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IT ff AB WITH HEBSELF. The Story of ■ Woman's Atonement, by Charlotto M. Braeme. . CHAPTER XXXlV—Continued. bhe race at last and bout over him. “Bertram," she said, “will you for(five me?” ' She never forgot the face raised to * “Yea," he replied, “I will forgive you M heaven forgives those who ask fpr forgiveness. I will forgive the most ' cruel treachery ever practiced on mortal man. I w 11 not leave you in enmity, for 1 shall never look upon your face again, Lady Charnleigh—never again." v “You will not go away?’’ she pleaded, wistfully. “You will remain here, and, in the years to come, be my friend.” j “How cruel- how selfish you beautiful women are!” he cried. “No, I shall not remain here, Lady Charnleigh; I shall go far away inta the outer world, where your face wil. not haunt me." She clung to him, pleading, trembling. “Do not leave me. Bertram—do not go. How shall 111 e —dear heaven!— how thall I live without you?" “You s'’OU d have thought of that before," he rep led. “Why should I remain near you? Rather let me go and forget that one so fair and false ever lured my heart from ma. I shall l “ bld you farewell forever, Lady Charnleigh.” She was weeping so bitterly that in sheer pity he unclasped the hands that held his arm si tightly, and placed her , on the moss-covered lallen tree. "I wiL say good-by lorever. let me | look once more at the eyes I thought' ail truth, at the lips I thought all - sweetness, at. the face I thought all beauty, at the woman whom I believed to be as noble as she is beautiful, but. whom I find false. Fa. ewell, sweet face! You will haunt me until I die. Farewell, my lost love —my fair false love! Fa'.ewell forever!” He turned away abruptly: one word more and the strength of his manhood would have given away. He walked on with hurried steps, never pausing to look behind him. his face white and rigid, his lips set, all his quiet and carelessness gone from him—a desperate man, whose heart was broken, and whose strength had left him—all unconscious that the woman for whom ' he would have given his life lay senseless among the harebells, wLira, cold, and motionless, as though she were dead. There was but one course for him, and that was to go abroad—to plunge at once into the midst of activity, confusion and excitement. His brain reeled, his head burned, his heart beat with great irregular throbs; he dared not stop to look his sorrow in the face. She was fa se to him—she had lured him on. yet had never intended to marry him. That one palpable fact darkened the face of the summer heavens for him —threw a funeral pall over the fair, smiling earth—gave him a loathing for life too great for words. She, so fair, with the sunny, radiant face and light heart—she whom he had thought half goddess, half woman, wholly charming—had proved herself as false as the lightest of her fair, false sex. Henceforth there could be no woman’s love for him—no smiles, no soft words, no pretty, deceitful charms. He had done with it alt A woman’s love had darkened his youth and blighted his life. He would have no more of it Stern, angry pride kept him from giving way to despair. He was indignant, with the wounded pride of a man who has trusted in vain. His resolve was taken even as he walked home from Crown Leighton. He would never see it more, never again look in the face of its mistress, but go far away, where his sorrow and his love would be hidden from the eyes of men. He kept his resolve. When he reached Weildon, Captain Flemyng made many inquiries as to his sudden deteimination; h> received the mi st abrupt answers. Sir Bertram would say nothing but that he had received a sudden summons to go abroad, and could not delay. At first Captain Flemyng was amazed, and then a glimmer of the truth dawned upon him. “Leonie hay rejected him," he said, “and it is for his sake—to save him pain-that she wishes our engagement to be kept a secret.” That conviction made him very kind and considerate to Sir Bert' as. ■■ He assisted him in his pieparations—he drove him to the station—he begged of him to write. “I cannot promise,” replied Sir Bertram. “A great sorrow has come to me, and it has unmanned me. If in after years I can live it down I will write to you. If you never hear from me again you will know that my sorrow ' can never die.” 4 Long after he had gone those words haunted Paul. “It seems very strange,” ho thought, “that love should cause so much misery. One fair face breaks many hearts." He waited long weeks and months for news of his friend, but none came; and Captain Flemyng knew then that he had not lived his sorrow down. fHAPTEK XXXV. back with a shock to the young girl who lay so hopeless and despairing among the wild flowers; her lips parted with a deep-drawn sigh, her eyes opened (b the light, and tnen they closed in weariness of spirit too great for words. He was gone—he had bidden her farewell forever; nothing could pain > her after that, nothing could please her. She rose and looked round her; • the harebells where she had fallen were crushed and broken. She raided one or two of them in her hands, and ( ‘ looked wistfully at the broken stems. “I need not have crushed you,” she said, “even it I was crushed myself. How much I must have suffered to fall 1 senseless there. How dearly I must <• ■ love Crown I eighton and all belonging , to it, when lam wi Hing to sin so deeply and suffer so terribly in order to keep FUtl". ? T Tnen she walked slowly borne. It was all over; she had taken the irrevV ocable step; nothing could bring * '■Bertram back to her again. Even / Should some sudden impulse of conv .tritionseize her and urge her to conYess, it would not bring him back; he had lost her. She had nothing to live for now save pleasure, brilliant gayety, the queenship of fashion. She had L willfully given up all the higher and ■ nobler duties of life; they were as nothing to her in comparison with her ■ love of luxury and magni cence. “I must not complain,” said the girl, Rto herself; and yet though she loved Lher surroundings so dearly, they were i as nothing in comparison with what H she had 10.