6 irff 5 * 7 SERIAL \ \J2 STORY THE LOVES] o/ the LADY ARABELLA I MOLLY ELLIOT SEAV/ELL (Copyright, lUUC, Buhbs-Mi-rrilt Co.) SYNOPSIS. At 14 years of ago Admiral Sir Peter Jfawkshaw's ruphev f--II deeply in loye at first sight with I<:<<!> Aralvlla Stor morit, who spurned Ids attentions. Tho laii, an orphan, was Riven a berth as mid shipman on tilt* Aja\ I>y his uncle. Giles Vernon, nephew of Sir Thomas Vernon, became the hoy's pal. They attended a theater whore IlawUaliaw's nephew F;IW I-ady Arabella. CHAPTER ll.—Continued. Xo sooner liad Giles said tliis than i , with the determination to be known I as a man of spirit (I was, as I said, but 14(, I concluded 1 would go to Ixm don, too. On the day that Giles Ver non got his 24 hours' leave, 1 also got the same. Mr. Buxton looked a little queer when I asked him for it, and said something about not allowing the midshipmen to leave Portsmouth; but I answered readily enough that I wished very much togo on a little expedition with Giles Vernon, which would last overnight. As the other midshipmen had been allowed similar liberty, I got my request; and next morning, as the Phoebus coach for London rolled out of the'stables into the inner yard, I approached. Giles Vernon was also on hand. His stir-1 prise was great, when he saw me. "You take a risk, my lad," he said. "Xo more than you do," 1 replied, stoutly. "And I, too, love a roguish eye and a blushing cheek, and mean to goto the playhouse with you to see Mistress Trenchanl." At which Giles roared out one of his rich laughs, and ! cried: "Ccme along, then, my infant Don j r Juan." We got inside the coach, because it was fur from unlikely that, we might meet some of our own officers ors the road, or even Sir l'eter Hawk shaw himself, who traveled much be iween Portsmouth and the admiralty. And had we been caught, there is lit tle doubt that we should have been forced to right about face, in spite j of the leave each one of us had in his j pocket. So we made ourselves ex-1 tremely small in a corner of the coach, and only ventured to peep out once,| when we caught sight of Sir Peter I Hawk-haw's traveling chaise going London-wards, and Sir Peter himself j lying back in ii, reading a newspaper.) After that, you may be sine we were j very circumspect. 1 noticed, however, the same thing ! in the coach that I had observed the j first hour I set eyes on Giles Vernon — i that every woman he met was his | friend. There were some tradesmen's] wives, a. French hairdresser, and the! usual assortment of women to he found in a public coach; and in half' an hour Giles Vernon had said a pleas-' ant word to every one of them, and : basked In their smiles. The day was in April, and was! bright throughout; and the relays of, horses were so excellent that we reached London at four in the after- j noon, having left Portsmouth at nine! in the morning. We went straight toj a chophouse, for we were ravenously j hungry. "And now, Dicky boy," said Giles to] me, "keep a bright lookout for any of our men; and if you see one, cut your cable and run for it, and if we aro separated meet me at the White Horse Cellar at 12 o'clock to-night to take the midnight coach." Ity the time we had got our dinner, it was time togo to the play. We marched off. and made our way thronsh the mob of footmen, and got seats for the pit; and when we went in, and 1 saw the playhouse lighted up and the boxes filled with beautiful 1 was near beside myself. Giles laughed at me, but that 1 did not mind. 1 gaped about me until suddenly Giles gripped my arm, and whispered to me: "Don't look to the lefi. There is a box with Peter Hawkshaw in it, and Polly, and two girls—one of them the greatest beauty 1 ever saw, though but a slip of a girl. If Peter or Polly sees us, Lord help us!" 1 did not look around immediately, but tiie desire to have a glimpse of the adorable Lady Arabella made me steal a glance that way. She was very beautifully dressed, and, though but little more than 10, such a vision of loveliness as fairly to rival reigning beauties of several seasons' standing. 