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AT WAR WITH HERSELE. The Story of a Woman's Atonement, by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER XXVll—Continued. She was no countess after ali; the gorgeous fabric of wealth and magnificence had crumbled to nothing beneath her feet. She was no countess—nothing but Leonie Rayner; the grand inheritance of Crown leight'n was | not hers, after all; she who had | lavished thousands on petty caprices and graceful fancies had not one shilling in the world that was legally her ! own. ! “I was so happy,” moaned the girl— l “I was so happy. and now —" . Then rose before her the dim v'sta | of years when {)overty and privati n | wculd be her lot—hard work, teil, | ob:curity her porticn—and this after | she had reigned queen of the bright, | gay world. She was too stunned for | tears—no words could d:s:cibe the | chaos of her thoughts, the whirl of her | emotion. No longer a ccunte;s—no - longer the mi-tress of tha! superb | mansion—no longer a queen -n» longer ! ~ cne of the richest heiresses in £ ngland, ’ ~of whose wealth men spoke with won- . der. Tt waseas great a fall as woman R e"fir}fi ad. TFwo minuesh.foteshahad - roached the climax of magnificence. ~ and grandeur, pesrless in her radiant | - beauty, dressed in the rcbos and | Jewels of ‘a queen. Now, what was | she? An usurper, an intruder, an interloper. She had no rigittoCrown f Leighton—no right to the diamonds . that crowned her—no right to the | name that had been as music in her | ears. A cry of despair escapcd her— ! utter, hopefess despair. l “I will kill myse'f,” she caid, in her anguish; “for I never can go back to‘ that life again.” How long she crouched there, her} brain burning and her mind full of | dark, confuseg thoughts, Leoniec never l Jnew. A noise upon the stairs aroused | her, and she started up. | Her first honest impulse was to rush | .down through the crowd, to teil Paul | Flemyng, and to plece the will in his hands. That was her first impulse, | and she rose to act upon it. As shel passed the lrrge mirror, she caught! a glimpse of herself, and it frightened | her. Was that the radiant, bzautiful | irl she had seen so short a time be--50!‘6? All the blocom had died from her face, lezving it ghastly white; the violet eyes were dim and wild; the light | seemed to her excited fancy to have I | faded frcm her jewels. Oh, cruel mockery, that diadem of gems, those | queenly rcbes! She laughed to her-| golf—a harsh, discordant laugh, unpleasant to hear. “I am no longer a countess. lam penniless, obscure, a paup:r, not a queen.” It was surely the sorest blow that could have befallen her. She had loved her position, her magnificence go well. She had enjoyed them so well —she had graced them so prefectly. | “I will go and put this in his hands,” | she said, “and then I will go straight - out from that brilliant crowd—out to cold darkness and death. I have drunk of the wine of life, and cannot taste the iR 22 . ; . . BT ATI dhivie @ Lot bicnth om han whifa ] shoulder, or was it only her fancy? Was there a voice hissing in her ear, or was it a delusion? What was the voice saying? “Let it be as it is for one nightlonger. | Go down and complete your triumph—o down where men wait for you with goneved words. Reign queen to-night | —to-morrow lef poverty come and do its worst. There is no need to make a sensation among u«ll these people—no | need to publish your downfall to-night.” | Was there a hissing, sharp voice | whispering these words, or was it her | own fancy? She pushed the diadem } and the golden-brown hair from her | brow. i “Many a woman would have been | driven mad by such a shock,” she said to herseif. g Then she stocd hesitating, with the | parchment in her hand. “Shall T take it to him now, or shall | I wait until to-mcrrow? ? “To-morrow will do,” said the tempter. “What difference can it | make? Enjoy your reign a few hours longer—make the most of the next few | hours. Leave it until to-morrow.” i “I might just as well wait until to- | morrow,” she said, piteously: “it would | be so sad to spoil the fete and turn all | into confusion.” l Then sudden hot anger flushed in | her face and flamed in her eyes. l “I would fain do as Sardanapalus i did,” she cried—“burn Crown Leighton to the ground, and die in the ruins.” | Then the fierce hot anger died. “I was i so happy,” she caid, despairingly; | “Heaven might have let me keep what | I believed to be mine. Perhaps I had | better take this to Paul at once—it | will bs less torture than keeping it by | me until to-morrow.” ’ She walked toward the door; she | AW herseliseekimg—irim, placing thewill in his hand, and saluting him by | his new title—Earl of Charnleigh. Then came a vivid remembrance cos the | time when her heart had thrilled with | ecstasy at the sound of her title, § “I will not be so hasty—l will wait | until to-morrow,” she said: “I will en- 3 joy these few hours, and then—-" { In the anguish of the moment she | even fcrgot her love and the lover who | was waiting for her. She took the | parchment, hid it in the wardrobe, locked the door, and then slowly de- | scended the staii:. . ! “To-morrow,” she moaned to herself —%it will be all over to-morrow.” | CHAPTER XXVIIL “I_eonie, how long you have been, my darling! What is the matter? Your face is white, your lips tremble. Leonie, have you been frightened?” Although she loved Bertram better than her life, in the supreme anguish of that hour she had fergotten him; and now, at the sound of the Kindly voice—at the sight of the frank handsome face—a keen sence of what she was losing came over her. She went up to him, and as he stretched out his hands to her, she laid her head cn his breast, forgeiting everything in her sick, hopcless despair. ' : “My darling,” he said, ginxlnu&ly, “what is the matter? Ten minutes azo vou were all radiance and ligjht —NOW vou are pale, depressed. What has happened to you, Leonie?” She raised her colorless face. “ig it only ten minutes since I left you, Bertram?” i “That is all,” he said. Ei «Tt seems to mo ten long years—ten

