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AT ffABJMBW. The Story of a Woman’s Atonement, by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER XXY—Continued. “It seems to me," she thought, with * happy mile, "that evqn the flowers know he ia coming. lam sure those rose are more fragrant, and the 111 lea more brilliant. I can see their golden hearts.” r She burled her face amid the cool, ’ deep lily-cups—ahe wan as one bewitched with the ohann of her own happiness —until pudy Fanshawe, struck by her manner, ventured to remonstrate. “Dear Lady Charnleigh, are you not wanting In that great charm of all well-trod women—perfect repose?” i Repose while the leaves were whls- ’ perlng to the summer wind, while the Deos and butterflies coquetted with the flowers, while her own heart was beating with delight that knew no words, every puke and nerve thrilling! Lady Charnleigh laughed aloud. “I am not conducting myself as a countess should,” she said. "I had forgotten all about what you call the dignity of my position, auntie; I only remembered that 1 was. without exception, the happiest girl in the wide world. It is time to dress, Ethel,” she added, turning to Miss Dacre. “I want you to look bewitching —I want le beau sabreur to fall in love with you." She spoke lightly and never saw the death-like pallor that came over the sweet face. “He has done something of the kind already, Leonie, but it is with you, not with mo.” “A fact which would show that he had neither taste nor sense, if it were true,” laughed Lady Charnleigh. “L»t me advise you as to what dress you should wear. Ethol. Stand quite still, and I will study you.” She made a pretty picture,-standing with a studious expression on her face, her finger laid on her lips. She could not bo silent for long. “What dreamy, poetic beauty yours is, Ethel! How strange that you should be so like the ‘Elaine’ we saw at the exhibition! The painter must have known you.” “J do not think so,” said Miss Dacre. “You,remind me of starlight, and — oh, Ethel, how beautiful the starlight is, how calm, serene, and holy, yet giving one a vivid idea of hidden fire!” “You began to speak of my dress," observed Miss Dacre, .patiently; “and you have already reached the stars. When will you be on earth again?" “I shall never behave like a countess. ‘A true lady of rank,’ says auntie, ‘should be known by her dignified silence and repose.' Your dress, Ethel, must be black lace over white silk with silver flowers; you will personify starlight then.” But her own toilet was not so easily decided upon. That evening Lady Charnleigh was difficult to please. At last she chose a bewitching costume of pale sea-green silk, half covered with rich white lace, and looped up with white water-lilies: a small lily nestled in the coils of her fair hair; and with this dress, recherche and poetical, Lady Charnleigh wore a suit of magnificent emeralds. An hour later and Lady Charnleigh sat at the head of the table. Perhaps her servants wondered why for these two gentlemen she had ordered the service of gold plate, which was usually reserved for state occasions. She knew she would have paid to few others the honor she paid to Sir Bertram. She had received him with gracious words and kindly smiles; with them she sought to hide the vague, happy emotion that filled her heart. Paul Flemyng saw the bright blushes on the glad young face, and tried to believe they wore for him. » “You have some grand old pictures, 1 am told, Lady Charnleigh,” said Sir Bertram: “may I ask you to show them to mo?” “Nothing would please me bettor,” ' she said; “after dinner we will go through the gallery. Ethel, you are always talking of pictures—will you ioin us with Capt. Flemyng? I like the gallery better than any l>art of Crown Leighton.” So after dinner they went. Lady Fanshawe declined to accompany them. “You must know every picture well, considering the time you spend among them, Lady Charnleigh,” she said. And one or two of her hearers were quite as well pleased that she should remain where she was. Few private mansions in England could boast of a picture gallery so magnificent as that of Crown Leighton. It was large, lofty and superbly decorated. In some places the walls are inlaid with mirrors: the ceilings had been painted by Le Brun: the windows formed deep bays that were carpeted with crimson cloth; and Sir Bertram, who had an artist’s eye for color, thought he had never seen a fairer picture than that of Lady Charnleigh, with her robes of green silk and lace sweeping the floor. How well the artistic, picturesque dress suited her! How royally beautiful she looked in those shining emeralds! “You will be my cicerone, ” he said. “I suppose Captain Flemyng knows all the glories of Crown Leighton.” < The girl turned to the young soldier with a look .of. genuine frankness and regret on her face. “You are generous hot to hate me,” she said, “when you see all that I have robbed you of.” “You have given me more than you have taken from me,"he returned; and both look and words were so much pain to Ethol Dacre. There was no lack of conversation among the four; they were all art-lov-ers; they know most of the world's famous pictures: they could criticise and compare. Leonie, Lady Charnleigh, showed perhaps the greatest and most cultivated taste. They lingered long in the gallery, while the western sunbeams came through the long windows and lighted up the gorgeous colors on the wall; they lingered as the young and happy do, with laughing words and bright, tender thoughts. They reached the >end of the gallery at last, and came to ■a door half hidden by the velvet curtain that hung over it. ■ “That is a room I have never yet enNjred," said Lady Charnleigh: “shall wo go In now?" A “Wha 1 , is it? A boudoir—a study? It is just the place (or an artist’s studio," said Sir Bertram. '■ “It was the favorite room of the late Lord Charnleigh," observed the young Countess. “Mrp. Fearon tells me he used to lock himself in there, and afterward come out looking so sad and sorrowful.” ‘‘The secret of such lives as his is always a tragedy,” said Paul Flemyng to Ethel. “I nave often thought that the late lord of Crown Leighton had some sorrow the world knew nothing of.” It was Paul Flemyng who opened the door, and Lady Charnleigh drew back with a little shudder, the color fading from her brilliant face. “1 have such a horrible fancy," she said, with a nervous attempt at laughter; “it is when I go In I shall find the late Earl sitting in his chair with stony face and set eyes."

