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story cvj
of the
LADY
ARABELLA
By
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL
(Copyright, 1906, Bobbb-MorrlU Co.)
SYNOPSIS.
At 14 years of age Admiral" Sir Peter
Hawkshaw's nephew fell deeply In love
at first sight with L>ady Arabella Stor
mont, who spurned his attentions. The
lad, an orphan, was given a berth as mid
shipman on the Ajax by his uncle. Giles
Vernon, nephew of Sir Thomas Vernon,
lecarne the boy's pal. They attended a
[heater where Hawkshaw's nephew saw
Lady Arabella. Vernon met Philip Over
lon, next in line for Sir Thomas Vernon's
estate. They started a duel which was in
terrupted. Vernon, Overton and Hawk
shaw's nephew found themselves attract
ed by pretty I.ady Arabella.
CHAPTER ll.—Continued.
"In a week, perhaps; possibly not
for two weeks." And the surgeon de
parted.
As soon as he was out of the room,
Giles sent for pen and paper, and
with the most painful effort, guiding
his right hand by his left, managed
to indite the following epistle to Capt.
Overton:
Pheenlx Inn, Portsmouth, Friday.
"Dear Sir:
"This is to Inform you that I met with
a most unfortnlt axerdent while coming
down on the coach. My friend and mess
mate, the Infant admiral which you saw
with me, had read the story of Gehu in
the Bible or Homar, I forget which, and
aspired to drive four horses. Which he
did, with the result that my right arm
was rentched out of place, and the rascal
ly doctor who sett it says I cannot use it
for some days. This is most unfortnlt, as
it delays the pleasure we antissipated in
our meeting. You will here from me as
soon as I am recovered. The only thing
witch disturbs me is that if we both go
to Davy Jones', twil please that old cur
mudgin, Sir Thomas Vernon, bad luck to
him. Believe ine, sir.
"Your much obliged and
"Most obedient servant,
"GIL.ES VERNON,
"Mid. on H. M. S. Ajax."
Giles gave me this to read, and I
pointed out several mistakes he had
made iu spelling, although the tone
of the letter was gentlemanlike, as
everything was that Giles did. With
great vexation and some difficulty, he
added a postscript.
"I'. S Please excuse speling as my arm
is very paneful. G. V."
At that moment a marine from the
Ajax bounced, breathless and in great
excitement, into the room.
"We are to sail with the tide, to
night, sir!" he said. "The admiral
passed the messenger on the road;
the jib is loose, and the blue peter fly
ing"—and out he ran, to notify the
oilier absentees.
Giles seized the paper, and added
laboriously:
"P. S. No. 2. I am just enformed that
the Blue Peter is flying from the Ajax,
and that, my dear sir, signifies that we
are about to sail. Our meeting must be
postponed, for god knose when we will
eat fresh butter again. But you shall
liear from me. G. V."
And lhat night we sailed with the
tide.
CHAPTER 111.
We were ordered to join Sir .Tolin
Jervis' fleet, in the Mediterranean
without the loss of a day, and, when
the tide served at nine o'clock that
night, Sir Peter Hawkshaw was ready
for it. The officers, who knew Sir
Peter's capacity for picking up his
anchors at short notice, were general
ly prepared, and were but little sur
prised at, the sudden departure of the
ship. The men, however, are never
prepared togo, and the ship was be
sieged. from the time she showed the
blue peter until she set her topsails,
by the usua| crowd of bumboat women,
sailors' wives, tavern-keepers, shop deal
ers, and all the people with whom Jack
trades, and who are loath to part with
him for reasons of love or money. Al
though all of the stores were on board,
there were market supplies to get, and
the midshipmen were in the boats con
stantly until the last boat was hoisted
in, just as the music called the men
to the capstan bars. It was a brilliant
moonlight night, a good breeze was
blowing, and the Ajax got. under way
with an unusual spread of sail. As we
passed out the narrow entrance into
the roads, the wind freshened and the
great, ship took her majestic way
through the fleet, a mountain of can
vas showing from rail to truck. The
first few days I was overcome, as it
were, with my new life and its duties.
