Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1883 — Page 4

A FAIR TRAITRESS. BY SDMX’N • R. BLANV I eave mv darling a flow‘ret of * bit 4 '- lathe hush an i suiine*« rtf hemgh*| hile standing by her <de. She took the gift w th a blush and It lav mft m 3 den breast a *hi e. And then ’twaa thrown aside. Ah. w Ibvday! b ossoms, they say, ter want of ca c. I rave my darling a ring of gold, A token her lore vac mine to hold, Her life was mine t > share. She wore the ring till sum »>er wsa o’er, Th n dir* i off. and she thoognt no more O he who placed it ’here. Ah Wei -a-day! when women plav Wbiae one’s heart is aching. . f gave my datfteg a htart < f truth, A °* > outh « A few •vrt mouths an she kept my love, Th n «*t it down, like a worn-out glove. An nfant’s broken tor. Ab, we 1-a-day. when maids betray, Wounded ovem a., perish. "I Wait For My Story," '‘N.n!” “Yesm.” “That young Englishman eom-s here much too often.” Mrs. Delly took several cautious stitches in her “ofa-pillow embroidery, and looked as if she had something on her mind. Her pretty niece yawned over her mag rine before looking up. Nan Browning was pretty. If she had not 1-een this story would very likely never have been written, for it has to do with tie fascinations of her golden eyes. Yes, they were really golden eyes, of a teener tone than her yellow hair, but bright and wh too brilliant to be called brown or hazel. Nan knew she was pretty in a sort of away. Everybody had told her so ev< r since she could rcnretober. Whenever 4te went to a party she was always des -ritied by the society reporters as the “belie of the occasion.” If she wore a twenty-five-cent muslin, with a lot of violets, cheap in their season, her “tn let” was described at length, her muslin transformed into a crepe de chine, and her violets into “rare exotics. ” One of the youthful journalists, Frank Humphrey by name, who described Nan semi-snasmodically in hi, paper, fell in love with her the first time he saw her—genuinely, desperately and deeply in love with her. He was a clergyman’s son, and had ideals. He was “d ing” society temporarily for his paper, expecting promotion to the religious column. But all at once be ceased applying to his ci y editor for the sermon department, and devoted him elf to society with an ardor which caused his salary to be raised S 3 a week, with a word of rr commendation from the managing editor which m de his heart bound with joy. His heart always jumped with joy w henever it had a chance, it was usually so terribly weighed down with depression at thought of the immense distance between himself and Nan. Not that Nan was rich. On the contrary. Nan hadn’t a cent in the world, and Frank knew it. But her aunt, with whom she lived, had money, and knew how to dress Nan liecomingly, and howto introduce her into rich people’s society, and there Frank had no meanof pursuing her. for, alack-a-day for the course of true love, they all lived in Chicago. If they hid been placed by kindly fate in some romantic ci.y. where Frink could have played the amorous flute under her w ndow clad in a russetvelvet coat, there might have been some hope to beat n cheering rou delay in the poor I oy’s bosom. But there he was in Chicago, and with only a reporter’s entree into those gdded palaces where Nan shone r splendent on such festal occasions as Clara Whitelead’s w edding or Susie Porking’s debut. Clearly there was nothing for it butte hold fast to the position of society reporter until he could at least win an introduction to Nan, and have the felicity of a glanee for himself from the depths of those golden eyes. A six-month before Frank Humphrey would have declared it impossible that he should lose his heart to a girl to whom he had never even made a bow. He was just out of college, and had those profound theories about women in general that youths of his age are apt to cherish. His experience with th m was all in the future, when he applied for and obtained a pl >ce on the Chicago Mor ring Between-Seas. It was a good deal like his literary experience. He had taken a prize for composition on his graduation day, and his name had lieen in all the papers, and he had been proud and happy. He had felt as though he was on the high road to fame and success. By the wav, success is fame, and fame is success, but this is a story, and has no vital relation to such parenthetical statements. I said that Frank Humphrey's experience with womankind had been about like his literary experience. It was of about the same value to his real life. He had been tremendously interested in somebody or other when he w s 16, or thereabouts. So all the rubbish had been cleared out of his heart, and the flame that Nan’s eyes lit on its hearth was clear and bright and enduring. I suppose I ought not to say enduring. No flames are enduring of themselves. It