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'AT WAR WITH HBBBELF. I • The Story of a Woman's Atonement, by Charlotte M. Graeme. CHAPTER XIX “I roo how it is,” said Cupt. Flomyng, fOod-toin[xircdly. iu> thoy entered the exhibition; “the birds oi the air must advertise the intelligence when you go abroad. Beo, there are Lord Falcon unless I ml 'take, the Duke of Alton Wore Millais’ p cturo." The expression of annoyance on her beautiful face could not Ik> mistaken. It made Paul Flemynge heart lent ■with happiness; it led him to t"fio very | b.ink of the error ho committed. “You do not cars to him,” ho Bald, hurriedly. V “No,” was the frank reply. “I had act my heart on teeing tho pictures with you and Ethol.” “Thon you shall do ao. Wo will wait until they have passed. You shall not be teased. Lady Charnleigh." He contrived so that she was quite , unseen by either of tho two gentlemen. The Countess smiled her thanks. “You soldiers aio all quick of resource,” she said. “I do not want to hear again how beautiful 1 am, or hew oharjning—and his grace tells me noth“Do you not like flattery?” ho askod. “Sometimes,” was tho <’and id reply, “and from some people; but I am not m the hntnor for it now." “I have often been afraid that I spoke too abruptly,” ho sa d. She looked at him kindly. “No words of yours could ever vex me •—they aie meant in kindness. Besides, you know, 1 do not class you with the i ■world in general.” They wore standing then before a 1 picture that all tho world knows and admires—the Huguenot lovers—the , simple story of which is told so plainly , on the canvas. Round the arm of a ' Protestant lover, in the dread time of the great massacre, tho Catholic girl whom ho loves is trying to fasten a white scarf, tho Catholic emblom, which would take him safely through the streets, but ho refuses to purchase his safety by false appearances. Thoy stood before it fir some minutes wrapped in admiration. “How grand!” said Leonie. “After all, nothing moves one so greatly as true nobility of character, true heroism.” “Would you have sought to save your lover in such a fashion?” asked Captain Flemyng, gently. “Yes, I should have lost sight of the means in the end; I would have saved him at any cost.” “Except that of honor,” he added, a “Ah, honoris the idol you soldiers worship; I should have remembered his safety and my love first, and then honor if convenient. Do not look shocked, Captain Flemyng; there is not one woman in a thousand who would not do the same.” “I would not," said the clear, sweet voice of Ethel Dacre; “no matter how deeply I loved a man, I would rather—oh, far rather—see him dead at my feet than know him bankrupt in honor." Paul Flemyng looked at the pure, earnest face. ’ "I believe you,” he said; “you are the one woman in a thousand whom Lady Charnegh speaks of.” Her face flushed, her heart beat faster at the words; earth held nothing for her so sweet as praise from his lips. “You are singularly alike in your ideas," said Lady Charnleigh. “Pray tell me, Sir Bayard—supposing that Sou loved a woman veiy dearly, more qarly than life, and that you found had failed in thh honor you prize so highly, what would you do then?” “Cease to love her. You may think me severe, Lady Charnleigh, but I could no more lovo a person whom I knew to have committed a dishonorable : action than I could-; —" “Commit one yoursolf,” she inter-1 posed, promptly, seeing that he paused for a word. “You are right,” he said. “Honor is the breath of life; the man or woman who possesses it, possesses something , half div ni; without it, they are barely human. ” “What an earnest discussion," interrupted Sir Bertram Gordon, who had joined them unpeiceived. “Ah, Lady Charnleigh, you are looking at Millais’ picture.” “And we have also been discussing it,” she supplemented, turning her head lest the bright flush on her face might be seen. “Sir Bertram, are you as inexorable as Captain Flemyng? Could you ever forgive a dishonorable action in the person you loved?" He was silent for some m’nutes, and then the grand Saxon head was proudly raised. “I cannot imagine myself loving any person capable of such a thing,” he Baid. “Love has instincts that never ®rr." “But if you are deceived—if you believed the lady everything good and noble, and you found that she had been guilty of one false action—could you forgive it?" , . ■ “I cannot say. I should take the ciroumstancss or the temptation into COhBideration." Suddenly his eyes fell upon a beautiful picture near them. “Look, Lady Charnleigh," he said; “there is the answer to your question. That is how I should forgive." They followed the direction of his hand. The picture was exquisite beyond words. It represented “The Pardon of Queen Guinevere.” In the background rose the gray wallfcof the convent, ivy clinging round the crosses, passion flowers and roses climbing to the low-arched windows. King Arthur stood before the gate, tall and stately, with a look of 1 pity, half-divine, on his kingly face. She, the beautiful, beloved, guilty wife, lay at his feet, her while hands clasping them; her lovely face i was lowered to them, and her golden ; hair fell like a veil over the imperial figure so lowly bent. “To see thee lying there, Thy golden head—my pride In happier summers—- , At my feet," ? murmured Ethol Dacre. “How could She—oh, how could she betray him?” . “Tha,t is how I should forgive, Lady 'Charnleigh.” The gravity of his words and the beauty of the picture* had startled the young countess. Her face was pale; she tried to speak gayly as she had before. “After you had forgiven, would you hide away as the king did 9” He looked at her before he replied. “Take a lily-leaf in your hand, Lady Charn’eigh, and stain it. Can paint cover the mark or restore its beauty? Brush the bloom from the downy peach; can anything give it back? Crush the perfume from the scattered leaves of a rose, can anything make the flower whole and complete?" U “No,” she replied. — “So faith, once destroyed, can never be made whole. So love, once rudely kwakened, can never sleep again. So trust, once betrayed, can never be wholly restored.” “I think," she said, impetuonly, “I would rather have Captain Flemyng’e refusal to pardon than your forgiveness, Sir Bertram.”