1 own that I saw little Daphne sitting by Lady Arabella, but I noted her scarcely at all. Xor could Giles keep his eyes off Lady Arabella; and 1 noticed that even when the divine Sylvia, as he called her, was on the stage, ho was not strictly attentive to her, but rath er sought that fateful box where so much beauty was enthroned. The divine Sylvia was delightful actress, 1 must admit, and in spite of being -10 if she was a day, and though raddled with paint, she had something winning in her air and face, and 1 could understand her tremendous pop ularity with the young bloods. Neither Sir Peter nor Polly, as Giles called her, showed any signs whatever of having recognized its in the large crowd in the pit, and we began to congratulate ourselves hear tily. There was a seat next to us held by a gentleman's servant, and present ly he gave way to a remarkably hand some young man of six or seven and twenty. A few words passed between master and man, and then we knew that the handsome gentleman was Capt. Philip Overton of the Second Life Guards. Giles exchanged significant looks with me. Capt. Overton seated himself quiet ly. and, after a careless glance at the house, seemed to retire Into his own thoughts, quite unmindful of the stage and what was going on upon it. I wondered why a man who seemed so little in harmony witli his surround ings should take the trouble to come to the play. Hut if Capt. Overton was indifferent to all about him, one person, the young beauty in Lady Hawkshaw's box, was far from indifferent to him. Lady Arabella saw his entrance, and from that moment she was occupied in trying to obtain his attention. When at last he recognized her and bowed slightly, she flamed all over with color, and gave him as good an invitation as any man might want to come to her box. But Overton made no sign of any intention togo to her. and, when she finally seemed to realize this, she be came as indifferent to all about her as he was. Other persons came to the box and went during the play, but they got little heed from Lady Ara bella. Little Daphne, although but a child, not. yet in her teens, showed a lively interest in all that passed and behaved in a most young-ladyish way, much to my diversion. i 1 was all of two years older than she.) As the play progressed, I saw that Giles was becoming more and more infatuated with the fledgling beauty, and he even whispered to me a sug gestion that we present ourselves boldly at the door of the box. This I received with horror, fear ing both Sir Peter and Lady Hawk shaw. Indeed, I had not been able to shake off this fear of my great-uncic and aunt for a moment. One's first night at the play is usual ly a magic dream, but mine was tem pered with the dread of being caught on the spot, of being delayed in our . --" ■' j ' I.!!■■ ■ ■ M.LIWI ' ■ IIIIMWIII-.i ■——— —q ~ i r u »r~ \ H 18208*: iH ii. f f . Jd EDO- '• JC=r)q I JffrxiTJk There Was Nothing for Me to Do But to Walk Along Beside Him. return to Portsmouth, and the torment of seeing the adored of my heart quite absorbed in another man. Wljen the play was over, we sat still until the Hawkshaw party had passed out, and then, more for the sake of bravado, I think, than inclination, Giles run pell-mell to the stage door, j where ho made one of a mob of gen tlemen to see the divine Sylvia to her chair. And, to my alarm, as soon as the kuiy was within and the curtain drawn, lie tipped the wink to one of the chairmen, who silently gave tin his place, and Giles, taking up the pole, trudt-ed off, assisting to carry his port ly mistress. There was nothing for me to do but to walk along beside him amid tho rattle and roar of coaches, and shouting of the hackney coach men, the pushing and jostling of chairmen and linkboys, and all the confusion that attends the emptying of a playhouse. Mrs. Trench ard's door was not far away, and when she was put down, and Giles sneaked off. I observed the handsome Capt. Overton standing at the turn of the street laughing at him. Giles, who was so timid in his love, was bold enough in his wrath, and stepping up to Overton said coolly: "Sir, I perceive you are smiling. Who is the harlequin that amuses you. may I ask?" "You, sir," promptly answered Over ton. "You are too good," responded Giles, "and I have before pinked my man in aeauty's quarrel,"—and then he slapped Overton in the mouth. The next thing 1 knew their two swords were flashing in the moonlight. I stood paralyzed with fear. Not so a couple of burly watchmen, who, run ning forward, clutched the offenders and dragged them apart. Hut the two late enemies, making common cause against the watchmen, fought them off: and when the watch men desisted from the fight to spring their rattles for assistance, both Giles and the officer ran down a dark alley, followed by me as last as my short logs would carry me, aud soou all CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1909 three of us wore huddled together in the porch of a church, some distance away from the scone of Ihe fracas. "Neatly done," remarked Overton with a smile, to Giles. "1 should have been in that brawny fellow's clutches now, but for the clip over the head you gave him." "You did your share, sir," politely responded Giles. "But time presses and our affairs must be settled," said Overton; "here is my card. It is 