Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1894 — Page 7

IT WAR WITH HERSELF. — The Story of a Woman's Atonement, by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER XXXll—Continued. A pleased light broke over bis face. "I understand perfectly, darling. I appreciate your delicate consideration for others. It shall be just as you say > tar-my happiness is purchased by another’s pain. You accept me, and reject tbme one else—is it so?" “Yes,” she said, in a low voice. •Wait at least three or (our months before anything is said about it." “I will do anything on earth you wish, Loonie. See, I must have some visible sign, known only to myself, that ' /wyjou are mine. I have brought this •ring—will you wear it for me? It was , my mother's. When she was dying she took it from her finger, and gave it i i to me. Will you wear it for my sake, and for hers?” She held out her hand to him, and he wondered that it should be so cold, j that it should tremble; ho placed the ■ ring upon it, and then held it to his lips. . • | “Some day—l prav Heaven not far I from now—l shall place another ring ! on this dear hand.” He wondered again that she turned from him with what seemed a shudder. Her eyes lingered on that ring; to her excited fancy it would not have seemed I strange if it had suddenly changed into a living serpent, and had turned round hissing to sting her. It had be- / longed to the “mother” whose son she had defrauded, whom she had robbed of his birthright. She could never look at it without keen pain. “Loonie,” said Captain Flemyng, “although our engagement is to remain a profound secret as yet, you will let me come over to see you often—you will write to me—you will not be cruel, and keep me at a cold distance, as though I were a stranger.” “No, I will not do that,” she anj swered. “And after a few days, when the novelty of being engaged has worn off, you will be kinder to me than you are now? You will, perhaps, then lay your hands in mine, and say, ‘I love you, Paul, and will be your wife?’ You have only written the words, Leonie; you have not said them.” j “I will say them now." She clasped i her white hands together and laid them in his. “I love you, Paul, and I will be your wife.” But there was something of sadness in her voice, something he could not understand in the expression of her downcast face. He said to himself that it was but girlish coyness—she would feel more at ease with him in > time. t CHAPTER XXXIII. “Has Captain Flemyng gone without coming in to see us!" said Miss Dacre. “How strange!” She looked so disappointed that for the first time it occurred to Leonie that Ethel loved the man she had just promise to marry. “How was it?” repeated Lady Fanshawe. “Captain. Flemyng always seems to enjoy an hour with us.” “I do not know; he will come over again to-morrow. He inquired verykindly after you." I) Something in the words or the voice struck Ethel Dacre, and she looked in- ' quiringly at her friend. Leonie's face flushed under that quiet, calm scrutiny. “Why do you look at me so strangely?” she cried, impatiently. “I object to being looked at as though my thoughts lay bare, and every one could read them. I cannot help Captain Flemyng’s abrupt departure; he pro- ' fessed himself quite unable to remain, so as a matter of course I allowed him I to go.” She did not tell them that he had gone with tears in his eyes—tears of earnest, heartfelt happiness; and that he had told her he could not talk “commonplaces” to other people after his interview with her. Lady Fanshawe raised her eyes in mild rebuke. “My dear Lady Charnleigh, if it were possible to imagine one as charming as yourself could be pettish. I should say you were inclined to be so.” Leonie hastened to Ethel’s side. “Will you forgive me? I spoke without thinking. Have patience with me, Ethel—l am not very happy just now.” “Will you not trust me and tell me why?” said Miss Dacre. “I do not know why. I am out of spirits—inclined to be cross, not only with every one else, but with myself also.” “Sir Bertram Gordon,” announced the footman, who had just received a parting vale from Capt. Flemyng, and who, with a grim sense of humor, smiled at the situation. For one moment Leonie was inclined to give way. She had not expected ’ him so scon, looking as happy and bright as the morning itself, utterly unconscious of the doom that hung , over him. “I have been counting the hours,” he said in a low voice to Leonie, “and I really thought to-day would never come.” He looked so bright with the untold gladness of his heart that Lady Fanshawe bethought herself of something that required attention in the housekeeper’s room. Sir Bertram did not evWn hear the apology she made—he had no eyes or ears save for the lady of his love. Miss Dacre took up a book and wandered away into the cool, pleasant fernery. “Sir Bertram looks as though