“Why," ho asked, simply. “He would make mo proud and anfry. You would make me so angry, if hud don > anything wrong, that I should break my heart over It." in after years, those words returned to her, ana she know thoy had boon truthfully spoken. Sir Bertram was tho first to recover himself. "Our discussion has made us all very serious. Charn.o.gh, you carry sunshine with you wherever you go—why this eclipse?" " Vou have frightened me," eho replied. in a low voice. And, poking at her, Sir Bertram saw tho beautiful eyos dim with tears. For once in his life ho was nearly j giving way to a mad impulse. Ho i wished to take her in his arms and kiss tho tears away. His great hoart yearned over nor. Ho loved her so I dourly and so well that the very force of his own lovo frghtened him. “1 am sorry,” ho said. “1 have an earnest way of bath speaking and thinking." “Earnestness is the very salt of life," put in Captain Flemyng; and Ethol’s sweet eyes looked her approval of the words. Later on in the evening of tho satro day, when Lady Churloigh’s noblo drawing-room win half filled with guosts, those four found themselves together up a n. “Lady Fanshawe says wo have had enough of London for this season,” the brilliant young mistross was saying; “she wishes to return to Crown Leighton.” “London will lose its brightest star,” said Captain Flemyng. She always smiled at his compliments, but they never brought a burning flush to her face as one werd from ' Sir Bertram did. “The ‘star,’ as you please to call me, I Captain Flemyng, has made up her mind what to do, if possible. She will take her world to Crown Leighton, ' and shine on it there. Ethel," she conI tinued, earnestly, “you must accompany me to Crown Leighton. I refuse to be parted from you. The General has his hands full of business; he does not want you. 1 do. Come and stiy with me for three months. Help me to persuade her, Captain Flemyng.” “She needs no persuasion,” he returned. “She is willing. “You will be at Weildon," continued Lady Charnleigh—“only a few miles away. You will come over very often. I want to have charades, private theatricals, and everything that is gay, bright, and pleasant." . “You make mo very happv, Lady Charnleigh,” said tho voung soldier. “What have I done,’’ said Sir Bertram, “that I should be banished from paradise ?" “I do not know that you are banished?" replied Lady Charnleigh, with a charming smile. “You have not honored me with an invitation. Lady Charnleigh; you do not know now eagerly I shall respond.” “I will give you one to Weildon," said Captain Flemyng. “We shall have some capital shooting there in September. I am leaving London next week—come with me.” Lady Charnleigh heard the words with a beating heart. “Verily,” she said to herself, “my jest is a true one I am taking my world with me.” _ CHAP lER XX. It was late one June evening when the young Countess, with her brilliant train, again took possession of Crown Leighton. It was the first time for many years that Crown Leighton had been filled with guests. All the state rooms were thrown open; l the magnificent apartments, so long closed, were once more filled with bright faces and cheerful voices; once more the grand old mansion re-echoed with the voice of mirth and song. The guest rooms, those beautiful apartments set aside for tho accommoi dation of visitors, were filled; it was i something like olaen times to see gen- ! tiemen lounging about the terraces, ladies flitting through the superb apartments and lingering in the vast conservatories, and servants hurrying to and fro in all the activity and bustle of a large household. “Tnank heaven,”, said the housekeeper, piously, “that I have lived to see this day. My young lady will not complain of quiet again.” Laly Charnleigh had not forgotten Crown Leighton during her triumphant season in London; she had sent down marvels in the way of furniture and works of ait. “After all,” she had said to Lady Fanshawe, “I am one of many in London; at Crown Leighton lam queen." She might be pardoned if, finding herself uncontrolled mistress of all this splendor, she was somewhat led astray by vanity and love of power. She was so young, and it was all so novel to her; she had but to express half a wish, and people hastened to gratify it. Wherever she went, servants and dependents bowed low to her; she heard no voice save that of praise and homage. Mr. Clements declared that had she been born to a throne she could not have conducted herself with greater grace and majesty. Mr. Dunscombe said that, with all her beauty, grace and accomplishments, she had a wonderfully clear head for business, she understood everything most readily. “She has what is