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IT WAR WITH HHRSBLP? rhe Story of a Woman’s Atonement, by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER XX'. I—Continued. Ab she stood there, Lady Fanahawe Irew abide the velvet hangings, and tutored the room. “Lady Charnleigh, are you here, tlone?” she said. “Mbs Dacre han been fooking for you. You must be very IrF, iloed." . ■ *'■> x“I wonder what she will say," thought Ceonie, “when I tell her all? Will she like the governess as well as she liked the Countess, or will she be the first to lay that ‘I never had any stylo and was quite unfit for my station?’ 1 suppose the world is all false alike." “I have never known anything go off A. 10 successfully as this ball has done. Lady Charnlelgh. You have gained golden opinions, my dear child. lam inclined to thluk that fortune was not blind when she chose you for a lady of title and wealth." “You think I make a bettor Countess than I did a governess?” said Leonie. “Yes. I will say more—there is no one living who would grace your position or fill it as you do." “Thank you, auntie; now good-night, or rather, good-morning. Hark! The birds are singing and the sun will soon shame these lights. Au revoir, auntie —pleasant dreams!” Leonie swept up the grand staircase, her velvet train falling in graceful folds, her fair head erect and stately, a smile on her lips, her whole energy bent on one object—not to give way. Florette was waiting for her. “How long can I control myself?” thought Leonie. “I feel burning tears close to my eyes, and 1 must let them How; there is a burning pain at my heart, and I must be alone that I may weep it away." Florette proceeded to remove the costly diadem,the necklace of diamonds, thb ornaments, the rich trailing velvet robos, and Leonie stood quite still. She felt that if she either stirred or spoke the torrent of grief must have its own way. “Shall I lock those diamonds up now, mv lady?" asked Florette., "Leonie looked at them—a few hours more and they would no longer be hers. She would feast her eyes on them while she could. “Leave them until the morning,” she answered slowly. “I am very tired; you can go now. Good-night. ” At last she was alone—the long pent■up sorrow’ could have its wav. She locked the door, and, as the wild torrent of sobs rose to her lips, she flung herself on the ground, not caring whether she ever rose again or not. So lately queen of one of the most brilliant fetes ever imagined, now she lay alone, battling as best she could with her sorrow and her despair. Deep, bitter sobs shook the prostrate figure: “it was too hard," she said to herself. She had been so unutterably happy; and now’ it was all over. She could never enjoy one moment of life again. She wept until her tears was exhausted, and then something like the gloom and sullenness of despair came over her. The morning sun was shining and the birds singing their matin hymns, for the first time a loathing for sunshine and beauty came over her—she would fain have turned her face to the wall and died. A sensation of deadly faintness came over her, when she remembered that the had not tasted food since dinnertime on the previous day. She w’ent to she window and opened it, thinking the fresh air might revive her. Dear Heaven, how beautiful it was! The sky was one mass of pale pearl tints streaked with gold, the morning air w’as full of sweet and rare perfume, the dew was sparkling like diamonds on the grass, the flowers were all at their fairest, tne lilies opened their cool, white cups, the roses sent forth a cloud of perfume, and the birds sang as though there was no sorrow in the world. How fair and tranquil it was, the tall trees stirred so gently by the sweet Western wind, and the green boughs rustling with a noise like faint music! « ‘ So faint, so still, so full of beauty! Her hot, tired eyes wandered over the flowers and trees. It was indeed an earthly paradise—could she leave it? No, a thousand times no! The cool morning air refreshed her; it seemed to drive away the fever that burned on her face and in her heart. All this fair prospect, these gardens, these grounds, the rich woodlands, the fertile meadows, the park, had all been hers yesterday. Could she lose them now? ' A thousand times no!’ Temptation comes to us at different times: it assails a man when through the open door of a brilliantly lighted room, he hears the click of the billiard balls—he forgets his invalid wife at home, and yields to it. It assails us in those moments when we are weakest. It came to Leonie Rayner that fair June morning while the dew lay on the grass, and the birds sang in the trees —a swift, sudden, terrible temptation that made her tremble with its force, that flushed her face, and caused her to raise her eyes to the fair morning heavens. »■ “No, not that. Let me lose all—let me die—but keep my honor and my truth unsullied —oh, great Heaven!” A terrible temptation it was —one that left her powerless. She trampled upon it as she would have done upon some noisome reptile springing at her throat. She