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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
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[ESCAPADE
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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.)
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Young Painter Saw Period of Suffer
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The young artist, almost on the
verge of starvation, had just accept
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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
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stare at the artist. "Didn't I just
overhear you bagging an order to
paint a face at 1,000 francs?"
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"And your need of tho money is
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"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
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j I will have to undergo from morning
I till night for a whole week studying
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