-t. She had that which her ■ soul Rived best, but at present it O brought her nothing save what was I' wearisome. I? She fancied that in a few days she If would be happier—when she had forI gotten the rcie it ten ible shock. The I finding of the will, the losing of Sir I Bertram-’these two things had come I so quickly one after the other that she I had had no time to strengthen herso f. L She planned to her eh, as she went If' home, how she would give ancther I1 fete, more brilliant, mre magnificent, I than the la=>t; she tried to engage her

| whole fancy in thinking what she should do to give ths entertainment I greater eclat; and yet beneath all the bright fancies rose the dark remembrance that he would not be there. What would a fete be worth that he did not share? Os what int jrest would a 1 the display of her magnificence bo if he were not by to see? She wondered at the change (hat seemed to have fallen over everything; there seemed to be no more light in , the sunshine—no more beau'y in the flowers. She bad loved the Hiles and i roses so well that she had seldom passed them without a caressing touch; she passed them now with averted face —they only reminded her of that which now she must forever forget. I “Do let us find something amusing,” she said, when, a f w hours later, she and her two f.lends were alone in the drawing-room. “I am getting tired of . this quiet existence, auntie; we mu t ; goto Paris, or Italy, or some other place where a little of what is called ‘life’ can bo seen.” “What fever of unrest is upon you, Lady Charnleigh?” asked Miss Dacre. “It is not many hours since you were queen of the most brilliant scene I ever witnessed, and now you complain of wanting something to amuse you.” “I like continual excltemert, Ethel; I should like every moment of my day so fu'ly occupied as not to leave one second for quiet or leisure. There is nothing so tiresome as feeling time hang heavy on one’s hands." i “'J hat is not a very healthy frame of mind, Leonie,” said Lady Fanshawe. “Continued excitement is like fever.” “It would suit me,” she returned. What could rest and, leisure bring her? ! Nothing but timo for reflection; and | that she did not want. I So a few days passed. She had to ' listen to all the often expressed wonder : of her companions as to why Sir Ber--1 tram never came. She had to sit, with a smile on her face, at Lady Thorni bury's dinner party, while Major Shelton told how their visitor, Sir Bertram, had left them suddenly, and had gone, it Is believed, to Egypt. It seemed to her that the wondering comments would never end. She was obliged to listen and to join in them with a pain at her heart so sharp, so keen, that it .was with difficulty she could refrain from crying aloud in her anguish. “You did not tell me that Sir Bertram was going," said Miss Darce to Leonie on the first occasion that she found herself alone with her. “You might have trusted me so far. I can imagine why he has gone. Oh, Lecnie, I thought you loved him!” “Did you?” she returned carelessly. “I am not a fit being for loving, Ethel. My heart is cold and hard as a nether-mill-stone. Sir Bertram is gone—he will never come back—l do not wish to hear his name mentioned any more. Will you bear that in mind? The greatest kindness you can show me is nevecto mention his name in my presence.” “I will remember,” said Miss Dacre. Her fair face grew very pale. She understood. Lady Charnleigh had refused Sir Bertraip. and did not care to be reminded of the pain it had cost her. “I was so sure that she loved him, ” thought Ethel. “I cannot be mistaken. She has shown her preference for him in a hundred different ways. Can it be possible that she likes Paul Flemyng better?" She was soon to know the truth. They had agreed to keep the engagement a profound secret, but Paul betrayed it at every moment; it was not tola in words but in actions—there was an air of proprietorship about him when he spoke to Leonie, or of her, that betrayed the truth. The day came when Ethel Dacre was certain of it. She entered the library suddenly one morning and saw Paul Flemyng kissing Leonie’s hand. For one-half moment she stood paralyzed — the certainty of her forebodings rushed upon her—she knew Lady Charnleigh so well. With all her gayety and her graceful, laughing manner, there was about her a dignified reserve that was never broken through. She would t have allowed Paul Flemyng to kiss her hand unless he had a right to dp so. Then, with a despe ate effort she recovered herself and moved forward. Paul advanced to meet her. He was always pleased to see her; his kindly liking for her had increased, not diminished; and from the sunsiiine of his great happiness it was only natural that some light should fall upon