a rare quality among beautiful women—she has common sense," he observed once in speaking of her; “and that goes further than any amount of genius." So Leonie, Lady Charnleigh, lived in an atmosphere of praise. She soon made herself not only popular but be loved in the neighborhood. She gave parties that every one enjoyed; she threw open her mansion for the entertainment of half the county; she I spared neither money, nor- latior, nor trouble to make every one around her happy. “You are a perfect hostess, ” said Lady Fanshawe to her, one evening after i a dancing paity; “I cannot tell where you have learned the art of entertaining people, you who in the past days saw so little of society.” “Politeness and what you call the gift of making people happy come naturally from a light and nappy heart. How can I, who never sigh, fail to long tp see other faces bright? I, who have no care, no trouble, cannot help wishing every one else to be glad and joyous.” She spoke with a smile so beautiful, I with her face so radiant that Lady Fanshawe was somewhat struck with fear. “Will she always be so happy," she thought, “in this world where pain Outweighs pleasure? Can it possibly last?” CHAPTER XXI. Lady Charnleigh was not twenty; she was as beautiful as a vision and mistress of a large fortune and magnificent estate. She had nothing to do but frame a wish, and it wai gratified. When she rose in tho morning she would say to herself that she would enjoy a certain pleasure before night, and it was hers to enjoy. She imagined a hundred wants for the sake of gratifying them. Yet her pleasure in h r wealth was not wholly selfish. She gloried in relieving distress; to see a pale face brighten and dim eyes shine with happiness was to her a keen source of pleasure. Before Lady Charnleigh had been many days at

Crown Leighton her name was known wherever want or Borrow rplgnod. A hundred blessings wore po - rod upon her, a hundred grateful hoaits Imat more quickly at tho mention of her name - no light praire for a young girl who had tho world at hei foot. Ethol Pacre was with her; and a note from Wei don told ho -that Paul Flemyng ai.d Sir Bertram wore there. Sir Bertram, then, whb only seven iniloe from her! Tho grand old trees in her woods reached to the town where he was staying, the same sun shone fcr him, tho same flowers bloomed, ho wai m ar her. and the world grew dazzlingly bright as she read the words. She rose one morning, and raid to herself that she would ask the two friends to dinner, arid she laughed aloud—a sweet, rippling laugh —to think that she bad only to wish and to be gratified. “if Puul were one whit less noble than ho is. coming to Crown Leighton' would be a trial to him," che said to Miss Dacre as the two stood on tho sunlit western terrace. “I believe, in all honesty, were any question of ownership to arise, that he would far rather this noble estate became yours than his,” observe! Etho', looking at the beautiful face. And Lady Charnleigh laughed again. It was very sweet and pleasant to hoar how much she was lovod, and among all her conquests she rated this cne of le beau sab.eur most highly. “I could not bo so disinterested," she rejoined, looking arcund. “I could not give up this lovely heme of mine to any one or fcr any one.” Then she stopped abruptly. Yes, there was one for whom she could give it up, she thought—one whom she could follow into that cold world of poverty and privation from which she had been to glad to escape. “You say you have sent an invitation to Sir Bertram Gordon as well as Captain Flemyng,” remarked Ethel. “Has tho baronet been here before? Does he know Crown Leighton at all?” “No; it is his first visit,” and Lady Charnleigh, bent low over some Banksia roses lest Ethel should wonder at the burning blush on her face. Sir Bertram was coming that day, and Lady Charnleigh looked rc und her in p. oud, happy enjoyment of her magnificence—proud that this was all hers —proud to remember the magnificent dowry she would bring him when he asked her for the gift he valued most —her heart. She wandered, restlessly happy, on that bright summer day, through tho sumptuous rooms, changing flowers on the stands, rearranging vases and statuettes, all to please his eyes. It was to her as though a king were coming—he was her king. The restless, bright day seemed as though it would never pass—she wandered, with sweet snatches of song upon her lips, from the house to the gardens and back again. |TO BB COXTINUBUI A STRANGE EMIGRATION. Shipload* of Australians Seeking Homes in South America. A curious emigration movement has recently started in Australia. One would suppose that the conditions of life in that country