he did not want me,” she thought with a smile. The fernery was very pleasant and the ferns looked cool and refreshing; the waters fell with a soft ripple, the air was laden with sweet subtle odors. Miss Dacre sat down with her book, but she turned no page in it. A sudden chill had come over her. Why should Lady Charnleigh look and speak so strangely? Could it be possible that i „ she cared for Paul Flemyng? *■B* “It cannot be possible,” she said to Jherself. “If there bo any truth in 1 jr looks and actions, she loves Bertram , f Qordon.l A To the plash of the falling waters Jr'' she wove sweet, bright fancies of her «• own—of the day when this hero, this prince among men, would seek her with loving words, and woo her to be his—bright dainty fancies of a life that would be spent in ministering to him. in looking up to him as the flowers look up to the sun. Would it ever be so? She had* loved him so long, so faithfully, that it seemed to her her love must meet with some return —that the k fk ver y f° roe of h or own affection must Vwin something from him. On the night of the ball he had held her hand in nis, and had spoken so kindly to her that the girl’s heart had overflowed with delight The music of that falling water, the breath of that warm, sweet’ wind, helped to fill her mind with fancies melodious and sweet as “Leonie,” repeated Sir Bertram, “I t thought to-day would never dome. I have counted the minutes and the hours, yet I have had hope. You have : •; not been trifling with me?” She stood before him, her colorless |

face drooping from his sight, her hands trembling in his strong grasp. “I want your answer," he said, bending his ha.idsomo Saxon head over the white hands and kissing them. “I asked you to be my wife, and you told mo to come to-day for the reply." “Let us go out," she said, with a strange stifled gasp; “I cannot speak— I cannot breathe here." A sense of horrible pain had almost mastered her. How was she to tell him they must part when she loved him so ; dearly that she would have given her life for him? How could she inflict this anguish upon him when she knew that his life was wrapped up in hers? Silently she passed through the long open window, over the green lawn, where great clusters of scarlet verbena shone in the sunshine, past the great sheaves of white lilies and the fragrant roses, past the tall chestnuts, until she came to the grove of blossoming limes. Their tall branches met overhead and formed a deep shade. The sunshine came through the dense green foliage with a mellowed light such as is seen in the dim cathedral aisles. The turf was thick and velvety; the banks were covered with wild thyme; the whole place was lovely as a fairies’ glade. A falien tree, over which scarlet creepers had grown, lay half across the path, and on it Leonie sat down, raising her beautiful face to the rippling foliage above her head, then suddenly hiding it in her hands* She had no right even to look at the smiling summer heavens —she who had stolen an inheritance, and was about to barter her love for it. “I could not breathe in thOse warm rooms,” she said. J'How quiet and beautiful it is here. ” “Leonie,” said Sir Bertram, earnestly, “1 am sure that you are no coquette: and you cannot help having many lovers -all fair women are so much admired. You are no flirt—you would not lead a man on by kind words and kind smiles until his heart lay under your feet,and then trample upon ft. ” “No, I would not do that, ” she answered, with white set lips. “And yet, darling, do you know that lam growing frightened? I fancied your little probation was but to try me. I have never looked at it seriously. I believed that when I came to you to-day you would be all smiles, all sweetness, all gladness. Yet, Leonie, your iace is turned from me—you have no word for me. What does it mean? Remember, darling, though I ask the question I do not doubt you.” His generous trust, his devoted love, smote her as no pain could have, done. She had to take this noble heart in her hands and break It; no wonder that her strength failed her, and that, with a long, shuddering sigh, she turned away, burying her face in her hands. The next moment he was kneeling by her side, his noble face full of deepest anxiety. “Leonie, what is the matter? What has changed you so utterly? My darling, where have all your brightness, all your gay spirits gone? Let me look at that dear face.” He raised it in his hands, and cried out in surprise, when he saw it. “Where is your color? Your lips are white as these wild strawberry blossoms. Years, sorrow, and pain have Sassed over you—what is it, Leonie? lave no fear—tell me all.” “I hate to inflict pain,” she said hoarsely, “and I know that I must pain you.” “Why, my darling? Ido not see the need.” Her courage and self-command broke down all at once. “I can not marry you. Bertram —lean never be