Two other midshipmen, junior to my
self, had joined, so I was no longer the
exclusive butt of the cockpit. We
spent most of our spare time express
ing the greatest longing for a meeting
with the French, although for my own
part, even while I was bragging the
most, I felt a sickness at the heart
when I imagined a round shot enter
ing my vitals. Giles Vernon was still
the deadest object of my admiration
and affections —always excepting that
divinely beautiful Lady Arabella But
this was rather the admiration ,of a
glowworm for a star. I had mr one
else to love except Giles, and even a
midshipman must love something,
i I did not much trouble myself about
that meeting, so far in the future, be
tween Giles and Overton. Youth has
no future, as it has no past.
Naturally, I did not see mnch of ra+ T
great-uucle, the admiral. He was a
very strict disciplinarian, probably be
cause he was used to discipline at
home, and busied himself more with
the conduct of the ship than the cap
tain liked. The other midshipmen al
leged that there was no love lost be
tween Capt. Guilford and the admiral,
and the captain had been heard to say
that having an admiral on board was
like having a mother-in-law in the
house. Nevertheless, Sir Peter was a
fine seaman, and the gunroom joke
was that he knew how to command,
from having learned how to obey un
der Lady Hawkshaw's iron rule.
One day the admiral's steward
brought me a message. The admiral's
compliments, and would I dine in the
great cabin at five o'clock that day?
I was frightened out of a year's
growth by the invitation, but of course
112 responded that I should be most hap
py. This, like my professed anxiety
to meet the French, was a great lie.
At five o'clock I presented myself,
trembling in every limb. The first
thing I noted in the cabin was a large
portrait of Lady Hawkshaw as a
young woman. She must have been
very handsome.
Sir Peter gave me two fingers, and
turning to the steward, said: "Soup:'
Soup was brought. We were mostly
out of fresh vegetables then, and it
was pea soup, such as we had in the
cockpit. Sir Peter grumbled a little at
it, and it was soon removed and a leg
of pork brought on; a pig had been
killed that day.
"Aha!" sniffed Sir Peter, (i'lighted
ly. "This is fine. Nephew, you have
no pig in the gunroom to-day."
Which was true; and Sir Peter
helped me liberally, and proceeded to
do the same by himself. The stew
ard, however, said respectfully;
"Excuse me, Sir Peter, but in the in
terview I had ttie honor to have with
Lady Hawkshaw before sailing, sir,
she particularly desired me to request
you not to eat pork, as it always dis
agreed with you."
"Wh-wh-what!" roared Sir Peter.
"I am only repeating Lady Hawk
shaw's message, sir," humbly re
sponded the man; but I thought I saw,
under all his humility, a sly kind of
defiance. Sir Peter had no fear of
either round, grape, or double-headed
shot, and was indifferent to musketry
fire. Likewise, it was commonly said
of him in the service that if he were
ordered to attack hell itself, he would
He Turned His Back Every Time Sir
Peter Filled His Glass.
stand on until his jib caught fire;
but neither time nor distance weak
ened the authority over him of Lady
Hawkshaw.
Sir Peter glared at the steward and
then at the leg of pork, and, suddenly
jumping up, seized the dish and threw
it, pork and all, out of the stern win
dow. As I had secured my portion, I
could view this with equanimity.
The next dish was spareribs. The
steward said nothing, but Sir Peter
let it pass with a groan. It seemed to
me that everything appetizing in the
dinner was passed by Sir Peter, lit re
sponse to a peculiar kind of warning
glance from the steward. This man,
I heard afterward, had sailed with him
many years, and was understood to be
an emissary of Lady Hawkshaw's.