are greatly preferable to those in Paraguay, but there are those, apparently, who imagine that they can attain greater prosperity in the latter land, and hence the movement now in progress, of which one William Lane, a prominent labor leader, is the organizer. The first contingent of 200 emigrants have already sailed from Sidney and these will be followed during the year by 1,000 others. The government of Paraguay, according to the London Graphic, “has given a tract of land to the emigrants, who reckon ami ng their ranks skilled hands in every branch of industry, and who take with them all the necessary materials for a new settlement on virgin soil. Money is not lacking, for the lowest fee fir male members is S3OO, while the rich are supposed to contribute their all to the common fund. Women pay no entrance fee, but in other respects they are to be placed in the new commonwealth on an absolute equality with men. The association is to be worked entirely on co-operative principles, without currency and it is to be composed of a number of village communities, each self-administrative, and all held in check by an elective president. There is a strong feeling on the temperance question, and all me mbers have temporarily taken the pledge. Bushmen, laborers, artisans, sailors, with a sprinkling of professionals, have flocked from Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia. Schools, printing offices, newspapers and manufactures are to be speedily started. ’* Our Criminals and Paupers. Os the convicts in our penitentiaries 48 per cent are of native parentage, while 52 per cent, are of foreign birth and parentage; or, in other words, while persons of foreign birth and parentage furnish a little more than onethird of the total white population of the country, they furnish more than half of the criminals. Os the paupers in almshouses 41 per cent, are of native parentage, and 59 per cent, of foreign birth or parentage. Again it will be noticed that while persons of foreign birth or parentage rarnish only one-third of the population, they supply nearly two-thirds of the paupers in almshouses. In this last case, however, it Is proper to go a little more into detail. Os the 59 per cent, of paupers of foreign birth or parentage only 8 per cent, are born in this country, while 51 per cent, are for-eign-born. These last figures are startling. The foreign-born constitute only 17 per cent, of our total white population—in round numbers about a sixth—and yet they furnish over half of all the paupers in almshouses throughout the country. This fact of itself certainly shows that an immigration which supplies more than half the inmates of our almshouses might, to say the least, lie sifted with great advantage. The Qneen Was Spanked. Little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is credited with the possession of a particularly intractable temper, which she inherited from her disreputable old papa. Not long ago, while driving out with tor governess, she became sulky, and refused to return the, salutes of the people in the streets. As a punishment she was ordered to bed immediately upon her return to the palace. “What!” she exclaimed. “Am I, the Queen of the Netherlands, to go to bed at seven o'clock? I won’t do it." , But; she did do it, being persuaded thereto by a slipper wielded by the Que on Regent, who. brooks no disobedience. , A Live Toad in a Hail Stone. A hail storm visited Pawtucket the other evening, such as has not visited that vicinity for years, if within the memory of man. One woman picked up a large hail stone and allowed it to melt in her hand. She thought something was inside the little piece of frozen rain, but was surprised to find when all had melted a little live toad or frog in her hand. There is a quite general belief that a great many pel> bias came down with the hail. Matthew Arnold’s dogs, cat and canary bird are mentioned dozens of times in his poems.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS. FTEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Interentlnj; Nummary of the More Important DolugN of Our Neighbors—Wedding* and Dn»th»—Crime*, CamumlUwn, and General Indiana New* NoUm. Terrible ICxploelon at Elwood. AtEllwood occurred tho most terrific gas explosion ever known in that city. The scene of tho explosion was at tho plant of the Electric Light and Streetcar Power Corn; any. The gas had accumulated under the floor, and without a moment's warning an explosion took place, wrecking the building and hurling the sections in all directions. Qne portion of the structure crashed through tho street car barn, situated alongside tho power bouse, und also partially demolished