your wile, and it hurts me to tell you so. ” His face grew very white, and a stern, angry light came into his eyes. “Repeat those words, Leonie! My senses must surely have played me false—not you!” “I can never be your wife, Bertram; do not ba angry with me. If you turn from me in anger I shall die.” •You can never marry me, Leonie! Am I dreaming, or are you? Do you know that you had almost given your promise? Do you know, although you have not said the word yet, that you pledged yourself over and over again with the pledges which a true and loyal woman considers as sacred and as binding as an oath?” “I know,” she said, raising her white, despairing face to his; “but I cannot marry you—l cannot be your wife. ” “Will you tell me why?" he asked, and a gleam of hope came to him —it might only be some girlish fancy, after all. “I cannot tell you that, ” she repeated, with the same quiet despair. “Do you know what you are doing to me, Leonie? You are killing me! You Would be ten thousand times more merciful if you stabbed me and let me die at once. Do you know that I cannot live without you? Heaven help me, I cannot. My love and my life are so twined together that if one goes the other goes." She made him no answer, but sat as though her white face was turned to stoneJ “You are only trying me, Leonie—you cannot mean it. You want to see how dearly I love you. Oh, my love, my/love, it is a cruel jest!” “It is no jest,” said the girl, “it is sad, sober, earnest truth. ” “But, Leonie, you love me. lam not vain, but—darling, I am not blind—you love me. I have seen the light come over your face that has shone for no one but me. Yon have told me in a hundred different ways, without words, that you love me." “Yes,” she repeated, slowly—“ Heaven pity me!—l love you.” “ You do," he cried. And before she could speak he had clasped her in his arms and kissed her trembling lips. “You love me! O, Leonie, if that be true, what shall part us?” Then she knew that in admitting the fact of her love she had made a terrib e mistake—ono that she knew not how to remedy. “Tell me,” he cried again, “if yon love me, Leonie, what in the wide world can part us?” She looked at him, her lips trembled, but from them came no word. CHAPTER XXXIV. “I must know the truth,” said Sir Bertram, in a clear firm voice. “You owe it to me. What am Ito think of you, when you ow,n that youlove, yet refuse to marry me?” “You must think as you will,” she replied, despairingly; “I can only repeat my words—that never, while the sun shines and the birds sing, can I be your wife." “Did you know this when you lured me on to lovo you—when you stole my heart from me by the witchery of your beauty—when you let me speak to you of love, and did not chide me? Did you know this then?" No reply—but the beautiful face grew more ghastly in its pallor. He grasped her wrist, and held it as in a vise. “Answer me,” he said—and his voice was not pleasant to hear—“did you know this then?" “No,” she replied, “I did not, Bertram/ “Oh, Leonie, be frank—my love deserves it.’:’ If there be any difficulty, ’ tell it to me—l clan perhaps remove it. Trust me—for I t.ust you. I have no : secrets from you, my love. Who would I be so loyal, so true to you, as I would I be?”

“I have nothing t» toll you," murmured the white rigid lips, “except that I can never marry you.” Hot anger flashed in his face. For a few moments he lost sight of his outraged love. “Tell me one thing more, Lady Charnleigh. 'I have a right to ask for it—the right of a man who has been duped and deceived. You say that you cannot marry me. Pray may 1 ask aro you going to marry any one else?” There was a silence for some minutes; the wind whispered among the blossoming limes; the harebells seemed to ring out faint, sweet notes in the wind; then, clear and even, her answer came: “I know you will hate mo, Bertram — I have promised to marry some one else." “I am answered,” he said, bitterly. “You, Leonie, whom, only one short hour tince, I looked upon as the very flower of womanhood—you whom I thought more pure than a lily, loyal and true as the angels in heaven—you tell me deliberately that you love me, but have promised to marry another?” “Have pity on me, Bertram! I have been sorely tried.” “There Is no pity for you,” he cried, indignantly. “You are false—false to me, whom you have pretended to love —false to him whom you have promised to marry. I appeal to heaven against you!” he continued, “You have done me the most cruel wrong that woman can do to man—you have lured me by false words, false looks. You have deceived me—you have betrayed me. I denounce you for being as false and cruel as you are fair. O merciful Heaven, keep me from losing my reason! j I fear I am going mad!” He flung himself on the turf with a terrible cry; a strong man, in his agony he sobbed aloud, for the anguish of his loss was full