refused to hear it; then she faltered ever so slightly, and looked it in the face. • What was it? The words seemed to grow clear to her mind as though they were distinctly spoken. “No one knows anything about the will —why mention it? Destroy it: there is no human being who will be any the wiser; destroy the will!” Again and again the words seemed to be repeated, “Destroy the will!” She could have fancied the whisper reechoed from every corner of the room. The birds teemed to sing it, the wind to repeat it, and Leonie sat down deliberately to look her temptation in the face. Would it be so very wrong after all to keep what she had longed looked » upon as her own? It was her own; she - was most certainly nearest of kin to the dead earl; and therefore she had a right to the title and estate. Was it just to deprive her of them because the earl had loved Paul Flemyng’s mother? That gave him no right to the lands and revenues of Crown Leighton. . That it was an unjust will she felt | quite sure; yet it was a will made when I the earl was of sound mind, and everv > law of honor and honesty compelled her to give it up. Had not Lady Fanshawe said that no one would ever grace the position Leonie held as she did? Surely, if she was doing the best possible for the fair name of the Charnleighs, it would be folly to make way for one who would perhaps not fulfill the duties half so well. AU that sophistry could devise She thought of; but. there was no getting over the broad, plain fact that Lord Oharnleigh had not left his fortune to her, but to some one else, and to that person it ought to go—honor was imperative. For her to keep what belonged to another was so clearly steal-

Ing os for her to put her hand into a stranger's purse. The money, the land, the title, were not hers, but another’s, and she had no possible right to them. “Yet," cried the unhappy girl, despairingly, “I cannot give them up. I have been so happy, 1 have loved my life so well, I cannot—Heaven help me —I cannot give them up!” As she turned despairingly away, her eyes fell on the little note Paul hid given her, which us yet she had neither remembered nor read. CHATTER XXX. “My Dearest Leonie, "—the note began—"l will not tease you with a long letter. I did not intend to trouble you at all this evening, but that I can no longer conceal the deep, true, ardent love for you that fills iffy whole heart. I have seen you this evening so lovely, so radiant, so gracious, that it seems to me the whole world must be longing to take my prize away. 1-oonle, lam not a poet—l cannot woo you in musical song. lam a soldier, loyal and true, and gifted with no groat eloquence. I could not tell you how I love you—l have no words at my command that can describe my love—but I kneel at your feet, and pray you to be my wife, lie my wife, sweetest? I shall have earth’s fairest price then. I would rather call you my wife, and know that I had won your love, than I would be crowned king; and, if you will trust vourself to me, I will make you happy. With my sword I will win a name even grander than that of Cnarnlcigh. I will give my whole life to you. You will not keep mo waiting for an answer, sweet —I could not bear long suspense. I shall come to hear my fate to-morrow. Yours, in life and death, PAUL.” Swift, sudden, and terrible came the temptation, and it mastered her. “Marry Paul and you will do him no wrong; marry him, and moneys and lands will all'be his ojyn then: the will of the late Earl will be carried out, and yet you will be Lady Charnleigh. ” So spoke the subtle, tempting voice “There is no need to mention the will, no need to lose all that you value so highly, no need to say one word of having found it. Marry Paul Flemyng, and then you will endow him with all your worldly goods. It cannot matter how he becomes possessor of the estates, if he does possess them. It cannot matter whether they are yours, and you give them to him, or whether they are his and he gives them to you. Do not mention the will—you are doing no wrong. Paul will be master of Crown Leighton, as the late Earl intended him to be, and you will retain your independence.” A terrible temptation! She fought against it for a few minutes; from ner lips came the murmur of a prayer: “Keep me in all honor, oh Heaven! Keep me in all truth!" Then the subtle words rang in her ears once more: “Marry Paul Flemyng, and all will be completely his—as completely as if you showed him the will, and left yourself at his mercy. Why go through all the pain, why expose yourself to all the comments, the gossip, and the sneers? He says he would rather marry you than be a king; so that, in reality, you are doing him a kindness, and no wrong.” Her head drooped among the leaves and passion-flowers that climbed round the window. She buried her face in her hands. “I must marry him,” she cried, passionately. “I cannot give un all this that my soul loves best. I cannot lose wealth, position, and grandeur, all at one blow. I cannot be a slave whepe 1 have reigned a queen." Then there came to her better thoughts. “I