the office of the Citizens’ Gas Company nearby. Tho ponderous engine and dynamos wore lifted from the floor and hurled across the room, every inch of floor being torn from the sleepers ami hurled into the air, together with the sides and roof, which then fell among the dismantled machinery, burying four mon in the ruins. All escaped with their lives. The injured aro: O. B. Frazier, face and hands burned and badly hruis d. Lewis Shively, face and hands cut with flying debris. David Thompkins, injured about head and bodv. Joseph McMahan, several gashes in head, lace, hands and tody. All wore in tho building at the time of the explosion except Shively, who had only the moment be ore stepped outside. Miss Minnie Mitchell and Bert Carpenter, who were employed at the Citizens’ Gas Company’s office, had a narrow escape from the flying slate and timbers. McMahan was blown clear put of the wreck over into an alley, and when found was unconscious. Physicians pronounce the men seriously but not fatally hurt. Minor State Items. Muncie is to have another company of State militia. A WATRR tank in the Big Four yards at Muncie was demolished by a wreck. Mrs. John Kino of Cannelton, was perhaps fatally burned, her dress taking fire at a grate. Dick Goodman, leader of a notorious gang and who was shot while attempting to rob a store, is dying at his home at Dundee. Two tenement houses owned by Nicholas Shumaker in Muncie were destroyed by fire caused by a natural gas explosion. James Yost, a Nickel Plate brakeman, was so badly crushed while coupling cars at Knox, that he died on the train taking him to Fort Wayne. The 2-year-old daughter of Albert Preston,‘a farmer living near Petersburg, was standing before a fireplace and her clothing caught on fire. The child's head and abdomen were badly burned. She will not recover. Henry Blesslng, a farmer living north of Fort Wayne, awoke and found hLs residence in flames. He had just time to throw his wife and children out of a window and leap after them as the floor fell in. Loss, $2,500; no insurance. Representatives ot the Chicago Rock Face Stone Company are in Muncie negotiating for the location of a plant in that city for the manufacture of their patent product. The proposed plant will employ about 300 people, and it is likely to be located in Muncie. William Cole, an employe at the rolling mill at Brazil, met accidental death while piling scrap iron. He was standing on a small car, and in attempting to remove a piece of heavy iron above his head, his feet slipped and he fell backwards, striking his bead against a car wheel, knocking out his brains. The body of Jesse F. Cole, a young farmer, aged 32, was found in the woods near Surprise. Mr. Cole left homo to go to the woods to cut down an elm tree. His failure to return home caused a search to be made, and he was found dead, having been struck by the butt end of the tree as it fell. He leaves a wife and two children. While their mother was absent from their home, ten miles south of Veedersburg, two little girls, the daughters of Lewis Davis, whi'e curling their hair, accidentally overturned a lamp, the oil spreading over their clothing and igniting. They ran out into the yard, when their mother, attracted by their screams, rushed to them, but was helpless to check the flames. Their clothing was burned off and the charred flesh dropped from their bodies. One of them died ere they extinguished the flames and the other lived only a short time. Mrs. Davis was so badly burned that she will die. A terrible accident occured at Knightstown, resulting in the instant death Os Mr. Reuben «Peden, one oi the prominent men of Henry County. Just as the west-bound limited on the Panhandle was passing the depot Mr. Peden attempted to cross the track and was struck by the engine, which hurled him nearly seventy feet against a watchman’s stand. Nearly everv bone in his body was broken, his head being crushed to pieces. Death was, of course, instantaneous. Mr. Peden was sixty-nine years of age, a native of Pennsylvania, a man of considerable wealth, being a member of the firm oi Wilkinson & Peden, one of the largest grain-dealing firms in eastern Indiana. In Masonic circles Mr. Peden ranked high, having served as grand commander of the Knights Templets and grand high priest of the chapter oi the State. He also served as commander of Knightstown .Commandery for fifteen years and hjs filled every office* in the gift of his home lodge, chapter, council and commandery. Two BURGLARS ransacked John Grondahl’s house, near Chesterton, and carried away a lot of jewelry and&valuable notes. They were captured at Valparaiso. ' Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Samuel