upon him. She sat quiet and motionless, until she could bear the sight of that prostrate figure no longer. Then there came to her a good impulse—to kneel down there by his side and tell him all the truth; poverty, privation—anything would be better than the knowledge or sight of that terrible pain. And yet, if she confessed to him she would lose all. |TO BS CONTINUBD.; IMPEDING TRAFFIC. There Are Many Kinds of Tickets, and Sometimes They Are Mislaid. A corpulent old lady, possiblv from one of the New Jersey suburbs, caused the detention of fullv a score of passen--1 gers at the Park place station of the Sixth Avenue Elevated Road one day last week. As the saying is, the venerable old 1 soul was “carrying weight for age.” She was burdened down with a big bag and a small one, and one or two parcels besides. Thus freighted she toddled along and attempted to pass the box without depositing her ticket. “Ticket, ma’am,” shouted the chopper. “Can’t pass here without a ticket." “I ain’t got time, ” she replied. “Can’t pass, can’t pass,” cried the man. “But I will pass. ” “Can’t, ma’am; the rules are very strict.” “You’ll make me miss my train.” “Plentv of time, ma’am. If you don’t 1 catch this train, another will be along in a minute. ” Then the woman, still blocking the way, dropped her bags, and after a long search in her pocket found a key, with ' which she opened the big one. Article after article was taken out • and laid aside, but the ticket was not forthcoming. Then she opened the small bag and repeated the. operation, but without success. Finally she looked up and said: “What ticket do you want, any way?” “The elevated railroad ticket, of course, ” replied the man. “Why. I had that in hand all the time, you impudent fellow. My son gave me one at the foot of the stairs.” “Then why didn’t you drop it in the box?” “Then why didn't you say elevated railroad ticket? You want to understand that there are a hundred different kinds of tickets. How did I know what you wanted? and don't you ever ■ stop me again ok I’ll go to the head man of the railroad and complain.”— New York Herald. Old-Time Games. It is curious to note how some of the games of, the early ages have been handed down to the present time. The i game, for instance, known as “Odd and . Even,” was a favorite with the young ' Egyptian, and many of the little couni ters that he used are. still preserved in ■ the British Museum. There is also i the game of draughts, which was i played on a chequered board in the earliest times. The poor children were content with draughtsmen and boxes of ; rough pieces of clay. But the richer i ones usually had ‘beautifully carved iron-headed draughtsmen and boxes. The young Greeks, too, were well i provided with toys and games for their amusement. The toys were chiefly dolls made of baked clay, the arms and legs being jointed with string, and therefore movable. They had a favorite game called “Chytrinda," which has i been preserved through many ages, i and is now played by boys of “Puss in i the Corner.” In France the game is • called “Quartre Coins, ”or four corners. Both in the old game and the modern version five players are required, one occupying each of the four corners, while‘ the fifth player stands in the middle. , The Lovers' Leap. , Sappho killed herself by jumping from the Lovers’ Leap, a Leucadian . cIiJE This leap was often taken by lovesick persons, who believed that if • they survived the fall they would be effectually cured of a hopeless passion. j The leaps were always witnessed by , crowds of spectators, and the would-be suicides were in no way interfered with by the state. Boats were in attendance ' below to pick up, the leapers if they came to the surface of the sea after the plunged Sappho had a passion for a young man who did not return her love "and leaped from the cliff in order to be ! cured. She perished in the fall. So also did Artemisia and many other ‘ celebreties. Pliny tells a curious story of an old 1 Athenian miser who was in love with ' his cook and desiring a cure, Went to 1 have a look at the cliff. He peeped 1 over, shook his head, went home and married the cook. —St. Louis GlobeDemocrat . Disease Spread by Funeral Flowers. Two years ago a young lady died in New York of diphtheria and her remains were qent to her home at Madalin, Dutchess County, for burial. On the casket when it reached the village , there were several floral tributes. The flowers composing them -were distributed among the children of the Sunday-school class. In this manner ■the disease was spread through the village and all the neighboring village of Tivoli. It has never been wiped out. For two years diphtheria has prevailed in that vicinity, causing many deaths, and of late deaths from the contagion have grown so numerous that the people are alarmed and an effort is being made to wipe out the disease.