We had, besides the pea soup and
roast pork, spareribs, potatoes, tur
nips, anchovy with sauce, and a cus
tard. Sir Peter, however, dined off
pea soup and potatoes; but I observed
that he was his own master as far as
the decanters were concerned, and it
occurred to me that, he had made a
trade with the steward, by which he
was allowed this indulgence, as I no
ticed the man turn his back every
time Sir Peter filled his glass.
Dinner being over, the cloth re
moved, and the steward gone, Sir
Peter appeared to be in a somewhat
better humor. His first remark was;
"So you are fond of the play, sir?"
I replied that i had been but once.
"The time you went with Giles Ver
non. If the coach had broken down
between London and Portsmouth, we
should have sailed without either one
of you."
J did not mention that, the coach
had upset, but merely said that we
thought there was no danger of any
detention, and that Giles Vernon was
in no way responsible for my going
to London, as lie knew nothing about
it until we met tue coach door.
I was revolviiis is my mind whether
I could venture to ask of the welfare
of the divine Arabella, and suddenly
a direct inspiration came to me. I re
marked —with blushes and tremors, I
must admit:
"How very like Lady Arabella St"r
--! montfniust i.ady Hawkshaw have been
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1909
at her age! And Lady Arabella Is
a very beautiful young lady."
Sir Peter grinned like a rat-trap at
thlg awkward compliment, and re
marked:
•'Yes, yes, Arabella is like my lady,
except not half so handsome. Egad,
when I married Lady Hawkshaw, I
had to cut my way, literally with my
sword, through the body-guard of gen
tlemen who wanted her. And as for
her relations —well, she defied 'em,
that's all."
I tried, with all the little art I
possessed, to get some information
concerning Arabella out of Sir Peter;
but beyond telling me what I knew
before—that she was his great-niece
on the other side of the house and first
cousin to Daphne, and that her father,
now dead, was a scamp and a pauper,
in spite of being an earl —he told me
nothing. But even that seemed to
show the great gulf between us. Would
she, with her beauty and her title, con
descend to a midshipman somewhat
younger than herself, and penniless? I
doubted it, though I was, in general,
of a sanguine nature.
I found Sir Peter unbent as the de
canters grew empty, although I would
not for a moment imply that he was
excessive in his drinking. Only, the
mellow glow which pervades an Eng
lish gentleman after a few glasses of
good port enveloped him. He asked
me if I was glad I had joined the
service—to which I could say yes with
great sincerity; impressed upon me
my good fortune in getting in a ship
of the line in the beginning, and gave
me some admirable advice. I left him
with a feeling that I had a friend in
that excellent seaman, honest gentle
man, and odd fish. Admiral Sir Peter
Hawkshaw.
When I went below, I told my mess
mates all that had occurred, rather
exaggerating Sir Peter's attentions to
me, as midshipmen will. Then private
ly I confided to Giles Vernon. I told
what little I had found out concern
ing the star of my soul, as I called
Arabella, to which Giles responded
by a long-drawn-out "Ph-ew!"
I implored him, if he knew any of
ficer in the ship who would be likely
to be acquainted with Lady Arabella,
to pump him for me. This he promised;
and the very next day, as I sat on a
locker, studying my theorems, Giles
came up.
"Dickey," said he, "Mr. Buxton
knows the divine Arabella. She has
a fortune of £30,000, and so has the
dove-eyed little Daphme, all inherited
from their granddad, a rich Bombay
merchant. It seems that Lady Ara
bella's mother bought a coronet with
her money, and it, turned out a poor
bargain. However, the earl did not
live long enough to ruin his father-in
law; and little Daphne's parents, too,
died young, so the old Bombay mau
left the girls his fortune, and made
Sir Peter their guardian, and that
means, of course, that Polly Hawk
shaw is their guardian. Mr. Buxton
says he would like to see the fortune
hunter who can rob Polly of those two
damsels. For Polly says rank and
lineage are not everything. She her
self. you know, dates back to the
Saxon Heptarchy, though she did
marry the son of your drysalting great
grandfather. And she wants those
girls to marry men; and what Polly
says on that score is to be respected,
considering that she married into a
drysalting family to please herself, or
to displease her relations, I don't know
which. I should say, though, if you
are honest and deserving, and mind
your book, and get a good word from
the chaplain, you will probably one
day be the husband of little Daphne,
but not of Lady Arabella; no man
shall marry her while I live, that you
may be sure of; but when I marry her,
you may be side-boy at my wedding."
