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[■■■»■—! "at ffar in mm The Story of a Woman’s Atonement, by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER XXVll—Continued. Rhe wuh no countess after all; the gorgeous fabric of wealth and inagnlnoenoe had crumbled to nothing beneath her feet. She wan no countess—nothing but Leonle Kayner: the grand inheritance of Crown Leighton was not hers, after all: she who had thousands on potty caprices ahrf graceful fancies had not one shilling in the world that was legally her own. “I was so happy," moaned the girl—“l was so happy, and now " Then rose Before her the dim vista of years when poverty and privation would be her lot—hard work, toll, ' obscurity her portion—and this after she had reigned queen of the bright, gay world. She was too stunned for tears —no words could descrilie the chaps of her thoughts, the whirl of her emotion. No longer a countess —no longer the mistress of that superb mansion—no longer a queen— no longer one of the richest heiresses in England, of whose wealth men spoke with wonder. It was as great a fall as woman ever had. Two minutes before she had reached the climax of magnificence and grandeur, peerless in her radiant beauty, dresspd in the robes and jewels of a queen. Now’, what was she? An usurper, an intruder, an interloper. Rhe had no righttoCrown Leighton—<lo right to the diamonds that crowned her—no right to the name that had been a< music in her ears. A cry of despair escaped heputter, hopeless despair. “I will kill myself,” she said, in her anguish; “forl‘ never can go back to that life again." How long she crouched there, her brain burning and her mine! full of dark, confused thoughts, Leonio never knew. A noise upon the stairs aroused her, and she started up. Her first honest impulse was to rush down through the crowd, to tell Paul Elemvng, and to place the will in his hands. That was her first impulse, and she rose to act upon it. As she passed the Irrge mirror, she caught a glimpse of herself, and it frightened her. Was that the radiant, beautiful girl she had seen so short a time before? Ail the bloom had died from her face, leaving it ghastly white: the violet eyes were dim ana wild; the light seemed to her excited fancy to have faded from her jewels. Oh, cruel mockery, that diadem of gems. those queenly robes! She laughed to herself—a harsh, discordant laugh, unpleasant to hear. “I am no longer a countess. lam penniless, obscure, a pauper, not a queen. ” It was surely the sorest blow that could have befallen her. She had loved her position, her magnificence, so well. She had enjoyed them so well —she had graced them so prefectly. “I will go and put this in his hands,” she said, "and then I will go straight out from that brilliant crowd—out to cold darkness and death. I have drunk of the wine of life, and cannot taste the lees.” Was there a hot breath on her white shoulder, or was it only her fancy? Was there a voice hissing in her ear, or was it a delusion? What was the voice saying? “Let it be as it is for one night longer. Go down and complete your triumphgo down where men wait for you with honeyed words. Reign queen to-night -to-morrow let poverty come and do its worst. There is no need to make a sensation among all those people—no need to publish your downfall t>night. ” Was there a hissing, sharp voice whispering these words, or was it her own fancy? She pushed the diadem and the golden-brown hair from her brow. “Many a woman would have been driven mad by such a shock,” she said to herseif. Then she stood hesitating, with the parchment in her hand. “Shall I take it to him now. or shall I wait until to-morrow? “To-morrow will do," said the tempter. “What difference can it make? Enjoy your reign a few hours longer—make the most of the next few hours. Leave it until to-morrow.” “I might just as well wait until tomorrow,” she said, piteously: “it would be so sad to spoil the fete and turn all into confusion." Then sulfden hot anger flushed in her face and flamed in her eyes. “I would fain do as Sardanapalus did,” she cried—“burn CrpwnLeighton to the ground, and die in the ruins.” Then the fierce hot anger died. “I was so happy,” she said, despairingly: “Heaven might have let me keep what I believed to bo mine. Perhaps I had better take this to Paul at once —it will be less torture than,keeping it by me until to-morrow.” She walked toward the door: she saw herself seeking him, placing the will in his hand, and saluting him by his new title—Earl of Charnleigh. Then came a vivid remembrance of the time when her heart had thrilled with ecstasy at the sound of her title. “I will not be so hasty —I will wait until to-morrow,” she said; “I will enjoy these few hours, and then ” In Vie anguish of the moment she even forgot her love and the lover who was waiting for her. She took the parchment, hid it in the wardrobe, locked the door, and then slowly descended the stairs. “To-morrow.” she moaned to herself —“it will be all oyer to-morrow.” CHAPTER XXVIII. “Leonie, how long you have been, my darling! What is the matter? Your face is white, your lips tremble. Leonie, have you been frightened?” Although she loved Bertram better than her life, in the supreme anguish of that hour she had forgotten him; and now, at the sound of the kindly voice—at the sight of the frank