Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1893 — Page 7

AT ffAR WITH HERSELF. The Story of a Woman's Atonement, by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER lll—Continued. i The lawyer and his companion looked at the flushed face and shining “HI you think there ia any doubt, however alight, toll mo. Leave me hero to my old life, to its monotony, Its dreary gloom; I can liear it now, I could never return to it, once 1 left it." “There ia none,” returned the lawyer, gravely. “I did not wait upon you until everthing waa perfectly clear; there cpnnot be the faintoat dispute as to vour title. The probability ia that, if the Earl of Charnlelgh had made a will, he would have left everything to Captain Paul Elomyng, who, In the genealogical table, stands next to you. He is the only member of the family, < believe, that the Earl ever saw or noticed. I remember once he mentioned your father, and asked me if he had left any children. I answered, ‘Yes — one daughter.’ ‘lt puzzles me,’ he said, ‘why there are so many women in the world; could do better with just half the number.’” Despite Leonie's emotion and anxiety A faint smile rippled over her lips. • “Did he know iny father"" she asked. "No, only by repute, as being a brave young officer. The truth was, he liked no one; if such a thing could be, I should say he was a hater of his kind." “And this captain—what name did you say?" “Captain Paul Flemyng," repeated the lawyer, and she half whispered the name. - I Did any warning come to her then of the tragedy that was to shadow her after life—the weight that was to make the coronet a burden? “Paul Flemyng—and is he disappointed? ” she asked. . “I cannot tell. He may have thought the chances were greatly in his favor; but he ia too true a gentleman and too brave a man to envy the happiness that has fallenloa lady's lot.” . i “I hope hqjg not disappointed, ” she Baid; “pleased as I cannot help feeling, J should not like to purchase my happiness by another’s pain." ; “Even should Captain Flemyng feel pain he will not show it,” observed the lawyer. ' “Do you say I shall have a great deal lof money? He could have some of it. I am not obliged to keep it all myself. ” Mr. Clements smiled at the simple (words— perhaps another idea suggested (itself to him. > “I do not think that will bo needed,” he remarked. “Captain Flemyng has jsome property basido i the income deprived from his profession. He is at I present with his regiment at Malta.” ‘ “What relation is Captain Fiemyng (to me?” she asked, looking up at him [with the questioning glance of a child. ' “I should say about fourth cousin, if euch relationship exists at all. Your | (father was the late Earl’s second cous- £. Captain Flemyng stands three de- _ 'ees lower on the family tree. I wrote I to him at once, and told him there was [no will. It is six months since the late pari died. Every possible search has been hone-tly made, and there is no ttraco of his ever having intended to tmake a will—no memorandum, no paI pers. During that time we have anxI Icusly made out the claim of each relaI live, and yours is the strongest, the I [clearest, and the truest; indeed, your I title is so perfectly clear that you I [might safely take possession of Crown I [Leighton to-morrow.” I ' “What shall I do?” she cried. And I [again the beautiful young face grew I deadly pale. “How can I boar the I change? I shall not know what to do I hvith my life." I “There will be much for you to conI [aider. Have you no lady relatives of I iyour mother's living?” I* “No,” she replied, with an outburst lof passionate sadness. “It may be true I that I am a countess, but I am quite I alone in the world.” I “I should suggest that you at once I engage the services of some elderly I lady as chaperon. You cannot live l.alone. Perhaps Miss Templeton would I be the host person to consult in the I emergency.” r Mr. Clements here rose from his I .'seat and bowed with an air of deference I 1 he had not shown before. I “Permit me," he said, “now that my I legal business is explained, to be the ■'first to offer my congratulations to the I Countess of Charnleigh. I pray heaven ■'to bless your ladyship in y ur new life, land to send you every blessing and (prosperity and every earthly hap|piness.” | “I thank you,” she said gently. I Then Mr. Duriscombe stood up and ■offered his congratulations. | “If you will allow me,” said the lawjyer, “I will wait upon you, Lady Chai nlleign, to-m >rrow. I have an imperaItive engagement this evening; to-mor-Irow I hope to have something to sug-| Bgest that will meet with your entire lapprobation." I With tl e mest respectful of saluta-I Itions, they left her standing like one ■entranced: as they left her, to she reImained, until the sound of the door lopeniag aroused her. I CHAPTER IV. I “Now, Miss Rayner,” said a rough [voice, “if you and your visitors have Bine with the room, I shall bo glad to Set it ready for my mistress.” F