“You may eater safely, Lady Charnleigh,” responded Paul; “the room Is quite empty. it.looked as though it hud Been recently Used." “I gave orders that nothing here should be touched," said the Countess; “It spumed 4! kind bf desecration to, enter the placO‘"r-i< ' There was a book on the table, a table drawn near the flreplace, a paper knife still resting on an uncut journal. "How strangely silent the place is!, How different from the rest of the . house!" said Lady Charnleigh, with a sigh, “Como away—l feel as though J the room were haunted.” She turned away, but her attention i wan drawn to Captain Flemyng. He was standing before picture apparently engrossed by it. She called nira by name; he did not hear. She moved forward and touched him on the arm, and was startled when he turned round to find his eyes full of tears. She looked at the picture; it was of a young and beautiful girl, with sad, tender eyes and a lovely mouth. A grave, noble face it was, with a veil of sadness on It—a picture that hail in it a certain pathos. Underneath, in faint characters, wore written the words, “Loved and Lost.” Lady Charnleigh looked first at the | picture, and then at the young soldier; there was a certain resemblance in the features that struck her. “Who is It, Captain Flemyng?” she asked, in a'low voice. • “That is a portrait of my mother.” he replied. “How comes it that it is hidden away here?" “ ‘Loved and lost,’ "quoted Lady Charnleigh —“what dees'n mean? Who loved and who lost her?" “I do not know,” replied Captain Flemyng. “Pray parden me, Lady Charnleigh; I did not know that you had a picture of my mother. I loved her so dearly. ” “Are you sure it is your mother?" she asked. “As sure as I am of my own existence; she always had the same sad, tender eyes, and when she smiled there was something sad in her smile. Those eyes have the same look now —do you not notice it?” Sir Bertram and Miss Dacre had joined them, and were listening to him in wonder. “A portrait of your mother here?” questioned Miss Dafre. “That seems strange, Captain Flemyng. ” “I loved her so much,” he said again; “and she died when I was quite young. Lady Charnleigh. will you grant me a great favor?” “You know J will before you ask it,” she replied. “Permit me to have this copied. It shall be most carefully preserved. “You shall have the. original if you will, I shall be quite content with the copy.” “You are very kind to me, "he said, “but I will not agree to that. You have a superstitious feeling about this room; I have the same about this picture. I should not like to take it away —it belongs to the room." “ ‘Loved and 1 lost!’" murmured the young countess. “What sorrowful words! There is a story contained in them—a sad story, too. What do they mean?” The brilliant tint had faded from her; she had grown very pale and sorrowful, the violet eyes were dim with tears —her whole aspect was changed. Sir Betram looked anxiously at her. “You are too imaginative, Lady Charnleigh,” he said. “Come away; you are growing sad and sorrowful. Come out into the sunshine. ” Without a word she followed him. They went through the corridor at the end of the gallery, out on the western terrace, where the flowers were all in brilliant bloom. Paul and Ethel followed them. There, where the sun shone and the song of the birds filled the perfumed air, Lady Charnleigh was soon herself again. The exquisite roseleaf flash stole back, the light came into her eyes. “I have an idea,” she said. “What do you think, Ethel? Shall we have a grand fete and ball here at Crown Leighton, and illuminate these grounds and gardens—a fete that will last from sunset to sunrise, and delight everybody?” “I should like it very much,” responded Miss Dacre. The two gentlemen agreed with her. “Captain Flemyng and you, Sir Bertram, must come' over to help me; it will be mv first grand entertainment. Shall we begin with charades? I am so toad of charades; and we could get up such really magnificent ones. Wbat do you say?” “It would be delightful,” said Sir Bertram, thinking of the rehearsals and the number of times that he should see Lady Charnleigh. “What a simple, charming nature she has!” remarked Sir Bertram to himself, with a smile. “She was weeping only a few minutes since, her heart full of pity: now she is laughing at the idea of a ball. She is a perfect Undine —half grave, half