LITTLE POWERS. Hoinntbln* of Countries About Which We Care but UtUe. The Ameer ot Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan, is a grandson of Dost Mahomet He was recognized.as sovereign in 1880. The four provinces, Kabul Turkistan, Herat, and Kandahar. are practically under British •■protection’’ except against the Ameer’s agents of robbery. There are two harvests a year, but ten would not satisfy the corrupt tax gatherers. There are no navigable 'riversand no wheeled carriages in the country, which is bound ultimately to be fighting ground for Russia in her approach to the British dominion In that part of the east. The population consists of 400,000 tribesmen. It is not generally ' known that there are slaves in Afghanistan. They are appurtenances of’ the land system. This is headed by hereditary landlords, who rent, to tenants, who rent again to subtenants, who work the ground with the help of hired laborers wtiom they pay in produce or money, and under these are slaves who get nothing but food and shelter for their toil. They are generally better off than the subtenants. « Greece has been experiencing of late almoak as frequent change of cabinets ds Italy or Franca The King, George 1., born in 1845 and or age in 1863, enjoys an income of $260, - 000 a year, of which #109,000 is paid by the governments of Great j Britain, France, and Russia. The legislative power is invested in the single chamber called the boule, ichosen by manhood suffrage for four : years. The number of members is 150. The population is a little over 2,000,000. The heir is Prince Kon--Btantinos, born 1868 and married in 1889 to Princess Sophia of Prussia. The foreigners who live iru Greece are gradually modernizing many of its dilapidated antique customs and institutions. Ancient poesy still finds one occupation faithful—shepherds are 8 per cent of the population. Os the little powers that are intimately connected with the whole world by reason of a peculiar institution Monaco is the smallest and most ■ influential. Its area is not one- I twentieth that of Chicago and its population is 12,000. The army consists of seventy-five men. It has its own coinage, its owp postage stamps and its own Prince, Albert, born in 1»48, who succeeded his father in 1889 and has been married twice, first to Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton, and secondly to Alice, Dowager Duchess de Richelieu. The gambling at Monte Carlo, whence the Prince derives his income of no.t less than $250,000, in addition to what he can rake off in one way and another, is a “concession.” The game was founded in 1858 and pays the syndicate $4,000,000 a year. A number of suicides enliven each year and the Prince is a scientific > gentleman in his tastes. The spiritual and temporal government of the principality is carried on out of revenues from the gaming tables. The reigning monarch of Corea is simple Li-Hi in Celestial language, but there is translation adequate in plain English. King Shoal Shing was his father and is duly worshiped. The heir is 19 years old. Aristocracy is hereditary and the will of the monarch is absolute. He is not troubled with rebellious legislators. The military attaches of the departments of carry matchlocks. Th ire are departments of ceremonies, war, civil affairs, justice, public works, finance, and foreign affairs, of which foreign affairs is the least important and ceremonies the most important. The upper classes adhere to Confucianism and Chinese classics mark the high tide of Corean culture Buddhist monasteries are numerous. Two American professors teach English in a government school and exofficers of our army are teachers in the military school. The hermit kingdom is y!eiding slowly to modern ideas. A railway is projected between the cap.tal and one of the three treaty ports at which alone foreign trade is allowed. (LONGEST OF SWING SPANS. That Now Being Constructed at Omaha Will Measure 5 20 Feet. A bridge across the Missouri River between East Omaha and Council Bluffs Is remarkable as possessing the longest swing span in the world—--520 feet—being fifteen feet longer than the swing span of the bridge over the Thames River, in Connecticut. The structure was designed by Prof. J. A. I. Waddell, of Kansas City. The construction of the pier of this swing span presented many features of interest to engineers. From a long article in Engineering News it appears that the work was begun by sinking a steel caisson for a foundation, much as A. P. Boiler started to work on the swing span of the large bridge in New York City a year ago. The outer shell of the caisson is forty feet in diameter and the inner twenty feet, the latter spreading out at the base to join the former and thus give a cutting edge. Both shells are made of half-inch steel, re-enforced at the lower edge, where they meet, by two bands of inch steel,-one inside and the other i outside. The two shells were kept i in their proper relative positions by ■ braces running between them, of which there were twenty in all, made of half-inch plates. The caisson proper is sixteen feet high. Above this the two cylinders extend to