The insolent tone and the sharp Kvords generally b. ought a proud flush | ■lnto ti e beautiful face; n >w the young Kiri looked at Susan Netley, the’ cross Eouse-maid, as though she had not Even heard her. ■ “I have lived at King's Court,” continued the aggrieved domestic, ‘'-“for ■nany years, but this is the first time I [ Ever saw governesses and their friends Bn. ike so free. ” ■ “If sue know,” thought Leonio, smil- I Ing, “instead of being insolent to me, ' ■he w uld fawn and flatter—si.e would ■tinge to me. Ah, the power of this ■vonderful gold!” | I The maid-servant was annoyed to see ■kqt she 1 ad produced no effect. I “I shall certainly tell Miss Temple- 1 lon. the minute she returns why my is not done," she continued; but ■ > her surprise the young girl merely ■oft the room, with' the same strange ■mile on her face. I She wanted to be alone, she must Ee. alone to think over this wondrous ■vent. ■ She sat in the dull, gpomy play■round until the clock struck live; no ■Became to tell her that tea was waitEig, no one seemed toca.e whether she ■ad anything or not. As she re-eli«-■ared the h. u e, Susan met her and Kid, not very civilly: - ■ “Your tea has been waiting, Miss Kayner, in the school-room for an hour Kst.” ■ She laughed aloud as she thought How different it would lie soon, and then ■me passed in another dream until Kiss Templeton returned. ■At 7 the formidable mistress of ■ Ing’s Court was to return. Leonle Kd been accustomed to count the Bourg with a cert-in kind of dread; Hjwslie sat so completely entranced in Kr glorious dream That she did not Ken hear th) noise of the much-an-Bnipated arrival. It was a custom of Bns Temoleton’s to k ep the governess t..

nupil in her place, as she expressed it, I by continually finding fault with her. When she returned from her holidays, it required some ingenuity to make out a list of complaints against the young girl, but she generally succeeded. On this occasion sh ) did not linger long over the dainty tea prepared for her. Susan, fired with indignation at Miss Rayner s insensibility, was only too i pleased to tell how the young govern-' , ess had had vl.-ltors in the drawingI room, and had spent over two hours | with them. Miss Templeton went at ,' once to the school-room, where she I found the young lady seated before her [ cold, untested tea. ' | A frosty greeting passed between ' them, and then Miss Templeton seated herself in state. i ! “I am sorry to hear, Miss Rayner,” I i she began, “that your conduct during ' my absence has not been so circum- , spect as I could have wished. May I i ask who wore the gentlemen you eni tertalned for more than two hours today?” '*• There was a faint ripple of a smile • on the beautiful lips, which angered . Miss Templeton very much. i “Two hours," continued the school- , mistress, “is a long time for any lady ’ to spend in the society of gentlemen, i above all of strangers, as I should im- ; agine these to have been." “Then I must demand an explanation ’ of your conduct, Miss Rayner. King’s Court is both known and honored for the exemplary conduct cf its conduc- > tor. If you have deviated in the I slightest degree from established [ rules, we must part.” ■ No fear shaded the bright eyes that ( looked laughingly into the stony face. “The gentlemen introduced them- [ selves, Miss Templeton. lam quite ins notent of having known of their visit beforehand.” f “Will you tell me who they were?” ■ repeated the angry lady. . "Mr. Clements, a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn, and Mr. Dunscombe, the manager . or steward of the Crown Leighton estates.” < “May Ibo permitted to inquire what I they wanted with you, Miss Rayner?” • said Miss Tempieton, somewhat won- < deringly. “They came on business that aston- ’ ished me, Miss Templeton, as it will i you. They came to tell me that owing ' to a strange chain of circumstances, Fortune has played a jest upon me.” 1 “I do not understand riddles,” said ’ Miss Templeton, coldly. “Fortuhe has been amusing herself 1 at my expense. If the gentleman’s re- , searches are correct, lam now Count ess of Charnleigh. ” • In the greatness of her surprise, 1 Miss Templeton committed what was , for her a sad broach of good breeding. “You are what?” she said. 1 “I am Countess of Charnleigh, and ; mistress of the Crown Leighton es- ' tates.” “My dearest child, you cannot mean it! You are jesting, Miss Rayner!” 1 “I am speaking in all sober truth," . she rejoined, calmly. ■ “But your mother was only governess —your father quite poor!” “Poor, but for all that of good family ' and a gentleman. It is as his daughter, 1 Miss Templeton, that lam Countess of 1 Charnleigh." i — I CHAPTER V. 1 Miss Templeton, in after life, was ac- ' customed to tell the story, and declared that she had never received such a ter- ■ rible shock. She could but repeat the • words in a helpless fas hi- n. 1 “Countess of Charnleigh! Explain ’ to me—my mind is not clear.” 