was unlocked. He threw it open. The bed had not been tenanted, yet Ellen had certainly undressed, for the gown and other things she had worn the night before lay in a tumbled, confused heap on the floor just where she had kicked them off. My lady’s desk stood open before him. A piece of paper caught his eye. He dropped the slipper, darted toward it, opened the paper, which was addressed to him, and read the following: “The enclosed pays my last debt to Lord Carrington. When he reads this, I shall be on the way to my own land. With the money which he won, he can buy himself Lady Cecily without the formality of a marriage ceremony and in her arms he can forget the woman he shamed, whom he once loved and who once loved him.” From the paper as he had torn it open, an inclosure had fallen. He stooped and picked it up. It was the i cheque oil ?! twenty Wk^MtaM-housand pounds. My lord’s brain S- _ ”ed as he stared from the cheque to the note. It was as if he had been struck some powerful blow over the heart and was for the moment paralyzed. He sank down in a chair and gazed stupidly about him in great bewilderment. And then he heard his name called. ‘‘My lord, my lord!” It was' the aged butler coming up the stairs, white-faced and panting. “What is it, Jepson?” cried Carrington, confronting the man. “Speak out. What has happened?” “One of the footmen, Thomas, my lord, has just come in from the stables. He says that he found the three stable boys who were there lant night bound and gagged.” “What!” cried Lord Carrington. “That s not all, sir,” continued the faithful Jepson, “the coachman—” “Has he gone?” queried the earl. “No, my lord. He was bound and gagged, too, in the coach house.” “Who did it?” “He says the earl of Strathgate.” “Impossible!” protested Carrington, fighting against the awful suspicion that entered his heart. “It’s quite true, my lord.” Carrington dashed back madly into his wife’s room. He had known that she had hanging in her closet the sailor’s suit which she had worn on her cruises with him. A dark suspicion had come to him. He tore open the door of the closet and tore from the hooks one after another the gorgeous dresses which hung there. He did not find what he sought. She had evidently worn it away. He turned from the room, ran through the hall and down the flight of stairs to the library. The coachman awaited him. “Who was with Strathgate when he bound you last night?” “A young man, 1 take it, my lud,” answered the coachman. “The room was dark, with only the firelight, and I couldn’t see very well. Lord Strathgate threatened me with a pistol, or I’d have made outcry and resistance. He kept me covered with my head turned away. The young man handed him straps to lash me.” “You coward!” cried Carrington, fiercely turning on the man. “I beg your pardon, your lordship. I’m afeard of no man who comes at me with his fists, but that pistol.” He threw open the door and the three boys came in. “Who was with Lord Strathgate last night?” questioned Carrington fiercely. The stable boys shuffled uneasily. “By heaven!” cried Carrington in tones of thunder, “answer me or I ll have you flogged all over the place.” “ ’Twas a slight young man,” said one of them, finally. “We didn’t recognize who it was,” he continued, boldly lying. “Lord Strathgate is a very imperious man and he covered us with his pistol and swore if we made a sound he’d blow our brains out, and the young man tied our hands and the two "" ’em gagged us.” “Couldn’t you see who the young man was?” “No, my lud; not in the dark.” “Which team did they take?” said Carrington, cutting in. “The bays, my lud.” "The bays! The best team in the • •table! and the traveling carriage?”

“Your lordship, yes, sir,” returned the coachman. “That will do. Go you and saddle Sailor and the best rider among you boys saddle the best horse left in the stable and make ready to come with me. See that your pistols are in the holsters.” A moment later there was a timid knock on the door and at Carrington’s bidding the ■woman who looked after Mistress Deborah entered. “Your lordship, Mistress Slocum’s room is empty.” The maid disappeared, only to give place to Admiral Kephard. “What’s the trouble, my lad?” said the admiral, rolling into the room, giving evidence in the disorder of his costume of the haste in which he had made his toilet. “Lady Carrington has gone. She left me this.” He drew from the pocket of his waistcoat the note, added the cheque to it, and extended them to the admiral. The old man took them, read them slowly, folded them up and returned them to the injured husband. “Carrington,” he said, “you’ve been a fool.” “I know it,” returned the other. “The idea,” said the admiral, “of your giving a look to that painted old coquette, when you had such a woman as Lady Ellen for your wife.” “You can’t say anything too harsh for me, admiral.” “I’m glad you are awake to the situation. Now the thing to do is to clap on sail in chase, overhaul her.