handsome sac keen sense of what she •was losing came over her. She went up to him, and as he stretched out his hands to her, she laid her head on his breast, forgetting, everything in her sick, hopeless despair. “My darling,” he said, anxiously, “what is the matter? Ten minutes ago you were all radiance and light —now you are pale, depressed. What has happened to you, Leonie?” She raised het colorless face. “Is it only ten minutes since I loft you, Bertram?" “That is all,” he said. “It seems to me ten long years—ten long, dreary, despairing years. I am so tired. Oh, Bertram, how that music wearies me! Will it never stop? lam so tired. ” “My darling, you have been doing too much. Your spirits carry you away, and then you are exhausted. Do not go back to the ball-room-^let me bring you some wine and rest yourself. I will not even speak to you, nor will I allow any one else to tease you." “No, no,” she said, “I must go back— I have been away so long. ” She made a desperate effort to rouse herself. He looked at her In silent wonder. She reminded him of a fair and blooming flower blighted by some cool, frosty wind. The bloom and radi-

ance had left her face—even the queenly, graceful figure seemed to shrink and grow less, while the regal robes and jewels hau lost half their brightness. “Leonie,’* said air Bertram, “you frighten mo. lam quite sure you are “I am not. Do as you propose—go and fetch nw some wine, and bring it to me in the morning-room." Ho placed her in a chair, and left her without a word. Her brain was whirling. “To-morrow," she said—“all this will be over to-morrow. I shall be flattered and loved —1 shall be queen of a brilliant fete—l shall be mistress of Crown Leighton until to-morrow; and then all will be over, and the Hun of my life set. To-morrow! Shall 1 live to face it all —the comments, the gossips, the sneers! These fine ladies who protest that I am a model of graceful manners, will find out then that I am low-bred and very deficient—what has passed for animation will become vulgarity. I know the world, and hate it while I love it. Its triumph over me shall not begin to-night. Bor this one night it shall bo at my feet, and I will trample on it." Then Sir Bertram came in with the wine, and she drank it. It brought the warmth and color back to her face. He was much relieved. “You are better, Leonie. Oh, my darling, you must never look that way again! Promise to be careful of yourself; you are not strong. You alarmed me when I saw you. I thought the ghost that haunts the oak room had appeared to you.” A deep, tearless sob broke from her lips. “The ghost of the oak-room,” she repeated, wearily—“l saw it, and it has nearly killed me.” He thought her manner strange, but ascribed it all to over-fatigue. He drew nearer to her, and rearranged her diadem, which had half fallen from the fair, stately head. “You have all a queen's dignity, and i alia woman's charm,” he said. “Oh, Leonie, was any one ever so fair and so peerless as you?” She smiled; the wine had given her a kind of courage that she mistook for strength. “Are my jewels all in order, or need I send for Florette?” she asked, carelessly. “They are in perfect order. Your appearance now is my care, Leonie; it concerns no one but myself.” He did not know what had happened. What would he say or think when he had discovered that she was simply poor and obscure Leonie Raynor, the ex-governess? Would it make any difference to his love? She looked up at him. “Give me your arm. Bertram. I must go to the ball-room. Hark! that is my favorite waltz. Tell me before you go —do you love me very much?” A beautiful light came into his face. “You will never know how much, sweet.” ‘bWould you care just as much for me if I were very poor, and you knew me only as Leonie Rayner?” “Just as much,” he replied, “my love does not depend on your circumstances. If yon were made queen to-morrow,, I should love you just as dearly; and if to-morrow you became a beggar, it would make no difference in my affection —nay, lam wrong—l should love you all the better.” “Is it true?” she asked. “Most assuredly it is: the only thing I should regret in that case would be that I am not a rich man—that I could not surround you with all the luxury and magnificence to which you have been accustomed. ” “Are you not rich, Bertram?” she asked, wistfully. He laughed. “No. my queen—not what people call rich, in these luxurious times; my estates are mortgaged. I wish that I were rich enough to purchase the whole world, so that I might endow’ you with it." “You shall not spoil that compliment by any other,” she said; “we will go. Where is my; programme?, I have missed two dances. I have to apologize to two gentlemen The next is the ‘Lancers,’and I am engaged to Lord Holdene. He ought to thank me for these silver buckles.” Then from the very depths of her young heart there came a most woeful sigh. If he had never asked for those buckles, that will would perhaps never have come to light. For a few minutes after she re-en- ; tered the ball-room, Leonie stood be- I wildered Then she recovered her- i self. Lord Holdene came up and | offered a hundred apologies for having mentioned the silver buckles. She looked up at him with a vague, dreamy smile, as though she did not even understand the words. She was thinking to herself that it was