a ; height of 100 feet, making a total of j 116 feet from the cutting edge to the | top of tne cylinder. - Above the cais- ! son the plates are reduced in thick- I ness to three-eighths of an inch and i are braced by bars and rods rather than the heavier and more costly plates required in the lower part. - The friction of the earth against such ' a long cylinder is very great, and to , reduce it a number.of pipes run down i the whole length of the caisson and shell. These open at the bottom of [ the caisson and at intervals of ten , feet above, so that by forcing water through them it was possible to di- ; minish the hold of the surrounding , earth, on the steel The space between tho two shells was tilled with rubble concrete. Tho sinking progressed with no more than the usual delays; as the shells went dovtn under the weight ot tho concrete placed between them, aided by the removal ot the earth within by means of bucket dredges, plates were added

to the top until the whole was at the required depth. The masonry pier built on top of this cylinder is ot limestone backed by concrete. It is thirty-eight feet in diameter and eighteen and one-half feet high. A Big BiislncsH n Broken Glass. •The business of buying broken plate glass.’’ said J. L. Lightfoot, “is assuming vast proportions. It has arisen as an outgrowth of the plate-glass insurance plans, and is being rapidly developed. Plate-glass Insurance is of comparative recent origin, and was a little slow in buildfng up, but it is now a very important feature of the insurance business, and several large companies with ample capital are competing for this class of risks. At first a broken plate ■ was a total loss, as it had also always been Ui the glass factories, but it 1 soon began to be utilized, and now the insurance companies and the glass-works have no trouble In disposing of the fragments. These aH, cut into a large number of ways, the ■ principal one, of course, being into smaller panes and ornamental shapes. In addition to these paperweights and other articles are made. Small diamond-shaped panes of plate glass for front doors and for tunnel windows are very popular, and afford a profit |to the concerns that make them, and these aie almost invaria1 bly pieces of some large plate that was broken. An accident to a plateglass window no longer results in a I total loss.—St. Louis Globe Demo- : crat Incivility of American Servants. Said an English woman to the writer: “Your society women are charming, your men are refreshingly different from those I meet in my set on the other side of the water, but your servants, most ot them at least, are simply unspeakable. Don’t think me guilty of British egotism if I say that the only decent servants I have seen since mj- stay here are those who apparently were not trained in American householdsPersonally, I think that the bad conduct of a servant is as much a reflection on the mistress of a house as is i the bad behavior of her children, i The servant who closes the door in a visitor’s face, or leaves him or her standing in the hallway during the presentation of a card, or who fails to use a respectful title when addressing the caller, or who is impertinent or careless, who has tousled hair, or calls her mistress ‘she,’ I say such a servant may be forgiven on the strength of his or her ignorance of the amenities of society. But as for the matron who permits these things, why, she is either unaccustomed to have servants about her or she cannot teach them the ordinary politeness that she herself lacks.”—' New York Times. He Got Even at Last. ‘•That ‘all things come to him who waits’ has been proved to me more than once, ” said Judge Henry McKinney. “One day when I was a boy of 9or 10 years I was sent on an errand a long way into the country. On my way home, being hot and thirsty, I climbed over a fence into a meadow and began picking some wild strawberries. All of a sudden the owner of the farm came rushing up behind me and struck me a brutal blow with a heavy oxgad, almost cutting my body in two. As 1 started to run away he hit me again, a most vicious blow. Old man,’ said |I, ‘l’ll get even some day. ’ I did, but it was thirty years later. I was called upon to defend the property and rights of some orphan children. As it happened, the oppressor was the man with the oxgad. In summing up I told the story of the brutal blows that I had received in that meadow thirty years ago. ‘There is the man that did it,’ said I to the jury. ‘Do you wonder that such a man would rob orphan children?’ The jury didn’t seem to wonder a bit, for I got a verdict in my favor in less than five minutes. - ’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Kelics ot Raleigh in Ireland. It is now 300 years since Sir Walter Raleigh lived in Ireland, but, according to Sir John Pope Heonesy, many traces of his residence there can still be seen. The richly perfumed yellow wall-flowers that he brought to Ireland from the Azores and the Affane cherry are still found where he first planted them by the Blackwater#' Some cedars he brought to Cork are to this day growing at a placed Tivoli. The four venerable yew trees, whose branches have grown and intermingled into a sort of summer-house thatch, are pointed out as having sheltered Raleigh when he first smoked tobacco in his Youghai garden. in that garden he also planted tobacca A few steps farther on, where the town wall of the thirteenth century bounds the garden of the warden’s house, is the famous spot where the first Irish potato was planted bv him. In that garden he gave the tubers to the ancestors of the present Lord Southwell, by whom they were spread throughout the province of Munster.