Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1892 — Page 7

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CHAPTER IV. lovi vßiiaua MONir. The weeks passed, end Brian was still a fixture in the quiet little fishing town. The claims of his aunt in Nantucket were entirely forgotten, a letter written Soon after his coming to B'conset having satisfied his sense of obligation. Evidently B’conset had developed now charms for him since the day he had found its dullness so oppressive that Bleep seemed the only reasonable or possible occupation. And Margaret, having awakened him to a new view of the place, was practically realizing that constant hanging on she had once reprobated so strongly. She did not encourage aim, neither did she repulse him. She did not seek his company, nor did she show by the slightest action that it was distasteful to her. Her attitude was one of uncertain expectancy. She spent many hours with him on the beach. She walked with him in the delightful spring weather, gathering health and spirits from the glad sun and invigorating air. She had taken him through many of the cottages, and her 'enthusiasm had awakened his dormant Interest. She had shown him the way to the lighthouse, and together they had climbed the great winding stairway, gazed impressively upon the wonderful lamp, and looked down from the great height upon the undulating moors, lying like a checkered map before them; upon the hills fading in the mist of distance, and the glorious breath of restless waters surging over the rips and dashing themselves in fury at the feet of the bluff. She had pointed out the silvery waters of Sesaohaea. set like a jewel in the moorland's breast, and only separated from the ocean by a narrow belt of sand hills. And afterward they had climbed to the top of Tom Nevers, a verdant bluff standing boldly out against the western sky, and sloping to the waters roaring at its feet. On this bold promontory they had watched the sun quench his fires in the sea and trail his trembling lights across the hills. And through the lingering beauty of the after-glow they had gone home along the lonely and deserted shore. The hours of such companionship could not be forgotten. Too late Brian realized this. In all the time they had been together he had tried in vain to fathom Margaret’s feelings for him, but his boasted skill as a physiognomist had failed in her case. Her strength of character, courageous spirit, and ever ready sympathy made her a charming and refreshing contrast to the conventional women he had hitherto met, but they did not constitute the sole reason for his pleasure in her comP “I never felt so bad about leaving a place before," he said to her one day. *1 believe I could stay here a year under present circumstances." “I could stay here forever," was her earnest and Impulsive reply. But at last the day came when she felt she must leave. She had written to tell Miss Hilton of her intention, and with the feeling that she must make the most of her last hours, she had gone down to the beach, where the fishermen were just bringing in the day’s harvest. She was standing by the dories, watching the huge fish with a sort of fascinated gaze, when Brian joined ter in his usual unceremonious fashion. “It seems to be an nge since I saw you last,’’ he declared, utterly ignoring the fact that he had been with her the day before. “Shall wo walk down the beach? The air is glorious.” .She nodded in the affirmative, and they moved away together. • “Why don’t you say something?” he asked, after the silence had lasted some minutes. * , “I don’t feel in a talking humor,” she answered, conscious of a disagreeable desire to quarrel with some person or thing. “I think you might try. I have the blues frightfully.. I wish you’d cheer me." “Try one of your own prescriptions,” she suggested. “The blues are a physical condition, they tell us. You’ll have an opportunity to vindicate the diploma you’ve lugged around so long. Just see those bouts coming in on the breakers. Aren’t they graceful? I wish I were a fisherman." “What an idea. How could you manage to live here?” “How? Why, as they do, of course, with the sight of the sea ever before me; the music of the breakers always in my ears; in close and constant communion with the very sublimity of nature. How can their lives be either hopeless or uninteresting? Though, to a person of your energetic temperament, I dare say, tjiey would be tiresome. ” “I have a notion you Intend that for sarcasm, ” he returned, good-naturedly. ''“How am I to take you?" “No way, please; lam not to be taken just now. ” “There, you snap me up. You hpve been an enigma all through. Sometimes