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bring her to, make your apologies handsomely and fetch her back to anchorage under convoy. Then we’ll clear out this crew.” “There’s Seton!” ejaculated Carrington, peering through the window. “Charlie!” he called. Seton turned. “Come here quickly, bear a hand.” There was that in Carrington’s voice which indicated some grave emer- । gency. Seton ran across the lawn and vaulted right through the window. “Lady Carrington’s gone,” said Carrington, bluntly. “Did you know anything about it?” “You insult me!” cried Seton, fiercely. “How should I know anything about it?” “You’ve been hanging around her ever since you came here. I’ve caught you a dozen times alone together.” “Lord Carrington," cried Seton, “I’ll not be catechized and insulted this way another moment.” “It was you or Strathgate,” continued Carrington, hotly, “one or the other of you, but Strathgate s got ahead of you. He’s gone and Lady Ellen with him.” “Great heavens! You can’t mean it!” I “I shall start after them,” said Sir Charles. “If I come across them first, I shall send word to you, and I trust that you'll do the same by me.” “Don't fear,” answered Carrington as the other turned and dashed out of the room. “You’ll find me at Portsmouth, Car- | rington,” said the old admiral. “I’ll j be glad to render you any assistance |in my power. You won’t fail to call ] upon me, will you?” “I will not. Will you tell the duke i and duchess and the others that they may take theL own time in departing, but that they better be out of the house before I get back.” “God help and God bless you!” said ■ the admiral as Carrington ran out of the room.

A few Sioments later, boote^ ■purred, cloaked, armed for his rida^ he came down the hall. An early riser for her on that eventful day wai Lady Cecily. Her maid had carried a strange bit of gossip to her. "Bernard,” she cried, catching him by the arm, “what a relief! What a release!” Mj’ lord stood very straight and tall. | His eyes snapped viciously. Lady Cecily must have been blind not to have i seen how thin the ice upon which she trod. “She has gone, the little country 1 girl,” cooed Lady Cecily. “When you | have taken vengeance upon Strathgate you will come back to me, and remember that whatever happens to you, I care very much. I can’t forget your lips last night.” “Madam,” said my lord, very stiff and stern. “I, too, cannot forget last night. I was a fool then, but I shall be no longer. Will your ladyship kindly release me?” “What, Carrington!” she cried in dismay. “I mean it both now and forever. I And hark, ye, madam, when I return with my wife, I think she will not be best pleased to find you here.” “Are you going back to that ?” and Lady Cecily used a rough word i better fitted for the camp than the court. "You Jezebel!” cried my lord, ra43—ing his hand as if to strike her. He "was white with passion and indignation. Lady Cecily shrank back [ against the door terrified. My lord’s ! hand fell by his side, and without another glance at her he strode down the gravel path where the lightest and best of the grooms held tw r o horses. My lord sprang to the back of Sailor, put a spur into the horse and raced madly down the driveway, past the lodge gate, out upon the main road, and turned his head toward Portsmouth. It was west, therefore, that the young soldier rode, his mind in a turmoil as to whether Strathgate had run away with Mistress Deborah or Lady Ellen, and his soul filled -with hot indignation against his hoet on a number of counts. Neither of them knew that two

hours before a muddy, blood-stained man, riding horseback upon a coach horse from which the traces and Other parts of harness had been cut, bad passed the gate on the way to .Portsmouth at a gallop that bade fair to kill the horse. Strathgate had recovered consciousness after awhile, : dnd thinking that the two women Would go back to Portsmouth by । some means or other, had mounted the ’ess tired of the two horses, somewhat • refreshed by the half hour’s rest, and bad galloped in that direction. CHAPTER VIII. Sir Charles Picks Up the Course. It is necessary that we take up the i course of the different actors in the drama seriatim until they converge at some point which shall be the focus of all their directions. It was about eight o’clock when Carrington and Seton left the hall, turning their backs upon one another, in beginning this famous man and woman hunt. Seton, mounted on his best horse, covered the ground at a great pace. Naturally he made much better time than Strathgate had, for all his furious driving of the bays, ' It was half past nine when at a bend in the road he came upon the overturned carriage. Here was tangible evidence that he was on the right track. He brought his horse to a full stop and dismounted to examine into the situation. The cause of the accident was obvious to the simplest mind. He was not > content with determining that, how- ! ever. So he inspected the carriage ' with the minutest care. He was not long in discovering the hole made by Ellen’s pistol ball through the seat and he instantly divined that some one in the carriage had tried to k.UH , the driver. (TO US CONTiNURUI.