is in their nature to burn out; but in this earnest young spirit there was a certain loyalty to itself which would keep the vestal fire burning alwavs for sake of the loved one and for sake of the love. Os course Nan did not know anything of all this on the sunshiny morning when Mrs. Delly looked np from her embroidery to siy to her pretty niece, “That young Englishman comes here much too often.” As yon already know, Nan yawned over her magazine before replying. There are so many sorts of yawns that it is no wonder Mrs. Delly did not know how to interpret this one. and paused to reflect, Refoe proceeding with the lecture she had been planning. Not coming to any conclusion, she very sensibly inquired, “What do you mean by yawning that way, my d ar ?” “It was the story, Auntie. I beg your pardon. It is one of Mr. Howells’. I know it is the fashion to adm're hirn; but I don't. I detest him. He makes all his characters go introspecting into their hearts and motives and intentions, till they don’t know what they are and who they are, anyway, you know.” Nan finished her very evident quota- I tion with another yawn, after the com- I ical little drawl in which she had imi- i tated the Englishman. Mrs. Delly laughed. “I say again. Mr. Hargrave I c -tnes here too often. See how you | read the stories he dislikes, and quote J his opinions.” This was not a wise speech on the part of Mis. Delly; but wisdom comes, j Nim made a little grim ice. “What -hill I do? Shall I say to him, ‘Mv Dear Sir—l am out of school now, and mv auntie doesn’t like to have me talk to boys as much as I use I to i when I was 16. Hoping you will take this gen ie bint, I am yours truly, Angela Br wnmg?’" That’s so, you were christened Angela. I always thought that was so good of your mother. I bad so nearly forgotten it that you might say I didn't know it. ” Frank Humphrey knew, however, ♦ha’ Nan’s n<mewa« Angela, and he thought the heavenly name quite suited to the sweet eliild-like fache loved. “If leas make her care for me some day in this sort of way,” he said to him.

self once, as he was sitting in his lonely room, dreaming over a volume of Jean i lugelow's poems: “If I can make her care she will pare so much.” He had bet-n reading “The Songs of ' SeVcn, ' and his heart beat fast at thought of that wistful face of the girl i of 14. “I wait for my story,” he said, “I will make Angela love me some wav, somehow. ” And then he remembered he must lie off on his ditty. tte wrote his report that night of Mrs. Lumberman's reception in a sort of dazed way, for he heard some one say '■ome’hin'as he sat writing in a little smoking-room back of the grand par lor. This wfts what he heard: "It will be a good match for little Nan. She is deucedly pretty, and deserves the luck, and they say Hargrave has no end of money.” He remembered every word of it with torturing distinctness. He returned lo the office, aftVr going home, long after midnight-, and hunted up his “copy" in e the printer’s waste, to assure him««lf that he had not written those words with his s description of the gown Nan wore. Nan bail laughed at that description n before she commenced reading the magazine story which was interrupted by r Mrs. Delly’s remark alreadv quoted: n “That Englishman comes here much 't too often.” * Nan had hardly finished her mocking “ little speech in reply, when her aunt ’• saw a stt Iden change in the girl’s face a turned toward the window. It was an ‘ indescribable expres-ion. incomprehense ible to Mrs, Delly. because the feeling . which caused it was equally little un- - derstood by Nan herself. r Mrs. Delly was a practical woman, r not given to what Hargrave called “in--9 trospecting,” and she looked out of the s window to see what Nan had se n to 5 bring the inexplicable look into her 1 eyes. And there was Hart Hargrave, 1 r in a tweed suit and an abominable cap, I r whirling by on his bicycle, with an ab- ' sorbed air. as if bicycling was the one and only earthlv occupation worthy the a tention or a Christian and an Eng i-h- --| min. That was Hargrave’s nationality coming to the surface. His country1 men are at their best in those out-door 1 exercises which show off their splendid i muscular development, and Hargrave was as proud of his arms and his inches as anv son of his island. If the truth were known, he was conscious that he was on Dearborn avenue, despite his absorption in himself. He wa- fully aware th .t he was directly beneath Mrs. Dellv’s windows, and he wondered inwa diy if Nan saw him and admiiedhim. He had seen her and admired her, and fairness demanded tha she shou d do likewise. Indeed, he had seen her many times, and admired her very much, for Nan had golden eyes. Hargrave's own were a bright brown, and his hair was not too dark. He was tall and athletic, and knew how to wear a dress-coat better than