her. * * * » * One morning Leonie, having a small drawing to finish, had her table placed in the deep bay-window of the library. She drew the rich hangings so as to shut out the .room from her sight, lest it should distract her; she opened the long window, so that the perfumed air might enter, then seated herself at the little table and soon became engrossed in her work. Before long Ethel ‘Dacre entered, and went up to one of the book-shelves—she was looking apparently for some book that she was doubtful where to find; before Leonie had time to speak Paul Flemyng entered. “Is Lady Charnleigh here?” he asked, and Ethel, never thinking of the baywindow, answered, “No.” < Leonie laughed to herself; it was purely from a spirit of girlish mischief that she did not speak. “If Paul wants me,” she said to herself, “let him search a little longer.” “I cannot find her,” he observed disconsolately, and Miss Dacre laughed a little constrained laugh at his piteous face. “I think,” she said, gently, “that you have found her in the true sense of the word.” —, Paul’s face “You were always like a sister to me, Ethel—the dearest and kindest of sisters; I can tell you only this—that*! am without exception the happiest man in the world.” “Although you have lost Crown Leighton? she interrupted. ||“l had forgotten that there was ever any chance of my having it,” ho said.“It is in better hands, Ethel. I never even think of it now.” While he was sneaking he had taken from a vase that sto;.d on a little stand near him a beautiful spray of jasmine; he looked at it, and then in the earnestness of his words began to pull the leavei one from the other; finally he dropped it, and it lay unnoticed on the floor. “Where do you think I shall find Lady Charnleigh.” he “In the grounds, most probably, ” replied Ethel; “she has a personal acquaintance with every flower that grows.” I He went laughing out of the room. I “Let him look for me,” said Leonie to herself; "rothing does a man so much good as waiting for anything he wants." : She was just going to tell Ethel that she had overheard the few wo. ds spoken, when the sound of passionate weeping fell up in her ears. Looking out, she saw Ethel Dacre kneeling on the ground whee Paul had stool, ber face burled in her hands; convulsive sobs sh< ok her whole frame-she had taken the flower he had dropped ai tho. gh it had been some cherished relic. i “He loves h«A” she sobbel—“he loves her, and / b will never care for ,

s me! I would glvp my life for him, but t be will never care for me." “ s When Leonie heard these words she • laid down her pencil*, and stole qule ly . out through the open window. Not for 3 the world would she have listened to I words never intended for mortal ears - 3 she would not have intruded on sorrow that was sacred, end grief t >at in itself ; was holy. Hhe went out where tae iun ; shone brightly on tho flowers, feeling i more unhappy then she had been yet. > Thi«, then, was the secret of Ethel’s I life-th a was why she looked sal and i wistfu —why the expression of her ; beautiful spirituolle face reca’led that ) of Elaine in the picture, She lox ed t Paul Flemyng w.tn all the i1 engtlrof hqr heart, and he knew nothing of it. ’ “Sin spreads like a ripple on a clear s pool,” she-said to hercelf; “whore wul 3 the consequences of mine end? I f marred the life of the only man I can t ever live; and now I stand between • this grl and hor happiness. Ah, met I I pay a bitter prico for being called Lady Charnle gh. ” I ■ CHAPTER mil 1 Three months passed, and tho en- ” gazement between the heiress of Ci own • Lqighton and Captain Paul Fleming was made kn .wn. People had but 0,.e 1 | opini in. As far as Lady Charnkigh ’ \ herself was_ concerned, it was, of ’ com so, a very poor match, for she ’ tqight have mated with the highest > and wealthiest in the lan 1; but, looking at it from a fair point of view, it was I exaity right. ’lt must have been a keen di appointment to Captain 1 lemyng—so nearly heir, and yet not heir ■ after all; now Crown Leight n would 1 be his by marriage, that was next best to inheriting it. Many people raid, too, that he would be sure to have the > title as well—letters-patent would be ’ taken out, and he would be Lord ■ Charnleigh after all. Public opinion t said it wai a very proper ending to • what had been a most romantic case. ’ Captain Flemyng wai the only one ’ who c mid hardly believe his happiness 1 to be real-it seemed to him so great t it cou.d scarcely be true. It was not ■ for her wealth that he loved Lady ’ Charnleigh. If she bod been penniless i ho would have married her, and worked > for her as man never worked before; > he would have been better pleased if ’ she had been poor, that he might have shown the strength and purity of his i love. The only drawback tiffiim wai i that wealth mu >t come to him from the I hands of his wife. ’ He would fain have ; had it othei wise. > He had pleaded with her for an early 1 marriage, but she had looked ud at him with wearied eyes, and prayedThim to let that question re t—not to mentim marriage vet; she was happy and did • not want to change her life so quickly. > His handsome lace clouded ever to > slightly; he seized her hand and held it tightly. i “Leonie,” he cried, “do you know i there are times when I almost doubt ■ whether you love me? I look forward t) my marriage with you as thJ crowning happiness of my life—you think of . it merely as an uncomfortable