6 lE* DISTRICTS AND HEW RAILWAYS WESTERN CANADA AFFORDS BET TER CONDITIONS THAN EVER FOR SETTLEMENT. To the Kditor Sir: —Doubtless many of your readers will he pleased to have some word from the grain j fields of Western Canada, where such a large number of Americans have | xnado their home during the past few , years. It is pleasing to be able to re port that generally the wheat yield has been good; it will average about 20 bushels to the acre. There will j be many cases where tho yield will go 85 bushels to the acre, and j ■where 50 bushels to the acre lias been recorded. The oat and barley j crop has been splendid. The prices j of all grains will bring to tho farmers a magnificent return for their labors. An instance has been brought to my notice of a farmer In the Pincher Creek (Southern Alberta) district — where winter wheat is grown—who made a net profit of $19.55 per acre, or little less than the selling price of his land. 30, 40, and 50 bushel yields are recorded there. The beauty about the lands in Western Canada is that they are so well adapted to grain-raising, •while the luxuriant grasses that grow everywhere in abundance make the best possible feed for fattening cattle or for those used for dairying pur poses. The new homestead regulations which went into force September, 1908, attracted thousands of new settlers. It Is now possible to secure 160 acres in addition to the ICO acres as a free grant, by paying $3.00 an acre for it. Particulars as to how to do this and as to the railway rates can be se cured from the Canadian Government Agents. "The development throughout West ern Canada during the next ten years will probably exceed that of any other country in the world's history," is not the statement of an optimistic Cana dian from the banks of the Saskatche wan, but of Mr. Leslie M. Shaw of New York, ex-Secretary of the United States Treasury under the late Presi dent McKinley and President Roose velt, and considered one of the ablest financiers of the United States. "Our railway companies sold a good deal of their land at from three to five dol lars an acre, and now the owners are aelllng the same land at from fifty to aeventy-flve dollars, and buying more up in Canada at from ten to fifteen." The editor of the Montlcello (Iowa) Express made a trip through Western Canada last August, and was greatly Impressed. He 6ays: "One cannot cross Western Canada to the moun tains without being impressed with its Immensity of territory and its future prospects. Where I expected to find frontier villages there were substan tially built cities and towns with every modern convenience. It was former ly supposed that the climate was too •evere for It to be thought of as an agricultural country, but Its wheat raising possibilities have been amply tested. We drew from Ontario many of our best farmers and most progres sive citizens. Now the Americans are emigrating In greator numbers to Western Canada. Seventy-five per cent, of the settlers In that good coun try located southeast of Moose Jaw and Regina are Americans. Canada Is well pleased with them and Is ready to welcome thousands more." Colombia's One Iron Foundry. The only iron foundry in Colombia, South America, is at Bogota. It Is known as La Paradera and Is operated on a small scale, native ores being ■melted, the Iron being subsequently remelted for casting purposes. There are several commercial iron deposits In the interior of the country, and one ore body situated near the coast of the Caribbean sea Is now being drilled by American engineers. 320 Acres °*Land 8t IN WESTERN CANADA WILL MAKE YOU RICH Fifty bushels per acre have been J K rown * General I 5 «/J Dvjfl average greater than jiff in any other part of j the continent. Under ' new regulations it is possible to secure a homestead of 160 acres free, and additional 160 acres at $3 per acre. "The development of the country haa made marvellous strides. It is a revelation, a rec ord of conquest by settlement that Is remark able." — hjttAd from correspondence of a Nation*, kditor, who ■vtcttcJ Cjtnjidj m Aujust last. The grain crop ol 1908 will net many termers $20.00 to $25.00 per acre, (iraio raising, mixed farming and dairying are the principal industries. Climate is excel lent; social conditions the best; railway ad vantages unequalled; schools, churches and markets close at hand. Land may also be purchased from railway and land companies. For Last Best West" pamphlets, maps and information bm to how to secure lowest rail way rates, apply to Superintendent of Immigration Ottawa. Canada or to the authorized Canadian Oov't Agent: H. M. WILLIAMS. Law Bulldlntf, Toledo. Ohio, Various "Schools" of Painters. The Munich Jugend has discovered five signs by which to detect the school to which a painter belongs: (1) If he its the sky gray and the grass black, he belongs to the good old classical school. (2) If ho paints the sky blue and tho grass green, ho Is a realist. (3) If h* paints the sky green ami the grass blue, ho is un Im pressionist. (4) If he paints the sky yellow atid the grass purple, he Is a colorlst. (5) If he paints the sky black and the grass red, he shows pos session of great decorative tal»"*» 7SERIAL? (fk STORY fXJ | VLHECJJ [ESCAPADE I T A POST MARITAL ROMANCE || J^^ rUS Townsend Brady