6
Is Pe ru-na Useful
for Catarrh?
Should a list of tha ingredients of Fe
runa be submitted to any medical ex
pert, of whatever school or nationality,
he would be obliged to admit without
reserve that the medicinal herbs com
posing Peruna are of two kinds. First,
standard and well-tried catarrh reme
dies. Second, well-known and gener
ally acknowledged tonis remedies.
That in one or the other of these uses
they havo stood the test of many years'
experience by physicians of different
schools. There can bo no dispute about
this, whatever. Peruna is composed of
some of the most efficacious and uni
versally used herbal remedies for ca
tarrhal diseases, and for such conditions
•of the human system as require a tonic.
Each one of tho principal ingredients
of Peruna has a reputation of its own
in the cure of some phase of catarrh or
as a tonic medicine.
The fact is, chronic catarrh is a dis
ease which is very prevalent. Many
thousand people know they have
chronic catarrh. They have visited doc
tors over and over again, and been told
that their case is ono of chronic catarrh.
It may be of tho nose, throat, lungs,
stomach or some other internal organ.
There is no doubt as to tho nature of
the disease. The only trouble is the
remedy. This doctor has tried to cure
them. That doctor has tried to pre
scribe for them.
No other household remedy so uni
versally advertised carries upon the
labol the principal activo constituents,
showing that Peruna invites the full
Inspection of the critics.
NO SURPLUS FUNDS THERE.
Beggar Satisfied with Evidence of
Poverty in Sight.
Two old Hebrew beggars were trav
eling together through the residence
section of Pittsburg not long ago, in
quest of contributions toward their
Joint capital.
Presently they passed a handsome
residence, from which sweet sounds
of music issued. It was Ike's turn and
hopefully he ascended the steps to the
front door, eagerly watched by Jake,
who expected quite a handsome addi
tlon to their funds.
His consternation was great conse
quently when he beheld ike returning
crestfallen and empty-handed.
Anxiously running to meet him, h«
said: "Veil, Ikey, how did you mak«
•out with the good people?"
"Ach, Jakey," j-eplied Ike, "ther«
was no use asking in there, because
they are very poor people themselves
Just think —two lovely ladies playini
on one piano!"— Judge's Library.
BABY CRIED AND SCRATCHED
All the Time—Covered with Tortur
Ing Eczema—Doctor Said Sore*
Would Last for Years—Per
fect Cure by Cuticura.
"My baby niece was suffering from
that terrible torture, eczema. It was
all over her body but the worst was
on her face and hands. She cried anc
scratched all the time and could not
sleep night or day from the scratch
ing. I had her under the doctor't
care for a year and a half and ht
seemed to do her no good. I took hei
to the best doctor in the city and he
said th.«t she would have the soree
until she was six years old. But if 1
had depended on the doctor my babj
would have lost her mind and died
from the want of aid. But I used
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment
and she was cured in three months
Alice L. Dowell, 4769 Easton Ave,, St
Louis, Mo., May 2 and 20, 1907."
WHY HE WAS ANXIOUS.
Albert's Particular Reason for Inquiry
That Worried Nurse.
Albert was a solemn-eyed, spiritual
looking child.
"Nurse," he said one day, leaving his
blocks and laying his hand gently on
her knee, "nurse, is thifc God's day?"
"No, dear," said his nurse, "this is
not Sunday. It is Thursday."
"i m so sorry," he said, sadly, and
went back to his blocks.
The next day and the next, in his
serious manner he asked the same
question, and the nurse tearfully said
to the cook, "That child is too good for
this world."
On Sunday the question was repeat
ed, and the nurse with a sob in her
voice, said, "Yes, This is
God's day."
"Then where is the funny paper?"
he demanded.—Success.
Truth a
Quality
appeal to the Well-informed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditable standing. Accor
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
sweetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any debilitating
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
It acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine—
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co , only, and for aale by all leading drug
gMU.
7SERIAL?
STORY
L_»THE «J
ESCAPADE^
TV "" VI
A POST
MARITAL ROMANCE
By
Cyus Townsend Brady
I
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
RAY WALTERS
(Copyright, lvoß, by VV. O. chapman.)
SYNOPSIS.
The Escapade opens, not in tlie ro
mance preceding the marriage of Ellen
tloeum, a Purl tarn miss, and Lord ("ar-
Xngton of England, but in tiieir life after
settling in England. The scene is placed,
just following Ihe revolution, in Carring
ton castle in England. The Carringtons,
after a house parly, engaged in a family
tilt, caused by jealousy. Lord Carrlng
ton and his wife each made charges of
faithlessness against the other in con
tinuation of the quarrel. First objecting
against playing cards with the guests.
Lady Carrington agreed to cut cards with
Lord Strathgate, whose attentions to
ICllen had become a sore point with Car
rington. Tho loss of SIOO,OOO failed to per
turb her, and her husband then cut for
his wife's I. O. U. and his honor, Car
rington winning. The incident closed ex
cept that a liking for each other appar
ently arose between Lady Carrington and
Lord Strathgate. Additional attentions
of Lord Carrington to Lady Cecily and
Lord Strathgate to Lady Carrington com
pelled the latter to vow that she would
leave the castln. Preparing to tlee, Lady
Carrington and her chum Deborah, an
American girl, met Lord Strathgate at
two a. m., lie agreeing to see them safe
ly away. Kllen fled, Strathgate driving.