long, dreary, despairing years. I am 80 tired. Oh, Bertram, how that music wearies me! - Will it never stop? lam so tired.” “My da.rlin%, you have been doing too much. our spirits carry you away, and thea you are exhuzusted. Do not go back to the ball-room—let me brin% you some wine and rest yourself, I will not even speak to you, nor will I allow any one else to teuse you.” “No, no,” she said, “I must go back— I have been away so long.” She made a desperate effort to r use iherself. He looked at her in silent { wonder. She reminded him of a fair i and blcoming flower blighted by some . cool, frosty wind. The bloom and radi- | ance had left her face—even the gueenIly,.graceful figure seemed t> shrink and grow less, while the regal robes ' and jewels had lost half their bright- [ ness, ' “Leonie,” said Sir Bertram, “you | f_x'lxghten me. [am quite sure you are LAY !! “lam not. Do as you propose—go 'and fetch m»> some wine, and Ig)z-ing it | to me in the morning-room.” . He placed her in a chair, and left her - wittout a word. Her brain was whirling. i “To-morrow,” she said—*“all this will .b> over to-morrow. Ishall be flattered - and loved—ll shall be queen of a brilllant fete —I shall be mistress of Crown - Leighton until to-morrow; and then all will be over the sun of my life set. the comments, i porneadiall, i sneo:s. These fine ladies who protest that I am a model of graceful manner’s&" will find out then that I am low-bre sand very deicient—what has passed ' for animation will become vulgarity. I know the world, and hate it while I _love it. Its triumph over me shall not g begin to-night. For this one night it ' shall be at my feet, and I will trample on it.” Then Sir Pertram came in with the wine, and shedrank it. It brought'the wa mth and color back to her face. He was much relieved. “You are better, Leonie. Oh, my darling, you must never lock that way azain! Promise to be careful of yoursolf; you are not strong. You alarmed me when I saw you. I thought the ghost that haunts the cak room had appeared to you.” ¢ A deep, tearless sob broke from her ips. “The ghost of the oak-room,” she re- | peated, wearily—*“l saw it, and it has nearly killed me.” He thought her manner strange, but ascribed it all to over-fatigue. He drew nearer to her, and rearranged her diadem, which had half fallen from | the fair, statcly head. “You have afl & queen’s dignity, and all a woman’s charm,” he said. “Oh, Leonie, was any one ever so fair and so peerless as you?” She smiled; the wine had given her a kind of courage that ske mistook for strength. “Are my jewels all in order, or need I send for Florette?” she asked, carelessly. “They are in perfect order. Your appearance now is my care, Leonie; it concerns no one but myseif.” He did not know what had happened. ‘What would hessay or think when he had discovered that she was simply poor and obscure I.‘eupia Rayner, the | , OX-ZOV cruo:m.»‘ VY Utl.x.:lm;‘;~f3*::};\-" auy ALI She Eooked up at him. “Give me your arm, Bertram. I must go to the ball-room. Hark! that is my favorite waltz. Tell me before you go —do you love me very much?” A beautiful light came into his face. | “You will never know how much, | sweet.” } “Would you care just as much for me | if I were very poor, and you knew me | only as Leonie Rayner?” 3 “Just as much,” he replied, “my love | does not depend on your circumstances, | If yon were made queen to-morrow, I | should love yon just as dearly; and if | to-morrow you became a beggar, it would make no difference in my affec- | tion—nay, I am wrong—l should love | you all the better.” § “Is it true?” she asked. } “Most assuredly it is; the only thing | I should regret in that case would be | that I am not a rich man - that I could | not surround you with all the luxury | and magnificence to which you have been accustomed.” | “Are you nct rich, Bertram?” she asked, wistfully. 1 | He laughed. E . “No. my queen—not what people call ' rich, in these luxurious times; my es- ] tates are mortgaged. I wish that I | l were rich enough to purchase the | | whole world, so that I might endow | | you with it.” | I “You shall not spoil that compliment | by any other,” she said; “we will go. ! ‘Where is my programme? I have }missed two dances. I have to apologize to two gentlemen The next is ' the ‘Lancers,”and I am engaged to Lord | Ho!dene. He cught to thank me for | these silver buckles.” i . Then from the very depths of her ' young heart there came a most weeful sigh. If he had never asked for those ~buckles; thatwilkwould perhaps never | . have come to light. g For a few minutes after she re-an- | | tered the ball-room, Leonie stood be- ! wildered Then she recovered her- | self. TLord Holdene came up and | offered a hundred apolcgies for having % mentioned the silver buckles. She i looked up at him with a vague, dreamya ' smile, as though she did not even un- | derstand the wcrd: She was think- - ing to herself that it was not his fault —that it was not what people would | call fate or