jj| hi ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY WALTERS VSii - (Copyright, lws, by w. o. Chapman.) SYNOPSIS. Tho Escapade oprns, not In tin* ro rr:incn pi,- .ding the marriage of Ellen Blocum, a I'urlian miss, ami Lord Car rlngton of England, but in their life after j t• -tll jll ir in England. Tin' k<-i»h<> is plumed, | isi following tho revolution, m Carring (oll caslie in England. The Carrlngtons, lifter a housi- pariy, engaged in a family lilt, caused by Jealousy. The attentions 112 I.ord Carringtun to Lady Cecily and Lord Strathgate to Lady Carrington com pelled the latter to vow that she would leave tlie castle. Preparing to llee, Lady Carrington and her chum Deborah, an American girl, met Lord Strathgato at two a. !n., he agreeing to see them safely away, lie attempted to take her to his castle, but she left liitn stunned In the road when the carriage met with an ac cident. She and Debbie then struck out for Portsmouth, where she intended to sail for America. Hearing news of Ellen's (light, Lords Carrington ami Seton set out in pursuit. Seton rented a fast vessel and started in pursuit. Strathgate, bleeding from fall, dashed onto Ports mouth, for which Carrington, Kllcn and Seton were also headed by different routes. Strathgate arrived in Portsmouth In advance of the others, finding that Ellen's ship had sailed before her. Strathgate and Carrington each hired a small yacht to pursue tho wrong vessel, upon which each supposed Ellen had sailed. Seton overtook the fugitives near Portsmouth, but his craft ran aground, Just as capture was imminent. Ellen won the chase by boarding American vessel and foiling, her pursuers. Carrington and Rtrathgatc, thrown together by former's wrecking of latter's vessel, engaged in an Impromptu duel, neither being hurt. A war vessel, commanded by an admiral friend of Seton, then started out in pur suit of the women fugitives, Seton con fessing love for Debh:«. Flagship Urltan nla overtook the fugitives during the night. The two women escaped by again taking to the sea in a small boat. Lord Carrington is ordered to sea with his ship but refuses to go until after meeting Strathgate in a duel. CHAPTER XVll.—Continued. "I see," returned the admiral. "Lord, what a woman that is! She has spirit and resource and readi ness enough to command not a frigate, as I said before, but, by gad, sirs, a fleet! A lucky dog, Carrington!" "The unluckiest on earth, I think, ad miral," returned the baronet, warmly, "and as for me, I prefer the gentler, more womanly kind of women." "Like Mistress Deborah, eh?" laughed the old sailor. "Well, every one to his taste. And she went along, too, I have no doubt, under coercion." "Admiral," returned Sir Charles, haughtily, "from the evidences I have had—" "Over Baxter's 'Saints' Rest?" said the admiral. "Quite so." "Well, what do you propose now?" "I have no proposition to make. I suppose we can't hope to find them now." "Might as well try to hunt for a needle in a haystack as to try to find them in this darkness," said the ad miral. "It'll be ten hours at least be fore it's light enough to see anything, and by that time they may have gone anywhere. I'm expecting orders any day for sea, and I shall have to got back to the anchorage. There's no help for it. Sir Charles. I'm sorry for you, but you'll have to take a new de parture and follow the course in an other way. Mr. Collier, bid Captain Beatty make the best of the way to the anchorage without further delay. I can offer you a berth yonder, Sir Charles. I have no doubt you'll want to turn in after all you've gone through and the disappointment you've met with." "Thank you," said Sir Charles,"l do feel rather done up." "Oh, these women," mused the old admiral as Sir Charles disappeared In an adjoining stateroom. "It's lucky that I have no greater attachment than his majesty's ships, God bless him! And then an admiral has all he can do to rule his fleet without having to take orders from a pair of petti coats —" which was the sailor's quaint euphemism for the other sex, and he did not even know that the useful ar ticle of dress he cited did not come in pairs! A couple of hours after the ar rival of the two hot headed lords at the Blue Boar, an officer from the squadron inquired for Lieutenant Car rington. A servant carried his mes sage up to the room where Car rington was lying down waiting for tho next turn of events, and he was instantly admitted. Ho proved I to be Lieutenant Miller, a shipmate and i intimate friend of (Harrington's, who had come from the N'iobe to the inn for two reasons. One was in re sponse to (Harrington's urgent ap peal that he act as his second in I the approaching affair with Strathgate, I and the other was because he bore orders from the captain of the N'iobe directing Carrington to report on board at once, as the N'iobe was tin der orders for the Mediterranean with out delay. It was already quite late in the afternoon when Mr. Miller laid his order* before Carrington. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1908. "T can't go," said the earl, reso lutely, "I have to meet Strathgate in the morning and beside that 1 can't leave the country now." "Captain Careysbrook Is in a good deal of temper about the matter now. The orders were sent onto your house and followed you here. He should have gone two days ago and he's fuming like a caged lion." "I can't help it. You'll have togo hack and explain the circumstances to him and tell him if he can't wait until to-morrow morning, he'll have to sail without me." "But that's disobedience of orders," returned Miller. "Man," said Carrington hotly, "don't, you see this infernal scoundrel Strath gate ran away with my wife —" "With your wife!" exclaimed Miller. "Well, not exactly," replied Carring ton, "that is, they went away together. Oh, hang it! I've got to kill him and I have to find my wife if it costs mo my commission. I can't go. No, you needn't remonstrate with me," ran on my lord, hotly, "just simply tell him that that's the end of it and if lie wants to order me under arrest, he can do it. I'll face a court-martial rather than —" "Well, I'm awfully sorry, Carring ton," returned Miller, "but I can't stay with you. 1 am ordered to return to tho ship without delay." "All right, but I must have some friend here. Let me have Parkman. He's on the Renown. She's not under orders, is she?" "No, I believe not, although since tho Britannia sailed —" "Where did the Britannia go?" "We don't know anything about it. A small boat came alongside, looked like a soldier in her, and then the ship got under way, signaled to us to dis regard the motions o.f the commander in-chief and left Lascelles in com mand." "A small boat with a soldier in her," mused Carrington. "Which way did the Britannia go?" "At nightfall she was going up the channel in the wake of a big mer chantman." "By heavens!" roared the earl, "that'll be Seton." "I don't understand what you mean," said Miller. "Never mind," returned Carrington, visibly perturbed, "send mo Parkman. Plunged Him Into a Black Fit of Jeal ousy of Seton. Ask Captain Lascelles to let him oft #or the night. Explain to him—" "And what shall I say to Captain Careysbrook?" "Say anything you like, except that I can't come off, and I'll explain when I can." "That won't do much good," Miller, "but I'll do the best I can." He shook the other's hand and left the room. "Seton on the Britannia! I see it all now," mused Carrington. "What a fool I was not to think of it myself. They'll overhaul her without fail. The Britannia will be back to her anchor ago at daybreak and I'll be there." He stopped. "No, I have this cursed duel on hand. I wonder If it couldn't be postponed!" For the moment his intense love for Ellen overbore every other possibility. The thought that at last she would be restored to liiin made him for the moment forget the pressing demands of the early morning hour, but further reflection plunged him into a black fit of jealousy of Seton. It was he who had the wit and address to capture Lady Carrington. It was he who would | reap the reward that might come to i him from his skill and daring and I devotion. And Carrington swore to j settle with him as soon as he had ar | ranged matters with Strathgate. His reveries were interrupted J toward evening by the arrival of Park | man, to whom Lascelles had readily granted permission togo ashore for j the night. Parkman had brought with I him a case of dueling pistols, having i been informed by Miller of what was on. The two at. once settled down to | business, but not until Carrington had 1 catechized Parkman as to what was known about the movements of the ad ' miral and tho Britannia. Nothing further was elicited than what he had j obtained from Miller. A challenge ! was duly drawn up and Parkman car j ried it to Lord Strathgate. The baron of Blythedale had a seat | a few miles east of Portsmouth. •He was a bachelor, a congenial spirit and an old friend of Lord I Ht rath gate's. He had agreed to act as Strathgate's second. He and j Lieutenant I'arkman soon came to an agreement. The encounter would | take place in the park at. Blythedale, | where the combatants would be I free from any possible Interruption or j from prying eyes of any sort. Strathgate, as the challenged, had the ' choice of weapons, and Heleclud swords, to Carrlngton's prreat. satisfac tion. The other preliminaries were soon settled. A surgeon was also designated, and Park man came back to report tho progress of events, most agreeable, from his point of view, to his principal. Carrington was as expert with the sword as with the pistol, and he made no demur to any of the conclusions of the seconds. All ho wanted was I to have his deadly enemy opposite him, with no one to intervene. Ho had duties to perform before he went to rest. One of them was the writ ing of a letter to Ellen, which, afcer he had signed and sealed it, he gavo to Parkman, with instructions tc- turn it over to my Lady Carrington case tho approaching encounter should ter minate fatally for my lord. When Parkman asked where Lady Carring ton was to be found, Carrington re plied bitterly that in all probability , she could be seen on the Britannia in the morning with Sir Charles Seton. "And hark ye, .lack," said Carring j ton, clapping his hand on his friend's ' shoulder, "say to Sir Charles Seton ; that as regards the unsettled differ ! ence between us, I'm ready to meet j him here and now, if lie'll coine ashore j in the proper mood for an encounter. I might as well finish up al' my en emies in one day and leave