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It w with hebself. — The Story of a Woman s Atonement, A by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER Xlll—Continued. f’ ’ gun shining into her room awoKo Her first thought wan of Sir mi. The incidents of the day 3 seemed like a distant, half-be-red dream. . Was it all true? Ah, There were the daphnes, there, 1 her heart was the name strange, sweet music that bewildered while It delighted her. The world seemed so fair that morning; the sun was brightar (han it had ever been. Lady Fanshawe 1 looked in wonder at the lovely young •face that greeted her with such u kindly, happy smile. , “Where are you going to-day, auntie?" she asked, as they sat down to the luxurious breakfast table. )• “Have you forgotten, Leonlo.* The carriage is ordered for two. We are going to Lady Seagrove's fete at Chiswick.” Again the young Countess' first thought was a wonder as to whether Bir Bertram would be there. She Would have liked to ask Lady Fanshawe if it was probable, but she could not utter his name. ■ f “The Duchess is sure to be there," continued Lady Fanshawe, “and Lord Falcon, too. I should not be surprised, Loonie, if you wore married in your irst season. ” “I should,” she replied, with a gay little laugh. “Ah, auntie, when the World is so bright, why spoil it by (peaking of such serious things?” , “Young ladies do not generally consider that love and marriage spoil the beauty of the world,” observed Lady Fanshawe. “Now tell Florette that sou must excel yourself to-day. Many {iris look pretty in a ball-room who are not so pleasing in the daylight and sunshine. You look equally well in both.” _____ CHAPTER XU. ’ Lady Seagrove was the happy possessor of a grand old mansion at Chiswick. The grounds attached to it Were extensive and beautiful; some of the finest trees in England were to be found there —stately oaks and spreading cedars, chestnut trees that were magnificent when in bloom, magnolias that filled the air around with perfumes, silver birches, aspens, copper beeches that looked like burnished gold in the sun. From the grounds there were some beautiful views of the river. Pretty seats and garden chairs had been placed under the trees. ,‘ Once during every season Lady Seagrove gave a grand fete in the grounds, and it was eagerly anticipated and enjoyed. After crowded theaters, heated ballrooms and their artificial atmosphere, it was refreshing to see nothing out green foliage and blooming flowers. Fair faces looked fairer in the sunlight, people were less artificial, less ceremonious there. Lady Charnleigh was queen of the fete, as she had been queen of the ball.

I She looked • daintily beautiful in her I dress of rich Indian muslin, with its I trimmings of costly lace; a pretty little I hat shaded her lovely face, and gave a I coquettish appearance that did not I usually distinguish her. She looked I around her, but did not see the one I face and figure that had haunted her I all night. I As soon as she appeared Lady CharnI leigh was surrounded by a little ■ knot of courtiers; first and foremost I was Lord Falcon, who watched her deI lighted face with a smile. ■ “Is this the first fete you have at--1 tended. Lady Charnleigh?" he asked. ■ when, after great maneuvering he had ■ secured a seat by her side. I “Yes,” she replied. ■ “I thought so; your face tells your Beverv thought as plainly as your lips ■speak them. 1 * ■ “Then I must train my face,” she ■said. “It is very inconvenient to have ■one's thoughts guessed.” ■ Lord Falcon Sighed. ■ “Why do you sigh'?” she asked, ■simply. ■ “I was thinking that the fairer and ■more dainty the bloom, the more easily ■it is brushed from the flower. I was ■wondering if a few seasons in town ■would matte you as artificial and worldBly as other girls. 1 ' ■ “I am worldly now, ” she said, with a Blow, rippling laugh; “that is, I love the ■world and everything in it.” ■ “That is not being wordly, Lady ■Charnleigh, ” he rejoined, half sadly; Bthen he looked at her in wonder—a ■beautiful light had come into those ■violet eyes, a sudden flush to the fair ■face. The flush died away, leaving the ■face pale, with the least possible ■quiver. ■ He had his own share of vanity, and ■believed that his words had moved her. ■low could he guess that in the far dis■tance, between the waving foliage, she ■had seen the grand Saxon head and ■air, handsome face of Sir Bertram ■Cordon? ■ All the serene and bsautiful calm ■was over. Her heart beat, her whole ■pul was engrossed with one idea — Byould he learn that she was there? ■Would he come to speak to her? She Kaid to herself that Lord Falcon, the ■greatest match in England, was a most ■tiresome man. She wondered why he ■jersisted in sitting there talking nonKense ami looking at her. while the ■oung lord from her silence began to ■rope that at last he was making some ■repression upon her. ■ “I would make her an offer at once, ” ■ie. thought to himself, “but that my ■nother so strongly advises me to ■rait.” ■ “I wish he would go away,” thought Charnleigh; "then perhaps Sir might see mo.” ■ jShc sat in eilence some minutes ■Aiger, and thta silence and inactivity Became a torture to her. What if he ■hould leave the grounds without