chance that had led her to | the oak-room, but the very hand o Providence, and he had been led { thither in order that justice might be | done. { Then Captain Flemyng saw her and { hastened to her. { “I could not imagine what made the , ball-room so suddenly grow cold and | dim, Lady Charnleigh,” he said. “Why have you been so long absent?” | “I have been searching in a haunted { room for silver buckles,” she replied, | trying to still the quivering of her lips and speak in her natural voice. But something in the tone struck | him as strange—a weary, hopeless ring | that told of pain and sorrow. He looked | tenderly and anxiously at her. | “You are over-tired, Lady Charni leigh. Let me persuade you not to ! dance, but sit down and rest.” )i She laughed. i “No, I could not sit =till; I like con--3 | tinual movement. Where is Ethel? | Is she enjoying herself »” | “Yes; and so is every one else. The , | young ladies of the county ought to bg | deeply grateful to you; 1 have heard i many of them say that they never en- | | joyed an evening so much before. You

T e e e e must give ussome more ch Lad Charnleigh, and more ballg.r’?fl ey v She laughed again. How little he | knew that this was the last night of her reign—that with the sunrise of the morrow all her wealth and magnificence would varish into thin air—that henceforward he would rule at Crown Leighton, and givajballs and parties—that he would succeed to the glorious inheritance she had valued so! * “They shall remember my last night at Crown Leighton,” she said to herself; “they shall talk of it, and tell each other that I died a queen.” £ With Leonie, to will was to do. She called all her magnificent courage into play, she resolutely trampled under foot all remembrance of the oaken chamber and what it contained, she remembered only that this was her last apj eirance as Countess of Charnleigh, and that people must not forget lit. Such was the case; no one so brill- | iant or beautiful had besn seen there for many long generations. She danced, and the grace, the perfection of her movement, was marvelous; she talked and men gathered round her, charmed out of themselves. She had never been so brilliant. Her anecdotes, her irepartces, her sparkling sallies were'repeated one to the other; her beautiful | face grew brighter and more radjant. every minute. People no longer fndered at the spell she cast arouns _aes | there were men in that room véfl thought that to have won a smile ! P l"‘fi'fi%“’é"“: TS L :;L L l ‘ i and seemed to Wm’?? yßage “he | smiled bitterly toWerso N mmmpe g | “Tt is my last triumph; to-mornilia. o dark waves of poverty will rise as@® 1gulf me, and the world will hed##no more then of Leonie, Cou_ntesg of Charnleigh.” ; CHAPTER XXIX, 5 It was when the ball was drawing to a clcse that Paul Flemyng found an opportunity of slipping a folded paper into Lady Charnleigh’s hands. | 1 “Read this, Lecnie,” he whispfi'red, “and permit me to call forth er to-morrow.” 1 She took it and p'aced it in the Yelds of her dress. To.morrow he uld know all—to-morrow he would be TLord Charnleigh, and she Lecnie Ragner; their po-itions would be reversed. Then came, the faint gray dawn of ' the June morning, and one by ong the guests departed from the brilliant scene. Kach visitor expressed so much pleasure, and scemed so truly delighted, that no greuater compliment ecould have been paid to their hostess than | their regret at leaving. ; . “Give us another ball soon, dear Lady ' Charnleigh,” whispered one of the lyounger girls; “this has been so delightful!” Leonie laughed aloud; the young girl f started back at the harsh, unna.tural' | sound. ‘ “I am tirel, my dear,” said Leonie, l seeing the startied look; “remember ' that I have been making myself amia- ! | ble ever since nine o'clock this morn- | ing, and to be constantly amiable is the | | hardest task in the world.” ! Sir Bertram came up to say farewell. , “I shall come for my answer to-mor- ! | row, Leonie: you have given me hope , | this evening.” % | “Not to-morrow, Bertramg-shes i«» 3 2 r “ | Niandsdy, pitegusly, “I am sSof@Bte. covered then.™ e ' “I will wait just as long you | please,” he said. “You will be mKne in | the end, lLecnie; that is all I care for.” | A sudden impulse came over her to f { throw herself into his arms and tclll : him all—he would console and comfort | | her; but she set her foot resolutely | | upon the impulte. This night should | | pass over without her secret being | | known. i { So she stood until the last of hex'l | guests disappeared, graceful, bright,g | and charming to the end, her gay | words never faltering: then she wus% left in that brilliant ball-room alone. She looked around, with a flush on her face, on the flowers and the lights, the wondrous combinations of color that | { she herself had effected. I | “I have died a queen,” she said. “I | | have not given way for one moment. | { 1 have smiled with the bitterness of | wrath in my heart. I have talked and ' ' laughed when like Caesar, I would fain ! have folded my mantle round me and | | died. Now I look my last on the brill- | iant paradi-e that will know me noi ! more.” ‘ | |TO BE CONTINUED. | | ot ! WALKING ON STILTS. 1 it Is a Common Practice in One Province ‘ of France. ! The majority of the people in the | western portion of the French province 'of Gascony walk on stilts. Thatisa district known as the Landes, with a sea line bounding the French side of ‘ the Bay of Biscay and e.