100 dark to read it. but I am Capt. Philip Overton, of the Second Life Guards." "And I," replied Giles, "am Midship man Giles Vernon of the Ajax, ship of the line, now at Portsmouth." By the dim light of a lantern in the church porch I saw the expression of astonishment upon Overton's face. "Then," he stammered, "we are re lated." "Yes," replied Giles, smiling, "and if you pierce me through with sword or pistol, it will he worth one of the finest estates in the kingdom to you, provided always that old villain, Sir Thomas Vernon, does not marry and have children in spite of us." Overton reflected, half laughing and half frowning. "If only you had not passed a blow! Anything else, there could be an ac commodation for. It was most un fortunate." "Yes, as it turns out," responded Giles; "but the question is, now, when and where can we meet?" Just then the great bell of St. Paul's tolled out the half before mid night, and I. who had been an almost unobserved listener, spoke out of the fullness of my heart. "Giles," said I, "the coach leaves at 12. If we do not get to Portsmouth in time, we are deserters. Let Capt. Overton write to you and light after ward." "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings comes wisdom," replied Overton, smiling; and so in two min utes it was settled, Overton agreeing to come to Portsmouth to fight, if Giles could not get leave to meet him half-way between Portsmouth and London. We then bade him good-by, and ran off as fast as our legs could carry us, and barely made the coach. We traveled all night, Giles sleep ing soundly and snoring very loud, in one corner. I felt great uneasiness about the coming meeting between him and Overton, although I believed there was 110 hostile feeling between them. But when two men face each other with arms in their hands, there is always the possibility of awful catastrophe. The roseate morning broke when we were still some distance from Ports mouth. The sight of the blooming hedge-rows, the bird-songs, arid all the fair beauty of the morning made me long to be outside, and at the last stride—my companion still sleeping— -1 got out, and with a shilling to the coachman, got the box seat, ''"here were only two or three persons, be sides the guard, 011 the coach. Once up there, I could not rest sat isfied without handling the ribbons. I had never even driven a donkey in my life, but, nevertheless, I aspired to drive four fresh roadsters. The coach man, a good-natured, foolish fellow, gave me the reins, down a perfectly smooth lane. 1 seized the whip, too. and brought it down across the wheel ers' backs, and, the next thing I knew the coach was lying 011 its side 011 the road, and 1 was 011 the ground. It was over in a wink, and it seemed scarcely longer before it had been righted; for the load was extremely light, and 110 one was hurt except Giles. He scrambled out of the coach window, his arm hanging down, not broken, but out of joint. 1 pointed to It. "Your sword arm," I said. There was nothing for it but to make for Portsmouth as fast as pos sible. Giles was in extreme pain; he said nothing, but groat drops came out upon his forehead. When we reached the town, I at once put off in search of i a surgeon, while Giles remained at the inn. I soon fetched the surgeon, who I got the arm into place. When the man had finished, Giles asked when he could use his arm for pistol shoot ing. (TO BR CONTINUED.) POPULAR AUTHORS. The Preacher Finds Ready Sale tor His Books in His Parish. Bent on an errand of mercy, a city prowler made his way into a strange neighborhood. What impressed him most was the bookstore windows. In every one for blocks around were stacks of a new book he had never heard of by a writer of whom he bad never heard. "Who is this man?" he finally asked. "Why is he so popular hereabouts?" "He is the pastor of the Presby terian church down in the next block," said the stationer. "Every bookseller in the neighborhood is making a spe cialty of his hook. That is the usual way of- doing things when a clergy man brings out a new book. Anybody else might appear in the publishers catalogue every month without arous ing local pride, but with the preachers it. is different. Wh<?n a minister turns author that old saw about the prophet being without honor in bis own coun try is disproved with a vengeance. Every spring there is a considerable literary output by the pastors of New York churches. The first place where these volumes are put on sale is the bookstores near the church where the minister preaches, and usually the largest sales are made there." Might Come to Texas. "If you continue as you are doing now how in the world do you expect to get into heaven?" "I don't expect to—not in the world." —Houston Post. A NOVEL FARM GATE. It Is Easily Operated and Is Not Dif ficult to Make. This gate is so devised that instead of swinging to one side, a weight and cord is so attached that with a slight lift at the latch end it can be raised and will so back between the two rear posts so that team or convey ance will pass without trouble. After passing a slight pull on the gate will ~—■ —— - • — iz Fig. I.