I thought this speech very cruel of
Giles Vernou, and believed that he
did not know what true love was, else
he could not so trifle with my feelings,
although there was an echo of earnest
ness in his intimation that he would
kill any man who aspired to marry
Lady Arabella.
We were three weeks in the Bay of
Biscay, thrashing to windward under
topgallant sails, and expecting daily
and hourly to run across a French
man. We were hoping for it, because
we found the Ajax to be a very weath
erly ship and fast for her class; and
both Capt. Guilford and Sir Peter, who
had sailed in her before, knew ex
actly how to handle her. And we
\.ere to have our wish. For, one even
ing toward suntset, we sighted a
French ship of the line off our beam;
and by the time we had made her
out, a light French frigate was coming
down the wind, and In an hour we
were at it hammer and tongs with
both of them.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Woman, the Illogical.
Woman is not only barbarous —she
is illogical and inconsistent as well, re
marked a 1 .an of letters to a writer
in the Nev Orleans Times-Democrat.
I was walk jig in the country one day
with a yoi ng woman. In a grove we
came upo . a boy about to shin up a
tree. There was a nest in the tree,
and from a certain angle it was possi
ble to see in it three eggs. "You
wicked little boy," said my compan
ion, "are you going up there to rob
that nest?" "I am," replied the boy.
"How can you?" she exclaimed;
"think how the mother will grieve
over the loss of her e§gs„" "Oh, she
won't care," said Iho boy, "she's up
there in your hat."
How to Fish.
On many occasions one n'glit im
agine the fi»;\ saying to the anglers:
"Take me whiU; I am in the humor;"
but they take no notice of it, and
often attemp: the feat when they are
not. It is little U3e trying to catch
iish either in the sea or fresh water
when they are not la the humor to
bite. —Fishing Gazette.
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TREADLE TO TOWN.
The New Cycle-Skate for the Road
Is Now Very Much in
Evidence.
With the present rage for roller
skating on rinks, it is not surprising
that the skate for use on the road should
Roller Skating to Town.
be in evidence?. It will be remembered
that during the roller-skating boom of
some 12 years or so ago a cycle-skate
was put on the market. This differed,
however, from the present form, inas
much as progress was made by gliding
in the fashion of the skater. The new
skates are worked by treadles, much
as treadle sewing machines and such
like are operated.
AID TO MEDICAL STUDENTS.
Projectoscope Throws Operations on
Screen by Use of Lens—Moving
Pictures Can Be Secured.
As a view or all the Intrica' 3 details
of a surgical operation can be obtained
only from a position just above the
field of operation itself, the provisions
for demonstrating operations to med
ical students in a clinic are woefully
inadequate. This position is occupied by
the surgeon and his immediate as
sistants. and the student can see very
little unless he be one of the few al
lowed to crowd about the table, where
he is an inconvenience to those who
are working.
To remedy this fault a projectoscope
has been designed which will throw a
view of the operation from directly
above it, onto a plate-glass screen
forming a partition between the op
erating room and the space reserved
for seating the students. This is ac
complished by employing a large lens
and a surface mirror, which are fas
tened to a fixture about 4% feet above
the patient. Around the mirror is a
glass shield five feet in diameter, the
outer edge of which is studded with
lights arranged to provide a uniform,
brilliant Illumination without any
shadows.