1 And Leonie, half indignant, half 1 amused, gave the lady a complete resume of the history she had heard herself. When it was ended Miss Templeton rose from her chair and embraced 1 her. • . i ' “Mv dearest child—my.favorite pupil —I am so heartily glad,,so pleased, so ! delighted iam overwhelmed.” The st uy face and dull,' lusterless eyes wore a look of excitement that completely changed Miss Templeton. “For your own sake lam so pleased. Countess of Charnleigh! The title is a proud one —you will do it justice. I always thought there was something distingue, something aristocratic about you.” “Did you?” a«ked the young girl, wonderingly. “I fancied you were never very pleased with my manner." Miss Templeton positively blushed—a phenomenon that had not occurred for years. “Those who have the charge of youth must be severe,” she said, “or, the youthful character never wou d bo I formed. My dear child, what advice you will need! What a terrible, almost awful responsibility for you! You will indeed require help.” “So Mr. Clements says. He is coming to-morrow to c nsult with you, for j I am young to be a countess in my own I right and mistress of a vast fortune. ‘Yesterday I felt so old. so tired so weary of my life; to-day—l cannot help it—my heart is like a singing-bird. ” I Miss Templeton looked at her in I wonder; the young girl had never said > so much to her in all her life I efore. i “That is but natural, Lady Charnleigh. I had better give you your title at once—it will accustom you to the sound. You must have some lady of experience with you; you cannot live alone. Countess of Charnleigh! I cannot get over my surprise.” At that moment Susan entered with a message. The expression of gratified revenge on her face did not escape i the notice of either lady. She looked with an air of triurnj h at Leonie, | “Susan,” said Miss 'lempleton, sharply, “I desire that you do not annoy Miss Rayn-'r again. If she wishes to have thed awing-room for her visitors, remembe it is always at her service.” Susan left the ro m full of rage and astoni hrnent, contemptuously wonder- [ ing to herself what was going to happen that Miss Templeton should be so I civil to a governess. That night Leonie was Miss Temple- ' ton’s most honored guest. She was al- ‘ lowed to go out on the lawn and sit under the shade of a great drooping | cedar until the moon and the. stars gleamed in the darkening sky. A large | magnolia grew near and its rich fra- ' granco seemed to ti.l the air, and gave to her dreams of luxury and magniflcance such as come only under the influence of rare oc'ors. Then the state bedroom, hitherto reserved for the most honored gu > ts, was at her disposal. Lady Charn oigh smiled as she saw how carefully it had been prepared. It was pleasant when she rose to mark the deference the servants paid to her, the extra respect; how each one called her “Lady Charnleig.i,” and waited upon her; and she was young enough and woman enough to be plea: e 1 at these things, and feel life life more pleasant with them. Mr. Clements called before noon, aud then there was no more di übt, no more he itation. Her claim was allowed on all sides, and she might ht any moment she liked take her place in the world as Countess of Charn'eigh. Even the change in the lawyer’s manner she noted. He was politene 8 itself, deferential, respectful, with somewhat of kindliness, that was extended, perhaps, because of her youth and inexperience. i “Do I really understand you that my dear pupil -can take p< s ession of her < estate at ones?” said Miss Templeton, i

I whoso surprise could still bo barely repressed. | “To-day, to-morrow, or any time she wills,” was the reply. “If I may venture upon making a suggestion to Lady Charnleigh. it is that she should, under Miss Templeton's chaperonago, go at once to town, and there make such purchases as she may deem fit; then. ' when ready, I advise no lurthee delaj 1 in going to Crown Leighton. If your ladyship will authorize me, I will a once write to one or two influentia’ people who will bo able to recommend a proper and suitable companion.” I “You mean that I am to buy now I dresses,” she said, looking at him with her face in a glow of delight. “How shall I know what kind of dresses a | countess should wear? Mv wildest I dreams never went beyond a pretty silk.” Ho smiled. Miss Templeton looked distressed. “Your best plan, Lady Charnleigh,” she suggested, “wi 1 be to drive at once to Madam Bert n and let her got everything necessary; she will know if you do not. As a matter of course, you must for some time wear mourning; but, as expense will not be a matter of consideration, you can have it as elegant as possible.” “I shou d explain to. your ladyship,” continued Mr. Clementi, gravely,"that during the six months we have spent in ascertaining the claims cf different and dintant relatives, the income derived from various sources, to be afterward explained to you, has accumulated and has been lying on my hands. 