—Gate in Normal Position. Ihrow it out of its balance and bring It back to its position once more. Fig. 1 shows the gate as it stands in a normal position. A represents the two posts, which are in height a little more than equal to the length of the gate. They are placed about five or six inches apart so that when gate Is raised, as shown in Fig. 2, the gate will swing on the holt at bottom of the gate and pass between the two posts until the rear end is standing on (he ground or blocks placed there to receive it. At (lie bottom at the latch end of the gate a stout rope is (Qi —' Fig. 2.—Gate Shown When Opening. attached which runs backwards to the top of the post and passes over a pulley arranged at one side so that the weight will not interfere when the gate is raised, as shown in Fig. 2. This gate, says the Prairie Farmer, Is said to lie particularly useful in places where it is not convenient to put a swinging gate, and a sliding gate is not wanted. When properly erected a gate made after this plan is said to be reasonably satisfactory. CMALL ASPARAGUS BED. Locate It Right and Putin the Root 3 Right. The plot of ground I selected was tn a sunny spot beside the yard fence, and well drained, says a writer in Orange Jttdd Farmer. It was four feet wide and 12 feet long, 1 threw out the dirt to a depth of six inches, 1 then filled in three inches with well rotted manure, spreading over this a layer of earth and mixing thoroughly. Then 1 again put on a layer of ma nure an inch and a half deep, cover ing it with dirt and stirring it to gether. Having ordered 50 plants from a seed house,l set (he roots deep in the bed, and covered them with about two inches of dirt mixed with manure. I set the plants four inches apart each way. Most of the plants lived and grew very nicely all last summer. I found salt a splendid fertilizer for as paragus, as well as a destroyer of weeds and grass. I sprinkled it over Ihe bed and r.o weeding was neces sary. I stirred the soil occasionally with a long fork. The bed I recently covered for winter with four inches of rotten manure, and am expecting to enjoy asparagus in the early spring. FARM NOTES. How are the farm implements? Any of them need repairs before the spring's work begins? Oil up the work harness now while you have time, it will pay. Don't plant poor, weak seed corn next spring. It is time and money thrown away. There is plenty of good, strong seed to bo had. Don't have a lot -"*f manure lying in the yards all summer. It will lose just about half of its value by fall. Do you follow crop r< tat ion on your farm? It's the only way to properly cranage a farm for besl results in pro ducing big crops and maintaining Hie fertility. When a field is selected for growing timothy it shosild be plowed early in the summer and worked thorough.y until about the middle of August, when it should he seeded with timothy and about 000 pounds of acid fertilizer and 100 pounds of sulphate of potash drilled into the soil three inches deep. FARMMADE GARDEN HARROW. Can Be Put to a Variet/ of Uses on the Farm. This harrow can be 11 ed in many other places besides the garden- Tor covering potatoees, following (he cul- K /¥?% / c y%A°\ Harrow and Parts. Explanatory: A mid R pices of hard pin" L'j by L'i,j Inches at small end, b> 274 Inches at large • nd, and feet 5 inches lonir. C Is nf hard wood, prefera bly oak, I : > 4by -% inches and :i feet 3 Inches lent,', with four one-half-inch lioleti at regular intervals in lower end. D In a piece of strap Iron one-quarter by one quart er by inches and is bolted to cen ter piece <C) only, 16 inches from front end. 10, K, O and H ure of same mate rial I, IH<; inches lons. J. .1 are strong Irons one-quarter-inch square by BV4 inches lonw. For a hitch bore hole through center piece at K, use an ordi nary clevis. To change width withdraw bolt at I.and move aiyns from one hole to the other. Handles can easily be added if desired. The size and dimensions given arc exact ones of my harrow, but they ran be varied if desired. Harrow has 10 teeth 8 inches apart and one in the center. tivator in the corn field, etc. For the latter purpose, says the Farmers' Mail and Breeze, it has no superior and few implements <an truthfully lay claim to being its peer. If