change; . that does not look like love, Leonie.” Any reproach from Kaul touched her i keenly. Had she not already done him harm enough? Had she not wronged , him more deeply than woman ever wronged mat Before? She was not given to caressing, but, when she saw that wounded look on his face, she bent ' her head and kissed his hand. ITO BE CONTINUED. | THE KAISER’S SALARY. It Is a Big Sum, but His Expenses Are Also Very Large. Few Americans know the sums which royal persons receive from the countries over which they rule for their own maintenance. Such salaries are much larger than we pay our President, but on the other hand, the expense of keeping up a royal position is proportionately greater. The Emperor William of Germany receives yearly 18,929,966 marks, which is equal to about $4,732,241, payable quarterly in advance. On the first of every quarter the Kaiser’s private treasurer draws his master's allowance from the t 'easury sealed in various packets and its c orr. ctness sworn to. Three ti me > the money is counted and then put in a bt.-ong box, and un era guard it is takentother<yaliakce. With much ceremony it is there unleaded and placed in the vaults, after which the treasurer signs a document giving it over to his M aesty’s hands. But of t e sum thus received the Kaiser al’ows his wife $250,000 annually on she must support her household, pay her a tendants, etc., as well as settle all her own personal expenditures. The Kaiser must pay the wages of all his dependents from his salary. This list is tremendous. He feeds and clothes 1,500 lackeys all the year round, and there are also about 350 female servants to be looked after. Besides these he has a private pension list which costs him $50,000 annually, for every servant, of high or low degree. is entitled to a pension after twenty years of service. The Kaiser also pays his mother a pension of 2,000,000 marks, and for the support of the Royal Theater and Opera House he pays out 1,650,000 marks every year. From this list it can easily be seen that his Majesty must sometimes feel as poor as common mortals when his bills are paid, and his need of ready money is sometimes great. New York’s Overflowing Tenements. Nowhere in the world is there a denser population to the square mile than in the tenement house district of New York. In six wards there is an average population cf 252,834 to the square mile, and in the Tenth Ward the ratio is 357,888 to the square mile. This congested district embraces scarcely one-twenty-fifth of the whole city’s area, but it furnishes “homes” for nearly one-quarter of the City’s population, and incidentally provides 10,000 yearly of the 40,000 deaths and 80 per cent, of th 3 criminals. Instances of the crowding of fr. m sevea to twelve persons in two s mall rooms are ■ not unusual discoveries, and all the conventionalities of civilization and the very instincts of common decency are necessarily wiped out. Morality and cleanliness, under such circumstances, are of course impossible. The most thickly populated district of Old London is credited with only 175,816 to the square*mile, and none of the cmtlnental cities approach the terrifying congestion of New York’s “Teeming Tenth." Goat Raising a Growing Industry. Goat raising is an important and growing industry in Oregon and sem) | other northwestern States. One rancher in Benton county. Ore., has a ' fine herd of 450 gcats, wh’ch includes a number of thoroughbred Angora bucks. Twenty-two cents a pound is the lowest this man has received for a fleece in a dozen years, while frequently he ha< received 30 to 35 cents a pound. The average yield frem a goat is about four p unds, bute gut to ten pounds is frequent y obtained from high g.-ade goats. The goats are not only valuable for their fleece, but in clearing off land, as they subsist largely on t>. ush and weeds. It is magnificent, but it is not war.— Pierre Bosquet, a French General. Spoken of the charge of tho Light t Brigade at Balaklava,

• HOOSIER HAPPENINGS > 71 r NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY ’ CONDENSED. r J Wh«t Our Neighbors are l>olng—Matters , of Oeneral and Local Internet—Marriage* ’ and Death*—Accident* and Crimes—Per* j aonnl Pointer* About Indmnlan*. 1 Minor State Item*. i Diphtheria in malignant form rages t at Elwood/ ? , The business portion of Poseyville > was wipe 1 out by Are. The loss will 1 reach »50,000. Ten buildings wore I burned. i While Mrs. Clinton Malott was J standing before aflreplaee at ber home, 1 near Petersburg, her dress caught fire 1 and she was fatally burnel. Mark Coon, who was s’ightly injured in his hand In a saw-mill at Wilkinson, will probably lose his life, - as blood poisoning has set in. 1 Millard Lewis, weighing 200 ’ pounds, a workman on tho Hartford 5 City Court-house, fell from the top of [ the’ first story to the basement, a distance of thirty feet, striking on a pile 3 of brickbats. He is badly hurt inter--1 nally. • Louie Stevens, a K-year-old lad, living eight miles south of Connersville, went hunting and while resting ’ with his right arm on the muzzle of I his shotgun it was discharged, opening t an artery. Before a physician could bo summoned he bled to death. J The farmers near Elwood have sufj sered to much from thieves during the I last few months that they have organi ized two thief-catching societies, and , two bloodhound have been secured. The trespasses will be tracked down, , as the farmers despair