not his fault —that it was not what people would call fate or chance that had led her to the oak-room, but the very hand o Providence, and he had been led I thither in order that justice mig’ht be done. Then Captain Flemyng saw her and' hastened to her. “I could not imagine what made the ball-room so suddenly grow cold and dim, Lady’ Charnleigh,” he said. “ Whyhave you’been so long absent?” “I have been searching in a haunted room for silver buckles,” she replied, trying to still the quivering of her lips ' atid speak in her natural voice. I But something in the tone struck him as strange —a weary, hopeless ring that told of pain and sorrow. He looked tenderly and anxiously at her. “You are over-tired, Lady Charnleigh. Let me persuade you not to dance, but sit down and rest.” She laughed. “No, I could not sit still: I like continual movement. Where is Ethel? Is she enjoying herself ?” “Yes; and so is every one else. The young ladies of the county’ ought to be ■ deeply grateful to you; 1 have heard many of them say that they never en- ; joyed an evening so much before. You must give us some more charades, Lady ■ Charnleigh, and morfe balls.” She laughed again. How little he , knew that this was the last night of i her reign—that with the sunrise of the i morrow all her wealth and magnifi- ■ cence would vanish into thin air—that henceforward he would rule at Crown , Leighton, and and parties—- > that he would succeed to the glorious - inheritance she had valued so! i “They shall remember my last night at Crown Leighton,” she said to herself; “they shall talk of it, and tell each ; other that I died a queen.” With Leonie, to will was to do. She called all her magnificent courage Into i play, she resolutely trampled under i foot all remembrance of the oakdh : chamber and what it contained, she i remembered only that this was her last apjearance as Countess of Charn- ; leigh, and that people must* not fori get it. > Such was the ease; no ono so briils iant or beautiful had been seen there . for many long generations. She danced, [ and the graee, the perfection of lien movement, was marvelous; sho talked, - and men gathered round her, charmed out of themselves. She had never been 3 so brilliant. Her anecdotes, her ret partees, her sparkling sallies wore rer poated one to the other; her beautiful 3 face grew brighter and more radiant - every minute. People no longer won-

dered at the spell she cast around her; thqre were men in that room who thought that to have won a smile from her they would have gone through any difficulty. As the cloud cf homage rose and seemed to float round her, she smiled bitterly to herself, saying: “It is my laet triumph; to-morrow the dark waves of poverty will rise and ingulf mo, and the world will hear no more then of Loonie, CounteM of Charnleigh.” CHAPTER XXIX. 1 It was when the ball was drawing to a cl< ho that Paul Flemyng found an opisirtunity of slipping a folded pajwr into Lady Charnleigh's hands. “Road this, loonie,” ho whispered, “and permit mo to call for the answer to-morrow." She took it and placed it in the folds of her dress. To.moryow he would know all—to-morrow ho" would bo Lord Charnleigh, and she Ixsonio Raynor; their positions would Im, reversed. Thon came the faint gray dawn of tile June morning, and ono by one the guests departed from the brilliant scene. Each visitor expressed so much pleasure, and seemed so truly delighted, that no greater compliment could have been paid to their hostess than their regret at leaving. “Give us another ball soon, dear Lady Charnleigh," whispered one of the younger girls; “this has been so delightful!” Leonio laughed aloud; the young girl started back at 4 the harsh, unnatural sound. “lam tired, my dear," said Leonie, seeing the startled look; “remember that 1 have been making myself amiable ever since nine o’clock this morning, and to lie constantly amiable is the hardest task in the world." Sir Bertram came up to say farewell. “I shall come for my answer to-mor-row, Leonie; you have given me hope this evening. 4 “Not to-morrow, Bertram," she pleaded, piteously. “I am so tißed—wait until Thursday. I shall have recovered then." “I will wait just as long as you please,” he said. “You will be mine in the end, Leonid that is all I care for.” A sudden impulse camo over her to throw herself into his arms and tell him all—he would console and comfort her; but she set her foot resolutely upon the impulse. This night should pass over without her secret being known. So she stood until the last of her guests disappeared, graceful, bright, and charming to the end. her gay Words never faltering; then she was left in that brilliant ball-room alone. She looked around, with a flush on her face, on the flowers and the lights, the wondrous combinations of color that she herself had effected. “I have died a queen," she said. “I have not given way for one moment. 