gay—half child, half woman—wholly charming. He raised his eyes in time to see the green silk and white water-lilies vanish between the trees. “We may as well follow, ” said Paul Flemyng. “Lady Charnleigh is all anxiety to put her scheme at once into train; she has gone without doubt to arrange*the day for the ball.” MBI CHAPTER XXII. “I really ought to inaugurate my reign by a grand festivity,” said Charnleigh. “I like to do everything en reine; if I give a ball, it shall be one to be remembered." They were sitting in the drawingroom, and the young countess looked radiantly lovely by the light of the soft glowing lamp. They were discussing the great event. “You have but to will and dictate," said Sir Bertram: “we shall all be pleased to obey. ” “Suppose,” she continued, thoughtfully, “that we commence with a din-ner-party—no, that will not do—no one under forty cares about dinner, and this party shall be for the young and light-hearted. We might begin with charades and tableaux —people always enjoy them; and then at ten o’clock we could have a grand procession to the ball-room, where we might dance until morning. WhatHo you think of that program, Ethel?” “It will be very pleasant,” said Miss Dacre. She had been watching the bright, animated expression on the girl's face, and the devoted attention of both gentlemen to her “How could I hope to charm while she is near?” she asked herself. “She is so lovely, -so gay; every moment develops a new charm in her. Compared with her I am as a moth beside a butterfly." Yet there was no envy in her heart; her admiration for the young countess was sincere and ardent; she did not know that there were people who would have preferred her quiet, spirituelle loveliness .to the radiant beauty of Lady Charnleigh. “ “Well, that is agreed upon,” said the mistress of Crown Leighton. “We must have some good tableaux and some excellent charades; and we cannot do better than discuss nbw what the tableaux shall be. There are four of us here—let us each suggest a scene from some great novel, poem, or play." “That is a wide field, Lady Charnleigh," said Paul Flemyng; “there are so many great poems and plays.” “But we each have our favorites, and

can choose from them. Sir Bertram, you shall have the first choice. Ethel and I will hear what you gentlemen suggest first.” “1 think one of the plays I like best is the ‘Lady of Lyons,’” said Sir Bertram; “we could have a very effective tableau from that, I-ady Charnleigh—> the scene where the pretended prince describes his palace by the lake of Como. It i i a lovely picture; the fair Paulina, with her golden hair falling round her, listening with rapt attention on her lover's arm. You would make a beautiful Paulina, I-ady Charnleigh." “But who is to be my prince?” she asked, with a blush and a smile. '“1 should be most happy," began Sir Bertram, but Paul Flemyng interrupted him. "The Prince m ist be dark, and you are fair, Bertram. If you will permit me, I-ady Charnleigh, I will place myself at your disposal.” She was disappointed, but smiled graciously. Captain Flemyng thought to himself that he nad won a great victory over his rivdl, for such he began to perceive Sir Bertram was. “Now it is your turn Captain Flemyng," said the countess. “One of the most effective I ever saw was a tableau representing Romeo and Juliet in a friar's cell.” “Ethel shall be Juliet,” put in 1-ady Charnleigh. “No,” said Miss Dacre; “Juliet was a bright, radiant beauty. You would look the character much better than I should, Lady Charnleigh.” “Let it be so then,” returned the countess. “Who is to be my Romeo?” "Romeo was fair,” said Sir Bertram, quickly; “permit me to hold the distinguished office, Lady Charnleigh?" She smiled to hide the happiness which the bare idea gave her. ■ “Tnose will be two good scenes," she said. “Now, Ethel?” “lam puzzled," confessed Miss Dacre; “there are so many grand poems. “ “You remember the picture of Elaine, Ethel: nothing would suit you so well as that. She was watching Sir Lancelot ride away. You could assume that expression of unutterable, hopeless love; besides, your features resemble Elaine's as depicted on the canvas. ” Miss Dacre smiled. One observing her keenly might have seen how wistful and tinged with pain that smile was. “You will make me believe that I am Elaine, if you talk so much to me of her, Leonie." “Nay,” said Captain Flemyng, “it will never be your fate, Ethel, to die of a hopeless love.” The fair, spirituelle face grew a shade paler. “I hope not,” she rejoined, quiety. “It would be a terrible love that would make me lose my hold on life. It is your turn now, Leonie, What do yot suggest? I think that I shall like tc be Elaine. ” |TO BE CONTINUED. |