do not love him, and I do love Bertram with all my heart. I had better tell the truth and leave all to him. Bertram would marry me if I were a beggar.” But Bertram had told her he was not rich. “If I did marry him," she said, “we should be poor. If it is, as he says, a struggle for him now, what would it bo were I his wife?” The grandeur, magnificence and luxury that she had always loved seemed to her now dearer than ever. If she might have kept her wealth, how it would have delighted her to lavish it on Sir Bertram! “We might have been rich and happy together: as it is wo must part. I must marry Paul Flemyng, and restore to him what is his.” So right and wrong battled in her soul —honor fighting dishonor—the better, higher and nobler nature struggling against the lower one. Sometimes right swayed her, and she resolved, come what might, she would be true to herself; she would give Paul Flemyng the will: she would give up at once the grand inheritance of Crown Leighton;, she would marry Sir Bertram if hC still urged her to do so; she would say good-by to the glorious life she had been leading lately: she would keep her conscience free and unsullied bafore Heaven. Then came a regretful vision of all she would lose, of the diamonds worth a king’s ransom, of this beautiful Crown Leighton, of the fetes and balls, of the homage and adulation that followed her. And wrong swayed her. She would not mention the will, she would carefully keep all knowledge of it from Paul Flemyng, but sljp would marry him, so that ample justice might be rendered to him after pll. And with this resolve Leonie drew a deep breath Os relief. There would be no need to give up all, no need to proclaim herself a beggar and no countess, no need to leave this fairyland; she could keep all and yet not do wrong—at least not much—for she could not dupe herself so far as to consider that she was acting rightly. So on that fair June morning, while the sun shone and the birds sang, she deliberately. and willfully sold the peace of her the tranquillity of nor conscience, her honor and loyalty; she willfully bartered them for wealth and title. She raised her fair face from the dewy passion-flowers, and already it was changed: there was on it the expression of one who had a . secret to keep; the clear, candid light that reveals the beauty of a truthful soul was no longer to be seen: she had on that June morning taken to herself a burden that she would never more lay down. For her resolve was formed. The battle was lost—loyalty, truth, and honor retired from the contest defeated; dishonor, untruth, pride, ambition, love of splendor and luxury had won the day. For this Leonie had parted with a birthright she could claim never j more. I She would hide the will, but not aeI stroy it—there was some kind of comI promise with her conscience in this I idea. She would hide it, and never I mention it, but marry Paul Flemyng, and so restore tb him what was his | own. That was the resolve she made deliberately. She knew right from wrong—honor from dishonor—truth from falsehood; but the temptation had been too strong for her —it had mastered her, and she had weakly succumbed to it. * “I will remain Lady Charnleigh, mistress of Crown Leighton, queen of the county,"she said to herself, “and I will not count the cost." Yet even as she said the words she knew what the cost would ba—the misery of her whole life’ there rose be-

T i fore her the grand princely head and 1 nnble, handsome face of Sir Bertram— I she must give him up. If she kept Paul Flemyng’s wealth, she must also keep his love; and yet she knew that she had no thought for any other man save Sir Bertram. "I must lose my love,” she said, with a groat tearless sob, “but I shall keep my fortune." I She was tired and exhausted, she said to herself. She would think no morq, but would keep to the resolve she had made, and let fate do its worst. She lay down on the bed, and. worn out with the storm of emotion, fell into a deep, dreamless sleep. The sun was high in the heavens when she awe ke and found Florette standing by her with a tempting cup of tea. With that first waking moment came a rush of thought. What had happened? She had found a will and was no longer Lady Charnleigh. She gave a sigh of unutterable relief aashe remembered that she had decided upon keeping that will a secret and remaining at Crown Leighton. She experienced a pain words cannot describe as she remembered again that she must give up her lover and live without his love. Os what use was the bright sunshine? Suns would rife and set, yet the day would never bring him to her again. An utter loathing came over her. “Drawdown those blinds," she said; “I detest the sunshine, and 1 should bo glad if any one could stop the birds from singing.” Shining of sun and song of birds were never more to bring happiness to the girl who had sold her soul in order to keep the title of Countess o! Charnleigh. [TO BK CONTINUED. I A MYSTERY SOLVED. A Great Puzzle to Tenderfeet Simply Explained. One of the greatest mysteries to the minds of the