1 have smiled with the bitterness of wrath in my heart. I have talked and laughed when like Casar. I would fain have folded my mantle round me and died. Now I look my last on the brilliant paradise that will know me no more. ” |TO BE C ISTINI KD I WALKING ON STILTS. It la a Common Practice in One Province of France. The majority of the people in the western portion of the French province of Gascony walk on stilts. That is a district known as the Landes, with a sea line bounding the French side of the Bay of Biscay and extending at its greatest breadth about sixty miles back into the country. The Landes form one of the wildest and strangest parts of France, and the inhabitants are fully as strange and uncultivated as the black pine forests, the dreary swamps and the far-spreading deserts of fine white sand which they inhabit. Most of them are shepherds, and they elevate themselves on stilts five feet high in order to be above the marshes and the sand blasts. These stilt-walkers present strange and uncouth figures as they progress over the wilderness of country in attendance on their flocks, sometimes at the rate of six or seven miles an hour. Thfey rest by the aid of a third wooden support, pursuing meanwhile their everlasting occupation of knitting. In appearance the Landes shepherd looks like an uncouth mass of dirty wool. On his body he wears a fleece like a rude paletot, his thighs and legs on the outside are protected by gre„aves of the same material, and his feet are encased in sabots and : ccarse woolen socks. : In some parts of Malaysia the natives , walk almost habitually on stilts. NaI ture and necessity have brought about this result, as excessive inundations of river and sea often submerge the whole surface of the land in many places, rendering ordinary modes of locomotion impossible. In’parts of Holland also it is a very ordinary sight to see people walking about upon stilts of various sizes. This Seems an Outrage. There is a queer kind of justice in this world. A lawyer in New York. Francis Henry Weeks, who embezzled over $1,000,000 from the widows and orphans whose fortunes lay in his hands, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in Sing Sing. Then a little lad, not yet out of his teens, was sentenced to fifteen years in the same prison for having stolen a watch, chain and locket, • the value of which was $75. ! This may be lawyers' justice, but it doesn’t seem the justice of common sense nor is it tinged with one streak of Christianity. Sentencing the arch betrayer of widows and orphans and the embezzler of $1,000,000 to undergo a less severe sentence than that inflicted on a youthful and an ignorant boy is not the’ way to impress the American people or anybody else that we are living under equal laws. Sing Sing is a fit place for Lawyer Weeks; a reformatory should be the place for the youthful stealer of a watch, locket and chain. The Omnibus in Paris. An excellent feature of the omnibus system of Paris are the stations which oicur at frequent intervals along each line, at which all vehicles stop. Hero passengers may wait comfortably, protected from sun, rain and wind, provided with seats, and in winter furnished with fire. Here they take numbers, that is, tickets which entitle them to places in the omnibuses when their turn comes. The seats in Paris omnibuses are not to those who push the hardest. It is only at the stations that the vehicles stop.' Passengers may descend at any point, and the regulations require that if seats are not full the cars stop whofi signaled for those who wish to mount. The trains and omnibuses accommodate forty persons with seats. Six more are’ permitted on the rear platform. Twenty of the seats are on the roof and are reached by a rear stairway. Exhibited the Corpse in the Window. In Philadelphia, the other day there was a striking evidence of the intense -f desire of some people to exhibit-the- ■ remains” at funerals. A man had died j of diphtheria and the authorities very . | properly refused to permit a public fuI neral. So the family had the coflta ! containing the corpse stood on end in front of a window of the house so that the face of the dead could be viewed from t.b ft Htreot—New \ork Tribune,

CAUSE OF THE PANIC. [ TREASURY WAS EMPTIED BY THE REPUBLICANS. Mr. Cleveland I-est ■ Clear Surplus of Over One Hundred Million’* »t the Clow of 111* .Former Ad min tut rat loo—- A<l tn In** mlou of New Htnteiu Meet the Hit nation Boldly. Thor© is un opportunity for the President. If not a positive duty, by a sjiecial message to Congie-s. to lay before the country the exact condition of the national treasury and the steps by which this condition has been brought about. The exhaustion of the treasury is the direct result of a deliberative policy. The people are entitled to know just how that policy has worked, since they are now appealed to in its defense. They can in no way gain this knowledge so well as from an authoritative official statement of the process by which the the treasury was | reduced from abundance to bankruptcy. The Republican organs do not tell this. They dwell on the fact that the revenues have fallen off in the last six months. They do notexplain that this temporary deficiency would lie of trifling importance had not the Treasury been emptied of its accumulations and the expenditures raised beyond the revenues by the policy steadily pur.