—Garden and Forest. __ Savage Proverbs. The proverbs of savages are shrewd i and pithy. The Basutos says, “The I thief catches himself;” the Yorubas, j “tie who injures another injures himself:” the Wolofs, “Before healing others, heal yourself.” In Accra they say, “Nobody is twice a fool;” among i the Oji, •‘The moon does not ; full in a day;” "The poor man has nd I friends.” A Pashto proverb says. I “A feather does dot stick without j gum.“ j Others are: “A crab does not i bring forth a bird;” “A rqzor cannot shave itself;” “Cross tne river before j you abuse the crocodile;” “Truth is ' only spoken by a strong man or a . fool;” “Perseverence always tri- ! umphs;” “The thread follows the needle;” “Preparation is b tter than 0 I afterthought.” — Westminster fteI v i pw - “ Colored Education in the South. ' There are 25,530 negro schools now in the South where 2,250,000 negroes have learned to read and most of them to write. In the colored schools ard 238,000 pupils and 20,000 negro teachers. There are 150 schools for advanced education and seven colleges administered by negro presidents and faculties.—Charleston News and Courier. f

Business Directory THE DECATUR HTIOIAL BAAK. CAPITAL KO.OOO. BURI’LUS, 111,ML Organized Angtut 15, 1883. Officers;—P. W. Smith, Pres.. Daniel Weldy, Vice-pros., R. 8. Peteraon, 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, tni.oan. Barplas, TI,M(I vZ OrganlMd tallU. Offiesrs-D. ■indabaksr, Prssfdaat; BeM. B. Allison, Vloa-Prsildant; W. H. Niblick, Cashlsr. Do a general banking bnslnoss. CollaoUsaa scads In all parts of tho country. County. City and Township Ordsrs bought. Foreign and Domsstlo Exchange bought sad sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Paul G. Hooper, efiLttoirxxojr at Law OeowSur, • • XfuHonea. suits BBirnr s maun, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, And Notaries Public. Pension Claims Prosecuted, Office tn Odd Fetlows' Building, Decatur, lad. X7IRANCI h MERRYMAX 1. 1. TWCS. JD t. T. MUBIMAN O.ttox'xxe'y* *t Xiaa-w, IT DBCATVB, IMDIANA. Office Noe. 1,1 and S, over tho Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. A.«. BOLLCWAT, FHygdolam dto ■urgeon Office ovot Burns’ harness shop, residues one door north of M. B. church. All caUg eUy or eountry algM ■. L. HOLLOWAY, ■. *. OSoo and residence ono door north es M. * church. Disease! es women and children 9* eialUee. - Lit! lelsoi, Veterinary Snrgeoi, Decatar, Ind. Residence southeast car. Decatar and Short streets. T » NXFTUNK. J. DBNTR. Now located over Holthouse's shoo stere, sad is prepared to do all work pertaining to the dea. ‘ taf profession. Gold filling a specialty, By the ase of Mayo's Vapor ho is enabled to extract teeth without peta. All work warranted. MONEYTO LOAN •a Vhra Property •• Lang Ytata, Wo Ooxaffi*nJ.oolooe Lew Bate et laearaa. Woartlol JPoarNooaaWl h aay eaarote eaa be me4e at aay Mae *■# Me* tateeeat. Gnu ea, er aMrat X X. GBUBB, tr J, r, MAMM, Meet Odd Pailowr BuQMag, Seeatra Lines. Schedule in efl set Aug. 27, 1893. Trains Leave Decatur as Follows TRAINS WEST. No. 5, Vestibule Limited, dally for I ~, n „ v Chicago f M No. it Pacific Express, dally for (. ,~n . j Chicago f 1,10 M No. L Express, daily for Chicago I, i I:2OA<M No. 31. Accommodation, daily, I in.,; » v except Sunday f M TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I M New York and Boston f r ' 31 No. 2, Express, daily for New I M York j No. 12. Express, daily for New) . .oa » «. York f No. 80. Accommodation, daily ox-1 cept Sunday f wA ’ M Second No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:80 a. m dally. Solid train for Columbus, Ohio, via Marion and the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Tolddo Railway (Buckeyeßoue); Pullman sleepers to'Coluiubus, Kenova, and Norfolk snd other Virginia points via the Columbus, Hooking Valley and Toledo and the Norfolk end Western Lines. J. W. DkLono. Agent. W.G.MaoEdwards, T.P. A.Huntingiou, Ind first Class Night aad Day BerWlee bebweea Toledo, Ohio, )AND( —- St, Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS uy Tuns-wofim EqciPMonMotigOTT. VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON nijht trains! SO-KCALS SEKVED EH ROUTE, sag Star, SM OH HIOHT, at mtHtraU cast. Atkftr tkluti via Teledo, SI Lonit i KiimCltj 11 Clover Leaf Route. far further particulars, eall on neasoM Bgaat es the Company, or address O. O. JENKINS. Aa«A TOLKDO, OHMk

The Lyon & Healy Organ Is the best and most salable Jg Organ of the Day ygESI Organs sold on Installment Payments at Lev Figures. SEND TOR CATALOGUE. Fred K. Shafer, Agt. ’■■P BERNE. JND. .