tenderfoot among the cowboys of the western plains and the hunters of the Rockies is how the stubborn’ little bronco can be taught to stand for hours without being hitched and with the curb rein simply thrown over its head. A rider is never known to dismount without first having thrown the rein over the head of the horse, but what charm lies in this action is unknown to the easterner, and yet the explanation is a most simple one. The secret lies in the fact that the bronco has been broken to a bit with a “spade.” a broad piece of metal so placed in the middle of the bit that when the curb rein is drawn the spade comes hard against the roof of the bronco’s mouth. The rider teaches the bronco the uses of the spade in this fashion: Having dismounted, the breaker throws the curb rein over the bronco's head so that the rein lies partly on the ground. Then the breaker waits until the bronco moves. The movement is usually sudden and impetuous. The breaker, with equal suddenness places his foot hard upon the dragging end of the rein, and the spade is driven into the roof of the bronco's mouth. It is a stubborn beast that does not stop short when he feels the suade. This discipline is repeated again and again, until the beast 'learns that to move while his rein hangs over his head and trails on the ground is to stir the spade into activity. When the breaker is sure that the, bronco has learned his lesson it is pretty safe tc turn the beast loose with the rein over his head. The Russian Peasant. A writer who has spent many years in Russia thus speaks of the Russian peasant: “Easily satisfied, self-indul-gent, weak, he does not care to rise in the w’orld. So long as he can exist and allow his wife and children to exist, and so long as he can obtain for cash or credit vodka enough to keep him going, he is content. He has no idea of any higher civilization, or any sort of home comfort. For the rest he loves his ‘little father,’ the Czar; fears God in a superstitious sort of way, and the Lieshui (wood spirits) and other supernatural objects of his national folk-lore in a very real way: observes the church festivals with bibulous piety: attends church at Easter: tolerates his wife, and knows absolutely nothing of the affairs either of this world or of the next. But education is making great strides, and the younger generation is growing up with advantages to which its forefathers were strangers. Light is stealing gradually over the land. Would that it might chase away the drink demon! With the vodka evil reduced to moderats dimensions, there would be a chance even for rural Russia. ” The Police Force of Berliu. The policemen of Berlin, Germany, cannot complain of their lot, for they only work during the day. After 10 p. in. Berlin is confided to a number of men who are called watchers of the night. These men wear a special uniform and carry a whistle and sword and patrol the city until 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning. Berlin is manned by 3,500 policemen entirely drawn from the ranks of non-commissioned officers, who must have spent at least nine years in the army before they are eligible for a post in the police force. The policemen live on excellent terms with the townspeople, and are both liked and respected. Berlin is divided into eightytwo police districts, each officered by a lieutenant of police, who has under him two sergeants, two telegraphists, two messengers, twelve policemen and two detectives, the latter carrying revolvers. Saved ft-oin an Awl'll! Death. A party of cattlemen out on the Mojave Desert recently came across the trail of two men and two burros. The aimless, zigzag course of the trail showed that those who had made it were lost, and the cattlemen at once set out to find them. Late in the evening the cattlemen came upon a young man lying under a mesquite bush, beside a" hole dug six feet deep in the sand, murmuring in delirium and at the point of death. He had been without water more than three days and had lain down to die. A mile further on they overtook an old man, who, delirious, was crawling on hands and knees toward a pool of brackish water, beside which stood the two burros. The two men were miners, who had lost their way a week before. Both men recovered after a few days of care at the ranch. Religion to Encircle the Earth. It is reported that a movement is on foot, with its headquarters at Pittsburg, to girdle the earth with a series of religious conventions on the 1900th anniversary of the Christian era. A great expedition will start’ out, num,; bering. it is thought, some 1,000 persons, who will go entirely around the world holding rousing religious services at every important stopping place. The first service will bo held in San Francisco and the last in New York. Bombay, Jerusalem, Rome and London will be taken in on the way. The services are to be entirely nonseetarian. Several weeks will elapse between each service, and it is calculated that the expedition will take a year in making its rounds, and that it will cost each of the crusadebs about SI,OOO.