THE WY OF FORGIV ENESS Sunday School Lsss'^'s Oct. 25, 1908 Specially Arran^ pf° r This Paper g LESSON TEXT.—P; 3 2 - Memory verses 1 2. GOLDEN TEXT.—"I Uessed Is he whose transgression is forgi ? en > whose sin is 1 covered.”—Psalm 32:1. 1 TlME.—David’s sin and repentance, a little beyond the mid. 31e of his reign, about B. C. 1034 accort to the margin of our Bibles. His ct 'P ital and palace were at Jerusalem. D; ivid was almost 50 years old, successful t 18 a general and a statesman. The authoi t of the Psalm was probably David, with possible additions in later times to adap tlt to special occasions, as often oc< I sia our hymns. PLACE.— Jerusalem ’ Comment and Su estive Thought. Some time in Dat ; ’ s la ter life, looking back from the I ulab land heights of the restored fav ‘ God, as the Prodigal Son after had returned to his father’s horn and love, King David puts into a h ' mn his own ex ' perience for the coi fort and encouragement of all tave sinned and long to be restc o their father’s home and heart ke Adam and Eve, he had bi '4 of Para-

dise for disobf & and flaming cherubim mid imlroi ~~Hru Ti Lt! ul iiifci at last found the waters'^ & reen pastures of forgivei j 0 be s i n ss: V. 1. "Blessed.” Tl • ° rd . h ® re ' in Psa. 1:1 and Prov.B^'^ I s in the plural, Oh the blesstl- nesses of him whose, etc., "to denog ^ be mos t supreme and perfect bn iedness ” and “to express the manift nature of the blessedness, at all ti * B, f rom all sources, in all depa l- nents of in all circumstances; , in body and in soul, in time ; in eternity.” “Transgression . . . sbn • • • iniquity’” (2). “Sin is here as G 4: spoken of under thrF e , appellations, so as to include the v hole; idea of sin in all its manifestati OQS ’ Perowne. “Forgiven.” That * s ^iven away, removed. “This is, : ecording to the Hebrew conception, t le taking up of transgression as a b ur den, a heavy load, resting upon t be . sinner, and bearing it away from hi™ to a place where it will trouble, n .° more ' —C. A. Briggs, in F ' Grit. Com. “Covered,” so as to de and obI literate it. “It is c< monly used . in connection with sacri ces ’ as staining and defiling the div ie a ltars, was covered over by th . application to them of the blood of sin offering.”—Prof. < ® r iSS s - V. 2. “Imputetb no Doe^ not estimate. consider, or °t in connection with the sh™ er ‘ Professor Briggs. “In whose s there is no guile,” no deceit, “v conceals his sin neither from Got 3r himself. Prof. S. R. Driver. 0 r Bible words for forgiveness are r send away, destroy, wash away, :anse. make them as if they had r been - V. 3. “When I k< lence.” Trying to hide his sin fusing to acknowledge it to him to others, or to God. "My bones 9 most solid and enduring part j hodylwaxed (bccam—•' JSKausFed, enfeebled, worn The secret sin wore him out an*’ ade bim s ^ c ^‘ “Through my roarlnj tbe day long ” “The figure 1 | ^ wn from ibe loud and unrestrained outcries of one suffering intolerable V nd unremitting pain. He was endun n ® an a S° ny which forced from V™ s o ^ and groans that he could P Ol s ti fle - • H. Green. t I “A sin concealed is a bidden j fire. It eats into the f ery ^ e ‘ an Dyke. . "The Spartan boy r id the fox b - neath his coat, and (f en i ed the theft until he dropped de? d ' tbe f° x all the w'hile gnawing at r is vi tals. David felt the gnawing of ^nd i’ was eating out his hef I^' 1 ^' Br ’ B Barton. | i V. 4. “Thy hand f' as heavy upOD me.” “God would notj leave bim t 0 gc on in sin. God’s hand Las beaA, y upon him in chastisement ir order to bring him into a better mir d ’ as a father chastises his child tnl ove tHeb. 12:611.)” “Not merely by if s Pasture oi weight; but, as the P on text implies, heavy because of heap smit ing him again and agar 11 Wlt 1 bls pow ' erful hand, so as tol m . ake ,. him roar with the agony of suffr ling ' P r °f- C A. Briggs. “My moisture” (v. J ’ etc ‘ lbl? sentence Professor Brl^ 8 tianslates. “I was changed (fromF fo rme r condi tion) into misery as wben thorns smite me.” The blow! ^ od s ba u ds are very appropria.telw com l iared wit h the smiting of the bJ J thorns^ as when Gideon taugl t tbe elders of Succoth with thorns briers (Judg. 8:16.) I „ V. 5. “I acknowledf ed my s!n ” wp have seen above h'o/ the bl “ eraeas । of concealment an_ ° £ the prophet led DavidM f lls step “Sin . . . iniquity]’ * ’ transgressions.” The Three soF 113 of sln raen ' tioned in vs. 1, 2. “Acknowledged . . . not bid . . . eonfe ss ’. The three words expressing the completeness and thoroughness of ,e confession. Nothing was withheld. Forgivene 1. We all need forg eaes ^ for sin keeps us from nearne 0 °d, we cannot look him in the ace ' 9 FnrHvpnPW takp . awa y the barrier between us and l It is a restoration to God’s f J ll 3. Forgiveness incl ^ es . tbe wash ' ing away of sin and I 66 ove of sin ’ It will be remembered tl ° niOre ’ 4. Forgiveness, wht ci ® r ? Bod O! man, does not remov v l . t e consequences of sin, at lea „ ^nwdmtely; but it does remove th. ^un^hment of sin in time; it does ii “cdiatelj take away its bitterest st- g Toxin of B; } n ® SS \ A crystalline body bat be 3 : trichotoxin is regardt by r ’. eOs L. Parker as an actii a §cnt in pro-1 ducing baldness. It i camed in tbe I lungs, and it can be ® tect : d in , the । exhaled air. The sac that temales- . who breathe more fu are ess a . ! fected with baldness than ™ ale s IS I cited as evidence supj r ing lie n ®° । . , , , ,t persons who i ry. It is concluded tl 1 , , - - , . hould practice are losing their hair , , . . , the investiga-1 breathing exercises, ai „ ” I ; . . , . vn further that : ion seems to have sh i turpentine is superio ° e usua 1 remedies as a local a; p lca ion '