see■ag her? What if he should go away she should nover see him again? ■;“I wish to find Lady Fanshawe,” sho ■lid, rising; and Lord Falcon, to his ■nnoyance, saw that the interview was ■ ’ ” f (■They found Lady Fanshawe deop in with the Duchess; from well-pleased faces of both, the subBqt had evidently been satisfactory, Falcoln loft the heiress with a jßow, inwardly resolving that tho timo as short as possible before ho ■me 'her his wife. Thon, oh, then ■e sun grow brighter, a deeper, fuller ISmuty fell on flower and tree, for Sir had soon her, and ho was Bright, sweot roses on her welcomed him, smiles for which mon would have bartered their greeted him. have been looking for you,” he [■id, gently; and then it seemed to her they went straight away into par- ■ Use. They left the Duchess and Lady together; silently they wont a long avenue of blossoming lime ■oos. too happy for words. They did ,gß>t need speech to reveal thoir happi■sb In being once more together. asked him some commonplace {■tißtion at last, and then they talked ■ng and earnestly. How she hung ■on each word that came from his 1 It was "the very honey of eloshe thought: everything he jSd atruck her as being so true, so {■tginal; the very foundation of hla ? * ■

character appeared to bo truth. He was describing some adventure that he had mot with years ago, when he happened to mention Captain Flemyngs name; she looked up at him with a glance of wondering pleasure. “Do you mean my kinsman—ls so distant a relation may bear the title? Is that the Paul Flemyng who would have had Crown Leighton but tor me?" “Yes,” he said. “I had forgotten for the moment, Lady Charnleigh. I trust the mention of his name id not displeasing to you.” “Oh, no; why should it be? I should like to see him and know him." “I know him well before he went abroad,” said Sir Bertram. “Tell mo more of Paul Flemyng," she said; “I should like to hear of him. I am entirely alone in the world, and he is liko a relative, though he is only my fourth or fifth cousin." “What can I tell you, I-ady Charnleigh? It may interest you to hear that there is a rumor that his regiment is coming home:“ “I am soglad!” sho cried. "Os course, I love Crown Leighton very dearly, but I always feel sorry for him that he has lost it. Was it a groat trouble to him?” “I do not fancy that he would set it trouble him,” replied Sir Bertram. “You do not know him, Lady Charnleigh; ho has a grand soul—a hero’s soul —as far above all envy, all greed, as the stars are above the earth. He realizes that one lino of Tennyson’s, ‘Truest friend and noblest foe.’ " She looked at him with wondering eyes. “Do you love him?" she asked. “Men do not use that wordjwhen they speak of each other. Paul Flemyng was my friend.” She walked on some minutes in silence; then she looked at him with tears in her eyes. “I wish Paul Flemyng would take half my fortune,” sho said; “I feel as though I had wronged him; yet I could not help being *O6XI of kin’— could I?" “Certainly not. You are sure to have those feelings—you are generous and sensitive; when you know Paul you will understand and feel sure that he would not purchase his prosperity at any risk of yours.” CHAPTER XV. There was an unusual stir in the military world; fresh troops were sent to Canada, new regiments to India, and in the general movement it happened that Paul ‘ Flemyng's regiment was summoned to England instead of proceeding to the East. It happened still more strangely that their place of destination was the pretty town of Weildon, not far from Crown Leighton. Captain Flemyng, who had leave of absence, Intended to spend the latter part of the season in London. General Sir Huntley Dacre, who was the very happy owner of a very fine town mansion, made the same resolve. “It will not be like parting, ” said Ethel Dacre, when Paul came to bid her adieu. “We shall meet again in London.” And Captain Flemyng, all unconscious of the loving heart so sorely troubled

for him, went on his way to London, wondering what the difference would have been had Crown Leighton been hie. He received the warmest of welcomes—all the warmer and more kindly that people knew how calmly he had Buffered a keen disappointment. His only puzzle was which of the numerous invitations lavished upon him he should select; he decided at length upon an independent course, and took apartments near Piccadilly. In this way he would please himself as to whither he might go and what he might do. One of the first invitations he accepted was to Lady Denham’s garden party —a species of entertainment quite new to him. It was arranged that Claude Denham, her ladyship’s son and heir, should drive him down. Lady Denham had a beautiful house, surrounded by magnificent grounds on the banks of the Thames. “You will see some of the handsomest women in London at my mother’s garden party,” said the hopeful heir of the Denhams; “and for my part, I consider a really handsome woman the finest work of creation. What do you say, Captain Flemyng?” “I have the greatest reverence for all women,” he replied, gravely, “but the question of beauty is not one that has hitherto interested me.” "I think all women ought to be goodlooking. 