INDIANA WOULD DO, The New York Youth Wise Moon Frightened Off by the Old Mun. Said the drummer to the hotel clerk: “Not long since 1 was returning from the East over the Pennsylvania road, and on the sleeper with me was an old fellow with his wife and daughter. He was an innocent o!d soul, and it wasn’t long after I met him in the smoking compartment until we were talking as old friends, and he was very confidential. “ 'You see, it was this way,' he said, after I had asked him a few leading questions. ‘My wife and daughter live in Indiana on a farm, and I've been thrifty and saving, and we have got together about $25,000 in good money and property, and of course we air people that air folks in our neighborhood. 1 koowed it, and so did my wife, and after our girl was growed up it begun to look as if some of those Hoosier yaps would marry her for her money, and me nor iny wife wanted any Hoosier son-in-law unless as a last chance. “ ‘Ho last winter we took a notion go to New York City, and let Lizy—that’s our daughter—have a show in fust-class society. We had been reading the papers and fashion magazines till we were posted, and we knowed we wasn tas green as some. Well, we got together enough ready money for a splurge in New York for a couple of months and went there to a hotel. The newspapers got a notice somehow that Lizy was an heiress, and it wasn’t long till the young men got to coming around by degrees. “ The first lot wasn’t a great deal better than Indiana yaps, but at last one came that was a jim dandy. He wis dressed in style from head to foot, wore a bouquet in his buttonhole and all that, and drove around in a cart I wouldn’t haul my hay in, with a white fellow holding the horse that was a wooden man. He was a good talker, and after 1 got used to him I rather liked his style and tried to coax Lizy to give him a show, but somehow she was mighty indifferent, but he kept on. At last he came to see me about the case. When he had stated his business 1 said to him: “ ‘Young man, do you know my girl has got money?’ “ ‘Yes, si,’ said he, ‘but that is nothing, fur I love your daughter ’ “ That’s right,’ said I. but nowadays men, sir, air after money first, and wives anywhere after that.’ •‘ ‘But not a man like I am, sir,’ says he. ‘I acknowledge that money is useful in matrimony, but that is only secondary.’ “ ‘Good again,’ said I, *and I like you. I want to say, though, that Lizy will have $25,000, and that much money would tempt most men.’ “ That is nothing, sir,’ he said. ‘Why, there are people in New York who have $25,000 a month, and some $25,000 a week. So you see that $25,000 a year would not be any great inducement to me to marry your daughter if I did not love her.’ “At this point 1 seemed to get an idee. “ ‘Did you think that Lizy had $25,000 a year?’ said I. “ ‘I bad incidentally heard so, I believe,’ said he, very indiOerently. “ ‘lt’s a mistake,’ said I, ‘but of course that makes no difference to you. She’s got $25,000, or will have, for her entire fortune, and ’ “But I didn’t have a chance to say another word. The young man gave a gag or two, as if he were choking, and the next minute, he grabbed up his hat and got out like Satan heatin’ tanbark. “So 1 told Lizy and Lizy laughed. “ ‘Pappy,’ said she, 'I guess Indiana is nearer our size,’ and that’s why we air goiu’ home.” —New York Journal. • The Art of Destruction. In the science of destruction as represented in the gunnery of modern times, chemical expansion is subordinated to hurling projectiles with great velocity. The larger the projectile or the greater the velocity to be aimed at, as when the object is great penetration, the heavier must bi the chamber in which the force is generated. Before the penetrative desideratum is attained a degree of avoidupois has been reached wholly out of all proportion to the practicalities of the case. Thus weight of missile and velocity have been on a see-saw with weight of gun. the advance in the oue necessitating an advance in the other until the principal execution is in the treasury that has to foot the bills. In the higher science of destruction it is proposed to do away with all intermediation of armament, and to smith the enemy by direct concussion. The proposition is to destroy him literally en masse, by setting into action over and around him a series of atmospheric vibrations of such intense and forceful pressure as will at once prove wholly destructive to every form of animation. It is demonstrated with the precision enforced by mathematics that the wholesale decimation of the enemy together with all modern resources of equipment can be most readily effected at not to exceed I 5 per cent, of the cost involved in the present systems. In the operation of direct concussion no local objective point need be aimed at, such as an assault on a particular column or on a particular arm of the enemy’s service, as cavalry, artillery, or Infantry. The several square miles on which the enemy may be disposed it is proposed to transform with the involution of general destruction. , The Dutch Renaissance. What t ie Dutch most appreciated were the faithful reproductions of the familiar scenes they loved. So we have the delightful reflections of that peaceful and Industrious life which has scarcely altered appreciably at the present day. There was a quaicornet or a canal bridge, with the ( bright brass knockers on the house doors, the little mirrors at either side of the parlor Windows, and the hay barge lying at its moorings, with the bargeman smoking on the caboose. There were the bustle in the openair bourse and the bargaining in the open-air fish market, Then the literally realistic turned to the realistically humorous. The Dutchman of the seventeenth century were far i from being generally licentious, but i they were gross; the matrons were '