of bagging them ( in any other manner. t Oscar Thrall, son of a prominent t resident, while returningfrom church r at West Liberty, accompanied by two i young women, was instantly killed by I r eing thrown from the buggy. They ; were racing wit’h other young neonle. f The girls with him were also badly > hurt, one perhaps fatally. ’ At Stipp’s Hill, a village seven miles • west bf Laurel, M. F. George and Steve > Dilks quarreled over a shoulder of • meat sold to Dilks, which he had failed to pay for. In the affray Dilks drew a ’ dirk knife and stabbed George three 1 times in the left 'lts victim died ’ irom the wounds in an hour. Dilks J was immediately arrested. The residents of East Wayne and , Francis Streets, Fort Wayne, are exL cited over the discovery of leprosy in a boarding house in that neighborhood. r The patient is a Polish Jew named . Goldstein, who for several weeks has peen engaged in a house-to-house canvass for the sale of notions. He was > taken in charge by the health authorities and placed in isolated quarters on ' the Poor Farm, two miles south of the . city. i A year ago a little 5-year-old girl, Cora Heath, was cast upon the world ■ without friends or known relatives by ; the death of her father. The orphan was adopted by John P. Conrad, who ; resides in Anderson. The other day word was received by Mr. Conrad that the child nad fallen heir to $15,000 by the death of a great-grandmother, in New York. The title to the money is unquestioned, and the amount will be > turned over at once. Patrick and Edward Toole, two wellknown toughs of Brazil, got mad at • their mother and older brother, 1 Barney, because the latter refused to i support them. They procured big • knives and swore to kill their mother • and b. other. The old lady took rei fuge in a neighbor’s house, but the ' boys broke down the door and were in the act of assaulting her when Joseph ' Bodell ran to her assistance. The boys turned on Bodell. cutting several ugly wounds which will prove fatal. Both i boys escaped, but Patrick was captured near Carbon. 1 Mrs. Patrick Cain, residing in a ' suburb of Anderson, is, by her phy--1 sician, thought to be fatally burned. While standing by a gas stove her dr ss caught tire and in a twinkling her body was enveloped in flames. The woman was bewildered anl helpless. ' A half dozen little children ran screaming for help. \\ hen assistance arrived the woman was found on the floor insensible. Her arms, back, face, and head were irightfully burned. The flesh on her hands was literally cooked, falling with the finger nails from her , fingers. She is the mother of fourteen children, all living. A sensation was created at Brazil, recently, by the finding Os a will excuted by the late Elder Reuben A. Webster, in 1864, bequeathing all his wealth, amounting to nearly SIOO,OOO, to his wdfe’s heirs. At the time of his death a note badly written was found on his person, which designated the manner in which he desired his property divided, giving his own heirs and his wife’s relatives eyual amounts of his fortune. But since the will has been found, dul>’ executed and signed by Attorney George A. Knight, this will leave the heirs of the deceased without a penny. Mr. Webster’s relatives are greatly incensed and a big lawsuit is threatened. What was reported as a suicide and attempted murder took place at Belle Tholley’s resort, on West Presbyterian avenue, Madison. Samuel Medlicott and Frank Stephens, called '‘Sawbuck,” had a fight. The woman says Stephens shot Medlicott in aback room and then rushed in the parlor and put a bullet through his brain, dying instantly. Medlicott is not badly injured. Nelson Martin, a constable, was a witness, he being in the house, he said, on business. There is much mystery about the shooting, and people believe it was a case of murder. Constable Martin and the other five people in tho house were arrested and are being - held pending an investigation. AT Plymouth, Leroy Trobridge, a well-known farmer, while walking home was run into by a team. The pole of the sleigh'struck him on the back of his head, making a large hole. He w; s taken back to Plymouth, and remainecFunconscious until bis death. Albert Pinney, 12 years old, son of Frank Pinney, a prominent horseman, living four miles east of North Manchester, accidentally killed himself with a shotgun. The boy had gone to the woods to shoot an owl, and as he did not return search was made for him. His remains were found with the top of h s head blown off. The following concerns are running in iull. or part at Elwood: Diamond Plate-glass Works, Mcßeth chimney factory, McClay factory, American Tin-plate Works, Elwood Iron Works, Rodefer & Hofiman Window-glass Company, and Nivison & VVieskoff Bottle Works. Charles Waymeyer, a well-to-do German farmer, residing some miles east of Columbus, is lying in a critical condition from tho efiects of an accident. While returning from Columbus to his home his team, which was attached to a road wagon, became frightened, throwing him to the ground. The wagon passed Over his leg,'fracturing ik