As is shown in the illustration, the
vertical light rays from the operating
MAXIM'S NOISEL
Patents having been obtained on it
in 24 countries, Hiram Percy Maxim
gave a demonstra
tion and explana
lion recently of his
silencing device
ft" - rifles before a
imgm large number of
representatives of
newspapers and
scientific publica
get the inventor
j made a scries of
5* -H; a experiments by fir
lug a variety of
—«j lilies, ranging in
| power from a 22
=? caliber up to the
!=§ new Springfield "0
Sp t caliber military
j rifle. They were
j fired both with and
lencer," and the
' spectators—or per
haps it. might be hotter to say auditors
—marveled at the effect of the little
device. It is said scientific tests show
that 90 per cent, of the noise of ex
plosion is eliminated.
The "silencer" is a metal tube about
mm ss'.
field are transmitted, without, refrac
tion, by a prism Into an enlarging cam
era, which in horizontally suspended,
and focused on tin; vertical screen.
Moving pictures of an operation can
be secured by attaching a moving pic
ture machine to tin- apparatus. By this
means an operation can be reproduced
again and again for teaching purposes
in medical colleges, or it can b<* thus
reproduced In a physician's office,
where he can study it at leisure, slow
ly familiarizing himself with every de
tail.
DEVICE FOR TESTING EGGS.
An Ingenious Invention Determines
Whether Eggs Are Fresh
or Stale.
A well-known test for eggs consists
in placing the eggs in water, when the
bad ones will float, but of the eggs
that sink there is no way of determin
ing which are the fresher ones and
how much less stale one may be than
another. A very ingenious device has
recently been invented which enables
one to note the slightest variations in
the eggs. The device consists of an
aluminium air chamber comprising a
main body portion and a stem. The
latter is graduated, while at the bot
tom of the body portion are two
spring-wire loops shaped to engage
and hold an egg. The device with the
egg attached thereto is placed in wa
ter and will sink to a depth depending
upon the specific gravity of the egg.
The freshest and best eggs sink the
stem down until the water is on a
level with the XX mark. Even if the
egg registers 0 it shows that the egg
is quite fresh and still has sufficient
food strength to hatch a live chick.
Mark 4 registers the limit of fair eat
ing. At 8 the egg is fit for cooking
only, while 12 shows that decomposi
tion has set in. Not only is the tester
valuable in the kitchen, but to the
chicken raisers as well, as it tells how
J—— I U U
Egg Testing Device.
much nutriment there is in the
for the support of life in the chick, and
during incubation it shows the prog
ress of evaporation in the incubator
as compared to normal hygrometric
conditions as found in the eggs under
the hen.
The inventor of this egg tester is
Dr. E. C. Waldorf of Buffalo, N. Y.
Uniform Sparking Plug.
Standardization of sparking plugs
for automobiles has been attempted by
the American Association of Licensed
Automobile Manufacturers. The me
chanical branch of this association for
some time has been working 011 pro
posed standards for the dimensions
The form now agreed upon has a
seven-eigliths-inch diameter of thread,
18 pitch, a shouldered or flanged seat
one and one-eighth inch in diameter,
a minimum length below the shoulder
of one-half inch, and a hexagon head
seven-eighths inch across the flats.
seven inches long and an inch and a
quarter in diameter, which can be fas
tened quickly to the end of a rifle bar
rel which has been provided with a
thread for that purpose. Hitherto
those who did not know Mr. Maxim's
secret had an idea there was a valve
in the "silencer" which stopped the
rapid escape of the gases from the
end of the barrel. It is these gases
which cause the firing,
ciple used in stopping or slowing up
the gases is that or a negative turbine,
and the process, in effect, is there
verse of that used in driving boats
with a turbine engine. There is a hole
through the center of the "silencer"
large enough to permit the easy pas
sage of the bullet. As for the gases,
they are given a rapid rotary motion
by the device which prevents their es
cape until this motion has died down
The great advantages of the device
according to the promoters, lie in the
fact that in warfare the commands of
officers can be heard and the con
fusion of discharging guns will be
eliminated. In hunting and target
practice the elimination of the loud
reports is of distinct advantage, and it
is declared the device also lessens the
recoil.