MARTYRS TO HUMANITY. Some Instances 'of the Spirit of True Scholarship. The scene at the deathbed of Bede, the father of English history, is told with touching simplicity by his pupil Cuthbert. The closing years of the great scholar’s life had been devoted to translating the Gospels from Latin into Anglo-Saxon, and he was above all things desirous of completing the translation in the hope of civilizing his wild countrymen by giving them the Gospels in their own language. He had not completed the work when his illness grew so severe that he could no longer proceed with his writing. He then dictated to Cuthbert and his other pupils until he was on his deathbed. when there still remained untranslated the closing chapter of St. John. “Venerable Master,” said Cuthbert to the dying man. “there yet remains one chapter.” “Then take your pen and write with speed,” said the dying scholar. When it was done, Bede repeated the “Gloria Patri” and died. And thus we have the Anglo-Saxon gospels, the. most complete record of the language and mental habits of a most remarkable people. Over and above this, far more important than this, we have an illustration of the spirit of true scholarship, of the self-sacrifice with which so many scholars have lived and died for the advancement of cizilivation and the uplifting of humafiity. In his lessons on electricity Prof. Tyndall says that the beautiful essay on the “Formation of Dew" was written by Dr. Wells when he was on the brinlc of the grave. Stephen Gray continued his experiments until he was almost in articulo mortis, and when he could no longer sit up or write he dictated the account of his discoveries to others. He dictated thus to Dr. Mortimer, Secretary of the Royal Society, while dying, and the language of his description of his discoveries in the use of electric conductors and non: conductors represents his last painful gasps for breath. The world knows little or nothing 01 the men who have done most for it. It is astonished at the magnificent re.< suits promised and achieved by the scientific use of electricity as a motor, but it troubles itself very little about Gray wrestling foot to foot with death for a few precious minutes to give the world the result of his painful labors. These men who have not sought place or money or glory have civilized the world and have done all that has been done to make the conditions oi human life more tolerable. Whether called Christian or not, they are true saints and martyrs of the religion of humanity. Age of Trees. Elm, 300 years: ivy, 335 years; maple, 516 years; larch, 576 years; orange, 630 years; cypress, 800 years; olive, 800 years; walnut, 900 ' years; Oriental plane, 1,000 years; lime, 1,100 years; spruce, 1,200' years; oak, 1,500 years; cedar, 2,0C0 years; yew, 3,200 years. The way iif which the ages of these trees have been ascertained leaves no doubt of its correctness. In some few cases the data has been furnished by historical- records and -by but the botanical archaeologists have a resource independent of either, and, when carefully used, infallible. Os all the forms of nature, trees alone disclose their ages candidly and freely. In the stems oi trees which have branches and leaves with netted veins —in all exogens, as the botanist would say—the increase takes place by means of an annual deposit of wood, spread in an even layer upon the surface of the preceding one. * In the earlier periods of life trees increase much faster than when adult — the oak, for instance, grows more rapidly between the twentieth and thirtieth years—and when old the annual deposits considerably diminish, so that the strata are thinner and the rings proportionately closer. Some trees slacken in rate of growth at a very early pericd of life, and layers of oak become thinner after 40, those of the elm after 50, those of the yew after 60. W—W, ■■■■■ 111—■!— II .. Quite a Linguist. “How many languages can your wife speak?" “Four,, English, French, German and the other she talks to the baby.”