i ■ > i» ' » not given to b'ushing, and the men would shake their sides at coarse buffoonery. So we have the village Kirmess and the suburban fairs; the boors smoking and drinking in the wayside alehouses, and the troopers halting for refreshment and flirting with the rustic belles. Even Rembrandt, in his younger days, must be condemned as a flagrant offender against our notions of decency. There are sidescenes and byplay in some of the best of his works which would be pronounced most offensive now, were they not sanctified by his memory. We doubt not that Teniers and Ostade and their confreres drew shrieks of laughter by their grotesque studies of unsophisticated surgery; the boor having his tooth drawn by the blacksmith’s forceps, and the patient being cut for the stone by the razor of the village barber.—Blaekwo .d's Magazine. First Prussians in Paris. At 8:15 some one exclaimed: “1 do believe 1 see moving specks out there beyond the gate.” Up went all our glasses and there they were! We recognized more and more distinctly six horsemen coming fast, for they grew bigger and sharper as each second passed. One seemed to be in front, the other five behind. As we wat hed eagerly, they reached the open gate, dashed through it,and the instant they were inside,the five behind spread out right and lett across the broad avenue, as if to occupy it. The one in front, who. so far as we could see, had been riding until then at a canter, broke into a hand gallop, and then into a full gallop, and came tearing up the hilL As he neared us, we saw he was a hussar officer—a boy—heaid not look eighteen! He charged past us. his sword uplifted, his head thrown back, his eyes fixed straight before him, and one of us cried out: “By Jove, if that fellow’s mother could see him, she'd have something to be proud of for the rest of her time!” The youngster raced on far ahead of his men, but at the Arch of Triumph the blouses faced him. So, as he would not ride them down in order to go through, (and if be had tried it he would only have broken his own neck and his horsed, too, in the trench,) he waved his sword at them and at slackened speed passed round. We caught sight of him on the other side through the archway, TiTs sword h gh up, as if he were saluting the vanuuished city at his feet. But he did not stop for sentiment. He cantered on. came back, and as his five men had got up by that time, (he had outpaced them by a couple of minutes,) he gave them orders, and off they went, one to each diverging avenue, and rode down it a short distance to see that all was right — Blackwood’s Magazine. London's New Home lor Nurses. American nurses will entertain envious thoughts as soon as they hear of the home for private nurses that has been established in London. “Home” in this instance doesn’t mean a charitable institution, but just a place where nurses mav reside by payment of a moderate sum for board, and at the same time be sure of congenial companionship. The Queen says of the recreation-room in the home: “The pretty bamboo tables, with their tops and shelves covered with matting;the ornamental wicker chairs, some of which are charmingly draped; the blue and gold cretonne curtains at, the windows; the floor covering of decorative matting—all combine to make a delightful interior, whicn is further enhanced by the wall decoration of ■yellow and white talc paper and blue woodwork. Against one wall stands a bookcase filled with books. Here there will be a supply of weekly papers, magazines, writing materials, and here, too, the inmates will receive their friends. Afternoon tea will be supplied for a small sum. The hall and the whole of. the staircase are decorated in a bright, cheery style, welcome to the eye on the dark days of winter. Throughout the walls are covered with a lovely talc paper of soft terracotta tint, closely allied to pink, and the woodwork is white. Behind the recreation-room is the matron’s own den. The walls of this specially attractive den are blue gray, the design of the paper being very bold and the paint of door and window frames corresponds in color with the paper. The draperies are of dark claret and blue material The dining-room is built out at the back of the house and is large and comfortably furnished, and the bedrooms are all cozy. Various Sources ot Sugar. The plant which supplies the most sugar for human use is the beet; next comes the sugar cane, and these two excel all others. The hard maple, however, produces a large quantity of very pleasant sugar. The soft maple and the box cider produce a whiter but a poorer sugar. There are many species of palms which yield a juice almost as rich as that of the tropical sugarcane, and much purer. Clarified sugar palm sap is as clear as spring water. The wild date palm produces the most sugar. Sugar has been made from watermelons, and even from the American field corn, but not profitably. Sorghum is a most promising sugar plant It is, undoubtedly, the Northern sugar cane, and when better sugar producing varieties have been selected, the manufacture of sorghum sugar will certainly prove a large and profitable industry. A Fuss Made About a Half Inch. A Maine man from regions where land is tolerably plenty, and an acre does not seem a very large piece, recently invested in a lot in the suburbs of Boston, and set about grading and, arranging his fences much as he would in Maine. He covered up one corner bound, and then built his fence “about” where he thought the line was. Imagine his surprise when the adjoining owner appeared in a great flutter over his proceedings. The line was relocated by a surveyor, when it was found the Maine man’s fence encroached one-halt an inch on his neighbor, and he had to set it I over. As much fuss was made over jitas a ten-acre piece would cause in ; his Maine home.—Lewiston (Me.) * Journal.