He attempted to take her to bis castle,
but she left him stunned in the t*oad
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 hav
ing 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 un
locked. 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 Jay 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 road 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, lie can
buy himself Lady Cecily without the for
mality of a marriage ceremony and in
her arms he can forget the woman he
sUamed, 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 tip. It, was the
cheque on Kllen's bankers for twenty
odd thousand pounds. My lord's brain j
reeled aa he stared from the cheque j
to the note. It was as if he had i
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 Car
rington, 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 last 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. lie 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 stilt which she had worn on
her cruises with him. A dark suspi
cion had come to him. He tore open
the door of the closet and tore from
the hooks one after another the gor
geous dresses which hung there. He
did not find what he sought. She
had evidently vorn it away. He
turned from the room, ran through the
hall and down the flight of stairs to
the library. !*he coachman awaited
htm.
"Who was with Strathgate when he
bound you last night?"
"A young man, I 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 pis
tol, or I'd havo made outcry and
resistance. He kept me covered with
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1908.
j my head turned nway. The young man
1 handed hint 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 Carrlngton fiercely.
The stable boys shuffled uneasily.
"By heaven!" cried Carrlngton in
tones of thunder, "answer me or I'll
| have you flogged ail over the place."
" 'Twas a slight young man," said
I one of them, finally. "We didn't rec
i oKnize who It was,"he continued,
j boldly lying. "Lord Strathgate is a
I very imperious man and he covered us
| with his pistol and swore if we made
I a sound he'd blow our brains out, and
| the young man tied our hands and the
I two of 'ent gagged us."
"Couldn't you see who the young
man was?"
"No, my lud; not in the dark."
"Which team did they take?" said
! Carrlngton, cutting in.
"The bays, my lud."
"The bays! The best team In the
stable! 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
j boys saddle the best horse left in the
j stable and make ready to come with
i me. See that your pistols are in the
i holsters."
A moment later there was a timid
knock on the door and at Carrington's
j bidding the woman who looked after
j 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, giv
ing evidence in the disorder of his
costume of the haste in which he had
I made his toilet.
"Lady Carrington has gone. She left
me this."
He drew from the pocket of his
• waistcoat the note, added the cheque
He Tore Open the Door.
to it, and extended them to the ad
miral.
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,
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 Car
rington. 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 Car
rington, bluntly. "Did you know any
thing about it?"
"You insult me!" cried Seton,
fiercely. "How should 1 know any
thing 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," contin
ued Carrington, hotly, "one or the
other of you, but Strathgate's got
ahoad of you. He's gone and Lady
Ellen with him."
"Great heavens! You can't mean it!"
"I shall start after them," said
Sir Charles. "If I come across them
first, 1 shall send word to you, and 1
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
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
and duchess and the others that they
may take their own time in departing,
but that they better be out of the
house before 1 get back."
"God help and God bless you!" said
the admira' 'is Cn'-rington ran out of
the room.
A few momenta later, booted,
spurred, cloaked, armed for his ride,
he came down the hall. An early
riser for her on that eventful day was
Lady Cecily. Her tnald had carried
a strange bit of gossip to her.
"Bernard," she cried, catching him
by the arm, "what a relief! What a
release!"
My lord stood very straight and tall.
His eyes snapped viciously. Lady Ce
cily must have been blind not to havo
seen how thin the ice upon which
she trod.
"She has gone, the little country
girl," cooed Lady Cecily. "When you
have taken vengeance upon Strathgate
you will come back to me, and remem
ber that whatever happens to you, 1
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 1 shall
be no longer. Will your ladyship
kindly release me?"
"What, Carrlngton!" she cried in
dismay.
"I mean it both now and forever.
And hark, ye, madam, when I return
with my wife, I think she will not bo
best pleased to find you here."
"Are you going back to that ?"
and Lady Cecily used a rough word
better fitted for the camp than thq
court.
"You Jezebel!" cried my lord, rais
ing his hand as if to strike her.
He was white with passion and in
dignation. 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 two
horses.
My lord sprang to the back of Sail
or, 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 Ports
mouth.
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 host 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,
had passed the gate on the way to
Portsmouth at a gallop that bade fair
to kill the horse. Strathgate had re
covered consciousness after awhile,
and thinking that the two women
would go back to Portsmouth by
some means or other, had mounted the
less tired of the two horses, somewhat
refreshed by the half hour's rest, and
had galloped in that direction.
CHAPTER VIII.
Sir Charles Picks Up the Course.
It is necessary that wo take up the
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 over
turned 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 obvi
ous 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 kill
the driver.
(.TO BE CONTINUED.)
USED HIS STORED KNOWLEDGE.
When High School Learning Came in
Handy to Business Man.
"I used for the first time today
something I learned 15 years ago, said
a writer in the Milwaukee Sentinel.