-ued, both by the < engross | and the executive, from IN*!) to 1893. i Mr. Cleveland left a clear surplus of ; over a hundred millions, independent of the reserve for the protection of the currency, with the ordinary expenditures averaging $263,000,C0D a year, or $105,500,000 less than the annual rev- 1 enues. He received back a Treasury actually emptied, with even the gold reserve impaired, and the ordinary expenditures raised, by an enormous pension list and other fixed charges, to $383,500,000, the actual payments last year exceeding the actual receipts. The excess ot expenditures over receipts could bo easily met and corrected if the Treasury reserves had been left unimpaired. But they were gone. In one summer, during the panic of 1890, the Secretary of the Tieasury poured into the market a million dollars a day for seventy days, in the purchase of bonds, paying in that year alone a premium of over twenty paillions to extinguish a debt not due. Nd doubt it was a help to business, but it exhausted the resources of the Government; so that in the worse currency panic of last summer the Secretary was powerless. During the three years from 1889 to 1891, $48,000,000 of the surplus had gone, not to the payment of debt, but to the payment of premiums alone. But this was not the worst. It was no doubt expected that the silver bullion purchased under the Sherman law would serve for the redemption of the Treasury notes issued against it. But the plan was a failure. The actual effect of the law was to drain the Treasury of its sound assets and substitute an accumulation of unmerchantable silver bars, which cannot be used in the payment of obligations and represent an absolutely dead investment. As the national credit lies at the foundation of business credit, distress and panic were the only possible results of this reckless and unfortunate policy, associated, as it was, with a tariff whose very purpose was to hamper commerce and whose effect was to demoralize industry. The present administration has thus to meet the catastrophe ripened under its predecessors, with the expenditures already fixed and the immediate resources of the treasury’ exhausted. The Government is actually in debt, as the result of the policy inaugurated by the billion-dollar Congress. The present Congress will have to provide for this deficit by a loan. It should do so boldly and promptly, taking care that the country’ shall understand exactly where the responsibility belongs. —Philadelphia Times. Trying to Shanghai Reform. The Washington Post aptly recalls the story of the British herring curer, who was for free trade in everything but herring, anent the mass of correspondence now being poured in on Chairman Wilson by every mail, of which the following is. a characteristic sample: • I understand you propose to put poultry on the free list. lam raisins: Shanghai chickens out here in Nebraska and get Io a pair for them: but if you let in chickens from China free, it will destroy my business. I have been a Democrat all my life, but if what you are Sroposing is Democracy, I have voted the lemocratlc ticket for the last time. There are numbers of Democrats of this Shanghai breed in various States who are for the party so long as Democracy is their especial rooster. Their ideas’ of political duty and of public policy are bounded by the palings of their hencoops. They look on China as a personal enemy, just as they regard commercial freedom as a china egg contrived to hatch out a brood of misfortunes for their personal bedevilment and aggravation. These Shanghai poultrers, who are willing that everybody else, even to the herring curers, should be taxed to support the Government, and that their own lifelong Democracy should make them “deadheads in the enterprise,” delight to call themselves Democrats when they have an ax to grind; but they think it most intolerable that any chicken of theirs should ever get the ax. Such lifelong Democrats don't know the meaning of the title they disport; and the sooner they shall drop off the Democratic roost into the Republican henyard the better it will be for the interests of Democracy and for the chicken-eaters of the country.— Philadelphia Record. New State*. Bills have passed the House of Representatives to admit to Statehood Utah and Arizona, and doubtless New Mexico will soon bo added to the list, and possibly OklahoAa. It is claimed by the Republicans that Utah ought not to bo admitted because of its having tolerated and sanctioned polygamy. It is conceded that this institution is no longer sanctioned or defended. Utah has a 'larger population than two or three combined of the six States admitted within the past few years, and is in every way better equipped for Statehood ' than any of them. It is claimed that Arizona and New Mexico have not the requisite population to entitle them to admission as States. Possibly that may be true, but this objection ’ comes with poor grace from those who favored the admission of Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington. It is not denied that these Stalos were all admitted for the sole purpose of adding Republican strength to the Senate. Now that the Democrats are in the ascendant it may be that they feel well assured that Democratic Senators will come from these new States, and on this account are zealous for their admission. Republicans set a bad example, and they have no occasion to find fault if their opponents follow it. They refused to take in Utah and New Mexico, as they would,' probably add t > the Democratic strength in the Senate. It becomes the Republicans to keep silent, not murmur or complain, but quietly take some of the medicine they had administered to their poetical antagonists. It -is an old saying that