ASP Merryman’S FACTORY Ton can get all kinds of 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 on ghnrt notice. a. a. aoM, & £ BOMB Mwitr OunnlMtoMC 8080 a SON, ATTORNEYS JB.T XxA.W v Heel Mate aadClnneeflan, DiistaMna. O. P. X. AIDIIWi, ■ JF»lay alolmi «*> MONBOB, INDIANA. Office and residence 2nd and Brd doers west es M. H. ohuroh. Prof. L H. Ztlgler, Yeteriiiry Burgeon, Modus Operandl. Oroho M JT tomy, Overotomy, Castrating, Kldg ting, Horses and Bpaylzfg Cattle and Deborn Ing, and treating their diseases. OffioeevsrJ ■.etane's hardware store, Decatur Indiana. f > -L " J. 8. Coverdale, M. D. P. B. Thomas, H U DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pierce’s Drug store. Decatur, Ind LOOK HEREI / I am hors to «tay Organs and Pianos wim on omrnio “Matra taasajuyi •mem nos «B*saga SMeoepjtpngAta augs isdbsm dsae rssssasbls Bee aeo first aadaava si easy. jr. T. COOTS, DomUms Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trams run on Central Standard Time, 28 mln] 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 900 pm Richmond 2 20pm 1100 .. 11 60 Winchester.... 3 if.. 11 55 .. 1231 am Portland 404 ..1235pm 103 Decatur 510.. 131.. 143 Ft.Wayne...arr 600.. 2L5.. 215 “ •• ...Ive 235 .. 225 .. »oh.m Kendallville 3 41.. 319.. 910.. Rome City 356 .. 832.. 9?6.. Wolcottville 401 .. 33T.. 931.. Valentine 411 ... 942 .. LaGrange 4 19.. 3 U . 9 61.. Lima 4 29 10 08.. Bturgis 4 40.. 4 12.. 1019.. Vicksburg 536 .. <5» .. 11 14 .. Kalamazoo, arr 605 .. 5W .. 1140 „ “ ..Ive TlOam 6 25.. 5’5.. 1230 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 910 .. 810 .. 6 50.. 21»._ •• “ ..Ive 10 50 .. 720 .. 415 .. D., G.H.AM.cr 11 05.. 7 35.. 4 29.. Howard City 12 05am 945 .. s<o .. Big Rapids 12 55 .. 947 . 645 .. ReedClty. 125 .. 10 20.. IM.. Cadillac,....arr 230 .. 1130.. 9 10.. “ ....Ive 240 .. 1135 V'Traverse City :25pm Kalkaska 4 01.. 120 Petoskey 545 .. 300 MacklMcCity 7 05.. 420 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 Na 8 Mackibac City. 909 pm 740 am 150 pm Petoskey 10 30.. 915 .. 300 Kalkaska 1245 am 1121 .. 415 pa verse City 1105.. 435 Cadillac ....arr 2 20am 100 pm 620 “ ....Ive 2 30.. 120.. 645 pm T3D*S BecdCity 338.. 285.. T 50.. t»O.. Big Rapids 408.. 806.. 8£5.. 228.. Howard City.. 600.. 350.. 920.. 1035.. D-G.H.&M.cr 6 15.. 500 .. 1025. 1135.. Or. Rapids .arr 6 30.. 5 15.. 10 40 .. 1150 .. •' “ ..Ive TOO.. 6 00.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamaioo.arr 8 50.. 8 00.. 12 55am 846 .. “ ..Ive 855 .. 805 845 .. VtokaburTe-— 412.. Nargis 1919.. 926 506.. Uma 1032.. 940 517 .. LaGrange... .10 44.. 952 529.. Valentine 1053.. 10 02 537.. Wolcottville... 1104 .. 10 14 547 .. Homo City 1109.. 1019 652.. Kendallville... 1125 .. 10 39 6 08.. Ft Wayne..arr 1240 pm USO . . Tl 5.. “ “ i.Jve 100.. IzlOam 545 am.. Decatur 146 .. 12 58 .. 630 Portland 240.. 2 00.. 730 Winchester.... 317 .. 241 .. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 3 40.. 915 Cincinnati 700.. 715 ■■ 1301 pm Trains 5 and 0 run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent, Decatur, Ind 1 Scientific Anerlcfii Agency TRADE MARKS, DESION PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, etoJ For Information and tree Handbook write to MUNN A CO., 361 Bhoauwat. Nsw Yobe. Oldest bureau for securing patents tn America. Every patent taken out by us Is brought before the pobllo by a notice given free ot charge In the Jfitniific Umrt circulation of any s<S«atlflc paper tn th# world. Splendidly illustrated. No intel Itgenl man ahould.be without it. Weekly. 53.00 • year: SLsosix months. Address MUNN A CQm Pubushkrs. 361 New York