you are all sweetness,'and at others you fly at me and lecture me most unmercifully. Still I like to be with you." “Much obliged, I’m’sure; but I didn’t come here to amuse you." "Evidently in a bad humor,” thought Brian, noting the sharp tone. “I believe you’ve missed your vocation," he said aloud. You were intended for one of the Yankee school ma’ams we read about. How you would have Leet-, •togted .the unfortunate little chaps. And your husband, poor man-—" "Pray spare your pity. Such indefinite I objects don’t need it. There are too many real living ones upon whom it might be expended with advantage, You remind me of those very generous people who run around collecting subscriptions for the heathen while hundreds of i poor Christians are starving around I them. I don’t like such discriminating ! chanty." . “Well, I haven't been collecting any subscriptions, and I'm a mighty poor | Christian in the bargain, so you needn’t blind me with that sand you are digging up so ferociously.’ Margaret colored and desisted from her occupation. "I beg you pardon,” she said. “I did not intend to send it in your direction. It is a vent for my overcharged feelings. I suppose that is a childish acknowledgment, but I shall not recall it. I read of a piece of injustice this morning, and It has filled me with indignation. I believe I'm in a constant state of rebellion |

airainst the accepted order of things. Why do you laugh?" “Not at you, certainly. Seriously, I am half afraid of you— your bad opinion, I mean. What Influence you could exert over some men. Do you like me, Margaret?" “The degree of my liking depends upon yourself." Brian was evidently not well satisfied with this frank admission. "You couldn’t like me well enough to be my wife?" he persisted, drawing more closely to her and endeavoring to take her hand, an action she resolutely opposed. “Do you moan what you say?" she said, in a slightly repressed voice, conscious of something wanting in his manner. Ho hesitated at her words. “Do I mean that I love you? Yes, Margaret, I do, from the first' moment I saw you. If I could only make you understand my position, my longing to win your love and make you my wife. But " His pause was eloquent. "But what?” she repeated, in a quick, changed voice. “Why, how you look st me, Margaret!” At this complaint she turned her face aside and allowed her eye to follow the motion of a bird. “You see," he went on, more at ease in the absence of those searching gray eyes, “marriage between us is quite out of the question. If you were ’’ “If I were rich, I suppose, you mean," she interrupted, in a somewhat hard voice; “but, admitting I'm poor, what then?" “You must see how It is; we couldn’t live on two thousand a year." “And your profession,” she supplemented. "It seems to me you might be much worse off. Any one with an economical turn ” “I hate people with an economical turn, and I don’t Intend to work myself to death trying to,cure a lot of ungrateful people. My first year’s allowance won't much more than pay my debts. I must have money. A gentleman is obliged to live in a certain style." “Oh, I dare say, even if he sacrifices everything else in the effort. You love me, but you love money better. Have I stated the case correctly?" He glanced at her cold, impenetrable face. “How hard you are, Margaret,” ho said, reproachfully. “You don’t understand the difficulty. Love in a cottage is well enough in theory, but no fun in practice. I could not be happy under such circumstances. I love you dearly, and if I only Had a little money, I should like nothing better than to marry you.” “Thanks,” was the quiet rejoinder. “Your assurance is quite consoling, but I don’t believe 1 quite appreciate the honor you would confer upon me. Os course the idea of my passible objection has not entered your mind. Under the circumstances I may regard your loss as my gain.” How truly his loss was her gain she did not pause to reflect. “You are excellent at sarcasm,” herejoined with reproach. “I was only speaking of my wishes. If you had told me two weeks ago, how thoroughly you despised mo I might have been a wiser man to-day.” Margaret understood his meaning. She felt that he had no right to speak to .her in this way, yet his words pained her. In imagination she went back to the first hour of their meeting. She remembered how glad she had felt that they would be thrown together for a short time in this quiet place. She remembered what faith she had placed in the existence of those good qualities Miss Hilton had mentioned, and what hopeful longings and eager expectations had filled the hours of her companionship with him, and now her disappointment was