\'tendin% at its greatest breadth about sixty¥miles back into the country. The Bandes | form one of the wildest and stmingest ‘ | parts of France, and the inhabitants { are fully as strange and uncultivgted as i the black pine forests, the dreary | swamps and the far-spreadingg®serts | of fine white sand which th bit. . | Most-of them are shepherds. & they | clovate themselves on stuts fivg feet | high in order to be above the rshes and the zand blasts. These stilt-walkers present strange and uncoutl_l figures as | they progress over the wilderness of | country in attendance on their flocks, % sometimes at the rate of six or'seven | miles an hour. They rest by the aid | of a third wooden suppert, pursuing | meanwhile their everlasting cecupa- | tion of knitting. In appearance the j Landes shepherd looks like an uncouth mass of dirty wool. On his body he ! wears a fleece like a rude paletot, his | thighs and legs on the outside are pro- { tected by greaves of the same material | and his feet are encased in sabots and | ecarse woolen sceks. : | In some parts of Malaysia the natives | walk almost habitually on stilts. Na- | ture and necessity have 1?1-ougnfi.e.b0ut | this result, as excessive inundations of | river and sea often submerge the whole | surface of the land in many places, rendering ordinary modes of locomotion ' impossible. In'parts of Holland also it - is a very ordinary sight to see_people | walking about upon stilts of various | sizes. o G | Exhibited the Corpse in the Window, )| In Philadelphia the other day there | was a striking evidence of the Intense | desire of some people to “exhibit the | remains” at funerals. A man had died | of diphtheria and the authorities very ! properiy refused to permit a publie fuy | neral. So the family had the coffin » . containing the corpse stood on end in 1 front of & window of the house so thag - | the face of the dead could be viewed 1| from the street.—New York Tribune,

ee e e e e e TIT ’ 1 8 A Backward Glance at the‘ Past Twelve Months, l STORY BRIEFLY TOLD. | R e S CHRONOLOGICAL ARRAY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS. > ' The Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-three Will Be Prominent in | the History of the World-—lts Changes, Fraught Largely with Prosperity, but Drought, Disaster, and Devastation Were Not Escaped—Concise Review of Current Events. : d January. 1. New York has 28 new cases of t{phus fever. SR TR tio strike of coal miners in Saar dis--3 H" s chosen SPAAEEE™D Mhiom SUNSm %m ..Fire at Memphis, Tenn., $156,000; Fort | ayne&”kd., electric company’s plant; §130,000. ... i:{l.n frozen over.... Henry Dunoan 'gnohed . Knoxville, Tenn,...At Bakersville, 'N. C., 12 officers and 36 of a lynching m:b kmmes‘k lynchers successful, and string up Calypes., 4. Nttural‘fias explosion in Chlcfio:sa ingnred.s fatally..... Suicide at Des Moines of utter, wife murderer. 6. Fierce blizzards from Northwest to Atlantio cosst....Leed’s failure at Sioux City. 8. Break of Cincinnati ice gorge; $309,000 damage. 10. Democratic inauguration at Springfield, 111.... Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, dfies at Washlntfiton. ...Blizzard in Northwest....§2,000,000 fire at 805t0n.... New York harbor bloocked with ice.... Twenty-four miners killed at Como, Colo. 11. Gen. B. F. Butler dies at Washington. 12. Unprecedented ice blockade at New York harbor. .. .3300,000 fire at Kansas City. 14. Southern States visited by unprecedented cold. 15. Many Ohio and Indiana towns without gas or coal for fuel; terrible suffering at Cincinnati. 17. R. B. Hayes, ex-President, dies at Fremont, O. 18. Forty-third anniversary oof C(alifornia gold discovery. 19. Coughlin, of Cronin murder notoriety, granted a new trial. 20. Hugh Dempsey convicted of poisoning non-union Homestead workmen. 21. Oil train expiodes at Alton Junction, 11l.; 21 killed. 60 injure ', many fatally. 22, Failure of Capital National Bauk, Lincoln, Neb., for £1,000,000, 23. Associate Justice L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, dies at Macon. Ga.... Death of Phillips Brooks, the great clergyman, at Boston. 24. Three killed in collision at Joliet, 111. 25. Judge Joun Martin, of Topeka, Kan., ffh(men Senator by the Democrats and Popuists. ' 98. John L. Mitchell, of Milwaukee, chosen Senator by Demo rats. l 217. Death of James G. Blaine at Washington. . SO. Funeral of Blaine....Pottstown, Pa., Iron Company fail for 2,000,600, 31. Senate passes Washbumn's anti-option | | bill. l February. ! 1. Severe storms in Northwest... Negro | i ravisher burnel at the stake at Paris, Texas, | i by & mob numbcering thousands... Minister ' Btevens establishes a protectorate by United | States over Sandwich Islands. ~ Death of Algernon Sartoris, at Capri, | T ; . : Ridge m‘ffinmw%wm%m sioners reach Washington. ... Tw lve lives lost | on steamer Pomerania by tidal wave. i 6. Blizzard through Northwest, mercury | dropping 57 degrees in 10 hours in Montana. i T k--m;mi;:a Yopulists choose Judge Allen | | Benator. i 8. Congress counts the clectoral vote. ~ i ] 9. Perished by fire: 44 lunaties at Dover, N. | i H.: 2 hotel guests at Centerville, Towa, and ¢ | | st Cincinnati... Panama Loodlers sentenced | { at Par s. . | l 11. Ten quarrvmen kilicd at Rutlaxd, Vt.... | ! Lincoln memorial services in New Nork and | i Chicago. 