1 have brought with me a check for a thousand poinds. You can do afterward as you will;” and ho looked half wistfully at this y. ung girl on whom the mantle of splendid estates had so suddenly fallen.' “A thousand pounds!” said Leonie, Lady Charnleigh. “And I have never in my whole life before had five shillings of my own.” “Perhaps, after all, the best way to acquire a true appreciation of money is to want it,” said Mr. Clements. “And now, Lady Chat nlcigh, it only remains for me to add that whenever you think of going to Crown Leighton I shall be happy to attend you." “I should like to give half of this away,” she said; “how many people would be made happy by a little money!” She was looking with her bright eyes full of wonder at the check he had laid before her. “It is the great lever of the world,” remarked Miss Templeton. “Yet I cannot imagine Chevalier Bayard, or King Arthur, or any of the heroes X loved, caring for it,” rejoined Leonie; “there is nothing grand or heroic in the love of money." “For the present be content with enjoying it, Lady Charnleigh,” said the lawyer, smiling kindly; “you can moralize abvUt it afterward.” [TO BE COSTINUEa | A STEAMER’S BILL OF FARE. The Many Tons of Provisions Consumed on a Vessel Annually. The cost of provisioning an ocean steamer of the present day is very great. In a yea: 1 the pr< visioning of only one b at will, as a fair average, include sxo sheep, 200 lambs, 3,000 &xen, 3uv fowls, as many ducks and mi cellaneous poultry, besides several thousand 1 ead of game and other sundries. Aud to these a hundred thousand eggs, 10 tons of ham and bacon, 5 tons of fl»h, 2 tons of cheese. 1,000 tins of sardin .s, luO tons of p tatoes, 5,000 loaves and oil tons of flour biscuits, 5 tons of jam and marmalade, 3 tons of oatmeal, 2 tons each of rice and peas, pearl barley, plums and currants, and 12 tons of sifgar, with a ton of tea and 3 tons of couee, and you have what may be called the backbone of tl e daily faro. The drink bill will average per vessel per year about 50,000 bott es of beer, 20,000 mineral waters, 3,000 battles of spirits and 5,000 bottles of wine. We have only mentioned the necessaries and said nothing of the luxuries, which we ought not entirely to omit. Let it be added, then, that each passenger averages three oranges, almost as many apples, and half as many lemons a day; and that the ice cream supplied averages a pint ahead a week; and that on an Atlantic trip, taken at a venture, the fruit bill included 160 melons, 100 pineapples, 10 crates of peaches, 10 bunches < f bananas, 100 quarts each of go 'Seberries and currants, 25'i quarts each of raspberries, strawberries and cherries, and 75 pounds of grapes. The breakages are sim; ly appalling. During one week, not so very long ago, the steward s i eturn on one well-known liner th >wed an average breakage list of 9,10 plates, 280 cups, 438 saucers, 1,213 tumblers, 200 wine glasses, 27 decanters, and 63 water bottles, all of which had. of course, to be made good on arrival in port. New Story of Washington. Here is a new story of the Father of his Coun.ry. Wa hingt m's head gardener was a man from s ime European kingdom, where he had worked in the royal gioinds. But coming to Am iriea he loft his wife behind. Homesickness for his “gude” woman's lace soon began to prey on him, and Wa-hington noticed the anxious eye and dro< png spirits of his servant. Final y the man vent down to the river and declared his intention of shipping to toe old count ry, when who should c< me up and lean over the side of a newly-arrived vessel but his wife. The kind-heated gene, a h id secretly sent for the w< man, and she foi tunately sup Led ho. 1 loving husband in one of hi- fits of despondency.—Philadelphia Times. Making Rugs by Hand. The Turkish and Persian rugs which are sold at fancy prices by the carpet men are all made by hand, not even a loom being employed. The work roqui.es g -oat skill and infinite patience, so that the prices for genuine goods are by no means too large. Some of them requi e the lab >r of one man for six months or a year before they are completed and put on the market, while the highest-priced rugs, have often been toiled at, day after day, for three or four years before they are A Good Razor Strop. There are few better razor strops than can be made from a remnant of old leather belting that has revolved long beneath the dripping of oil from machinery. A razor first stropped on such a strip of leather and then upon a piece of calfskin is easily kept in good order. The Rock of’Refuge. In Hawaii, one of the Sandwich islands, there is a spot ca'led the Rock of Refuge. If a criminal re.iohe-i this rock before capture he is safe, so long as ho remains theio. Usually his family supply him with food until ho is able to make his escape, but is never allowed to return to his own tribe. Our Large Tobacco Growth. Tobacco was discovered in 1492. In 1892 the United States raised 565,7.75,(XX) pounds on 757,526 acre-* of ground. In 1884 the world’s production was 768,000 tons on 2,029,000 acres. In 1892 therel were manufactured in this country 2,877,779,44.'cigarette5. i. j- -