M. Brundage. Indianapolis, deflector for ironing machines; Theodore Docker, Charlottesville, assignor of one-half to T. Roberts, Arlington, harness; John A. Grove, Bluffton, wire fence; George I. Harwell, Fort Wayne, folding chair: John I. Hoke, South Bend, harrow: Henry Stacey, assignor of one-half tc M. H. Cain, Indianapolis, oil burner. John Mackland, a voung man about twentv-two years old, who has been considered unbalanced in his mind attempted to shoot himself at his home, eight miles south of Salem. His brother William and mother tried to prevent him, when he turned tha pistol in his brothor's faco and fired, the shot striking nira near the nose on the right cheek. William ran out ol the house, and the crank placed the revolver to his own head and fired, the ball flattening out against the skull, but not seriously wounding him. The brother is quite seriously hurt. A lunacy commission declared the max of unsound mind, and he will be seat to the asylum. - ♦

CARPET ON THE RIVER BOTTOM. The Novel Hcheme Reiortixl to by • llrldga Builder for Kinking (.’iUmooh. George S. Morrison, who is building the Memph s bridge, is making use of a new idea in sinking the caissons for the pier. H;s scheme is tho use of great mattre ses, which are woven on the spot. The following description of preparing and us ng these mattresses is from the manuscript of the report which Mr. Morrison is preparing on that work and was printed in tho Kailroad Gazette; The method adopted to limit the scour was to carpet the bottom of the river with a woven willow mat similar to those which are used by the Mississippi River Commission for the protection of eroding banks. The device pnxed perfectly successful. Before the caisson could be placed in position the mats which were to protect the pier sites from scour had to b: placed. Two barges were fitted with ways for weaving the mats, and two mooring barges were anchored above the pier site transversely with the stream. Tho weaving barges were then placed below the mooring barges, and tlie material barges were brought up to the lower side of the weaving barges. The mat was then woven on the ware and the upper end of it fastened to tne mooring barges, and also to the anchor which held the mooring barges, each anchor carrying two lines, one leading to one of the mooring barges, and the other under the mooring barge to the mat As the weaving proceeded the weaving barges were dropped down stream, so that when the mat was entirely completed the weaving barges were at the lower end and the whole mat was floating on the water. The mat woven in this way was 210 feet wide and 400 feet long. It was loaded with stone until it barely floated, and enough stone was thrown on the upper end to sink this end, The upper end of the mat was submerged first and held near the surface by the lines leading from the mooring barges. Two barges loaded with stone were then floated over the upper end of the mat and stone was thrown from them ou the floating mat below. As the mat was sunk the barges were dropped down stream until the entire mat was settled on the bottom. When the sinking barges had passed over about naif the length ot the mat, the lines connecting the upper end of the mat with the mooring barge were then cast off and the upper end of the mat allowed to sink to the bottom. The whole time required to sink the mat was not over ten miffufe Each mat contained 1,000 cords of brush and poles, 900 tons of rip-rap and 10,000 pounds of wire.

Highest Overflow Dam. Stanislaus County, Cal., will have the highest overflow dam In the world in about sixty days. It is called the La Grange dam, and is being constructed for the Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts. Its location is in the canyon of the Tuolumne River, three miles from the town of La Grange. Work on the project was commenced in June,lß9l, and has been prosecuted continuously since. A force of 200 men has bsen employed i n the work, the total cost of which will be 8600,000 i The LaGrange will be 360 feet long on top, the plan being curved on a radius of 320 feet Its maximum height about the foundation will be 127 feet 9 inches. The frout face of the wall is made to conform to the curve described by the water in overflowing, and to- deflect it into the basin in frout of the dam. The dam is build of “cyclopean rubble,” and is a model of solidity. Hugh rocks weighing from six to ten tom, were first laid on the bottom. All their projecting pieces were cut off, and a flat but rough surface was prepared for the lower bed. Before being placed in the bottom all stones, whatever their size, were scrubbed and subjected to the action of numerous jets of water under the pressure of 75 feet. The dam will distribute water over a territory embracing 276,000 acres. The Turlock District comprises about 198,000 and the Modesta District 78,000 acres. The water will flow over the dam into two ditches. One will be thirty miles long and 100 feet wide, the other twenty-eight miles long and eighty feet wide; The water of the Tuolumne River will be banked up by the dam in the Rocky Canyon. A lake will thus be formed four miles long and a half mile wide. —San Franci-co Call