12. Death of Dr. Norvin Green, famous tele- | l graph manager, at Louisville, Ky.... Six min- | ers killed at Villa Grove, Colo, | | _l3. Death of Justice Schoifield of the Illinois { Supreme Court. | | 14, Fight between Kansas Legislators at To- | | peka. ; 15. President Harriscn's messagce favors Ha- | waiian annexation.... Militia assembled at | Topeka. | 17. Populists concede Republicans’ claims at i Topeka; troops withdrawn. i i 18. Senate copfirms Judge Jackson's nomina- | { tion to United States Supreme Court.... Fai- | i ure of Manufa turer Walker. of Youngstown, | | O, involving Gov. Mcliniey 235,000 | 20. Death of Gen. Deaurecard at New Orieans | l ....Dissolution of the Readin: combine. ! | 22. Western Indtana switchmen at Chicago | | strike....Opservance in all cities of Washing- ! i ton’s birthday.... American flag raised on the ! | steamer New Yorx. l {23, Death of Rufus Hatch, Wall street opera- | | tor, at New York. ‘ 25, Death of Alanson Reed, Chicago’s pioneer piano dealer... . Miss Julie Force, temporarily insane, kills her two sisters, at Atlanta, Ga.... Kansas Supreme Court declares thie Republican legislature the lezal one. 27. Falling wall at C(hicago kills ten people. { ....Fearful storm of wind, snow and rain in i the Northwest. { 28. Battleship Indiana launched at Philadelphia.... Northwest snowbeund. March. 9, Laue¢hlin & McManus, Philadelphia brokers, fail for hal? a million.... Big advance in grain. 4. Cleveland inaugurated President at Washington. 5. Sandgate, England, is wrecked by the subsidence of the earth. ‘ 7. Safety Mutual Insurance Company, of { Bioux City. closes its d00r5....A money scare i in New York causes all markets to decline. i 10. Many killed and 24,500,000 in property dei stroyed by fire at Boston. | 11. Disastrous floods East and West. 12. Grand River Iloods in Michigau. ‘ 13. Failure of Kausas 7“rust and Banking Company, Senator Ingalls President, for s£oo,000, | 14. Michigan rivers break all flood records. ....Nine killed in an Anderson (I. T.) mine.... Four killed by falling walls at Chicago.... Death of I.ouis Nettelhorst, prominent Chicagoan. 18. G. A. R. meeting at Springfield, 111. 17. Death of Jules Ferry at Paris.... St. Patrick’s Day generally observed. 18. Death of ’Squire Abingdon, pugilistic K{atron. at New Orleans. ...Big fight in innesota Legislature with the coal combine. | ....Four killed, two injured, in saw-mill exi plosion at Romea, lowa. 19. Tremont Temple, Boston, burned; loss, $4,000,000, 20. Confirmation of news of loss of freight steamer Naronic, with seventy-two souls. 91, Litchfleld (I1l.) mill explosion; loss, sl,§oo,ooo....Charles de Lesseps, Baihaut, and I Blondin convicted of Panama bribery. 22. Frazer, a German miner, near Albia, lowa, murders his wife and sister-in-law, cuts his baby’s leg off, and is lynched. 23. Kelly, Tenn., wiped out by a cyclone; many cther towns in that State, Mis<ouri, and Mississippi suffer; several fatalities.... Five burned to death at Cleveland, Ohio. 25. Failure of Commercial National Bank at Nashville; run upon ali the other local banks. ....Death of Ceol. Elliott F. Shepard, editor New York Mail and Express. 26. Escape of Murderer Latimer from Jackson, Mich., prisen, after poisoning two guards. 28, Capture of Latimer....Death of Gen. E, Kirby Smith at Sewanee. Tenn. 30. Thos. F. Bayard appointed minister to England... .French cabinet resigns. April. 1. Fivelives lost in burning hotel at Bradford, Pa.... Ten miners killed at Shamokin, Pa... . Four killed by boiler explosion at Lacona, Jowa. 4, Carter Harrison elected mayor of Chicago by 20,000 majority. 5. Reappearance of cholera in Russia.... Pugilist Donovan killed at Syracuse. 6. Dedication of the Mormon Temple at Salt Lake.... Murderers executed at Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Reading, Pa. 7. Temperature 96 degrees at Kansas City, 83 degrees at Chicago, and 4 inches snow at Boston. 8. Tremendous wind and hail storms at Chi-

B R R RR R IR TR ORI TR AT R RN TR R | and Frie....Vast prairie fires in Nebraska ‘ ms South Dakota. ‘i jO. Death o! Manuel Gonzalez, ex-President of Mexico, at City of Mexico. - ! 11. Cyclones in Missouri Valley; many lives ' lost and vast property 1055.... Colliery disas- | ter in Wales; upward of 10 lives lost. i 12. Ypsilanti, Mich., nearly wived out by a g}'clone: many lives lost in Mississippi and issouri by storms. j 12 News of lowering of American flag in - Hawali by Commissioner Blount. 14. Senate adjourns sine die. i ~18. Financial flurry at Lansing, Mich, 19. Edwin Booth stricken with paralysis. .. | Tremendous snowsterm in Minnesota.. .An- | ~ other carthquake in Zante. | ~ 20. Fourteen perish at Milwaukee in the water works crib, during a storm. ... The whole conntrilswept by violent storms; much dam;ge in Michigan, loss of life ¢oly in Southern | States....“ Black Jack” Yattaw died at Chicago. ....Negro lynched at Salina, Kas. ; 23, Strikers at Hull, England, fire the docks; loss §1,00,000. 25. Failure of Loan and Trust Company of Sioux City.... Burning of lirst Regiment - Armory at Chicago; two lives lost; damage, | - $300,000, .. . Men-otf-war leave Hampton Roads | for New York. : , 26, Sixty-two killed by cyclones in Oklaho- | - ma.... Terrific storms sweep the lakes, ; 27. Navel parade at New York, greatest in the history of the w0r1d.... Death of W. C. _Goudy, of Chicago.... Pork advances over sl per barrel.... Anniversary of Grant's birth. i 28. Liberty WBe.l arrives in Chicago, with Duke of Vera’gua. aod Pre:ident Cleveland. i 29, Cisco, Tex., devastated by cyclone; 20 killed, 200 injured. SO. Six perish in a fire at Burlington, la. May. i L O‘pening of World's Fair by President ! Cleveland. i fl2.odHe|wy property loss in JMiami Valley by oods. i 3. Lewiston, 0., reservoir, second largest in ! - the country, breaks; great