| “curses. llkfe chickens, always come home to roost." Mean and dishonest | precedents are very apt sooner or later Ito trouble those who sot them. To make tho charge that the motive of the Democrats in pressing the admission of Utah and Arizona is to get more political power in the Senate is an admission that this was the object of admitting.ldaho and Wyoming to statehood when neither of them had a population to justify it. —Cincinnati Enquirer. « High Tariff Produces Trust,. Trusts are the natural and legitimate offspring of a high tariff. Offering a bounty to manufacturers causes them to enlarge their plants and increase production beyond the normal demand. Tempted by the prospect of large profits, which are rendered certain by the prohibition of foreign competition, capitalists invest in manufacturing enterprises, and tho result must be that home competition produce! an excess of that kind of goods which renders it certain that some must go to the wall unless a combination is formed to limit production, fix prices, and parcel out j tho territory which each fa :tor in the [ combine shall supply. An overproduction of the goods would necessarily knock down the price. Tho home competition would boa regular cut-throat business. The artificial stimulant given to the home producer by the tax levied upon the products of foreign competitors, being a violation of the natural laws of trade, must finally result in disaster —such as attends the violation of any I other natural law. By organizing a | trust the home manufacturers can esI tablish an artificial price without ref--1 erenee to the cost of production. They are only limited in their prices by the amount of duties imposed upon foreign competing product. If they go beyond that the foreign manufacturer is inI vited to become a competitor. Hence > the constant clamor for an increase of tariff taxes by American producers. Raise the tariff walls so high that importation is prohibited, then the trust can prevent domestic competition, and they can rob the consumer to their heart's content. Repeal thetariff laws and a death-blow is struck to trust organizations. It is a truthful statement made by the McKinleyites that the object of a high tariff is to check importations and give better prices to American manufacturers. A tariff for revenue can only be incidentally protective. and does not stimulate to its ultimate injury. Strong; View* on the Tariff Question. If ever pearls were cast before swine it is in the effort of the administration to deal considerately and tenderly with the tariff hogs who have fed so long at the public trough. A univeral squeal is set up at the prospect of a decrease in the quantity of their swill. They denounce the 1 measutc in unstinted terms. They deride the consideration shown them. They call its authors hypocrites and cowards who got into office on a false pretense of making a i purely revenue tariff, and now dare not do it: in fact, never intended to do it. They point with scorn to the admission that the bill is still largely protective, and a«k if this is what the Democracy promised. It only shows how useless have been the concessions to the greedy beggars. The recipients for years of public charity, they now have the insufferable effrontery, in a time when everybody is curtailing expenses, either voluntarily or compulsorily, to demand that their gratuities shall be continued at full tide. The abuse would have been no greater had the bill, as it should, have cut right to the revenue line. We do 1 not share the apprehensions expressed ' by the committee that this would have . injured any of the propped industries, and find in the list of our exports of manufactured gcods ample proof for the opinion. But. after all. we apprehend that the wrath with which the Wilson 1 bill is met is not so much because of ' the cuts it makes in the stealings as it ' is because the gang see in it the speedy ' abolition of their privileges. They see that it is only’ a step to be speedilyfollowed bv longer ones until freedom of trade is established forever.—St. Paul Globe. I Agricultural Implements. Some high tariff journals claim that if the Wilson bill passes, this country • would ba flooded with all kinds of farm ■ implements from abroad. This state- ' ment betrays the inexcusable ignorance of those who make U. If there is any kind of manufacture of which > American mechanics have absolute ! control it is the production of agricul- , tural machinery. They sell the tools, i implements.and machinery of the tarm ’ in all parts of the world in competition with those made elsewhere. The supe- > rior skill and workmanship of American ! mechanics give them a monopoly. The ’ farmers in the South American re- . publics will not buy an« English or Ger- . man machine at any price. With nit '■ successful competition in any eountrv the only possible reason for a duty on ' farm machinery is that it furnishes an excellent opportunity’ to organize a ‘ trust, enabling it to make its own terms with those who use the implements in bur own country. Our Minis- , ter to the Argentine Republic. Mr. , Pitkin, was interviewed the other day , in Jioston. and in it he sa'd: “You ; cannot get an Argentine farmer to touch anything in the shape of an agri- ' cultural' implement unless it is of American manufacture.” Keep* McKinley Busy. ' McKinley's Ohio knitting is keeping ’ him verv busy’ at this time. He ■ has ' landed the State up to its neck in debt; his party is fightifig tooth and nails 1 over the flesh pots; there is a lot of official crookedness to lie straight- ’ ened out: and the little Major is not much of a business man at best.