"It was the application of a principle
in geometry in relation to the inscrib
ing of a hexagon in a circle, which I
learned when at the high school. I had
an order placed for some taborets
(that is flower stands) given me and
the party that gave me the order
wants the tops 16 inches across. Well,
that was easy enough to fill, but be
side that the sides were to be hexa
gonal, so I had to sit down and figure
out how much five-eighths-inch wood
would have to be leveled off to have
the parts fit exactly. Here is where
I used my geometry.
"Daniel Webster is quoted as saying
that he once used a fact which had
lain dormant for 14 years, so I have
him beaten by a year.
"You often hear people say 'What 1b
the use of learning this?' seeing no use
for it at the time, but things which
at the time seem most impracticable
are often later of use. That is one ol
the complaints in our public schools
but as in my case it ntay some day
prove of use."
Quite Likely.
"We thought," said the reporter
"you might care to say something
about these charges against you." i
"No," replied the crooked public of
ficlai, "I believe that 'silence is gol
den.' "
"Well," replied the reporter, "per
haps the public might bellevo it's
merely gilt ia this case."—Philadel ,
phia Press. |
HORTICULTURE
PRUNING.
To Do Successful Work You Need
Proper Tools.
One trouble with the novice in
pruning is that he may not have a
clear idea of what he wishes to ac
complish. He may think that the tree
is headed too low and so chops off the
main limbs and ruins it, or, the top ia
too thick and proceeds to trim up the
limbs, leaving a tuft of branches at
the ends, destroying the fruiting spura
and leaving what fruit does grow In
accessible and exposed to the action
of heavy winds. Better to have no
pruning at all than such work as this.
The tools needed are a saw, shears,
knife, step-ladder and occasionally a
long ladder. The saw should be the
ordinary, narrow, stiff-blade pruning
saw, about 18 Inches long and with
rather coarse teeth so that it will cut
Pruning Tools.
freely. The right kind of shears are
a great help and with them much ol
the work can be done easier and
quicker than with any other tool, but
few of those found In the hardware
stores are worth much. Most of them
with only one cutting blade which
works against a shoulder, will spring
apart after a little use and they bruise
the wood more or less.
The double-cut shears with both
blades alike, while high-priced are by
far the beat thing on the market aa
they cut close and do not bruise the
wood. The handles are of wood and
can be had from 25 to 30 inches long.
For a knife, the common large pruning
knife with a hooked blade is all right.
BITTER ROT OF APPLES.
Proper Spraying with Bordeaux Mix
ture Will Save Crop.
As the result of experiments con
ducted by the Illinois station, the fol
lowing conclusions have been reached
regarding bitter rot of apples and its
treatment:
Bordeaux mixture properly made
and applied will save over 90 per cent,
of the fruit liable to attack by bitter
rot.
Fruit sprayed in such a manner as
to be thoroughly coated with the
spray mixture when the first infec
tion of the disease appears will be in
jured least by bitter rot.
Spraying until the fruit is complete
ly coated with the mixture as soon
as the first infection of bitter rot is
discovered is of considerable value but
is much less effective than the treat
ment mentioned above.
Spraying until the fruit is complete
ly coated with the mixture after bit
ter rot has become thoroughly estab
lished is effective in controlling as
much as 50 per cent, of the disease
during some seasons. In other season
its effect as a remedy is very slight.
Bordeaux mixture applied in the
liquid form is the most effective spray*
ing material for the control of apple
bitter rot.
Pure copper sulphate solution failed
to check the disease and caused in
jury to the foliage.
To coat fruit thoroughly with the
mixture it is necessary to make at
least three applications of the spray
material.
Applications of 25 pounds of salt to
the ground about a tree have no value
in checking the disease.—W. Paddock.
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.
The American plums are great
bearers.
The Japanese plums do not do well
in the northwest.
Blackberries should be heavily fer
tilized or they will not do their best.
Plums must be protected from the
curculio if they are to give satisfac
tion.
There Is little satisfaction in trying
to grow a garden on poor soil not
properly enriched.
Every farmer that has a few fruit
trees only should learn the science of
protecting them by spraying.
An apple grower says that there is
never an over-supply of good apples.
The over-supply is of poor fruit.
In pruning the grape, it is neces
sary to have a good deal of technical
knowledge. Pruning too much will
prevent, fruit production on account
of removing the wood that should bear
the fruit; while pruning too little will
allow a large development of vines
at the expense of fV.'.t.
Grow Hardy Fruits.
The longest keeping fruits are the
most profitable, except in locations
where all marketing facilities are of
the beat.
CONTRARY, INDEED.
khS
Kitty—lsn't she the most contrary
thing?
Betty—Why so?
Kitty—She's been coaxing and coax
ing me togo to her picnic, and I won't
do it.
A Slander.
Squaggs—Why did the butcher beat
up Longley?
Squiggs—Slander.
Squaggs—What'd Longley say?
Squiggs—Said he saw a dog down
in the butcher's licking his chops, and
a lot of customers quit before it was
explained that the dog was licking his
own chops.—Toledo Blade.
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months of suffering Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
made her as well as ever.
Maude E. Forgie, of
writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
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