property damage, no | 55 Panic in stockg in New York ceiver appointed for the Cordage Trust. &= T |5. S. ?.’White. New _Yol}-l_:_b oke 3 agaix 6. German army bill defeated, Relchst g dis solved.... Herbert Tarnney lynched at lgonn- ‘ tain Lion, Minn. : 7. Ten killed in a wreck at Lafavette, Ind. l ....Six boiled to death by escaping steam on an Ohio River boat. ' 8. First electric illumination of World's Fair....Chemieal National Bank, Chicago, | fails.... Six more die from the river | steamer disaster.... Carlyle W. Harris executed at Sing Sing, ] 9, Commissioner Blount as)pointed Minister to Hawali, vice Stevens, resigned. i 11. Break in levees below Memphis; vast | damage.... Columbian Bank fails at Chicago. . il .Di"namite outrage at Muscatine, lowa. @ 12. Failure of many banks in Indiana, Michi- | gan, Illinois and Ohio, branches of the collapsed Columbia National at Chieago....Campania crosses the Atlanticin 5 days 14 hours and 40 minutes, v, 13. Pilankinton Bank of Milwaukee success- | fully meets a big run. i 4. Lynching at Bedford, 1nd.... Ten miners killed at Calumet, Mich. 15. Lynching at Brownstown, Ind. 16. Murderer Almy hanged at Concord, N. H. ....Fair Direcrory vote to return Government loan and open Sundays.... National Editorlal Association convenes at Chicazo. 17. Seven killed by expliosion at Geneva, 11l ....Many lives lost by ficod in Ohio and Pennsylvania... . Nine sa:lors perish at Conneaut and 3 at Ashtabu'a, Ohio, in marine disaster. ....Four life savers drown at Cleveland. 19. Resignation of ltalian Ministry.... Spanish Infanta Eulalia received at Washington. 20, $1,500,000 fire loss at Saginaw, Mich.... &£7.,000 at Antigo, Wis.... Ten men perish in forest fire in Missaukee County, Mich. 22, Cruiser New York makes 21.09 knots an hour, fastest time recorded for a war ship. 23. Wm. Sullivan lynched at Corunna, Mich. ....Four killed by a windstorm at Cleveland. 24, t\iuceu Victoria's birthday. 26. Failure of Chas. Foster, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, at Fostoria, Ohio, for $5¢0,000; many concerns involved. 27. Failure ot Weaver, Getz & Co., coal dealers, Chicago, for § 09,0 0, 25, World's Fair open on Sunday.... Suicide of F. H. Milburn, son of the Chaplain of Con- | gress....Burning of Baltimore sugar refinery, $2,100,000. .. . Exposition fiyer from New York for Chicago runs vBO miles in twenty hours, { 29. News of loss of British steamer Ger- | mania, with seventy-four persons. | 50. General observance of Memcrial day. June. 2. Steamer Corsica sinks unknown schooner and crew in Lake Huron. | 3. Schaeffuer & Co., bankers, Chicago, fail w: over a million; Schaeffner commits suicide. _Cle t g at Omaha... . Fiv | per ondbumt ARt A e e i Taent. ... Lynching at Decsatnr 111 Twentyj Bix Mexican miners perish in a burning mine i at Fuente. i {. Meadowcroft Bros., Chicago bankers, fail. i 5. Run on eight big Chicago banks; two small i failures... Bentonville, Ark.,, bank robbed of | $10,000; one man killed. i 6. Infanta Eulaiia of Spain visits Chicago. b Death of Edwin Booth. .. .$3,000,000 fire at | £argo. i 8. A train robbery of £10,600 near Forest { Lawn, 111.... Wheat touches 63 cents—lowest record for Chicago.... Gov. McKinley renomin- | ated....lnjunction to close World's Fair Suni days. Pl ollapse of Ford Theater building at ! Washington; 22 pension clerks Filled.... Riot | on Chicago's'drainagre canal; 6 killed. { 10. Chief Justice Fuller stays World's Fairv i closing injunction. i 12, Capture of Sontag, California bandit.... | Demonstration hostile to Col. Ainsworth at | Ford Theater inquest. { 13. Start of the Chadron-Chicago cowboy { race. { 14. First fatal accident at the Fair, on the | sliding railway. | 17. United States Court of Appeals sustains | Sunday opening of the Fair. i 18. Mining towns on Mesaha range destroyed | by fire.... Adams Block, Chicago, burns; loss i £820,000. ; 20. Ten killed, 26 injured, on Long Island rallroad. ...Lizzie Porden acquitted at New I Bedford, Mass, 21. Seventeen killed by storms in Eastern l Kanzsas....Seven killed, 30 injured by lightning i at Ringling’s circus, River Falls, Wis.... Four | perishin a Duluth fire.... One hundred and | ninety deaths by cholera at Mecca. 29, Commemoration of Fort Dearborn massacre at Chicago.... Attendance at Fair reaches { 127,000 without special attraction. { 23. Sinking of H, M. S. Victoria, and loss of | over 20 seamen off Tripoli. | 24, Boundless wins the American Derby at Chicago in 2:38. ‘ 26. Gov. Altgeld pardons Neebe, Fielden and { Schwab, Chicago anarchists. | 27. John Rerry, of Black Hills country, wins i the I,OOC-mile cowboy race, Cha“ron, Neb., to { Chiecago, in 13 days 16 hours....lndia suspends | free coinage of silver. | 29. Silver drops to 62, and wheat to 623§; both | marks lowest known. ! 80. Cleveland calls extrasession of Congress. July. 9. Dedication of New York State’s monument at Gettysburg. 2. Fish, Joseph & Co. fire at Chicagzo, SOO,-