By Ui ■! ... I , - Dig the borers out of the trees. Be a progressive, if you know wha that means. The ram should be pastured awa from the ewes. The good horse will sell himsel Why raise any other? Leaks in the ^,..*■"‘l-

IHLtrnofshauld be fixed right away. Before taking the colt from the dam be sure he has learned to eat grain. If you have not already done so, do not delay to cut the asparagus tops and burn. The crop of children is just as important looking after and cultivating as the field crops. Think of the fruit season next year and give the bushes and trees the atI tention they need. • Provide the dust bath for the hens before the ground freezes and it is ' impossible to get. the dust. — In deciding what fruits to grow on the farm be governed by those varie- ' ties which do well in your locality. Pin money for the farmer and his family would be more plentiful if tbe ■ chickens were managed more intelligently. Now is the time to go through the orchards and vineyards and pick co- : coons and egg clusters from the trees and vines. Good care of the work horses always pays. The season’s hard work should be offset by better care and better feed. The old corn crib can be made rat and mice proof by lining with wire netting. The cost of netting is more ' than offset by the saving in corn. — The manure from a cow is worth about $6 a year if hauled out to the field at once; about. $3 as handled on —the—average farm. Do you see the point? The suspicious noise in the hen house may be a weasel at work. Find out, rout out and kill if you possibly I can. If you don’t, rest assure Mr. : Weasel will. Dirt hauled on the roads means muddy roads next spring. Do road filling and dragging in the spring. Then in the fall, supplement the work by good dragging again. Improvements continue to be made in the milking machines, so that now several seem to be doing satisfactory work. M here 25 or more cows are kept the machines prove profitable. Clean up the orchards, burn all rub- I bish and you will not only destroy many insect pests, but will remove lurking places for mice who would do injury to the trees during the winj ter time. Knowing how much the cows are giving in milk, and knowing how much it costs to produce it, are two differi ent things. But the second is more i important than the first in carrying j on profitable dairying. — An all-around good -fertilizer is 1 made up of 500 pounds of nitrate of soda, 200 of good bone, 200 of acid | phosphate, 100 of muriate of potash; ' i apply at the rate of 200 to 300 pounds i per acre. This is Prof. Voorhees’ formula. In tests with asparagus in France | it was partly concluded that the green sprouts have the best flavor, and this was believed to be due to the presence of the chlorophyll, the green coloring matter in the skin. Paralysis in pigs if not of long standing may be helped and even overcome by giving three drops of the fluid extract of nux vomica in 15 drops of the oil of gaultheria, and a tablespoonful of cod-liver oil twice a day for several weeks. Store onions in a loft, rather than In a cellar, as in the latter place they are apt to sprout. A few parsnips can be well kept in the cellar by putting in moist sand. Don’t pull them all, though, for freezing sweetens them. Potatoes should be stored in bins. Scientists some years ago proved beyond a doubt that through legumes I we can draw at will upon the inex- j haustible supply of nitrogen in the ; air, settling forever the nitrogen ques- ' tion so far as extensive farming is i : concerned. Nitrogen on the market ! ; in the form of dried blood, sodium | I nitrate, and other commercial ferti- ' ! _ j lizers, costs la cents per pound, and I ! there is one pound of it in every bush: ■ । el of corn, and more than a pound in ' ’ every bushel of wheat. This means I that the corn grower and the wheat । i grower cannot afford to buy nitrogen, ) but must depend upon a rotation in j w-hich occurs one or more of these ■ i legume crops as full crops and as i catch crops to be plowed under in order to maintain the supply of nitrogen in the soil.