both keen and bitter. It lent a new sharpness to her answer. “You dare not blame me for any action of yours,” she said, endeavoring to Speak quietly. “I have endured your company. Could I do otherwise? You have tried to win my affection by all the arts in your power. I suppose you found the pastime amusing, and probably you imagined that you had so far succeeded, that if it suited your pleasure to honor me with a proposal of marriage, I would accept it with thanks. I hope you have discovered your mistake. I would not marry you to save myself from starvation. You have insulted me quite enough.” "Not insulted. Margaret," he said, reproachfully, looking into her passionate face. “Believe me, I have intended no insult. I respect and admire you too much, and I love you far more than I can ever love my cousin. Yet, I have no alternative. I must marry her or starve.” Margaret’s lips moved. She was about to make an angry rejoinder, but with an effort she controlled the impulse. “You will starve royally," she said, somewhat bitterly. “I consider marrying for money contemptible. You have different views. We have learned something new of each other. Money stands above love in your estimation. You cannot forego the luxuries of life for the sake of one you pretend to love with such devotedness. Now, if I loved a man,” she continued, with a slight tremor in her quiet voice, “I would sacrifice my fondest desires for his sake. In poverty or wealth, he would be equally dear. I would count no economy mean, no labor lost, that could contribute to his comfort or happiness. Disgrace might come between us, but poverty never. You know that money cannot buy happiness. The desire for its acquisition is the meanest of all ambitions. * If I should marry a man for his possessions merely, I would despise myself heartily and thoroughly. Oh, why have you disappointed me?” The words escaped her almost unconsciously, and their mingled pain and regret surprised even herself. But Brian did not hear them. He was too I deeply engrossed with his own thoughts, and too deeply hurt by Margaret’s plainly expressed opinion. He longed to vindicate himself in her eyes, though he felt that such a thing was impossible. No words of his would better his position. He must leave S’conset immediately. The necessity | for this step became very apparent. He | turned with this decision *to see Margaret preparing to leave the beach. He realized that in all probability he would never see her again. A thousand longings surged through his heart Impulsive words rushed to his lips, but with a determined Will he repressed them. I “Try to forgive me, Margaret," he begged. “Try to forget the pain I have caused you. ” I “Don’t distress yourself." was .her cold, proud answer. “You are holding my hand, and I am tired of standing." He looked at her with a longing he could not have put in words, and releas ng her hand without 6ven a goodby he stood watching her, until the winding streets of the village shut her from his sight. Then, with a feeling that something had gone out of his life, he threw himself upon the sand with a misery at heart no language could express. | (TO BS COSTINIDtD.i

- “ ..====■ ALL EYES ON BABY, And Ha W»l Cooing While Death TTaa Very Close. For nearly ten minutes yesterday afternoon, says the Chicago NewsRecord, a wee bit of a child arrested traffic on Clark street and blanched many a face with horror. A crowd numbering thousands appeared to be paralyzed for the moment High above their heads, on a narrow cornice that runs around the fourth floor of the County building, stood a 3-year-old boy. The breeze that came up from the lake tossed his yellow curls about his laughing face as he playfully*swung his arms about and looked at the ever-increas-ing mass of people that watched him from below. Ills little dress was wafted about by the wind, while the spectators expected every minute to sec the daring explorer pitch headlong from the dizzy perch. No one dared to cry out, for fear of frightening the child, who calmly looked about, up and down the street, leaned over to get a better view of the sidewalk, ana gazed at the towering Ashland block on the opposite corner. Below was a scene of intense excitement A hackman rushed to his hack and snatched a heavy blanket from the seat. Several men grasped the edges and stood close up to the building, directly below where the child was standing. Officer Frank 0. Snyder, of the Central Station, stood on the corner in front of the Sherman House. A small boy ran up and called his attention to the child, and he made a wild rush for the elevator of the county building. Officer Timmons also witnessed the scene at the