—Detroit Free Press. An Amusing Mistake. An amusing incident once arose from ' the striking resemblance that existed between the late Gen. Lewis Cass and a certain Mr. Guv. a Washington hotel 1 keeper. A newly elected Southern Congressman who had put up in Guy s } hostelry didn’t like his room, and went ■ down-stairs to cQiuplain about it. On the wav he met Gen. Cass, and, taking ’ him for the landlord, treated him to 1 some very emphatic comments upon the indignity he felt ho had received. "Sir.” the General sternly replied, as soon as he could get a woid'in, ‘you have made a mistake. lam Gen. < ass, ’ of Michigan.” ; ’ i “Gen. Cass!” the Congressman stam- ’ mered in some confusion. “I beg a thousand pardons. 1 took you for Mr. Guy, who is an old friend of mine. ! Pray excuse me. sir. ” E The General bowed stiffly, and went ' out, but almost immediately returned. and again happened to meet the South- • erner. The latter had seen Gen. < 'ass go out, and felt sure of his man this ! time. He came up, slapped him heartily on the shoulder, and said with a 1 laugh: 1 “Say, Guy. I've a joke to tell ' you. 1 met that stupid bld Cass just ! now and thought it was you, and began to abuse him about tayroom." r . “Young man." replied the General, ' "drawing himself up more sternly than ’ ever, “you've met that stupid old Cass J again." THblremains of a race of liliputians. • believed to lie the ancestors of the - Mexican Aztecs, wcae janearthed in t East Tennessee. V

Business Directory THE DECATUR SATIOIIL BAffK. CAPITAL. $50,000. SURPLUS, 111.500. Organized August U, 1883. Officers;— P. W. Smith, Prea., Daniel Wclfly, Vico-preß.,R. 8. Poteraon, Caahler, J. 8. Peterson, Asu'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, $70,000. Bnrplas, 71,005, Organised in U7L Offlesrs—D. Studebaker, President: Robt. B. Allison, Vloe-Presldent; W. ■. Niblick, Casklse. Do a general banking business. Collections made in all ports of tho country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Forsign and Domestic Exchange bought end sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, at XsATTV Voeatwr, • • Xn<K<ma, ■sma » ■. Rbxn, a ■. ATTORNEYS-AT--Li W, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office tn Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, Ind. T7IRANCE * MERBYMAR. J. T. nuircn. r J. T. mxkbtmjlM Attoraeyn «a.t Xsa.-w, DICI.TUB, INBULSA. Office Noe. 1, t and 8. over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. A. 6. HOLLOWAY, Fhyalol*n «*» ■urgeon Office over Burns' harneee shop, residents one door north of M. I. church. AU calls Sromptly attended to in city Or country nigM r day. M, L. HOLLOWAY, M. B. Office and residence ono door north of M. * church. Diaoaaes of women and children spacialUos. Ltvl nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decntur and Short streets. XQ. rbftunb, > DKNTWr. Now located over Holthouse’s shoo store, and is prepared to do aU work pertaining to tho dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By tho use of Mayo's Vapor ho is enabled to oxtnot tooth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEYTOLOAN On hrsa Property op Long MTo ConunlasiloMa low Nate of Intereel. to aay tMounts eaa bsnsOsl aayttaosa* ■top intaroot. CUI on, or oddroot, 4. X. GBUBB, or J. P. JCX2TM OBeei Odd PoUowT BUMlng. DoobOhs. jwk Erie Lines. Schedule In etlect Aug. 27, 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. 6. Vestibule Limited, dally for I o.m P m Chicago I " No. 3. Pacific Express, dally for i . M Chicago f a. m No. 1. Express, daily for Chicago i. n-.20A. M No. 31. Accommodation, daily, 1 10-45 except Sunday f TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, dally for I ...« p M New York and Boston f *’ No. 2. Express, daily for New I 3.05 p M No. 12. Express, daily for New I York I No. 3U. Accommodation, daily ex-> ln .<« . cept Sunday fiv— . • . Second No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:30 a. m daily. Solid train for Columbus. Ohio, via Marion nml the Columbus, Hocking Valley andTo'.ddo Kailway (Buckeyeßoue): I’nllmau sleepers to'Coluiubus. Kenova, and Norfolk snd other Virginia points via the Columbus. Hocking Valley and Toledo and the Norfolk and Western Lines. J. W. DeLono, Agent. W. G.MaoEdwards, T. P. A.Huutinglou, Ind First Class Night and Day SrrviMhrtwMW Toledo, Ohio, )AND( — • St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS |AY TBAIIS—MODtBR EQIJIPMEMT TWOTOWIT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON Nt OHT THAI N Sr-HEALS BEKVED EH ROUTE, tuts tsar, MT OR HIRHT, at nodtrata coat itk for tickeh ill Toledo, St Louit A biiu City 11 Clover Leaf Route. Fer further particulars, call on nonrert Agent of the Company, or addreM o. O. JENKINSo e«Mral PaaMagwr TOLEDO. OHK - -■

The Lyon & Healy Organ Is the best and most salable Organ of the Day £SS|| Organs sold on Installment Payments it Low Figures. S£\Y7) TOR CATALOGUE. jflHEgEKlv. Fred K. Shafer, Agt. 1 BERNE. IND.