Known by the Dors They Keep. “An animal, like a person, can be influenced by associations," remarked an old well driller whose business causes him to travel through the farm districts a great deal. “I can almost always judge the temperament of a farmei* by the dog he keeps. If. in going to a farm house. I am attacked bv a ferocious dog, I expect the same treatment when 1 meet the owner of the l east and endeavor to get the favor I want. A cross man usually keeps a cross dog. That has been tho result ot my observations in the country.”—Pittsburgh Dispatch. The Australian Ballot. The system of voting known by that name was used first in B'outh Australia under acts passed in 1856 and 1858: The system was used at local -elections in Manchester and Stafford, in England, in 1869; it was adopted in parliamentary elections in Great Britain under the ballot act, 1872. In this country Massachusetts adopted the system in 1888, and since then thirty-one other States have followed her example. We have never heard the uamo of the Australian inventor. Valuable Fox Skins. The skin ot a silver fox, otherwise called black fox, varies in price from SSO to S2OO, Tho whole number obtained annually to only 2,000, of which amount imported into Kngtandi La Hountan states that in his time a skin ot the silver fox was worth its weight in gold, and an unsually tine skin has been sold on tho London market for 8550.—Boston Globe. . r The better you get acquainted with school teachers, the less afraid you are that they know so much more than you da . ______

Business Direclory THE DECATUR SATIOAAL BAXK. CAPITAL. KO.COO. SURPLUS, BILMO. Ormnitod August 15, 1883. Officers;—P. W. Smith, Pres.. Dan.el W< Idjr, Tlco-pres., IL 9. Peieraou, Cashier, J. 8. P» tersou, Ass’t Cashier. Do a general banking business. Interest paid on time deposits. Buy and sell Domestic snd Foreign Exchange, County and City Orders. Adams County Bank Capital. $78,000. Bnrplas, T 6.008 Organised in U7L Officers— D. Stndabakar. President; Robt B. Allison, Vioo-Prssldsnl; W. H. Niblick, Caabtso. Do a general banking business. CoUecUeas made In all parts of the country. County. City and Township Orders bought, gorolgn and Domestic Exchange bought and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, A.ttoxmoy at Xiatof X» sorter, - . ywdfaan. wn, a, k. mam. & st xiiirnr <« mahh, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office In Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind. -TBRANCR A MKRRTMAX J. T. rXAMCB. Jj J. T. MKUIYMAg Attoraeyn aat Xsoa-w-. DSCATVB, INDIANA. Office Nos. L t and 8, over the Adams Count? Bank. Collections a specialty. A.«. MOIdUOWAT, Fhy ■iolnn Office over Bums’ harness shop, residence one door north of M. I. church. All eaUd promptly attended to in elty or country night M. In BOLLOWAY, ■. Ik Office and residence one door north of M. * church. Diseases of women aad ohlldroa s>» elaiaee. Ltvl lelsiß, Veterinary Sergeoi, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. XO. NKFTUNC. > DBNIWT. Uli I 1 T l '! Now located oyer Holthouse's shoo stere, aad IS prepared to do all work pertaining to tho dental profession. Gold filling a specialty. By the nso of Mayo’s Vapor he is enabled to extras* teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN 0a Bhna Property oaLoag Bma. MTo CosKOxiadUßMloxae law Base of Tatersn In aay asaonati aaa bo made at aay tteeaafi step internet. Call on, or sinrxrs X X. CHUBB, or J'. P, MjUHT, Meet Odd Vallows’ Building, DeeaSae, jfiikEßiE Lines. Schedule In effect Aug. 27. 