PRESCRIPTION FOR NERVOUS
MEN AND WOMEN—TRY IT
The impairment of the nervous fore®
In men and women is first manifested
by extreme nervousness, sleeplessness,
dread, worry and anxiety without rea
son, trembling of the hands and limbs,
with the slightest exertion, heart pal
pitation, constipation, kidney trouble,
and a general Inability to act ration
ally at all times as others with health
In their bodies do.
In a half pint bottle get three ounces
of syrup sarsaparilla compound and
add to this one ounce compound fluid
balmwort, and let stand two hours;
then get one ounce compound essence
cardiol, and one ounce tincture cado
mene compound (not cardamom); mix
all together, shake well and take a lea
spoonful after each meal and one at re
tiring.
WHY, OF COURSE.
. Tf o
"Oh, Willie! You're going to fall!"
"Naw, I ain't! I'm tryin' a new fancy
style of skatin'—dat's all."
Artificial Wants.
Many a one, for the sake of finery
on the back, has gone with a hungry
belly and half-starved their families.
"Silk and satin, scarlet and velvets,"
.til Poor Richard says, ";.ut out the
kitchen fire." These are not the neo
essaries of life; they can scarcely be
called the conveniences; and yet only
because they look pretty, how many
want to have them! The artificial
wants of mankind thus become more
numerous than the natural; and as
Poor Dick says:"For one poor person,
there are a hundred Indigent."—Ben
jamin Franklin.
There Is more Catarrh In this section of the country
than ail other diseases put together, and untU the ladt
few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling
to cure with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable.
Science has proven CWtarrh to be a constitutional »iis
ea.se. and therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney
A Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the only Constitutional cure on
the market. It is taken internally In doses from 10
drops to a teasnoonful. It acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaees of the syscrn. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it falls to cure. M.-ntf
for circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY Ac CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druirulsts. 75c.
Take Hail's Family PlUs for constipation.
A Fable, Perhaps.
When George Ade was coming from
New Orleans last winter he noticed,
among the race-track men on the train,
one tan-shoed sheet writer with the
largest feet he had ever seen.
And he furthermore testifies and af
firms that the sheet writer, on rising
In the morning, discovered that the
reporter had shlned one nhoe and •
suit-case. —Success Magazine.
Just What She Wanted.
Mrs. Nurich was in the Jewelry
• tore. "Here are some new souvenir
spoons we have Just got in," said the
clerk, placing a tray for her inspec
tion. "Oh, ain't those lovely!" she ex
claimed. "I must have some of those!
Our cook makes such lovely sou
venir!"
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTOKIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
In list For Over ;SO Years.
The Kind You Have Always Honshu
Thought He Wanted Too Much.
"This quarter doesn't sound right."
said the smart clerk, ringing the coin
on the counter.
"I-Iuh!" growled the customer
"What do you want for a quarter, any
way? An opera solo with an orches
tra accompaniment?"
U59 Allen's Foot-Ease.
It is the only cure for Swollen. Smart
ing, 'fired. Aching, Hot, SweaMng l-Vel.
Corns arid Bunions. Ask for Allen's I-'oot-
Ease, a powder to be shaken into the
shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Drug
gists and Shoo Stores, 25c. Don't accept
any substitute. Sample sent I'UEK. Ad
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.
It Is the man who can't do tliinss
that is always telling others how to
d.i them.
Mr*. Wlnolow'H Soothing Syrnp.
For children teething, softens the gums, reiluee« in-
Uaimuatiuu. allaya pain, curus vtnil colli;. 23c a buttle.
Stealing away from bad company la
lustifiable larceny.
Water Raises Itself
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Cle«n*e< and b««utifie» the hair.
l'romot«a a luxuriant growth.
■KTVT*" c JEft Never Fails to Hnstore Gray
-rWLA Hair to Its Youthful Color.