SHORT WORDS ARE BEST. The Peculiar Charm of an Illiterate Servant Glrl’e i/etter. The Independent tells a story of a servant girl, who, though untaught and unused to writing, sent to her folks a lei ter so simple and artless in style that all who read it gave her the warmest praise. When asked how it was that she who had little education wrote so plain and good a letter, and one so easily understood, she replied; “Well, you see, I’ve not much learnIng'rnyself, nor have my folks, and to make it easy for them I took the short and easy words that I knew they would understand.’’ It was even so. On examination, the letter was found to he almost wholly filled with words of one or two syllables. It was this that made it a model of style. Instead of the use of stilted language being the proof of literary supeiiorlty, it is moreoften the result of ill-breeding and ignorant vanity. It is not often the college-bred man who talks as if he had swallowed a dictionary, and all the long words stuck in his throat and came out in his speech. There is no better model nf style than the King James translation of the Bible and the works of Shakspeare. In both the short,, plain words outnumber those that are longer and of Latin or Greek origin. This is true also of John Bunyan, Ben.amin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln. All these used plain, homely words that anybody could understand. The late ex-Governor Horatio Seymour of New York, made it his practice after writing anything to go over the manuscript and change all the long words lor short ones with the very same meaning. He said that in this way he became used to thinking more clearly than he could by using longer words. There should be no set rule to write only short words, else the composition will seem strained, though the ideas may be clearly presented. It is with words as with sentences. A change from long to short gives variety and elegance of style! This is one of the secrets of Macaulay’s interest Those who examine his writing will And after very long sentences one or two that are short and crisp. It makes variety in the style which causes Macaulay to be a favorite quite as much as does his vigor and freshne s of thought The labor of writing is made needlessly hard by those unaccustomed to it. Having first a thought or fact worth printing, write it simply in the words that come most easily to the tongue, and you will not be very far wrong. The ambitious attempt at display recels, espec ally if it leads to loading writing with words not generally understood The rule of the Apostle Paul in this respect is a good one as his epistles are models of fore b e and ' persuasive composition. He said he had rather utter five words that could be understood than a thousand in an unknown tongue. That should be the motto as all who would reach the widest circle of readers or ha\e their writings handed down to posterity. Coal Around the Horn. That there could be any profit in shipping coal from the Atlantic coast to ban Fram isco does not seem to be among the possibilities, especially in view of the long voyage of about 14,, 0 0 miies around the Horn. Yet there is quite a large traffic of this kind, and, according to the Hartford 'l imes, it is growing, despite the competition of Australian coal brought across the Paci. c by English ships and also or coal from the Pacific coast i self, only a few hundred miles north of ban Francisco. If the latter were of satisfactory quality it j would naturally hold the market, but I it is far from equal to the anthrac te coal of the Atlantic coast for house-1 bold use or in steam-making quali- ■ ties to the bituminous coal which is in demand for the numerous steamship lines plying on the American coast or crossing the broad Pacflc to China and .iapan. For this reason, there is a market for our Atlantic | coast coal even at prices which en-; able the dealers to pay a freight; charge of $ .u 0 to $6 per ton from; Balti.i.ore to San Francisco. Eight I American ships of large size, ranging | in carrying capacity from l,Buo to : 3,Oud tons each, have been chartered at the above figures to load at Haltimoro for San I ranciseo and other ‘ i acilic coast ports this fall. The I largest of them, the Aryan, a fine ship recently launched near Bath, Me., Will take a large cargo, 3,000 j tons. The other ships are also of Maine build, most or them stanch old craits which are no strangers to : the tempestuous seas of the Cape. . The outward run will be 100 days or more, lor they are built for carrying . arge cargoes rather than for speed, j is were the lamous clippers of thirty i years ago. W hen the California ’ trade was at its height, speed was everything, ami flyers ot the packet lines iurl?a their wings within