myself free for dealing with my wife, or get a clearance for Davy Jones' locker my self from one or the other of them." CHAPTER XVIII. The Witnesses in the Coppice. Carrington was up early the next morning. Parkman had procured a carriage, and, as the meeting had been arranged for seven o'clock, the two drove out to Blythedale hall, whither Strathgate had preceded them the night before. The way lay along the strand, and Carrington was not too preoccupied to notice that tho Niobe was gone and the Britannia had re turned. His wife was probably on that ship. He looked long and earnestly toward it. If he had consulted his inclinations he would have repaired aboard of it at once and asked for giveness for all his folly and injustice toward her, but the conventions of life —spelled in this instance by honor—constrained him. He gave a thought, too, to the frig nte which had departed without him. FOJ the first time in his life he had failed in his duty. Kephard was a kind old man, and well-affected toward Carrington, who had been a midship man under him, but with the admiral duty was always first and he knew that there would be no condoning his offense. Ho expected an order of ar rest before the day was out. There after he would come before a court martial. To what a sorry pass he had brought his fortunes by his own un mistakable folly! In the bright light of the fresh, brisk morning, he saw Ellen in her right relation to afTairs, a woman, brave, strong, noble, true. What if she did not shine amid the hothouse conventionalities of the fast and vapid life of the crew whom he had gathered at Carrington. In stead of being ashamed of her, he should have rejoiced from the bottom of his soul that she was so frank and fresh and free. What a splendid wom an she was! Whatever she did, how well it was done! No veteran of a thousand exciting nights over the gam ing table could have played with more coolness and daring than she did in that famous duel at cards with Strath gate. And, although the minuet was outside of her accomplishments, how swiftly had twinkled her flying feet when she danced the sailor's horn pipe. It carried him back to slant ing decks and fresh breezes and bright skies. Would they ever re turn? Would he himself return un scathed from this adventure? It was by no means certain, for Strathgate was a man of proven courage; he had demonstrated that, and his reputation as a sword player was deservedly high. (TO BE CONTINUED.) HIS ARTISTIC SOUL REVOLTED. Young Painter Saw Period of Suffer ing While Earning Needed Money. The young artist, almost on the verge of starvation, had just accept ed an order from an elderly spinster to paint her portrait. When the terms and appointments had been fixed and the spinster was descending the rick ety studio stairs, a student friend of the young painter, who had overheard the deal, rushed In from the next room to offer his congratulations. To his surprise, however, he found his friend sitting downcast before his easel, his head in his hands. "Why, Francois, why so downheart ed?" he Inquired, stopping short to stare at the artist. "Didn't I just overhear you bagging an order to paint a face at 1,000 francs?" "Yes," replied Francois, sadly. "And your need of tho money is something fierce, isn't it?" And the other nodded. "Then, my friend, you should be kicking the ceiling in your lutky strike!" The artist now lifted his head slow ly and gazed piteously at his compan ion. "Melvin," said he, "did you get a glimpse of her?" "No." j "Then," said the other, allowing his j head again to fall Into his hands, "you do not know, my friend, what torture j I will have to undergo from morning I till night for a whole week studying that face!" —Illustrated Sunday Mag azine. Lesson Taught by Life's Ills. Ho who has not known poverty, sor i row, contradiction and the rest, and j learned from them tho priceless los sons they have to teach, has missed u 1 good opportunity ui uchooiiug. KEPT GETTING WORSE. Five Years of Awful Kidney Disease. Nat Anderson. Greenwood, S. C., says: "Kidney trouble began about " vc years ago with dull backache, which ft M Sot so severe in time * :$) that I could not get around. The lcid ney secretions be came badly disor dei'ed, and at times &W' : 'WW there was almost a W?f.i7 / complete slop of the flow. I was examined again and again and treated to no avail, ami kept get ting worse. I have to praise Doan's Kidney Pills for my final relief and cure. 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You will be under no obligation to us if you write for the information, but on receipt of your letter I will reserve for you the moment I get your letter or postal stating that you "want particulars," the nearest farm to the town of Hilliard, then unsold, and hold it for 15 days. We want every man who can togo to North Florida during the month of November, to investigate this fruit and truck land. My proposHion to pay round trip fare is good only November 17111 and 24U1, iyoß. Write to-day and address me personally. Hilliard is 30 miles from Jacksonville* F. W. CORNWALL President Cornwall Farm Land Company 815 Great Northern Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL. We want a responsible agent in your town. 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