1 cannot see why they are not.” “They are,” asserted the young soldier, in perfect good faith. “I have never yet seen a woman’s face that had not something beautiful and true in it.” Claude Denham laughed aloud. “For Utopian ideas commend to me a soldier who has been abroad. I will show you a face to-day, Captain Flemyng, worth Coming all the way from Malta to see. ” They made their way to Lady Denham, who professed herself delighted to see Captain Flemyng. “You will find many of your old friends here,” she said. “Sir Bertram Gordon has been inquiring anxiously as to when you were coming.” “Now for the face I told you Os," said Claude to Paul. “I do not see the lady at present; but wherever you notice two or three men looking as though they were moon-struck, be sure she is not far off. ” They passed through several alleys under long rows of branching limes, and across a smooth greensward. “Surely she is come,” said Claude. “I know that my mother relied on her as the great attraction of the day. Ah!” he continued, with a little cry of admiration, “there she is! Now confess that in all your travels you have never seen a picture so fair!” Paul Flemyng looked, and what he saw remained engraved on his heart until his dying day. Before him was a large white acacia-tree in full flower, its white blossoms falling where the wind carried them; underneath its branches was a pretty rustic seat, with th© golden sunlight falling on the loveliest face ever dream of artist imagined—a face so bright, so fair, so tender, so radiantly lovely, so happy, that ho was dazzled by it as a child who looks rashly at the sun. He saw violet eyes full of light, and golden hair that seemed to have made tho sunbeams captive. A shining mass of palest pink silk and white lace draped the perfect figure and fell in sweeping folds: a little white lace tfonnet a marvel of art, with one pale pink rose, crowned the golden head. The girl’s beautiful face was bent over some white acacia blossoms that had been gathered for her. “There, ” said Claude Denham, triumphantly—“have you ever seen anything like that?” But Captain Flemyng made ho answer. He did not know who she was; she might be a royal princess, she might oe a Binger, an actress, or a duchess, he did not care—she was his ideal woman found at last. Hik lifq in that moment grew complete;, it was though he had found something for" which he had looked long and. anxiously; it was such a face, bright as the stars, and lovely beyond comparison, as he had dreamed of, but had never 866DL “Who is she?” he asked at length. , ‘I was waiting for the question. She

is no less a personage than Loonie, Countess of Charnleigh, at this moment assuredly the rfioet popular and eagerly courted lady in the three Kingdoms. You would like an introduction to her?” “Not just yet," he replied. He wanted time to collect himself, to drink in the marvelous loveliness of that face, to watch the graceful movements of the little white hands—time to still the rapid boating of his heart, to quiet the thrilling of every nerve. Claude Denhanygave a keen, sharp glance at his face, and then turned aside with a laugh. “Where there are lights there will bo moths; but I did not expect to see you so easily caught," he said; but Capt. Flemyng never even heard his words.. His whole heart, his whole soul had gone from him-he stood there, as it wore, without life, so intent, so earnest was his gazo. So, for a long period, did PBul Flemyng stand aloof, watching the beautiful girl whose smiles were so eagerly courted, and then Lady Denham passed by. He went to her and spoke anxiously. “Os course I will,” replied her ladyship—“come with me." She led him through the little group of courtiers, and said: “Lady Charnleigh, allow me to introduce to you Capt. Paul Flemyng, who has just returned from Malta.” Lady Charnleigh looked up with a start of amazement, that did not escape those around her. The color on her exquisite face paled, and a shadow came into her eyes as she repeated the name. “Captain Flemyng,” she said, “welcome home.” She dropped the white acacia blossoms and held out her hand to him. She did not notice afterward that he picked up one of those flowers, as a miser does gold. “You have taken me by surprise. I heard that you were coming home, but I did not know that it would be so soon. ” He looked at her dazzled, as though a wave of warm sunlight had fallen at his feet, and was unable, from very excess of emotion, to answer her; he felt when the silvery voice ceased to speak as though a strain of sweet music had passed away. “When did you return?” she asked, seeing that he was deeply agitated and mistaking the cause. “Last week,” he replied, making a great effort to control himself. “And you have never been to see me!" she continued. “I shall scolU you. Shall we walk down to the river?” The gentleman who had been talking to her drew back; Paul bowed low. “Will you give me your arm?” she said. “I shall not allow you to treat me as a stranger.” She laid her little hand, so exquisitely gloved, on his arm, and his heart beat as it had never done before—so violently, indeed, that his face flushed. Far more bravely than he walked by the side of this young girl had he stood before the guns of the enemy. [TO BB CONTINUED. | GERMAN ANNALS.