PULVERIZED COAL. Herr Knipp CajU It I» ths < owing Ideal Fuel. Herr Krupp, the man of worldwide artillery fame, is credited with the construction of an experimental furnace for the burning of coal that has been reduced to an impalpable powder. The idea is not a new one, but its actualization has been retarded by the cost of effecting the reduction. The idea Is to spray the coal dust into the flame In the same way that petroleum is now in some furnaces, and with the best of results But the ordinary coal dust will not do for thia The particles must all be reduced to the same (small) she or the flames will not attack them with e ual facility, and the larger will escape without having yielded up all their force for the production of steam. The cost of effecting a uniform pulverization is not the only difficulty to be overcome or made amends for. One objection is that the tire has to be started'in the old way, by means of wood or other combustible, till sufficient steam has been generated to set in operation the bio were that spray the dust into the flame. Also it is said to have been found necessary hitherto to use in the blast much more than the 150 cubic feet of air necessary to the perfect combustion of one pound of the fuel, the consequence being a cooling and wasting of heat that should be used in the production of steam. And though the process does not involve the formation of the old-fashioned clinker, yet the production of ashes cannot be avoided so long as the fuel contains materials which does not burn—namely: earthy matter mixed in with the coal How far Herr Krupp has succeeded in meeting these objections is not stated, but the claim is made that be has found out how to obviate that which would appear to be the most difficult to deal with—namely: the distribution of the ashes broadcast over the furnace to the detriment of the operations it is desired to have in progress. His plan is being tried in some of the North German Lloyd steamers, the dust being burned directly under the boilers. The dust falls from a large iron bucket through a pipe upon a sieve, which is adjusted to let through a large or small quantity of the dust, as may be desired. The material passes from the sieve to iron bars so adjusted as to form little furrows on iron plates fixed in a position to slope towards the interior of the furnace. An air blast catches the dust as it falls from these plates and sprays it through the furnace. Os course it will be understood the object of this arrangement is to get out of the fuel all the heat there is in it. Nothing more. The scientific man does not expect to be able to go beyond that and counts on giving up tome of the force in the fuel to the production of the blast which spreads dust evenly through the flame with the requisite quantity of air, so that every particle can combine with the needed oxygen before the draft has carried it into a region where the temperature is not sufficiently high for chemical combination, without which the fuel does not yield up its contained heat The great trouble with fuel in the ordinary form in which it is used is that a considerable proportion of the combustible matter gets away from the sufficiently hot reg.on in the furnace before the oxygen has met with its individual particles. All the arrangements of hot-air blasts, steam jets, double furnaces, etc, are aimed at the accomplishment of this result, and this only if the aimer be one of those scientific men who know it is absurd to try to get out of the material used more force than has *been put into it by mother nature. So the great question in regard to the use of pulverized coal for the production of steam is how the cost of affecting the comminution and applying the material compares with the saving of fuel thus effected over combustion by the best of other practical methods.

POLYGLOT WHALING CREWS. Queer Crowds That Tackle Mouths of Hard Work in the Arctic. The crew of a whaler is one of the curiosities of the sea. and is composed i nf almost every nationality under the sun except Americans. When a captain is shipping a crew for a whaling cruise he never inquires for sailors. The class of men he looks for are those who can be broken in to i boat-pulling and who will be content : with usage and rations that be knows ' no sailor would submit to for a single j day. Young, strong, able fellows, who have been steering mules and working on ranches all their lives, are the men the whaling skipper pre-! fers, and the ones he generally gets, ! if he can. Enough of these are taken on board at San Francisco, says the Chronicle, to work the ship down to the Hawaiian Islands, when most of them desert, and the real work of ( picking a crew is done. South Sea Islanders, negroes. In-' dians from Alaska, Germans, Russian ' Fins, Mexicans, and Chileans are the men drawn upon to fill the crews in Honolulu. Os course, many of them have been whaling before and are good oarsmen, but not one in twenty i can tie a reefknot or steer a ship within half a dozen points of her i course in any kind of weather. The dress of the men is as varied as their nationality, and while not | very clean is often picturesque. Deer-, skin coats and caps, with canvas I trousers and sealskin sea boots, is a 1 favorite costume with a whaler when ! he can secure them, but nearly every man in the forecastle of a blubber hunter carries his entire wardrobe on his back, even when the vessel is in the tropics. The mon who landed from the whaling fleet at San Francisco re-, cently attracted attention even on the city front Every whaler that came in had from twenty to thirty j men in her forecastle and they «lost j no time in getting ashore, for there is little or no cooking done on a whaler after her anchor is let go inside the Golden Gate and a whaler's crew Is always hungry. They roamed I about the city front in squads, clad in their heavy skin coats and queer-1 looking Indian boots. Big, powerful fellows, with dark, swarthy faces, and little or no money coming to them walked from boarding-houre to V"’