AT Merryman’S FACTORY You can get all kindo ot Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets, Molding, Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. In fact all kinds of building ma terial either made or furnished 00 ahnrt notice. «, *. 8080, A T. BOMh Motor OonunjUufon*. 8080 A BON, ATTORNEYS JUT LAW. Baal Batata and CoOMtiaa, Dacato, XnS. O.r. B AIDIEWB, Fla.y-sßlolA.xi. «*» Burgeon MONROE, INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and (rd doors WMt of M. B. church, fry- Prof. L H. Zeigler, Vetertiirj JOQW Surgeon, Modus Operand!, Orohe M 7T tomy, Overotomy, Castrating, Rldg Ifng, Horses and Spaying Cattle and Dehorn Ing. and treating their diseases. Offloe over J M. Stone's hardware store, Decatur Indiana. J. 8. Coverdale, rs. D. P. B. Thomas, M D. DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce’s Drug store. Decatur, Ind LOOK HEREI I eas hare to stay and east ee* Organs and Pianos cheaper shaa anybody affierdte 0 sell thana I eeil Stffierent nsakal. CLEAMINB AND REPAIRIN Sesw reaaoaabto See me Srrt end ■■■• ■easy. J'. T. COOTS,Dooatvss Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trams run on Central Standard Time, 28min] utes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Thursday, August 17.1898. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 5 No, T Cincinnati..lve 815 am 9 00pm Richmond 2 20pm 11 00 .. 11 50 Winchester.... 3 17.. 1155.. 1231 am Portland 404 .. 1235 pm 186 Decatur 510 .. 131 .. 145 Ft.Wayne...arr 600.. 2L5.. 215 •• •• ...Ire 235 .. 2 25.. lOtam Kendallville 3 41.. 319.. 910.. Mome City 356 .. 332 .. 9?6 .. Wolcottville 4 01.. 337 .. 931 .. Valentine 411 9 42 .. JaG range 4 19.. 3 U . 951.. Lima 4 29 10 03 .. Sturgis 4 40.. 412 .. 1019 .. Vicksburg 5 36.. Ssi.. 1114.. Kalamazoo, arr 605 .. 5U .. 1140 „ “ ..Ive 710 am 6 25.. 525.. 1230 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 910 .. 810.. 0 50.. 21b.- •• •• ..Ive 10 50.. 7 20.. 415 .. D.,G.H.AM.cr 11 05.. 7 35.. 18.. Howard City 12 05am 545 .. 510 .. Big Rapids 12 55.. 947 . 6 45.. ReedCSty. 1 25.. 1020.. ?«.. Cadillac.....arr 2 30.. 1130.. 9 10.. •• ....Ive 240 .. 1135 .. Traverse City :25pm Kalkaska 401 .. 120 Petoskey 545 .. 300 MackinacClty 7 05.. 420 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. I MackinacClty. 90« pm 7 40 am 150 pm Petoskey 10 30.. 9 15.. 300 Kalkaska 12 45am 11 21.. 415 ftaverse City 1105 .. 425 Cadillac ....arr 220 am 100 pm 630 •• ....ive 230 .. 120.. 645 pm 730 am Reed City 3 38.. 2 35.. 7 50.. 180.. Big Rapids 4 08.. 8 05.. 8 £5.. 928.. Howard City.. 5 00.. 3 50.. 920 .. 1035 .. D.. G.H. AM.cr 6 15.. 500 .. 10 25 . 1135 .. Gr. Rapids.arr 6 30.. 5 15.. 10 40.. 1150 .. “ “ ..Ive 700 .. 6 00.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamuoo.arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 55am 840 .. ..Ive 855 .. 805 3« .. Vicksburg! 9 24.. 833 412 .. Sturgis 10 19.. 926 505 .. Ums 1032 .. 940 517.. LaGrange.... 10 44 .. 952 529 .. Valentine 10 53.. 10 02 637 .. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 547 ~ Rome City 1109.. 1019 5 52.. Kendallville... 1125 .. 10 39 6 08.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 50 7 15.. " “ J..lve 100.. 1210 am 545 am Decatur 146 .. 12 58 .. 630 Kirtland 2 40.. 200 .. 7 30.. Winchester.... 317.. 241.. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 3 40.. 915 Cincinnati 7 00.. 7 15.. 1301 pm .... Trains 5 and C run daily between Grand llaplds and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON, Agent, Decatur. Ind £ Scientific American /h Agency Il v AVEATS, TRADE MARKS, DESIGN PATENTS, £»» COPYRIGHTS, «tcJ For Information and free Handbook writs to MUNN A CO.. 361 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Oldest bureau for securing patents tn America, Every patent taken out by ns is brought before the public bye notice given free of charge In the Scientific American Largest circulation of any soieatlflc paper In the world. Splendidly illustrated. No Intelligent men should be without it. Weekly. 53.00* year; ILM six months. Address MUNN 4 CO» Puawsßuus. 361 Broadway, New York City.