the Gohlen Gate seventy-five xr eighty days from Sandy Hook. - No Time to Do Any tiling. “It makes me mad,” said the old engineer, “to hear people ask why a i man don’t do so and >o when his en-1 glue strikes. It ail comes like a I stroke of lightriin’. When we piled i ’m up in the Whitesville cut and killed eight 1 was siltin'in mv window tnaunight lookin' ahead as careful as any one could. We had started on the curve, and she was goln’ as fast a- the w eels could turn, forty ! m.mites behind time and the deuce : to ;>ay if we didn’t make it up i>y ! mornin'. Ji umy Hartsell was feedin' ; 'er every minute. — | “I thought 1 saw a glimmer of light’ on the bank ahead. It was the .flash from the headlight around the other bend of the curve. Between the t me J caught that flash and when 1 saw [ the head-light swing around the cut as hlgasa tub it couldn't have been a , hundreth part of second. We were nose to nose before I realized—no 1 don’t think I realized -but I pu£\>n the air with one yank, yelled to Jimmy, and fell out of the window. When they thew water in my Jace, is’ posed I was cut all up. The wteck as on tire, and people was I oilerin’ uiraerneath. 1 laid there feelin’ of myself expectin' every mlnutato find ■ soft place, but I wai all right, and three days afterward 1 went to Jimmy’s funoral. After that I don't i

want no man to tell me what you ought to da” Easily Worth a Dollar. “I once answered an advertisement,” said Hugh Meadows to aSL ' Louis Globe-Democrat man, “which offered, In return for a $1 bill, tosend an infallible remedy for the habit of leaving one's umbrella behind in offices, and more especially in vehicles. As a money maker that adve User was a distinct genius for in response to my application and in return for my dollar I received a printed slip about 4x3 inches in size, [ with a picture of a man alighting | from a hack with an open umbrella i which had stuck fast in the door. “Below the picture, which it was explained was purposely drawn out of perspective, were a few lines explaining that if a man would once impress the picture on his mind he | would think of it every time he left a vehicle or car. and would be prevented thereby from leaving his umbrella behind. I was in such a rage at. being swindled, as I thought that the incident and illustration both became photographed in my mind’s eye, and to do the advertiser justice that dollar has certainly saved me many dollars a year In umbrellas. “The science of mnemonics is a very peculiar one and few people understand it Years ago it was common to tie a knot in one's handkerchief as a reminder of anything, and this plan has been improved upon from time to time. a friend who always hangs his hat on one peg in his office and has a small brass file just below the peg. By hanging loose memos, on this file he can scarcely leave the office without being re- . minded of important duties or engagements. Another man, who has no clock in his office, slips memos, in I his watch pocket, so that when he looks to see if it is time to go home he will notice whether he has forgotten anything. “The only duty which no one yet has been able to[remember or invent a i scheme for is mailing a letter written by one’s wife. The number of times ' a rational business man will carry a letter around in his pocket for over a week, and then sneak Quietly out and mail it in the corner letter box, is something remarkable, and this uni accountable neglect of husbandlike i duty accounts for no end of misunder- • standings and broken friendships.” The Seed Ground of Cholera. If the orisin of cholera is obscure, it has become quite certain what is its seed ground and chief preserve. ! The source of choleraic contamination iis Mecca.—Spectator.—This being i believed to be so, why should not the nonpilgrims the world over resolve themselves into a committee of the globe and impose the proper sanitary [ regulations upon Mecca and its visiti ors? Mohammedan devotees returni ing from the shrine of their prophet j bring a deadly pestilence that scatters over the entire face of the earth and that is to a great extent unavoidable. No civilized community per- ' Lmits smallpox patients to walk abroad ' | freely. Why should civilization per- | mit itself to be inoculated with the scourge of cholera without practical and effective remonstrance? We presume the hadji who dies of cholera dies happy. As the consolation of ! the Moslem is not universal, it would seem fair in the matter of this gengeneral contamination to claim a i right to be heard in behalf of every i people in existence. Our European cousing are on tbe spot, holding the : fortunes of civilization under their ; immediate supervision. It behooves I them seriouly to consider their duty ■ to : press the requirements of sanitary : science upon Mecca and all its guests j —New Yorx Sun. I Mr. Evarts as a Wit. Mr. W. M. Evarts, who has just been celebrating his golden wedding, iis a man of wit not