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. I*. Vestibule Limited, daily for I » m Chicago f 2.40 P. M No. 3. Pacific Express, dally for > « Chicago f A - M No. 1, Express, dally for Chicago I, u-hqa. M No. 31. Accommodation, dally, I. v except Sunday f lu ’“ A ’ 31 TRAINS EAST. No. S. Vestibule Limited, daily for I „ .. New York and Boston f r - No. 2, Express, daily for New I. p M No. 12. Express, daily for New 1 i.wia m York ( No. 3U Accommodation, dally oxcept Sunday ! ’ w A ’ M Second No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:30 a. m. dally. Solid train for Columbus. Ohio, via Marion and the Colupibus. Hooking Valley end Tolddo Railway (Buckeyeßoue);, Pullman Sleepers to Columbus, Kenova, and Norfolk snd other Virginia points via tho Columbus. Hoektng Valley and Toledo and- tho Norfolk end Western Lines. J. W7 DeLong. Agent, W.G.MaoEd’WARPS.T. P. A.Huntiugtou, Jud Ftret Class Night and Day Barrias hetwosa Toledo, Ohio, - St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS UY TBAUIS—MOKRII EQUtPMtn VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIOHT TRAIN mJ Or*fAlJ SCBVCD EH ROUTE, asg Uur, M 01 KIOHT, at wodsrcts cast. hkftt lickeh ih Teleda, St Lauii k bum City L1 Clovek Leaf Route. Far further particulars, call oa nearest Agent at the Company, or address o. O. JENKINS. TOLEDO. OHta

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AT Merryman’S FACTORY Ton can get all kinda of Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets, Molding, Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. In fact all kind* of building ma terial either made or furnished oa ■ hftrf nntlPA. 4. Jk 8080, B. T. BO»<. Msstsr Oommlsstosier. 8080 * SON. ATTORNEYS JLT LULW. Bssl Bststs sad Coßsstiiwi, Dsosdax, lad. O.P, M.A2DBIWS, Phy aiolAJEi. S-ujra;»oxa. MONROB. INDIANA. Office and realdenoe 2nd and «rd doors west of M. B. church. Prof. L H. Zeigler, Veterinry Burgeon, Modus Operand!, Orobe tomy, Overotomy, Castrating. Rldg Hng, Horses and Spaying Cattle and Deborn Ing, and treating their diseaeee. Office over J H. Btooe-a hardware store. Decatur Indiana. J. 8. Oorerdale, M. D. P. B, Thomas. M D. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce’s Drug store. Decatur. Ind LOOK HERE! I am hare to stay and sm as* Organs and Pianos aheeper than anybody else ooa atadhs saU them. I sail dffitereat asakM. GLEANIHB AND REPURUB tone ntioubto Bee se fint ant wvo ■osey. jr. T. COOTS,Dooatur, InA Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trams run on Central Standard Time, 28 mini utr-s slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Thursday, August 17.1888. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 5 No, Y Cincinnati..lve ....... 815 am POOpni Richmond..... 2Sopm 11 00.. 1150.. Winchester.... 3 17 ..1155.. 1331 am Portland 4 04.. 1235 pm 103 .. 1. Decatur 510 .. 131 .. 145 Ft-Wayne...arr 600 .. 215.. 215 “ - ...Ive 2 35.. 2 25.. ’OVta Kendallville... 3 41 .. 3 lit.. 9 10 .. Nome City 356 .. 3 3?.. 9*6 .. Wolcottville 4 01.. 3 37.. 931 .. Valentine...... 411 ...\?42.. LaGrange 4 19.. 342 . 9 51.. Lima 4 29 10® .. Sturgis 4 40. 4 12.. 10 19 .. Vicksburg 53t1.. ,5».. 1114.. Kalamazoo, arr tl 05 .. sto .. 11 40 .. “ ..Ive 710 am 625.. 52a.. 1230 pm Gr. Rapids .arr 910 .. 810 .. 050 .. 2b.. " “ ..Ive 10 50.. !»).. 4 15.. D..G.n.&M.cr 11 05.. 7 35.. 4’29.. Howard City 12 05am 545 .. 540 .. Big Rapids T.. 1255.. 947 . 6 45.. Reed City. 1 25.. 10 20 .. T 55.. Cadillac.....arr 2 30.. 1130.. 9 10.. •• ....ive 240 .. 11 35 Traverse City ’2spm Kalkaska 4 01.. 120 Petoskey 545 .. 300 Mackinac City 7 05.. 420 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No, 6 No. 4 No. 8 Mackinac City. 90#pm 740 am 150 pm Petoskey 10 30.. 915 .. 300 Kalkaska 12 45am 11 21.. 415 ftaverse City 1106 .. 4?> Cadillac ....arr 2 20am 100 pm 620 . ...... “ ....Ive 2 30.. 120.. 64bpm TBtam Reed City 338.. 235.. 150.. 18.. Big Rapids..... 4®.. 8 06.. 825.. IS.. Howard City.. 5®.. 3 50.. 920 .. 10®.. D.,O. H.AM.cr 616.. 6®.. 10 25. 1135.. Gr. Rapids .arr 633.. 515.. 1040 .. <IW.. “ “ ..ive 700.. B®.. 11®.. 200em Kakmaaoo.arr 850.. B®.. 1255 am 840.. " ~IVO 856 .. 8® 345 .. Vicksburg.... 9 24.. 833 412 .. Sturgis .1019.. 926 5®.. Urea W 33.. 940 517 - EbOranga... . 1044.. 952 520vaientlno 1058..1002 537 - WolcottviUo... 1104 .. 1014 547 ~ Rotne City 11®.. 1019 6 52Ketvlanvillo... 1126. 1039 6®.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 1150 7 15 . “ “ j„lve I®.. 1210 am 545 am Decatur.; 148.. 12 58.. 630 Portland 2 40.. 2 00.. 730 Winchester.... 3 17.. 241.. 8® Richmond 4 20.. 3 40.. 915 Cincinnati 7® .. 715 .. 1301i>m Tmlns 6 and 6 run daily between Grand Uaplds and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JBFF. BRYSON. Agent, Decatur, Ind I Scientific American A Agency CAVEATS. TRADE MARKS. DESIGN PATENTS. COPYRIGHTS, etcj For Information and free Handbook *rrtte to MUNN & CO.. 861 Broadwat, Nbw YORK. Oldest bureau for securing patents in America. Every patent Uken out by us is brought befor* Ue public by a notice given free of charge In the Scientific American Larrest eireulatitm of any srtsntlflo paper la the world. Splendidly illustrated. No Intelligent man should be without IL Weekly, 83.00 * year; tlAlsig months Address MUNN tlO. pviu i’**»****. SKt v*rwY<uiwav. New Ynrk Qty.