boarding-house in search of a proprietor who would take them in. Some succeeded in finding quarters, but those who had uo money coning to them had a hard time of it, for sailors are a drug on the market at present, and the whaling fleet will not begin to fit out again until next spring. Those who have money coming to them found any number of boarding masters ready to take them in, but ns most of the vessels had a poor season, it will take no great amount of money to pay off the crews, and it is safe to say that not one man out of every ten will receive enough to pay for a month’s board, and that of course, will go to the boarding masters. Coal and Population. It is quite true that the temperate regions of the world are becoming more populous, just as it is equally true that the stock of coal in the world is i)eing gradually exhausted. The coal supplies of the United Kingdom are, for all practical purposes, much larger then they wers fifty years ago, when a great geologist persuaded a great minister to stave off a prospective danger by imposing an export duty on coal. Since that time new coal fields have been discovered, new mines have been opened, old mines have been worked at depths which would have been declared impracticable then, and the stock of available coal, though hundreds of millions of tons have been consumed in the interval, is actually larger than present reign. Just the same thing may be said of the great countries in the Western and Southern Hemispheres, which are becoming the new homes of the Teutonic race. Almost every new trade route, almost every new colonial railway, has opened out fresh territory to the colonist, and .the land available for colonizations, instead of becoming less, is for all practical purposes, greater than it was fifty years ago. True that, in the United States, most of the land has already been appropriated, while the population has increased till it has doubled that of Great Britain. But, vast as is the population of the United States, they would easily sustain, if they were peopled as England is peopled, twenty times their present numbers. The Anglo-Saxon race might go on multiplying at its present rate for 250 years, and might pout the whole addition to its numberslnto the States, and, at the end of that period, they would not be more thickly peopled than the Netherlands are now. The States, however, are only one of the countries which are available for European colonists. How thick stand their numbers on the fertile territory of Manitoba, or on tfie still larger and undeveloped regions which may be vaguely included in the term Northwestern America! How little do we still know of our great Australasian territory, and how much of it still remains available for appropriation in the coming centuries!—The Edinburgh Review. Paying His Bills. “Look here, Winebiddie, 1 understand you have been telling people I don’t pay my bills.’’ “You’ve been misinformed, Gildersleeve.” “You didn’t say that, then?” “No, I didn’t, but since you have mentioned the subject, I will tell you that I don’t really believe you da” "What! You don’t believe I pay my bills!” ‘•That’s what 1 said.” ~ “I’d like to know what ground you have for saying that. I’d have you know that I don’t owe a cent I cannot pay, and that I meet my obligations as they come due, with punctuality.” “That only proves what I said—that you don’t pay your bills.” “What on earth do you mean? Are you crazy?’’ Not at all My point is this. It is not your bills that you pay; you pay the men you owe the money ta Have a cigar?” “Thanks. So long!” “Good-morning.”

Which Letter Is Oftenest Used. The letter e is the only letter in the English language which is used oftener*tban 100 times out of every thousand letters employed. The e stands first also as regards frequency of use in the French. German, Italian, and Spanish languages. The following letters are the 10 English ones most frequently used, namely: Out of every 1,000 letters used, E137, T 88. O 76, S 75, I 71, R 70, N 66, H 65, A 64. L 40. As initial letters the order is very different; the order of the 10 most frequently so used being: R, S, C, P, A, T, D, M. F, and I. The four letters most seldom used are z. j, q, and x; while the four least frequently used as initial letters are K, Y, Z, and X. Other languages would require the various letters in different proportions. In Latin and French q and u would be deficient, h would be in excess, and w would be — u Are Enxlish Girls Homely. It is the practice of the London women’s periodicals to publish weekly pictures of the English brides who figure in the fashionable marriages of the week. A study of them for a number of months wrings the opinion from the New York Times that the rank and file of these brides have scant claims to beauty of face, and also lack grieveously air and distinction, as evidenced by their counterfeit presentments. A week-or two ago, with the company, ‘was shown the picture of an American girl lately wedded to an English nobleman; her face shone like a star among the others, arftl hers, too, was the one head of them all that had an aristocratic and distinguished poise. _ Bodes 11l for the Girls. Forty young society men of Chattanooga have bound themselves together in an oathbound organization, so it is alleged, to cut down personal expenses by declining all invitations to social functions during the coming season. The motto of the organization is: “ Look out for the pennies; the girls can take care of themselves.” ' As soon as a woman sincerely loves a man, her first instinct is to him.