1701. Frederick IU. assumed the title of King of Prussia and crowned himself. 1702. The beginning of the war of the Spanish succession; victories of Marlborough. 1718. The empire increased by conquests in the East; parts of Turkey annexed. 1722. The Pragmatic Sanction published by Charles IIL, settling the crown on Maria Theresa. 1740. Maria Theresa became Queen of Hungary; very threatening outlook. 1740. Accession of Frederick the Great, who made Prussia one of the leading powers. 1741. Maria Theresa attacked by Prussia, France, Bavaria, and Saxony, supported by Great Britain. 1748. Peace of Aix la Chapelle; Italian provinces ceded to Spain. 1756. The seven years’ war began between Prussia and Austria and their allies. 1757. Frederick won the battles of Prague and Rosbach and was defeated at Kolin. 1763. Peace at Hubertsberg closed the seven years’ war; Prussia gained Silesia. 1766. Lorraine ceded to France as the result of the last War. 1772. Prussia took part in the first partition of Poland. 1782. Joseph 11. agreed to the dismemberment of Poland and so increased the limits of the empire. 1795. The second partition of Poland consented to by Francis I.; accomplished. 1797. The treaty of Campio Formio; Lombardy given to France and Venetia to Austria. ’ 1801. The number of the imperial electors, formerly eight, increased to ten. 1801. Treaty of Luneville; the Austrian Empire sustained great diminution. 1803. Ruinous concessions made to France by the Emperor; great diminution of territory. 1804. Francis H. assumed the title of Emperor of Austria. 1805. "Battle of Ulm; Austrian army surrounded and surrendered; Vienna capitulated to Napoleon; overthrow of Austrians and Russians at Austerlitz. STRIKES. 1867. Several murders and other outrages paid for by William Broadhead, Secretary to the Sawgrindera’ Union, Sheffield, England. Notable trials and great excitement. 1867. 4 commission appointed by Parliament to inquire into the constitution of trades and labor unions. 1867. An act passed by Parliament to establish councils of conciliation to adjust differences between workingmen and their employers. 1867. Strike among English journeymen tailors; most were idle from April to October; a failure. 1868. Labor unions formed in Switzerland and Austria on same models as those of Great Britain. 1868. Workingmen of the same trade allowed to form societies in France, provided they abstained from politics. 1868. Trades unions after the English model established in Germany, France and other countries 1868. Great strike of. English colliers; 40,000 men involved'; partial success. 1869. General strike in, North England cotton mills; in every case the men returned to work at former figures or less. 1869. Serious riots in Wales caused by the minors’ hatred of unpopular Superintendents; suppressed by dragoons. 1869. An act of Parliament passed to protect the funds of labor unions from embezzlement. 1869. The first Trades Union Annual Congress held. Regular meetings ( ever since. 1869. Much interest caused by the publication of Thornton’s book on labor, in which he maintained that the efforts of trades unions raised the price of labor, and estimated that the increase to the aggregate wages of the workingmen of Great Britain wM 49,000,W0 a year.