same time. About a score of men had now recovered their senses, and through every entrance of the building they raced for the elevators. Officer Timmons made a mistake, and was carried up to the top floor. Officer Snyder, however, made a better calculation. Running down the hall and into Judge Adams’ court-room, he saw the innocent cause of all the commotion out on the ledge in front of the open window. The court-room was deserted, and the child was alone. “Da. da, da,” he was saying softly to himself, utterly oblivious of the presence of the officer. Cold drops of perspiration stood on the officer’s forehead as he softly tiptoed toward the child, for he realized that his sudden appearance before the startled child meant instant death, Still the child prattled away, giving itself up to the enjoyment of the ncvel position. The officer reached out to grasp its dress, when a wild, hysterical shriek came from the hall behind him. The child turned and began to totter, and a horrified cry arose from the street. Officer Snyder’s hand shot out and he held the boy in his arms. Only for a moment, however, for a woman in whose face there was not a bit of color snatched the. child from the officer’s arms, and then dropped limp and fainting to the floor. The big-eyed boy looked about him curiously, while the room began to fill up with people The mother of the child, for so she proVed, clung tenaciously to him. When she became calmer she said she had been in the Probate Court-room, and her boy was playing and romping in the hall. She had not been aware that he was elsewhere until she heard the people rushing down the hall. He had pushed open the door of the vacant room and climbed up on a chair to the open window. The officer chided the woman for her carelessness, but she was so happy at the escape of her boy that she paid little attention to his words, but showered passionate kisses on the child’s face. She was a comely-looking and youthful German, and spoke English with difficulty. She would not give her name, and left, clasping the child to her breast. A sigh of relief went, up from the crowd, which had blocked the sidewalksand extended across the street, when the child was taken inside. It necessitated the stoppage of vehicles and street cars, for in the suspense of the awful sight not a spectator moved, while a wondrous silence was caused by the unwonted spectacle. The passengers on the cable trains craned their necks out of the cars to get a sight of the child, and many women turned away with frightened faces, as if to avoid witnessing the anticipated fall. Dangerous Negligence. Everyone knows, in-a general way, how fatal habits of carelessness may prove. Yet few mothers—we say mothers, because the training of the young is mainly in their hands—are sufficiently impressed with the importance Qf vigorously training their children to habits of carefulness. Au old Latin, proverb said, “The mothers of the timid seldom weep.” We do not wish children trained to timidity, but to thoughtfulness—to considering the probable consequences of their conduct. Certainly, in the transition period from childhood to youth the formation of right habits in this respect can be begun. “I didn’t think” should not be a full excuse for many little misdeeds, or for a costlv piece of carelessness; If the habit of negligence is once formed, it will assert itself through life —possibly in a disastrous way. If a habit of carelessness is formed, it will be a life-long benefit—probanly beyond all that its possessor may realize. Stagings are constantly giving way, resulting in death or broken bones, because those who put them up were careless in their construction. A friend of ours, a retired housebuilder, never had an accident of the kind during his long life. He had formed the habit of assuring himself that every stick of timber and every nail was sound, and that every nail was well driven home. A gentleman who .had gone to i watch with a sick friend opened a door which led’to the cellar, but from which the stairs had been removed. He fell and was killed. What a wicked neglect to have such a door unbarred in the front hall! r A mother stepped out for a moment, leaving a tub of boiling water on the floor and a young child in the room. She was detained somewhat, and returned to And het child scalded to death. At a camp-ground Inst summer a