too often used i for telling effect. He flashes hfs steel to good purpose now and then. Tbe story is said that once at a dinner of the New York Potters, a sort of family reunion, he as their family [ counsel had been asked to dine with ! them all. There was a bishop and [ there was a doctor of divinity, and I there were other distinguished scions lof the family tree present, and the l after-dinner speeches had all been | (very naturally for such an occasion) I on the fame and the successes of one another. Tbe history of the Potters since they first came to this country l was told in all its glorious details. ! Then Mr. Evarts was asked to make a speech, and they say he said that I he relt he really must be excused. In i this reverend presence however, he might be pardoned for uttering a paraphrase of Scripture which had come into his mind during the i s eeches of the rest—“ Lord. Lord, : Thou art the clay and we are tbe i Potters.”—Poston Transcript. i - — - Sir Boyle Roche Indignant. ‘ Autograph letters of Sir Philip 'Francis are authority for adding I the.<e two to the many famous Irish “bulls,” attributed to Sir Boyle Roche. Some ladies went to the I ish j House of Commons to hear a particular debate, which happened to be put 1 off till the next day. Sir Boyle Roche said: I “Indeed, ladies, I am very sorry 1 for your disappointment; but why didn’t yoa come to-morrow?” One day the House being remarki ably quiet. Sir Boyle said, “Mr. Speaker, I spake to order. An honorable gentleman who always sits behind me is perpetually laughing in Imy face! I move that before he ; laughs at me any. more he will be i pleased to tell me what he is laughI ing at” Whistling Freworks. The people of London are very much interested in the whistling fireworks winch have long ceased to be regarded over here asa pyrotechnic j marvel. The popular notion among I the Britons is that gas generated by the combustion of the tiery composition actually blows a whistle, but this supposition is Erroneous. So far as cambe determined by the pyrotechnists themselves, the screaming noise is due to the violent combustion of the picrate of potash with which the little tubes of the fireworks are stuffed. Experiments have been made with other materials, but picrate of potash is the only combustible substance discoverable that will give anything more than a faint imitation of a whistle. /

1 Business Directory . j-77, .. l - n ’ THE DECATUR MTIOJIAI BASK. 1 CAPITAL, 150,C00. BVBPLUB, 811,500. Organized August 15, 1883. Officers;—P. W. Smith, Prea.. Parrel W< Idy, Viee-prea., IL 8. Poleraotl, Caahlor, J. 8. Pc- * toraou, Ass’t Cashier. 1 Do a general banking business. Interest naid on time deposits, t Buy and sell Domestic, and Foreign Exchange, County and City Orders. r — I , Adams County Bank ) Capital, 878,000. Snrplaa, 75,001, Organized In IS7I. Offioara—D. Stndabaker. President: Roht. B. I Allison, Vioe-Preeident; W. IL Niblick, Ceaklee. ; Do a general banking business. CoUeotieM node In all parti of the country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Ezchsxge bought and Bold. Xaterest paid on time deposit*. Paul G. Hooper, i ' .A.ttorxi©y Law 1 Deeefar, - - XtwHana. ! ■W* 8. mamw, X a, Bitjmr S MAKN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. I Pension Clalma Prosecuted, Office In Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, lad. ' T7IRANCK 8 MERRYMAN. J. T. ntAKCT. JJ J. T. MZRBYMAh Attorney* s*.t Xuea-w, DZCATUB, INDIANA. Office Noe. 1,2 and S, over the Adams County i Bank. CoUectlou a specialty. A.«. HOLLOWAY, - Fliysloizindbßurseon Offloe ever Burna' harness shop, residence > ene door north of M. B. church. All calls ; promptly attended to In city Or country night ( or day. I — , >L L. HOLLOWAY, M. D. ' Ofloo and residence one door nerth of M. M church. Diseases of women and ehUdrea apeI Maltiee. Leri Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. T Q. NEFTCNB, J. DENIBT. Now located over Holthouse'a shoe store, and 1s prepared to do all work pertaining to the dental profession. Gold ailing a specialty, By the use of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extract teeth without pain. All work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN On Ant Property on Long Tima. Wo OosimziaJ.MMlo»e lAwßatoef Interest. Wortlsal Z > »jma.«xa.Oss In any amounts eon be made at anytime sad stop interest. Call on, or aMress, • .- - ■ a. jk. t j. r. jrxiors O«ao: 044 fellows' Building, Deeanm. Erie Lines. Schedule In effect Aug. 27. 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. 5. Vestibule Limited, daily for I o . n o ~ Chicago j- -.