IDEAS TRAVEL FAST. A Common Trick Th»t TnMlr«m»» flaw of Turning Them into Money. New ideas are difficult to sell but very easy to give away; in fact, a reporter of the New York Sun has discovered that if they are good Ideas other folks adopt them without being asked and in a very annoying way sometimes. For instance, the reporter had invented a starfpln and had his design executed by a manufacturing jeweler. The jeweler, when delivering the pin, remarked: - That is very pretty. It is a design that will sell we)L We are thinking Os making a few thousand tor the trade” —thus destroying the chief value of the ornament Not long afterward this same person had the misfortune to break two washbowls in one week by bumping them against the end of the washstand in his summer home in the country. He decided that it would be cheaper and better to imitate the city plan of using a fixed bowl with a plug In the bottom. In his mind he planned a mere frame,of hard polished wood to be supported on plated metal brackets and to have a big bowl sunk in the shelf with a plug in the bowl and a slopjar underneath. When this idea was explained to a member of a wholesale firm in the plumbing trade he remarked: “I should not wonder if it would be a good thing to make a lot of those stands. People can’t have running water in the country, but that is the very next thing to having it. I believe you have hit on a very salable thing." He seemed to pride himself on being a connoisseur of other folk's ideas, for he said that recently a man had come along with an order for a bathtub on wheels, but he did not ttfink that would recommend itself to the trade or the public. This man had no bathroom in his country house, and could not spare a room to make one of. Therefore he hit on the plan of putting a bathtub on wheels and moving it into the bedroom of whoever called for a bath. An ordinary iron porcelain-lined tub was what he wanted, fitted with wheels with rubber tires. By putting a hot and cold water faucet in every room and an opeh-mouthed waste pipe in One of the bedrooms—all his bedrooms being on one floor —he expected to be as well off as if he had a bathroom. When statues are made the custom is for the sculptor to reproduce his design in miniature ip plaster oj parts, and copies of this are given to favored triends. Always, in such cases, the recipients are informed that only a very limited number of these statuettes has been made and that therein lies a great part of theij value. The favor is then requested

that if any one’s statuette breaks he will be very careful to intrust it to none but a highly reputable repairer, else the person to whom it is taken will copy it and sell it to be hawked about the streets. The moral ot the situation is that since we cannot afford to patent every clever thought and device we must deal only with those who will respect our helplessness, • _j } Four-Masted Ships; The British ship Somali, one of the largest ships afloat, now loading at Hong-Kong for this port, is of 3,363 tons register. It is generally thought that tom-masted ships and of such largeJuiniensions are of recent origin, but jsuctf is not the case. In a copy? of -the Prince Edward Island Register of July, 1824, there appears a notice of the launch at Quebec on the 16th of July of that year of the four-masted Ship Columbus ot 3,700 tons register. Her dimensions are given as follows; Register, 3,600 32-24 tons;, length, 301 feet 6 inches; beam, 50 feet 7 inches; depth of hold, 29 feet 4 inches, lit was calculated that she "would chrry 9,000 tons of lumber. ' The paper spoken of in its issue of July 22, 1825, contains an item headed, “Loss of the timber ship Columbus,” detailing how the vessel on May )17, 1825, encountered a dreadful storm in latitude 46 deg. 54 min. north, longitude 29 deg. 2 mln. west, to leak and was abandoned. She carried a crew of ninety then. Another Canadianbuilt monster—the Baron of Benfrew_was afloat at the same time as the Columbus. Her dimensions were: length on deck 303 feet, beam 60 feet, depth of hold 35 feet, measurement tonnage 5,200. She carried nearly 9,000 tons of lumber in her hold, besides 800 tons on deck. She carried a crew ot eighty-four. She ran ashore and was wrecked near Calais, France, on October 21, 1825. "Why They Are White. There is no phenomenon of nature that escapes the investigating eye of science. In England they have lately been experimenting with flounders in order to determine whether the whiteness of the unaer sides of those fish is due to the exclusion ot light, and the presence of color on their upper sides to exposure to light They have kept the fish experimented upon, living in a glass tank having a mirror placed beneath, so as to reflect light upon the under sides of the fish. One of these prisoners has survived for three years under conditions so strangely different from its ordinary habits of life, and all of thepi have exhibited the development of spots of pigment on’their lower surfaces. <, The experimenters have