t’_4. 274,000 people at World’'s Fair 4th celebra--1011, - * i i T e g 6. Scores killed "a one in Western lowa 7. Death of Associate Justice Blatchford. ....Lynching and burning of S. J. Miller, a negro, at Bardwell, Ky.... Arrival of the caravels at Chicago. 8. Riot at Christian Endeavor convention at Montreal. 9. Montreal riot continued. i 10. Twenty-one firemen and Columbian ! nards perish by the burning of the Cold ! gtorage Building at World's Fair; money loss i €250,000, 12. Vikingship arrives at Chicago.... Princ- % ton, Ind., swept by fire ...Ottumwa, la., pack- | ing house burned; $259.000. t 15. German army bill passed. | 16. Heroes’ Day at World’s Fair. | 17. Four killed, many hurt, in a Chicago | l srade crossing accident. .. .$7,500.000 fire in Lon- | on. 18. Six Denver banks fail. l 20. Riot at Wier City, Kan., miners strike. t 21. Richard Shoemaker, of Metropolis, 111, ! kills Richard and George Lukens and himself. i : I 22, Lee Walker, a negro. lynched and burned | at Memphis for four assaults. 23. Paulding, 0., swept by fire; loss, $250,000. ....World’s Fair closed Sundays. 24. France gives notice of intended blockade | | of SBiamese ports.... Temperature 92 degrees at | Chicago; 8 prostrations. . . % » 25, Kxcursion train wrecked near Akron, O.; | 3 killed, 20 hurt. ... Bank failures at Milwaukee, | | Louisville and Indianapolis... Kansas troops { mobilized for Wier City troubles. } | 26. Drummers’ Day at the Fair....Dan Arata, | an Italian, lynched in Denver for murdering | B. C. Lightfoot, G. A. R. veteran. § ’ 27. Free fight in House of Commons.... | France declares blockade of Siamese ports.... | lilectrocution horror at Auburn, N. Y. ‘ 29, Siam accepts France's terms.... Chicago base-ball club wins agame. ... Markedincrease | l of confidence in Eastern financial circles.... i Wheat touches 59 cents. | | E 31. Cash wheat in Chicago drops to 543§ i cents. 1 i ] Auzust. . l 1. Failure o° John Cudahy and five other | firms on Chicago Board of Trade....Porkdrops | from $19.50 to $10,25. | 9. Goli reserve again intact.... World's Fair Directors fined for contempt of court. | : 4. Murderer Van Loon, of Columbus Grove, |

R R R RR TS ... = ~ : = St e 0., hanzged....Failure of Jas. H. Walker & Co.. dry goods, Chicago: $2,400,000. e . 5. Three killed, 8 hurt, in a wreck at Lindsay, . . 0.... Conrad Bros., alleged murderers, kill four . whitecaps in Harrison County, Ind. . 7. Congress meets in extra session. ¢ _lO. Neal nominated by Ohio Democrats. .. Bigz fires in Toledo, Milwaukee and Terre Haute. ... Big importations of gold. ' 11 Alabama citizens kill 13 of the Meacham ganyg of 0ut1aw5....51,250,000 of gold received at Chicago.... Currency commang: 3 per cent. | premium over g01d.... Religious riots at Bom- | bay; hundreds killed. 12, $2.000,000 fire at Minneapolis. | 14. Five perish in the Senate Hotel fire at Chicazo. ...Seven killed by steamer explosion on Snake- River, 1dah0.... 31,520,000 elevator fire at 8uffa10....5230,0.0 elevator fire at Den- | Ver. ! 15. Great Brit in wins in the Behring Sea case. i 16. Bombay in possession of a howling mob of religious rioters, Mosques destroyed, hundreds killed and troops ordersd out. Bombardment threatened by British forces.... Seven killed it a railroad wreck in Virginia. i _l7. Fivethousand men riot at New York. ... | World's Fair total attendance exceeds 8,050,000, | more than the Centcnnial. = | __23. Boies and Bestow renominated by lowa Democrats. .. Scores of lives lost on the Jersey coast in a storm.... Sea Islard swept; 1,00 drowned. " |24, A 500,000 fire at South Chicago, 150,000 at ' St. Louis, $200,000 at Merced Falls, Cal... Tiligoisolgay at the Warld's Fuir, paid attendance 1 240, o i 23. Riot of unemployed at Chlcafo.. .. Fifteen killed and 40 injured on Long Isiand road. 28. Rictous mob at Chicago.... Savannah, Ga., swept by hurricanes, many lives 105 t.... | House repeals Sherman law. ¢ _3l. Fourteen killed at Spencer. Mass., on the { Boston and Albany.... Attendance at the Fair | passes 10,000,000, i September. | .1. Home rule passes Commens....To: Wis. L.;' ed = e 3 = e Suilcide .G“ l)en = 1* - ; .mar‘na!wiy accident at Cinersint & e 5. G. A. R %g:aea,t ndianapolis. 6. Loss of {tiagnmmboas Alexander Peii ton and 80 men in Gulf of Mexico. t 7. Death of Hamilton Fish, C‘rant’s Secretary flfLState. ...Twelve killed 20 hurt at Colehour, i ,on Fort Wagne Road. | 8. Home rule defeated in the House of Lords. { ....Death of R. M. Hooley, Chicago theatri- | cal manager. | . A daughter born to President and Mrs. | Cleveland.... Tremendous loss of life by floods . in China. | 11, Parliament of Religions at Chicago....A i $250,000 fire at Pullman, 111... .Twent-f masked ! men hold up a train near Valparaiso, Ind. Sae i 12. Rainfall in Central and Northern Statea ! breaks drought of three months. . 14. Wood County (Wisconsin) towns swept by fire.... Rebels capture Rio de Janeiro. ! 15, Opening of Cherokee Strip.... Bandits | rob a train of 375,000 near Calumet, Mich. ! 18, Centennial celebraticn of laying Capitol ! corner-stone at Washington... Nine killed, 20 hurt on Illinois Central at Manteno, Il 19. Many injured by burning of Canton, lIL, i Opera House; SIOO,OOO. ... Wratten family, six people, murdered at Washington, Ind. 20. Nine rioters killed at Roanoke, Va., at an attem\?ted lynching. | _2l. Mob lynches and burns Robert Smith a% Roanoke. ; 22, Eleven killed, many injured, on the Wabash, at Kingsbury, Ind. 23. Attempted daylight robbery of Normal | School safe at Valparaiso by two masked men; | one robber, an ex-student. killed, his trother | captured....23o,ooo fire at Pcrry, la. | 25, 21,000,000 fire at St. Joseph, M0....Tw0 | train robbers killed near Francis, Mo., and | three captured. : 27, Two killed on the Grand Trunk at Belle- { vue, Mich.; two at Crescent City, lowa, on the | Northwestern: three at Mobile, Ala., on the L. { & N....C. M. Belden shoots three men on the { Chicago Board of Trade. | 28. Jas. MecGrath, noterious Chicago eorim- | inal, killed by officers after he had murdered ' | Jas. Beban....Twenty-eizht miners drowned | by flooding of a Crystal Falls, Mich., mine. | October. ' | 1. Two thousand people drowned, $5.000,000 " | property loss, in great Gulf storm on Louis- | lana coast. | 2, Boyd's Theater, Omaha, burned; loss, { $500,000; several firemen killed. . 