SAVED FROM DROWNING. How a Mere Boy Rescued Hit Younger Brother. A physician owning a country-seat in New England, where his family were accustomed to spend the summer months, taught bis trays to swim as soon as they were out of the nursery. His farm bordered upon a lake, where the greater part of the boyff time was taken up with iraating, tl hing, and swimming. One was » and the other was 0 years old, and they were expected to take care of themselves. One day the younger child was seized by a cramp while he was in the water, and alter screaming tor heip sank out of sight The brother swam out boldly and got an arm under him before the third downward plunge. The youngster was unconscious and helpless, but the older one con tri ert to keep him afloat with one arm while strik.ng out with the other for the shore. He drew the 1 tile fellow out of the water, white, motion.ess, and apparently dead. The rescuer had heard his father described the treatment for resuscitating pe sons taken from the water when nearly drowned. He could not remember it in detail, but he was impressed with the necessity of prompt action. He did not attempt to summon help from the house, which was a long way off. Placing the boy on the face with his wrist under the forehead, he paused a moment and then turned the body on the side. This crude attempt to restore respiration was repeated several times, until he was delighted to find the lips moving and the eyes opening. The young physician had not made a strictly scientific application of the rules for artificial respiration, but the little fellow’s breath was restored. Then two additional rules mentioned by the father were remembered. The body was briskly rubbed, and then bundled up with the jackets and dry clothes which were on the bank. With these measures for restoring circulation recovery was well-nigh complete. Then taking the child on his back the rescuer started for the house, where the mother received them with open arms and an anxious face. The patient was put to bed and the father summoned from town, but precautionary measures were hardly necessary. The 9-year-old physician had donj his work so successfully that scarcely more than a sleeping draught was required for the night. The father was proud or the boy, and he had a right to be. ‘‘l could not have done better myself,” he said to the lad. “You must be a doctor when you grow up. Indeed, you are one already.” Every manly boy who has the opportunity learns to swim as a matter of course. But there are few men or boys who have their wits about them, and know what to do in an emergency when a drowning person Is to be resuse tated. Sometimes a brave rescuer, after risking his life, is battled on shore by his own ignorance in dealing with his helpless burden. It is an art that is readily acquired.—Youth's Companion. Turkey’s Formidable Guns. In 1478, Mahomet IL, in prosecuting the siege of Scutari, in Albani, employed fourteen heavy bombards, the lightest of which threw a stone shot three hundred and seventy pounds’ weight, two sent shots of five hundred and titty pounds, two eteht hundred and fifty pounds, one of twelve hundred pounds, five fifteen hundred, and one of the enormous weight of sixteen hundred and forty pounds, enormous even in these days, for the onlyeguns whose shots exceed the heaviest of these are our eighty ton guns, throwing a seventeen hundred pound projectile, our hundred-ton, throwing one of two thousand pounds, and the huudred-and-ten ton, throwing an eighteen-hundred-p.und shot w th a high velocity. The stone shot of Mahomet’s guns varied between, twenty and thirtytwo inches in diameter, about the height of a din ng-table—two thousand five hundred and thirty-four, of them hred on this occasion weighing, according to a calculation of Gen. Leiroy’s, about one thousand tons—and were cut out of the solid rock on the spot Assuming twenty-four inches as the average diameter of the shot fired at the siege, the total area of the surface dressed was nearly thirtytwo thousand square feet. At this siege the weight of the powder fired is estimated by Gen. Lefroy to have been two hundred and fifty tons. At the siege of Rhodes, in 1480, Mahomet caused sixteen basilisks or double cannon, to be cast on the spot, throwing balls two or three feet in diameter. Wind. Pressure. Almost the gentlest wind pressure will, when admitted into the pipes of an organ, cause them to emit sound—one-tenth pound per square foot will certainly do so, and enable the player to use the instrument. The stronger the pressure the greater will be the number of vibrations of the air column within the pipe, and in the case of musical sounds the pitch of the note depends on the qumber of vibrations made by the sounding body in any given time. Savart, by a series oi experiments, showed that seven or eight vibrations per second produced a continuous sound recognized as a musical note of great depth in the scale; while between . 0,000 and 40,000 vibrations produce the highest or shrillest audible sound. Helmholtz recently fixed the lower limit at sixteen vibrations and the higher at 33,000 vibrations a second. The largest organ in the world, that in the Sydney Town Hall, has 10,uOO pipes, 126 speaking stops, a d is blown by a gas engine of twelve to fifteen horse power. The sound from the pipe of an organ is caused by the vibration of the column of air within it; and this air column is thrown into vibration by blowing a thin sheet of air against a sharp edge. current breaks against the sharp edge and there produces a fluttering noise and the moper pulse of the flutter is converted by the resonance ot the pipe above into a musical sound.—Brooklyn Eagle. The pugilist boxes before he lays him out. The undertaker, or the contrary, lays out his man be fore be boxes him.