Business Dfreclory ■rj;■ ■’■ x„ ■ x —j THE DECATUR NATIONAL HAW. CAPITAL, IW,COO. SURPLUS, 111,604 Organized Auguit 15,1883. Officers;—P. W. Smith, Pres.. Daniel W<ldy, Vice-pros., 11. 8, Peterson. Cashier, J. 8. Peterson, Ass’t Cashier. Do a general banking business. Interest paid on time deposits, Buy and sell Domestic and Foreign Exchange, County and City Orders. Adams County Bank Capital. 875,000. Surplu, 71,00a j Organised in IS7L Officers—D. Studebaker. Preefdeat: RoM. B. Allison, Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Ceakter. Do a general banking buelnoes. CoUeotiead made in all parte of the country. County. City and Township Orders bongM. Foreign and Domestic Excnange bought sad sold, Xatorsst paid on time depoelta. Paul G. Hooper, Attorney at Ua-w JDeeetwr, • - ZissHasssk a. c. «m, x r ERWTN Jb MANN, ATTORNEYS--AT-LI W, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows’ Building, Decatur, Ind. T7IRANCX A MRRRYMAN. J. T. mANCS. J? 1. T. MKBBTMAM *t Ijuw, DZCATUn, INDIANA. Offloe Noe. L 8 and 8, over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. A.«. lOLLOWIT, Fh.yedol*ii «ta oxa Offloe over Borne* harneee ehop, residence one door north of M. B- church. AU <*Be promptly attended to la olty or country night M. L. BOLLOWiT, BL ». Offloe and residence one door north of M. M church. Diseases of women and children epoelaltiee. Liil Nelson, Veterinary Surgtoi, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast car. Decatur and Short streets. T Qk NKFTUNR. V, DXNIST. How located over Holthouse’s shoe store, and is prepared to do sU work pertaining to the deals! profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the nee of Mayo’s Vapor bo is enabled to extract teeth without pata. AU work warranted. MONEYTO LOAN •a Nr» Property aa Leas Thea. STo CoxxoLaxalawßlosa. Low Bite es Inhereet. 3P«MrtXaal Faymemta ta any gamuts eon bo made at any Raw and step interest. QaU on, or aMteea X JE. 6RUXB, or J. r. MAJD* Moot Odd Vallows* MMlag, Ttsmtns■ jjk Erie Lines. Schedule In effect Aug. 27. 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. N 0.5, Vestibule Limited, dally for I 0 .. n „,, Chicago f -* u K M No. 3. Pacific Express, dally for I , , ln . . r Chicago f “ No. 1, Express, daily for Chicago I, rj-joA. M No. 31. Accommodation, daily.lin.jc . m except Sunday f 10 ' 4 ° A ’ M TRAINS EAST. No. 8, Vestibule Limited, daily for I --i: p M New Fork and Boston f r ' 41 No. 2. Express, daily for New p M No. 12. Express, daily for New! ..ona u No. 8M AccommodatiOT. daily ex-l ln .~, . ceiSt Sunday f 10 “” A M Second No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:30 a. m dally. Solid train for Columbus, Ohio, vis Marion and the Columbus, Hooking Valley and Tolddo Railway (Buckeyeßoue); Pullman sleepers to'Columbus. Kenova, and Norfolk and other Virginia points via the Columbus, Hooking Valley and Toledo and the Norfolk end Western Lines. J. W. DkLONO. Agent. W. A.Huntiugion. lud

Tint Claw Night aad Day RarvlaehtHrt ia Toledo, Ohio, )AND< — St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS UY TUIIIS-MODfRU EQUrPMEMT TIIBOqfIIOT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON N I«HT TRAI N«2 W-BF4IR StltVtD EM ROUTE, w Etar, MM OM MMHT, ft •ntUrfU cwt. hi hr tJcktb via Tiled#, St Lain i faint fflj L1 Clover Lmf Route, ffiar further partlcularu, can en aearert AgaateE the Company, «r addraea O. O. JENKIN3. TOLEDO, OHIO,

The Lyon & Healy Organ Is the best and most salable Apglg Organ of the Day oSSI Organs sold on Installment Payments it Low Figures. SEND JOB CATALOGUE. Fred K. Shsfer, Agt. ’■■P BERNE. IND.