concluded that it is exposure to light that causes the coloration of the ppper parts of the bodies not only of flounders but of other fish, and conversely, that it is to the comparative absence of light that the whiteness of the under sides of fish is due They extend the same principle to explain tho Colorless condition of the skins of many animals tha- pass all their lives in caves. ■ Bricks and Tar. It is stated that ordinary bricks boiled in tar for about twelve hours, or until they are saturated with it are Increased about thirty per cent in weight are much harder than common ones and unaffected by frost and acids as well as perfectly waterproof. They form an excellent floorfng for workshops or storerooms, particularly in The gffTmakes the greatest objection to any public demonstration cf affection before manage; the man makes the objection afterward. r ~r— —' 5 ■ • ■

HE LOVES DOGS. A Brooklynite Who Has Ilk l*etn Ho rind in a .Special Plot. Joseph A. Cross is a prosperous ( (umber dealer, who has a large yard at 45 Classpn avenue, says the Brooklyn Citizen. Mr. Cross employes a good many men, who swear by him because of his big-heartedness. While making it a point to treat everything about him fairly, his special passion is for dumb animals. No matter how humble the creature is, if it is in distress Mr. Cross’ big heart pours out to it, and he forms himself into a humane society on the spot and alleviates the misery of the suffering animal. Dogs are his special fancy. He has loved them and trained them ever since he was old enough to fondle one. Some of his friends say that his affection for canines reaches a perfect mania. His home and place of business at times are veritable dog hospitals, where all breeds and conditions of man’s best friend are looked after,and oftlmes restored to life and canine prosperity. In his love for dogs Mr. Cross does not overlook the less-attractive cat He possesses a kind feeling toward the humble feline that has frequently relieved it of the annoyance of having to dodge the flying bootjack and old shoe. Off in one Corner of the lumber yard is a little spot that appears like an oasis in the lumber desert. All through the last summer it was fresh and green while everything about it was brown, prosaic, and dismal. When a visitor enters the yard, he does not see this pretty little spot that seems so out of place in the midst 6t the ugly surroundings. It is off in one corner, carefully hidden froth .the view of the customers. -A wire screen keeps it free from the chips and dirt that accumulate in the yard- Upon close Inspection we find it to contain little green mounds, overgrown with fine grass and set off by bright flowers. At the head of each grave is a little marble headstone. “Could Mr. Cross have*buried two of his children in this out-of-way place?” is the question that instinctively comes to one’s mind. A closer inspection discovers that the little green mounds are over the remains of two dumb friends of Mr. Cross’ children. The stones tell us that “Carlo and Jack died in 1888,” and that “they were faithful and true.” Carlo and Jack were two Newfoundland dogs that looked atter Mr. Cross’ little ones for years. They were taken when puppies and reared into honest and respectable dogs. Finally when old age overtook them and death followed, their sympathetic master had them buried with honors such as few dogs ever realized in their latter end. Mr. Cross’ children took their death so to heart and so tearfully insisted on their old triends being properly cared for that the lumberman had this little graveyard made for them. A man looks after these little green mounds as carefully as if the occupants were human. “In their instincts Carlo ancl Jack were often more humane than lots of people,” said their owner sadly. “They never hurt anything in all their lives, and are worthy of a costly monument as a tribute to their fidelity. Some day I may erect a shaft with a fuller account of their virtues inscribed upon it.” , Altogether Different. There was a time when Charles Sumner was voted a vulgar fanatic in Boston because he had offended certain prominent persons by his needlessly cutting remarks on their “respectabilities.” One day Samuel Hooper who represented Boston in the National House, and who was an in. timate friend of Sumner, was asked by a wealthy commercial acquaintance how he managed to get along with “that fellow Sumner.” “Oh, very well,” was the reply. “I meet him yery often. Heappears to be invited to every party given in Washington. You can’t go anywhere withdut seeing him.” “You don’t say he is considered a gentleman? You don’t say that he is a man one would ask, now, to dine at your table or mine?” “No,” replied Mr. Hooper, with the dry humor which was peculiarly his own, “1 don’t think It would become you to invite him to your house; but society in Washington is mixed upjof elements such as we never find in Boston. There are, you know, a lot of embassadors from the various countries of