Bnsihess Directory THE DECATUR NATIONAL BAAK. CAPITAL, 150,C00. SURPLUS, 111.50* Organized August 15, 1883. Officers;—P. W. Smith, Pres., Daniel Wcidy, Vico-pres., R. 8. Peterson, Cashier, J. 8. I’oterson, Ass'l 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, 878,000. Surplus, 71,00* v j Organized In I*7l. r ' Officers—D. Htndabaker, President; RoM. B. Allison, Vice-President; W. H. Niblick, Cuhler. Do a general banking business. Collections ■aade In all parts ot the country. County. City and Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought aad sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G, Hooper, Attorney a-t Ixa.'vtr Decatur, • • Tisdlana. ■M.II wuai.x* unirnr s mann, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office in Odd Fellows' Building, Decatur, lad. Y7IRANCE * MERRYMAN. J. T. num A? , J. T. MBKBTMA* Attorney* aat Law, DXCATCB, INDIANA. Office Nos. 1, 2 and 8. over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. A.«. BOLLOWAY, Flxyalolan dto Surgeon Office over Burns' harness shop, resldeaes one door north of M. I. church. All cells promptly attended to la city or country Bight or day. iyya*-«. i* ■ojllowat, at. n. Office and residence one door north of If. & ehurch. Diseases at women and children spodalUea. Lit) Nelson, Veterinary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast car. Decatur and Short streets. XQ. MIFTUNB. i DENIBT. LI i i T ■ Now located over Hol thou sc’s shoe stere, and is prepared to do all work pertaining to ths dental profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the use of Mayo's Vapor ho is enabled to extract teeth without pain. AU work warranted. MONEY TO LOAN On Item Proporty on long Haso> Wo Coxnxnl**loa« ImvßMenf Interest. la any sweats can be aw4o at nay ttaM an* step interest. QaU on, or addraes, a. jt. mrBB, or j. r, blutb, Offieei Odd PeUowr BaUdlng, Dooattm. jshk Erie Lines. Schedule in effect Aug. 27. 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. N 0.5, Vestibule Limited, dally for I ~,n p M Chicago j- r. m No. 3. Pacific Express, dally for t , Chicago 1'..... f M No. 1. Express, dally for Chicago 1. n:a)A. M No. 31. Accommodation, daily, > except Sunday...., TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for ( P New York and Boston. f “ No. 2. Express, daily for New I 3.35 p M York No. 12. Express, dully for New j. M No. 3R Accommodation, dally cx-1 cept Sunday j-io.zo A. N Second No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:30 a. m. dsilr. Solid train for Columbus. Ohio, via Marion and the Columbus, Hooking Valley and Toiddo Railway (Buckeyeßoue): Pullman aleepora to'Columbus. Kenova, and Norfolk and other Virginia points via tho Coinmbits. Hocking Valley and Toledo and the Norlolk and Western Lines, J. W. DeLong. Agent. W.G.MAoEDWARps, T.P. A. Huntington, lud First Class Night and Day Servion bc»waca Toledo, Ohio, )AND( —- St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS UY TRAINS—MODERM EQUIFMEMT THBOUMDIT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NIOHT TRAINS! tmus BESVED EN ROUTE, »» Asnr, Ms OR NUHT, at aodarats cost. Ask for tickeh tla Toledo, St Louis A (iniuClty L1 Clover Leaf Route. For further particulars, call on nsasasS Agent of the Company, or address O. O. JENKIN3. S..»rri ruw,p, TOLEDO, OHlOk

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