«) r. Ji No. 3. Pacific Express, daily fori Chicago , f n No. 1, Express, daily for Chicago (. Nb. 3'.. Accommodation, daily, I . >, exccptSunday f • M TRAINS EAST. No. J. Vestibule Limited, daily for 1 n ~ New York and Boston ( ‘•“ 0 M No. 2. Express, daily for New 3.05 p M Express, daily for New M No. 3U. Accommodation, daily ex-1 I eepl Sunday f ,u " w Second No 12— Leaving Dcrtttur 1:30 a. tn lailv. Solid train lor Columbus. Ohio, vin Msrion and tin' Columbus. Hocking Vallej and Tolddo Hailwa.v I Buckeye Roue); Pullman to Columbus. Kenova, and Nm i k tnd other Virirui'a points via the Columbus, 'l.a’kin,' '.’alley and Toledo and the Not lolk slid Western Lines. J. W. Df.Loxo. Agent. W.G. Mao Edwards. T. P. A. Huntington. Ind first Class Nifht a»d Day Service bctwM, Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo FREE CHAIR CARS BUY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT TBROUGNtn. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIGHT TRAINS. £N SOUT£, Mg tsar, M> 9* SWIT. at aeSsrat, cost. X«k for ticketi via Tsledo, St Louis 4 him City 1.1 Clover Leaf Route. Far further particulars, call on asarse A<eat of the Company, or address o. O. JENKINS, Omw.l tu-.r* ir—s TOLEDO. OHIO

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J3LT Merryman’S FACTORY Yoa can get all kinds of Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets, Molding, Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. In fact all kinds of building ma terial either made or furnished • ob short notice. A A 8080. R T. BOX 1 Maatsa Oommlsslonar. 8080 * SON, -ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Bml Batata aad Oollaatlaa, Decatao, lai. O.P. M. ANDREWS, 1 atlolAxx cfc Surseon MONROB. INDIANA. Office and realdenco 2nd and Brd doors west of M. B. church. »> Prof. L. H. Zeigler, Veterinary Surgeon, Modus Operandt, Oroho -LJp tomy, Overotomy, Castrating, Rldg Ung, Horses and. Spaying Cattle and Dehorn lug, and treating their diseases. Office over J M. Stone’s hardware storo, Decatur Indiana. J. 8. Coverdale. M. D. P. B. Thomas, M D. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce’s Drug store. Decatur, Ind LOOK HEREI I am hare to stay and cam soB Organs and Pianos sheaper than anybody else eaa aCord te sell them. I sell different maksa. CLEANING AND REPAIRING done reaaonable See me first and save moaoy. JT. T. COOTB,D»catuis, Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time. 28 minj utes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Thursday, August 17. J3UB. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 5 No. T Cincinnati..lve 8 15am Wlklpm Richmond 2 20pm 11 00.. 1150 Winchester.... 3 1" .. 1153 .. 1231 an. Portland 404 .. 1235 pm 103 .. ; Decatur 510 .. 131 .. 145 .. . Ft.Wayne...arr 8 00.. 215 .. 215 “ “ ...Ive 2 35.. 225 . -05,m Kendallville... 341.. 3 19. 010.. Home City 3 58.. 3 32.. 9'’6.. Wolcottville 401 .. 337 .. 9 3).. Valentine 4 11 9 42 .. LaGrange 4 19.. 3i’,2.. 9nl„ Lima 4 29 10 03 .. Fitirgis 4'40.. il2 .. 1019.. Vicksburg 538.. .5« .. 1114.. Kalamazoo.arr 605 .. r. M) .. :11 40 .. " ..ive TlOaml 625 .. s‘’a .. Ll3i)pm Gr. Rapids..arr; 910 .. I SlO . 6.50.. 21-> .. ’■ •’ ..Ive 10 50.. 7 2i. 415.. D..G.H.&M.cr 11 05.. 7 35.. 'Howard City 12 05am 545 .. 540 .. Dig Rapids ....12.55 . 947 . 645.. Reed City. 125 .. In 20 .. 7,»5 .. Cadillac arr 2 30.. 11 30.. 910.. ’’ ... Ive 240 .. 11 3.5 Traverse City 2.5 pm Kalkaska 4 01.. 120 Petoskcj 5 45.. 3uo XlackinacCity 705 .. A2O GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 Nd. 6 No. 4 ■ No. 8 Mackinac City. 909 pm 740 am i .s'pm Petoskey...... ItfSOff 915 ,5 300 Kalkaska 12 45am 1121.. 4 1.5 Traverse City 11 05 . 425 Cadillac....arr 220 am 100 pm 6S) “ ....Ive 230.. 120.. 6Lspm 7 31« m Reed City...,. 338.. 2 35.. 750.. »W .. Bls Rapids 4 08.. 3 05.. 8 -5.. J2Br.Howard City.. 500.. 3 50.. 9 20.. 1035.. D.G.H.AM.cr 6 15.. 5 00.. 10 25. 1135.. Or. Rapids .an- 6 3).. 5 15.. 10 40. 1.50.. “ “ ..Ive 70q,.. 6 00.. 11 20.. 2Uopm Kalatnasoo.arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 55nm 311.. ” ..ive 8 55.. 805 345.. Vicksburg 924 .. 833 4 12.. Sturgis 111 19 .. 926 605 .. Lima 10 33 .. 940 il7 .. LaGrange .... 10 44 .. 952 ... 529 .. Valentine 1053.. 10 02 5.)7.. Nolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 547 . Rome city ill 09 .. 10 19 553 .. Kendallville... 11 25 .. 10 39 6 08.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 .. ....... 715 .. ’’ ” ...Ive 100 .. 114 li’am 545 am Decatur j. 146 .. [12.58 .. 630 Portland....:.. 2 40.. 2 00.. 730 Winchester.... 317 .. | 2 41.. 809.it' Richmond ..... 420 .. 134 u.. 9 1.5 . Cint'lnnatl 700 .. i 7 1.5 '•> -Trains 5 and 8 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent. Decatur, Ind 4 Scientific American Agency TO CAVEATS, TRADE MARKS, DESIGN PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, etc. For Information and free Handbook write to ML’NN A C’U„ 361 Broadway, New York. Oldest bureau for securing patents in America. Every patent taken out by us is brought beforetbe pualio by a notice given t ree of charge in tbe Scientific American Largest circulation of any paper in the world. Splendidly illustrated. No intelligent ninn should be without it. Weekly, • year: Sl.soeix months. AddreM MUNN 1 ' •«» I ’’"■“’r’way. New York (ity.