Europe, earls, barons, knights, and other persons with titles prefixed to their names. Sumner seems to be their favorite guest, but I would not, of course, advise you to invite him to dinner. In Boston geare naturallv cautious; in Washington we can be less discriminating.” And the best part of the joke was that the victim of this satire remained quite unaware that he had been so effectually subdued. Not a Tyrant. It is truly annoying, to a plain every-day citizen, to have his indisputable rights infringed upon by a great personage. It is easy to understand the state of mind of the hungry traveler confronted by pomp and power, as is related in this true story: Tired and hungry, a traveler whom we may call Mr. Smith entered a village inn and ordered a roast chicken. He satdoWp by the fire and took great comfort in watching the fowl roasting on the spit and in thinking how line the flavor would be. It was nearly done, when a strange-looking individual entered the kitchen. His costume was eccentric, but it was undoubtedly that of a great personage. To the innkeeper he said with an impatient, and as it seemed to hungry Mr. Smith, an insufferably haughty air, “Well, William, will that chicken be roasted soon?” “Sir,".cried Mr. Smith sternly, “that chlcken is mine. 1 ordered it before you. ” “What is that to me?” said the personage harshly. “What is that to you!" cried Mr. Smith, faint with hunger and just Indignation. ’ ’ ' Then the intruder spoke again and more gently. He said, “You see, sir, 1 want the turn-spit chain to complete my costume. I am going to represent the Black Prince in an entertainment at the Town Hall this evening.*

Business Directory THE DECATUR HATIOKAL BAAR. CAPITAL, 160,000. SURPLUS, 111.600. Organized August 16, 1883. Officers;—P. W. Smith, Pres.. Daniel W. lrfjr, Vlce-prce-.R. S. Peterson, Cashier. J. S. Peterson. Ass't Cashier. Do a general banking business Interest paid on time deposits, Buy and sell Domestli and Foreign Exchange, County and City Orders. Adams County Bank Capital. *76,000. Surplus, TS.OOS, J Organised In I*7l. OOetn-D. nodabaker. President: BoM. A Allison, Vloe-Presldent; W. H. Niblick, Cashier. Do a general banking baslaMS. CoUecUdn* made In all parts of the country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on tins deposits, Paul G. Hooper , Attorney at X*a“uv Deeatwr, • • Indiana. ■M, •. *. «“*. A * BBimr <f> MAJfN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office tn Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, Ind. TARANCB * MKRRYMAJL J. I. rBJUrCB. JO *. s. mxrb nisir Attorneys) hit Xjas-w, PhCATUB, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 2 and 8. over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. A. O. HOLLOWAY, X»Jxy aloldux «*» «urgeon Office over Burns* harness shop, rasldsnes eno door north of M. B. church. AU eaUt promptly attended to in elty or country nlghd M. L. ■OLLOWAY, M. ». Office and residence one door north of M. A ehurch. Diseases of women and children spoeialtieo Lift Nelson, Veterinary Snrgeoi, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. TQ. NEPTUN*. J. DBNIBT. Kow located over Holthouse’s shoo stere, and is prepared to do all work pertaining to tbs den. Mi profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the ■to of Mayo's Vapor ho is enabled to extras* teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN On Fhrm Property sn Lsa« maa. Xo CommlauadOM. Lew Base es Istarete la aay aasaaats oaa be made aS say Mate ami ■tap iatoraat. Cailoa,er sSn< A. X. GRUBB, or J. P. MAJOa Mtaa: Odd Follows* BnildiM. Daaabte. Erie Lines. Schedule In effect Aug. 27. 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as •Follows TRAINS WEST. N 0.5. Vestibule Limited, daily for I Chicago ( z w M No. 3. Pacific Express, daily for I , Chicago f A ’ 1 No. L Express, daily for Chicago I. u-2Q A m No. 31, Accommodation, daily, I >«.,= . m except Sunday I lu "' ' ‘ TRAINS EAST. , No. 8, Vestibule Limited, daily for I D .. New York and Boston <.. f *■’" r - •“ No. 2. Express, daily for New j, j.jg p M No. 12. Express, daily for New M No. 3U Accommodation, daily ex-1 . n ,~. . ceptSunday A ’ w Second No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:30 a. m. dally. Solid train for Columbus. Ohio, via Msrion and the Columbus, Hooking Valley and Tolddo Railway (Buckeye Roue): Pullman sleepers to’Columbus. Kenova, and Norfolk and other Virginia points via the Columbus. Hooktug Valley and Toledo and the Norfolk and Western Lines. J. W. DeLono. Agent. W. G. Mao Edwards, T. P. A. Huntington, Ind First Class Night and Day Servios betweefc Toledo, Ohio, - St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS BAY TRAINS—MODERN EQUIPMENT THnOCHMT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIOHT TRAINa! tfKEALS SERVED EH ROUTE, utf boar, MT OR NIRHT, st woderste cost hkfir iitltit »li Tiledo, St Unit 4 liniudtj L1 Clover Leaf Route. Far further particulars, call on near art Agsnt nf ths Company, or addreM O. O. JENKIN3, ru»>pr Asm* TOLKDO, OHlfi.