I Keep out of debt if it Is z. possible | thing. Molasses is coming more into favor jas a stock feed. Get the corn husked before the snow flies. Push the work. Pick your brood sows from the pigs that belonged to large litters. Let the rams run with the sheet only during the breeding season. It will cost you less to buy the dij for the hogs than to feed the lice. Dip the hogs and clean up the pern if you want to keep them free Iron lice. Keep your horse from bolting hli food. Mix the grain food with hai cut in short lengths. a.t Except in southern localities it ii safer to plant fruit trees and straw berry beds in the spring. ly — Examine the horse’s feet occasion ally and be sure small stones do no If. become wedged in the shoes. Don't store the vegetables too earlj ing point, then get them in quickly. Some farmers have so many places for their tools that it is hard for | them to know just where to look for them. Is the strawberry bed as clean as i it should be? No weeds should be ' there when putting cn the winter mulch. Tea made from buchu leaves Is recommended for horses having kidney trouble. Dose, two ounces night and morning. Look out for the stock during the | cold, sleety rains of the fall. Provide shelter for them, or exposure will cost you dearly. Let the crops you failed to get this year help you to better things next year. Learn your lesson and profit by the disappointing experiences. If it is light, dry and wind-proof the house will prove good for poultry, no matter whether it measures up to modern ideas of poultry achitecture or ! not. Some farmers are so shiftless that they will let young pigs sicken and die right under their eyes as a result of lice, and will then wonder why they have such poor luck. Pick up any new ideas at the fair? i Test them out on the farm and make them work for you. The new idea is ; valuable only when you put it into the concrete form of action. Get the best ewes you can buy, if you find pleasure and profit in sheep raising. Sheep are reasonably cheap this fall. In buying look well to the size, form and texture of the wool coat. The farmer who spends all his time at the state or county fair at the amusement booths and upon the race track is the farmer who goes home without any new ideas or any ambition to raise better livestock. The stronger friendship you can cultivate with the colts the easier will you find it to train them and the more willing servants will they become. Get them into the habit of looking for the bit of sugar or other tidbit. Speak gently to them and pet them. Now is the time to sort over the I chickens, if you have not done it beI fore. Select the most promising for breeding stock, put the culls by themselves and fatten for market. Don’t i winter a single chicken more than you can accommodate and surely not one that will not turn you a profit. The general rule is that the work horses during the busy season should receive two pounds of feed for each 100 pounds of live weight, the heaviest feeding being at night. But one must not forget that the individual characteristics of the animal must be considered in determining the proper | ration. Plan the work so that Sunday is yyt made a day for picking up the loose ends of the work dropped during the week. We know many a farmer who tries to still a conscience troubled over Sunday werk by the plea of the necessity of the work, when in reality the necessity has arisen only because | of careless, shiftless methods during the week. The farmer who supplies cream to the creamery can help to raise the I standard of the butter which the I creamery turns out by using care to deliver cream that is free from bad flavors and taints. Thus the creamery man can get a better price for his butter and he will in turn be able to pay a better price for high grade cream. Where the patrons of a creamery work for the success of the business it will prove mutually helpful. If you do not want to keep the cabbage in the cellar try this method: I Select the driest place in the patch pull up the cabbages aud stand closely together, heads down. Cover with soil from five to six inches, thinly at first, so they will not heat, covering | only enough to prevent freezing as | the season advances. The burying ! beds may be made from four to six j feet wide. Cabbages in quantity | should never be stored in a cellar. In packing a barrel of apples place I two layers of the fruit in the bottom | of the barrel with stems down and as ! close together as possible. This will form the facing, for this end will be । the top when opened. Fill in with ; the same grade, shake often, and when I near the top put in two more layers I with stems up, letting the last layer stand a full inch above the chi. oi barrel. Now put on lid an-i . uwlj press into place, shaking th*- barrel it the meanwhile.

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