Merryman’S FACTORY Yon can get all kinds of Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets, Molding, Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. In fact all kinds of building ms terial either made or furnished short notion. 4. *. ROBO, B. T. BOM Mtttv OommissfoMV. 8080 4b SON, ■A-TTORNEYS A.T UAW, Bml AnCnm nhl Xb4r O.F. M. AXDREWR, SPlay •lolsux db fllxurcmosß MONBOE, INDIANA. Offloe and residence 2nd and 3rd doors wests! M. 1. church. »* ■ Wk- Prof. L H. Zeigler, VeterlHrj Surgeon, Modus Qperandl, Orchs »1 tomy, Overotomy, Castrating, Kite ling. Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn Ing, and treating their diseases. Offloe over J M. Mons's hardware store, Decatur Indians ■ ■■ — J. 8, Coverdale, M. D. P. B. Thomas, M D. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce's Drug store. Decatur. Ind LOOK HEREI I ass here to stay and eu MB Organs and Pianos cheaper thu uvtedy else eu star Mi sell them. I sell difflerut makes. CLEANING AND REPAIRINB Aim isMoaabto Bos m ftret sat save ■sn«y. sT. T. COOTA,.De4a*tws XM, Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trams run on Central Standard Time, 28 mini utes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Thursday, August 17.1808. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 5 No. I Cincinnati..ive 815 am 900 pm ......... Richmond 2 20pm 11 00 .. 11 50.. Winchester.... 3 17.. 1155.. 1231 am Portland 404 .. 1235 pm 103 Decatur 610 .. 131.. 14S Ft.Wayne...arr 600 .. 215 .. 215 " “ ...ive 2 35.. 2 25.. SOTsia Kendallville 341.. 319.. 910.. Home City 3 56.. 3 32.. 9 26.. Wolcottville 4 01.. 337.. 931.. Valentine 411 9 42 .. LaGrange 4 19.. 352 . 9 51.. Lima .. 429 10 03 .. BlurgiS 4 40.. 4 12.. 1019.. Vicksburg 5 30.. <5».. H 14.. Kalamazoo.arr 6 05.. r.JO.. 1140.. “ ..Ive TlOam 625.. 525.. 1230 pm Or. Rapids..arr 910 .. 810 . 050.. 21n... ** “ ..Ive 10 50.. 720 . 415 .. D.. G.H.iM.cr 11 05.. 7 35.. <».. Howard City 12 05am 845 .. s<o .. Big Rapids .... 12 55.. 947 . 6 45.. Reed City 125 .. 10 20 .. 755 .. Cadillac arr 2 30.. 1130.. 9 10.. ** ....Ive 240 .. 1135 Traverse City ;25pm Kalkaska 4 01.. 120 Petoskey 5 45.. 3 00.. Mackinac City 705 .. 420 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. I Mackinac City. 9Mpm 740 am 150 pm ....... Petoskey 10 30.. #15.. 300 Kalkaska 1840am1121.. 415 naverse City 1106 .. 435 Cadillac....arr 2 20am 100 pm 030 . ...... “ ....Ire 230 .. 120.. 645 pm T3oam ReodCity 338 .. 235.. 750.. »W.. Big Rapids 408 .. 8 06.. 823.. 328.. Howard City.. 5 00.. 8 50.. 920.. 1035.. D„G.H.*M.cr 615 .. 600.. 10 25. 1136 .. Gr. Rapids .arr 6 30.. 5 15.. 10 40.. HM .. “ “ ..ive 7 00.. 6 00.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo.arr 8 60.. 8 00.. 1256 am 840.. ** ..Ivo 865 .. 805 345 •• Vicksburg:..... 9 24.. 833 418.. Stargis 1019.. #36 506.. Una 1032.. #4O 617.. Ltorsoge... .1044 .. 952 529 .. Valentine 10 53.. 10 02 5 37.. Wolcott rille... 1104 .. 10 14 347 .. Rome City 110# .. 1019 552 .. Kendallville... 1125 .. 10 39.. ........ 608.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 7 15 .. " “ 3..1ve 100,. 1210 am 545 am Decatur 146.. 12 58., 630 Portland 2 40.. 2 00.. 730 Winchester...: 317.. 2 41.. 809 Richmond 420.. 340.. 915 Cincinnati 7 00.. 715 .. 1201 pm • Trains 6 and C run daily between Grand t'aplds and Cincinnati. C. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON, Agent, Decatur, Ind £ Scientific America! /W Agency AVEATS, «l TRADE MARKS, DESIGN PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, OtoJ For Information and free Handbook write to MUNN A CO.. &S1 Broadway, New York. Oidoet bureau for securing patents In America. Every patent taken out by us is brought before the public by a notice given tree of charge ta the American Umet dreniatfon of any scUatlflo paper ta the world. Splendidly illustrated. No intelligent man should be without it. Weekly. 53.00 • year: tLMslx months. Address MUNN A COw PPBLisqKRS. 361 Broadway, New Tort Cltjfr