Business Direclory THE mm OTIOHL BANK. CAPITAL, KO,COO. SURPLUS. SU.SK Organized August 16, 1883. Officers;—P. W. Smith, Pree., Daniel Weldy, Vlce-pre*., R. 8. Peterson, Cashier, J. 8. I'o- - Ass't Cashier. Do a general banking business. Interest pa d on time deposits. Buy and eell Domestic and Foreign Exchange, County and City Order*. Adams County Bank Capital, sri.m Bnrplaa, n.oo*. Orgaalxsd in I*7L Offioen—D. Stadabaks*. Prseldsatl Bob*. *, Allison, Vlo*-PresUlsnt; W. H. Niblick. Caahlse. Do a gneral banking business. ColleottaM made tn all parts of the country. County. City sad Township Orders bought. Foreign and Domeatio Exonangs bought sad sold, lalersat paid sa tlm* dapoalt*. Paul G. Hooper, jA-ttOITGLey At XaAXNF Meswtar, •. • ZimKwims mmk K c tun, a at Bximr s mavn, ATTORNEYS--AT-LIW, And Notarlas Publlo. P*n*ion Claims Proe*eut«d, Offios fa Odd Fellows’ BuUdlng, Deeatur, lad. T7IRANCI * MERRYMAX. L T. ntAWCh. J? L T. MUBTMAX Attorney* *t Xjaw, DBCATVB, taDIaHA. Office No*. 1,3 and 8. over the Adams County Bank. Collections a specialty. A. ». BOLLOWAY, atlolxua. dto Offios over Buna* harness shop, residence one door north of M. B. church. AU sails promptly attended to ta city or sountry night M. L. HOLLOWAY, M. M. Office and residence one door north of M. * church. Diseases of women and ehlldrsn apoetaltiee. Litl Nelson, Yittnnary Surgeon, Decatur, Ind. Residence southeast cor. Decatur and Short streets. T Q- MEFTUMB. tie DENTWT. How looatsd over Holtheus*'s shoe stere, and Is prepared to do sll work pertaining to th* dental profession. Gold filling * specialty. By the us* of Mayo's Vapor ho is enablsd to extras* teeth without polk AR work warranted. MONEYTO LOAN Fhn* Property on Leng TMMs Mo Coxauxtlaißloak. Lew Bate ot iMarea*. Mdbrßldbl Mdbxxaffioaita la tor otaoots eon bo asodo at any Mme and atop totarest. tell a*, ar addnna, X JK. CHUBB, ar J. P, MJUntf ffiffiaei Odd Feilowr BtaMlng. Deaton* Erie Lines. Schedule In effect Aug. 27. 1893 Trains Leave Decatur as Follow.* TRAINS WEST. No. 6. Vestibule Limited, dally for I M Chicago f z.W P. » No. 3. Pacific Express, daily for I ,. 1O . M Chicago f ‘- 10 A - M No. 1. Express, daily tor Chicago j. h ; 2oa.Jl No. 3’., Accommodation, daily, I if,.,, . M except Sunday... f TRAINS EAST. No. 8. Vestibule Limited, daily for I p u New York and Boston f l ' oo r- M No. 2. Express, daily tor New 3;28 p M No. dally for New I M York f “ No. BU> Accommodation, daily cx-l M cept Sunday f 10,::D A ' M Second No. 12—Leaving Decatur 1:80 a. m daily. Solid train for Columbus, Ohio, vis Marion end the Columbus, Hooking Vallej •nd Tolddo Railway (Buckeye Roue); Pullmat' sleeper* to Coiumbue. Kenova, and Norfn't snd other Virginia points via the Coiumbue Hocking Valley end Toledo and the Norfolk •nd Western Line*. J. W. DeLono. Agent, W,G.MaoEdwards.T.P. A. Huntington, Ind First Claes Might aad Day Serviac Babweea Toledo, Ohio, St. Louis, Mo. FREE CHAIR CARS UY TBAJMS—MODtRB EQUIPHOT TMMCiiHT.'' VESTIBULED SLEEPING CARS ON NiaHT trains! gr«Mt3 BttVED EH MUTE, Uor, Mt 01 MISHT. at *<oV«rat« esst Id hr fidth fit Tiledi, SI Lute A Sim* 11 CLOVCK LEfir ROUTE. Far furthsr particulars, call si nooraffi Agnat of the Company > er addreaa . O. O. JENKINS. Smril rssMSW S*mg TOLKDO, OtUffi

The Lyon & Healy Organ Is the best and most salable Jg Organ of the Day sE3| Organs sold sb Installment Payments at Lev Figures. SEND HOB CATALOGUE. Fred K. Shafer, Agt.