lady intending to do some ironing filled ner stove with wood and went to a neighbor’s while the Irons were heating. The stove door opened, coals fell out, the cottage and several others were burned, and the utmost exertions barely saved from destruction all the other cottages and public buildings, with many grand and priceless trees. A physician left his horse and buggy in a lane a short distance from his patient’s house, where he thought he could see them from the window. The horse waa well broken, kind, tractable, and accustomed to stand untied for hours. But it quietly hacked out of the lane and ran, and killed another horse. The law held it a case of gross neglect, and the physician had to pay for the other horse, besides the cost of the suit.— Youth’s Companion. Chewing Gum. A great many false statements have been made as to the coni|x>sition of ordinary chewing gum. Os course, where spruce gum is used, every one knows what the basis of it is, and the article is sold to-day pure and in good quality at from 50 cents to $1.50 per pound. Most of this gum, according to the Indian Rubber World, is gathered in the Green Mountain regions of Vermont, and is sold through the West; as other kinds are more popular on the Atlantic sea-board. The gum, however, that is sold from candy stands and in drug stores to-day is of totally different origin, and, as a rule, it is a manufactured product To a certain extent this Is a secret, as all India rubber compounds are secret to ordinary observers. What is known as Yucatan gum is made of gum chicle, sugar and a variety of flavors, with certain ingredients which are kept secret, but help to make a homogeneous mass. The flavors t hat are used are peppermint, Wintergreen, licorice, pineapple and some few medicinal ingredients. Expelts In chewing gum manufacture can tell in a minute whether good flavors are used, whether the best gum is incorporated and just what the quality of the compound is, but in order to tell this accurately they are obliged to test it by chewing. The gum has a ceitain quality of sugar added to it to sweeten and make it palatable. It will be noticed that in chewing gum, after it has been in the mouth awhile, the sugar and flavor is entirety gone, and what remains is the rubber-like product, which is the chicle gum nearly pure. This gum is the sap of a Mexican tree which is called sapodilla. It grows in other countries besides Mexico, but that is the only country where a business is made of tapping it. It is collected like India rubber sap, by cutting incisions in the bark, between the months of November and April, and after the gum has been gathered it is packed in sacks, 200 pounds to the sack. It is then a light-colored mass that appears to be about halfway between gutta percha aud India rubber. In the factories it is washed, dried, and mixed, much as India rubber is, only it? needs no process of vulcanization, and when run off on the spreaders is cut into sticks, wrapped and packed ready for shipment. Want es Sense. Great learning is not always accompanied by large measures of “common sense. ” The celebrated Doctor Chalmers came home on horseback one evening, and as neither the mail who had charge of his horse nor the key of the stable could be found, he was puzzled,as to the best temporary residence for the animal. At last he fixed on the garden, and leading the horse thither, placed him on the gravel walk When Miss Chalmers, who had been away from the house, returned, and her brother told her he had been unable to find the key of she stable, she inquired what had been done with the horse. “I took him .to the garden,” said the Doctor. ••To the garden!” she exclaimed. Then all our flower and vegetable beds will be destroyed!” “Don’t be afraid of that,’’said Doctor Chalmers. “I took particular care to place the horse on the gravel walk.” “And did you really imagine that he would stay there?” “I Slave no doubt of it,” replied the Ductor, with calm assurance. “So sagacious an animal could not fail to be aware of the propriety of refraining from injuring the products of the garden.” “I am afraid,” remarked Miss Chalmers, “that you will think less | favorably of the discretion of the horse when you have seen the garden. ” True enough, the hbrse had rolled in and trampled upon the beds till they were a scene' of pitiful devastation. “I never could have imagined,” remarked the Doctor, in deep disgust, “that horses were such senseless animals!” A retort about the surprising ignorance of a certain other order of animals must have been on Miss Chalmer’s tongue, but no doubt she kept it back. A Possible Blessing in Disguise. The average Londoner is fairly case-hardened in the matter of fogs and accepts them as a matter of course. They are, in fact, regarded as a necessary evil. It is now asserted, however, and by no less an authority than the President of the Institute of Civil. Engineers, thatYog is the chief cause of the low death rate in London. He says that