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Merryman’S FACTORY Ton oaa get all kind* of Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets, Molding, Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. In fact all kinda of building ma terial either made or furnished «B abort notice. AB. 8080, AT. BOB* Ksatss Osmmlssionsr. 8080 A SON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Baal notate sad CaHaotfam, Doaataz, ImL O. P. H. AMDBEWB, Flxyslolan <£> Sxur*«c»xa MONROE. INDIANA. Office end residence 2nd and Brd doors wests* M. A church. ■ IB* Prof. L. H. Zilglir, Veteriiiry Burgeon, Modus Operand!, Oroha *1 Z1 tomy, Overotomy, Castrating, Rid* |lng, Horses and Spaytifg Cattle and Dehorn Ing. and treating their diseases. Office over J M. Stoss’s hardware store. Decatur Indiana , i ■. i J. 8. Ooverdsle, M. D. P. B. Thomas, M A DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce’s Drug store, Decatur, Ind LOOK HEREI I ass hare to stay and earn asM Organs and Pianos steeper than aavbody else eaa affisrMa mU them. IseUdiffisrant makte, CLEINIH6 HD' REPURUR done rseonaahto Bee ate first and state ■easy. P. T. COOTS,Decatur Mb Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trains run on Central Standard Time, 28 min] utes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Thursday, August 17.1808. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 6 No. T Cincinnati..lve 815 am 900 pm ... Richmond 2 20pm 1100 .. 1150 winchester.... 3 if.. 11 55 .. 1231 am Portland 4 oi.. 1235 pm 103 Decatur.. 510.. 131.. 143 Ft.Wayne...arr 600.. 215.. 215 “ “ ...Ive 235 .. 2 25.. SOfeci KcndallvlUe 3 41.. 319 .. 910 .. Home City 3 56.. 3 32.. 926 .. Wolcottville... 401.. 337.. 931.. Valentine 411 9 42.. LaGrange 419.. 382 . 951.. Lima 4 29 10 08.. Siurgis 4 40.. 4 12.. 10 19 .. Vicksburg ~ 536.. i 5».. 1114.. Kalamazoo, arr 6 05.. sto .. 11 40 .. “ ..Ive TlOam 625.. 525.. 1230 pm Gr. Rapids., arr 910.. 810.. 650.. 21e... " •* ..Ive 1050.. 720.. 415 .. D.. G.H.&M.cr 11 05 .. 735.. 429.. Howard City 12 05am 545 .. 540 . . Big Rapids 12 55 .. 947 . 645 .. Reed City 1 25.. 1020.. 755.. Cadillao.....arr 230.. 1130..’ 910.. “ ....Ive 2 40.. 1135 Traverse City 125 pm ........ Kalkaska 401 .. 120 Petoskey 545 .. 300 .. . Mackinac City 7 05,. 120 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. « No. 4 No. 8 Mackinac City. 9Oopm 740 am 150 pm Petoskey...... 1030.. 915.. 300 Kalkaska 12 45am 1121 .. 415 paverseClty 1105.. 426 Cadillac....arr 220 am 100 pm 639 " ....Ive 230.. 120.. 645 pm T3Bam Reod City 338 .. 235.. 750.. »M.. Big Rapids 408 .. 8 05.. 8£5.. 928.. Howard City.. 500 .. 350.. 920.'. 10 35.. D., G.H.&M.cr 615 .. 500.. 1025. 1136.. Or. Rapids .arr 630 .. 515.. 10 40 .. 1150 .. “ “ ..Ive 700 .. 600.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 60.. 800.. 1255 am 840.. “ ..Ivo 865 .. 80S 345 .. Vicksburg: 924 .. 833 412 .. Sturgis 1019.. 926 5 06.. Lima 10 33.. 940 5 17.. LsOrange... . 1044 .. 952 5 29.. Valentine 1053 .. 1003 ..« 5 37.. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 1014 .. 547 .. Home City 1109.. 1019 552.. Kendallville... 1125 .. 10 39 608 .. Ft. Wayne..arr 1340 pm 1150 • 7 15 .. ’* " J..lve 100.. 1210 am 545 am Decatur 146.. 12 58.. 630 Portland.. 2 40.. 2 00.. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 2 41.. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 3 40.. 915 Cincinnati 7 00.. 7 15.. 1301 pm . • y ■ ■■" 1 " 11 1 - ■ Trains 5 and C run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. 6, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON, Agent, Decatur, Ind 4 Scientific Americas Agency f TRADE MARKS, DESIGN PATENTS, w COPYRIGHTS, etcJ For information and free Handbook write to MUNN & CO.. s6l Broadway, New York. Oldest bureau for securing patents in America. Every patent taken out by us is brought before the public by a notice given free of charge In the I'titufifit American Largest circulation of any seteatifle paper tn the world. Splendidly illustrated. No intelligent man should be without It. Weekly. 93.00' • ▼ear: SLsosix months. Address MUNN 4 COw FDBLISHIRS. 361 Broadway. New York City.