the corn is harrowed between the rows imme diately nfter plowing it will leave the ground level and free from clods, thus preventing the danger of washing. It forms a blanket which prevents the evaporation of moisture, and leaves the ground in a much better shape to be plowed again. The harrow is ad justable and has a width varying from one foot to three. THE STRAWBERRY. Have a Bed of the Luscious Fruit for Your Own Use on the Farm. The strawberry is the first berry fruit to ripen in the spring and a generous planting of them should be made. They follow closely alter rhu barb and asparagus. I will uut at tempt to give cultural directions ex cept in briefest outline. The soil must ho rich and the plants must be set in spring for best results. It takes from 200 to 500 plants to sup ply a family, depending upon the wants of the family and the skill of the grower. They should be s<'t in rows five feet apart in the row. All weeds must be hoed out by hand that do not come in line with the cultiva tor. The cftener they are cultivated and hoed, the better will be the growth and the larger the crop of berries. When winter comes, explains the Northwestern Agriculturist, the bed should be nicely cv\«:>d with straw and left on t"i warm weather comes, when it should be removed from ihe plants and placed in the rows for a carpet to get down on when picking, and also to act as a preventive of drying out in dry weather. There are numerous rieties of strawberries and most of them are valuable under certain con ditions. The varieties that make a great run of plants arc the best for the average farmer to grow. They do beet when given careless culture and stand the winter bettr than more ten der varieties. ALFALFA POINTERS. The Best Way to Prepare the Field and to Sow the Seed. The best way to get an alfalfa stand Is to begin a year ahead and manure heavily, grow a cultivated crop and keep it clean. Any old clay side bill lliat washes badly when cultivated, can in this way be put iti shape to seed to alfalfa. Hay from these fields if fed at home will help enrich the rest of the farm. Those fields that grew the cultivated crop and were kept clean, sail lie either plowed or disced well be fore seeding. Using land that has been well manured we would put as the keynote of success. If ihe alfalfa cot'ld be drilled ?ti at a uniform depth, not deep, but so all the seed would be covered, says a writer in the Wisconsin Agriculturist, it seems to me that there would be a great saving in amount of seed used. We have never tried this. If the alfalfa is seeded in grain, seed the grain light and it can be allowed to ripen as a grain crop. Where the roil is light and subject to drought we would recommend seeding alone, about the time you would seed oats. Bo sure and get the seed on even, as an alfalfa stand is to be left for years, and one cannot afford to have an uneven stand. Some use a wheelbarrow seeder and seed botli ways. Care of Cane Fruits. Blackberries are easily raised The fall is the best time for planting Set in rows abput nine feet apart, three feet in row. Commence cullivation as Boon as ground is in proper condition in the spring. Cultivate deep in the early part of the season. Later prac tice shallow cultivation with a barrow. Dust mulch is better and cheaper than straw. The latter also tends to har bor mice and insects Bushes should be trimmed twice a year, being cut back the second spring to a height of I! to ;>'L> feet. After picking is over cut out old canes and all small and weak growths.—Superintendent Mcllvaiue, Central Illinois Horticultural Experi ment Station. PE-RU-NA For Cramps in th« stomach of Six Tears' Staudinff* "I was troubled with cramps in the stomach for six years. I tried many kinds of medicine, also was treated by three doctors. "They said that I had nervous dys pepsia. 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"As 1 said to /Senas on the way home, 'l've heard a dozen or more sermons preached on that text, and this young man's the first one that ever made me realize how difficult 'twas to explain.'"— Youth's Companion. Important to mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOKIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Boars tho // Signature of In Use For Over JSO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. It's difficult t.o get a crooked man Interested in the scenery along thi straight and narrow path. ru.ns cchki> in <■ to i t i»ays. PA/.i) o.'NT.MK.NVi -kCunnintced to euro anv •it Itrbliitf. lilin«l. Illfi'ifiiiK or i'rotrudint; i*i'l«» :n • U itavs or uioiicy Win. One way to remove paint is to sit down on it before it Is dry. 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