the fog is caused by. sulphur emanating from combustion of soft coal; that in London aboiit 350 tons are thrown into the air on one winter’s day, and that it is this large quantity of sulphur which counteracts the effects of tbo deadly germs discharged from refuseheapsand sewers, by its deodorizing and antiseptic properties. Franking Frlvlleges. The strangest things were franked under Treasury warrants and sent by post until the early part of the eighteenth century. Mr. Scudamore has extracted from the records, among the others, “Fifteen collide of houndsgoing to the King of the Romans with a free pass,” “Two maid-servants going as Laundresses to my Lord Ambassador Methuen,” “Mr. Crichton carrying with him a cow and divers other necessities.” ft,, . jsrji ; 'vs.v .. .fV " .. ...3SS>-

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91.00 ONLY FOR A DECKER BROTHERS GRAND PIANO AND A TEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WEEKLYENQUIRER A Decker Bro. Grand Upright Piano, $650.00 A Gladiator Watch and Caso . ... . 30.00 A Lemaire 24 line Field Glass 20.00 A Holman Parallel Bible 13.00 A Venice Parlor Clock 12.00 , A High Grade Safety Bicycle 125.00 An Elgin Watch and Boss Case. , . . 25.00 A Haydock Rice Coil Spring) Handy Top Buggy j A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Caso. 75.00 A Life Scholarship in Watters' 1--Commercial College f ” ’ A Six Octave Champion Organ .... 200.00 A Double Barrel Shot Gun 30.00 A Silverene Case 7 jewel Watch. . . 10.00 A High Arm Improved Sewing Machine,ss.oo A 15 jewel Watch, Boss Case 35.00 A Five Octave Parlor Organ 150.00 A Gladiator Watch, Dueber Case. . . 30.00 A John C. Dueber Watch <fc Case. . . 40.00 And 82 other valuable premiums will be presented to yearly subscribers of the Weekly Enquirer in April, 1892. Enclose one dollar for a year’s sub--1 scription to the Weekly Enquirer, and GUESS what will be the number of subscribers in the five largest lists received from Nov. 1, ’9l, to March 31, ’92. For same term last winter it was 2999, and the winter before was 1405. The premiums are to be presented ; to those whose guesses are correct or : nearest correct. For full list see j ' Weekly Enquirer, now the largest 12 page dollar a year paper in the United States. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. First Class Night and Day Service betwews Toledo, Ohio, )AND( St. Louis, Mo. 1 FREE CHAIR CARS DAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. 9&-MEALB SERVED EN ROUTE, any hour, DAT OR niiHl, at moderate cost. Ask for tickets via Toledo, SI Louis k Kansas City L L CLOVEKjLEfIFROUTE. For further particulars, call on near** Agent of the Company, or adxlresa C. O. JENKINS, TOLEDO, OHIO. ♦ Erie Lines. Schedule In eflect May 15. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. 5. Vestibule Limited, daily for I ->.oo p w Chicago aud the west f "’ ‘ No. 3. Pacific Express, daily fori o . m . u Chicago and the west..- f -.vu a., m. No. 1. Express, daily for Chicago ) ,■>.,» p M and the west j-L.L. P. M. No. 31. Local } 10:35 A. M TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I ~n-p M New York and Boston f ‘ ’ No. 12. Express, daily Jfor New I M No. 2. Accommodation, daily ex-1 p M cept Sunday f ' No. 36. Local 1-10:35 A. M. J. W. DeLong. Agent, Frank M. Caldwell. D. P. A, Huntington, Ind.; F. W. Buskirk, A. G. P. A., Chicago, BL O.P. M ASDREWS, 3E*lxy sician cfc Surgeon MONROfe, INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. E. church. 26-* Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary aW© Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orcho XL Zj tomy. Overotomy, Castrating, Ridg ling. Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn ing, and treating their diseases. Oflice over J H. Stone’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana. Levi Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. AGENTS WANTED Good Solicitors Only. Ladies or Gentlemen for Weekly Enquirer. Profits from 12.00 tolß.oo a day. ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Democbaw one year for 62.30. By subscribing now, you can have both papers through the great cam paign of 1892. MONEYTO LOAN , On Farm Proparty on LongTitoa, 2Wo Comxulaaloil. Low Bate of Intareek In any amounts can ba made at any time an* •top intereaL Call on, or addraaa, A. K. GRUBB, or J.p.MAJOr, O*ae: Odd Fallow)’ Building, Dacatut. «.T. May.K. D, ■lolanafc Monroe, Indiana. All calls promptly attended to day or algtea Jttoa at residence. * R. 8080, ' B. T 8080. Master Commissioner. 8080 * SON, -A.TTORJNKYS AT LAW, Baal Batata and Collection, Decatur, Ind. x?

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