9. Chicago Day at the Fair; paid admissions T 13,646... .f’arkersbur:{, lowa, destroyed by fire, 12. 500,000 fire at Sioux City; $130,000 atb | Wayne. Ind.; 480 horses burned in Sonth Chi- . | cagocar barns... South Atlantic coast swept " | by hurricane. - li. Twelve Eilled, twen y-one hurt in a | wreck at Jackson, Mich.... Vigilant wins final , | race and the yachting cup from the Valkyrie. P ik S_m% . s Pewmreeen vessels go - T y | Steamer Dean Richmond and scheoner Minne- | haha lost, thirty sailors drown... Steamer Wocoken and thirteen of her crew lost. | 16, Thirty hart, none fatally, on the W aba} | ....King City, Mo., swept by fire.... Five kilied by dynamite at Emington, 11l 18, $3,500,0 0 fire at New York.... Obituary: Gounod, the composer, at Paris; Mrs. Roscoé | Conkling in New York; Mrs Lucy Stone Blackwell at Boston....Directum trots a mile in 2:00%. 19. Grand Trunk wreck at Battle Creek, Mich;: 27 cremated, fifty hurt. : . '{ 2. Fire in Lincoln, Neb., prison.... Mail i steamer City c¢f New York runs aground in San Francisco harhor; total 1055.... Three killed on T. & A. A. road in Michigan. | 927, 21,000,000 fire at Pitisburg....Marshall | Field gives $£1,000,000 to the Chicago Colum- { bian Museum. e 25, Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, assass nated at his home by Patrick Eugene Prendergaust, a crazy disappointed office- | seeker. 30. Senate passes repeal bi 11.... Close cf Columbian Exposition shrouded in gloom by Mayoer Harrison's assassinatien. November. i | 1. Funeral cortege of Carter H. Harrison ab | Chicago witnessed by over half a millien peo- { ple....Repeal bill becomes a 1aw.... Seven .| drowned by a street car going into an open draw st Portland, Ore. { 2. Boiler explosion at New York kills ¢, inL | jures 12.... Steamer Alexandria burns at sea > | near Havana; 3¢ burned and drowned.... Great | Britain at furicus war with the Matabeles. | 3. Hundreds killed and the city wrecked by | dynamite at Santander,Spain....Nine drowaed - | by capsizing of a sailboat at New York.... Spain 5 | wages war against the Moors. = { 7. Republican success general.... Steamers f | Albany and Philadelphia collide and sink on { Lake Huron; 24 105 t.... Steamer Frazer burns ; | on Lake Nipissing, Ont.; iSperish... .Dynamite | outrage in Spanish theater kills 15 people. i 8. Six killed outright, 30 hurt, 9 fatally, in | a rear end collision on Rock Island at u;icago. s | 10. Announcement of administration’s Ha- > | waiian policy. ! s | 15. Boid daylight robbery of Jobn A. Drake, | of Chicago; £22,000 secured.... Great Britain’'s 1| coast strewn with wrecks; bundreds perish. i 19, Strike insugurated on Lehigh Read.... . | Gigantic railway ticket forgery exposed. 20. Terrific snow storm in Engiand. 21. Death of Jeremiah Rusk. ex-Secretary of - | Agriculture and three times Governor of Wis- ' consin....John Johnson, forassault, lynched at - | Ottumwa, 10wa.... First snowfall at Chicago. f 22, $2,000,000 fire at Springfield, Mass. o

23. Seven perish in the Edson, Mscore & Co. dry-goods lfte at Detroit; 31,000,000 : this “fOF 5....G0v. Pennoyer’s Thanksgiving Day in Oregon. 24. A million-dollar fire at Columbus, Ohic ....Jesse Smith kills his wife and meother-in-law, then suicides, at Kankakee, 111. .. . Funeral of Gen. Rusk at Virogua, Wis....ltalian Cabinet resizns. | 23, Washington Hesing appointed posimas- | ter at Chicago, W. L. Mize Internal Revenue | Collector. .. 12,000 killed by an earthguake in i Persia.... Schaefer defeats Ives at biliiarCs | after a most sensational came... Clinton Jor- | dan kill four others and himself at Seymour, { 1nd.... French Ministry resigns....A $265,000 ! fire at Hannibal, M0....Ya1e beats Harvard at | football. | 26, Starving miners on Gogebic range fed. | a7. Tariff bill made public... Montreal has | an earthguake. I 30. Thanksgiving.... Durand building, Chi- , cago, burns; £185,000. ... Chicago Athletics defeat Boston at football: University of Mich- ‘ gan defeats Chicago University; Princeton ! defeats Yale. } December. | 1. Haymarket Theater, Chicago, burns; $120,000....8225,400 fire at Philadelphia....2B degrees beiow zero in Northwest... Stein & Co., | nide imp rters, fail at New York for a million. { 2, Blizzard in Northwest; several lives lost. | +...5400,600 fire at Baltimore. | 3. Heaviest snow at Chicago since 1885; geni eral throughout the Northwest....Vanilen de- | clines Italian mission.... Relief to Gogeblo | range miners.... Bold robbery ot Luzerne, lowa. | ... Steamer Wheeler wrecked at Michigan City, ! Ind., in storm: less $150,000. i 4. 53d Congress assembles. ... Rome, N. Y., loQfiotive works burn: 350000 1055.... Prof. i T¥ndall dies at London. | 5. British ship Ja-on and 26 sailors lost off ! Eastham, Mass.... New England swept by a blizzard.... Steamer Avery and 70,000 bushels of | corn burn at Mackinaw straits; loss $125,00 . | « 9. Anarchist Vaillant throws bomb in French ! Chamber of Deputies; 1 killed, 70 hurt. . 12. £5.000 robbery and sandbagging of Cashier | Robinson in Chicago Postoffice. & ! 14. £1.500,000 fire at Buffalo....ssoo,oooin Troy. 15. Twentyv-one men killed by falling of bridge at Louisville....ssoo,ooo fire in XNew ! York.... Eight killed near Dunkirk, N. Y., in wreck. X | . 16. 2.700 people driven from homes by floods | in Buifalo, N. Y. & - / L i 3