Merryman’S FACTORY * You oan get all kindg oi Hard and Soft Wood, Siding, Flooring, Brackets, Molding, Odd-Sized Sash and Doors. Tn fact all kinds of building ma terial either made or furnished abort notice. A a. 8080, B. T. BQMb Maote* Osmmfsslousr. 8080 to SON. ATTORNEYS at law, Bml mn! DmaUk, O.P. M. AWDBEWm, 3Plxy mlolmol <A> Saurßwon MONROE, INDIANA. Office and realdence 2nd and 3rd doors west of M. B. ohuroh. IM Prof. L H. Zolgler, Vetirioirj Surgeon, Modus Operandt, Oroha •I Zj tomy. Overoto my. Castrating, Ridg Hug, Horse* and Spaying Cattle and Dehor* Ing, and treat!ng their disease*. Office over J H. Btoae** hardware store. Deostur Indiana. 1 ■■ w J. 8, Coverdale, M. D. P. B. Thomas, M A DOCTORS Coverdale & Thomas Office ovr Pieroe’s Drug store. Decatur. I*4 LOOK HERE! I aai hare to stay oad sa* so* Organs and Pianos UIHIYdH OUT OHimiO _ ■Wfftoa tWMKBRseI weti nee •BVMB* wse ngt tsfiwms geoe vessnsshh lee sae Bnt and mss* sse*ey. T. COOTS,DooatMS Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Trams run on Central Standard Time, 28mlnJ utes slower than Columbus or former time. Took effect Thursday, August 17.1888. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 3 No. 5 No. T Cincinnati..lve 815 am 900 pm Richmond 220 pm 11 00.. 11 50 Winchester.... 3 17.. 1155.. 123iai» Portland 404 .. 1285 pm 103 .. I Decatur 5 10.. 131.. 1 45-. Ft.Wayne...arr 600.. 2 15.. 215 '• “ ...Ive 2 35.. 2 25.. ’o%m Kendallville 341.. 3l» .. 9 10.. Rome City 356 .. 332 .. 9 “>6 .. Wolcottville 401.. 337.. 931.. Valentine 4 11 9 42.. LaGrange 419 .. 3L> . 9 51.. Lima 4 29 10 03 .. Sturgis 4 40.. 4 12.. 10 19 .. Vicksburg 530.. .5,.. 1114.. Kalamazoo, arr 605 .. sto .. 11 40 „ " ..Ive 710 am 6 25.. o’o .. 1230 pm Gr. Rapids..arr 910 .. 810 . 650.. 2b ._ •' '• ..Ive 1050.. 72>t.. 4 16.. D..G.n.4M.cr 11 05.. 7 35.. ««.. Howard City 12 05am 545.. 5 40.. Dig Rapids 12 55 . 947 . 6*5 .. Reed City 1 25.. 10 20.. 7 55.. Cadillac.....arr 2 30.. 1130.. 9 10.. “ ....Ive 240 .. II 35 Traverse City 26pm Kalkaska 4 01.. 120 Petoskey..-. 5 45.. 300 Mackinac City 7 05.. 420 GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. I Mackinac City. 90epm 740 am 150 pm Petoskey 1030.. 9 15.. 300 Kalkaska U40am1121.. 415 Traverse City 1105 . 4Y> Cadillac ....arr 2 20am 100 pm 6B) “ .>..lve 2 30.. 120.. 646 pm 7 30 am ReodClty 3 38.. 2 35.. 750.. 110 .. Btg Rapid*..... 408 .. 805 .. 8 J.. 328.. Howard City.. 500 .. 8 50.. 9 20.. 10 85 .. D-. G.H.JtM.cr 6 15.. 5 00.. 10 25 . 1135 .. Gr. Rapids .arr 630.. 515 .. 10 40.. >150.. “ “ ..Ive 7 00.. 600.. 1120.. 200pm Kalamazoo. arr 850.. 8 00.. 12 55*m 840 .. “ ..Ire 855 .. 805 345 .. Vicksburg . ...... 9 24.. 888 412 .. Sturgis 1019 .. 926 505 .. Uma 1032.. 940 517.. LaGrange.... 1044 .. 952 629.. Valentine 1053.. 10 02 537.. Wolcott viUe... 1104 .. 1014.. : 547 .. Rome City 1109.. 1019 5 53.. KendallvUle... 1125 .. 10 39 608.. Ft. Wayne..arr 1240 pm 11 60 7U.. “ “ j..lve 100.. 1210 am 545 am........ Decatur 146.. 12 58.. 630 .. ........ Portland 2 40.. 2 00.. 730 Winchester.... 317 .. 241 .. 809 Richmond 4 20.. 3 40.. 915 Cincinnati 7 00., 715 ~ 1301 nm Trains 6 and C run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON. Agent, Decatur, Ind 4 Scientifio Americas A Agency A VB ATS, TRADE MARKS, DESIGN PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, oto. For Information end free Handbook write to MUNN A CO„ 861 Bhoadwat, New York. Oldest bureau for securing patents In America Every patent taken out by u» Is brought before the public by a notice given tree ot charge tn the Scientific Largest otreulstlon of any scientific paper tn the world. Splendidly Illustrated. No Intelligent man should be without It. Weekly. 83.00 e year, Sl.sosix months. Addrea* MUNN A CO* POBUsnaaa. 361 Broadway. Naw York City,