any man in Chicago. There was no acquire! virtue in that, however. He came of a race of dress-coated diners, whose evening clothes are part of their religion. Hargrave himself rather despised a man who dined in a frockcoat, before he came to Chicago. It was a mining speculation that brought him to America. He ha 1 been in Denver and Leadville, and was wa ting in Chicago the result of certain business ' evolutions. H- had letters of introduction to someliody who introduced him into Nan's world. Hargrave rather looked down on the world, but looked up, a long way up, to Nan herself. He found himself lingering an unconscionable time in Chicago. He haunted Mrs. Delly’s parlors with persistence. He called them “drawing-rooms,” and rather lisped the “r” Nan said, feeling it her duty to be funny about international peculiarities. Nan belonged to the Margaret Fuller Societv, and read Emerson, and knew some of Swinburne’s sonnets, and doted on Wagner’s music. At least, she said she did. and, doubtless, thought so, I with the lovely enthusiasm of 19. She talked to Hargrave about these things, and he listened with amazement. , He had thought that only ugly girls and old maids knew of such things, and told Nan so in his straightforward way t of complimenting. Hargrave lingered in Chicago. When any one asked him if he intended proposing to Miss Browning, he looked grave, and retreated into himself. He did not understand outside interference with a man's private affairs. I have read somewhere that a good story-writer lets his characters tell their own story in their own words. Very I well. Scene: The avenue. Dramatis persona’: Miss Browning. Mr. Hargrave, ’ young gentleman on his bicycle return- ' ing; young lady standing on the edge of i the stone pavement in an embarrassed | way examining minutely a bit of scarlet wool which she has pulled ont of the tiny package she carries. In the distance, and invisible, Mrs. Delly congratulating herself by her library fire on her good management in sending Nan to mitch wools at a moment when she would be sure to meet Hargrave returning from his morning run. You perceive that Mrs. Delly liked Hargrave, and practically advocated his interests while opposing them theoretically to Nan. Mrs. Delly believed in the rule of contraries with young girls. That is a good rule if practically put into operation. The only trouble is that the young girls have so much innate contrariness that the application of it externally produces the wrong effect, like that old rule in the gramma' s about the double negatives. That is a prologue or an epilogue, as you like it, the scene you have before you. Here is the dialogue: “The morning is quite delicious, Miss Browning.” “Yes, indeed, is it not?” “Have you enjoyed your walk ?" “Oh, very much. Have you had a pleasant ride?” “Oh, jolly, awfully jolly. There is nothing more refreshing than a brisk run on a bracing morning like this. It quite sets a man up for all day.” “Yes, indeed, I should think so. Do you ride bicycles much in England?” “Oh, very- much. It is quite the ■ thing now. And ladies go on tricycles, too 1 fancy you would like that sort of ' thing.” “Oh, no. indeed, lam sure I shouldn't I must go home now. My aunt I will lie waiting for her wools!” “Oh. yes, how stupid of me to keep i ’ you here! May I say good morning?” “Oh, yes, gooj morning I” I “Good morning; I say, Miss Browning.” “Yes?” Good morning. Or, that is, shall yon lie at home after dinner to-day ?” “Yes: so will Aunt Delly. Good morning.” “Good morning." Now. a'l that sounds very stupid on pajier, but it looked tragically living to Frank Humphrey, who happened to be walking by on the opposite side of the street, though he could not hear a word of the eminently interesting conversa- ! tion I have set down for you. First of all. he saw Nan coming along the pavement. He felt a thrill of consciousness that she had a little scarlet shawl around her shoulders. Frank had a sort of poetic instinct as to Nan's colors. It was more than the usual lover’s sensitiveness. He was accustomed to see her in white at her par- '

ties, and he thought of her ofteuest as i Angela. When, »s "ibmeiimes happened, he i saw- her in her street dress, she was Nan to him; but now, with the scarlet f wrap and the bright color in her t cheeks, at sight of Hart Hargrave she I was suddenly transformed Into Miss Browning, of Dearborn avenue, and he realized himself tp be poor Frank • Hnmphi-ey, cf the Morning Between- ' Seas. He saw Hargrave jump from his I wheel and take the g'rl’s hand. He saw her embarrassment, and it ent his heart. He had so recentlv heard the 1 Society talk about tneir engagement, and he had no means even of guessing that it might not be true, yet he was 1 fiercely determined from his very soul that Nan should never belong to any 1 man but himself, He saw Hargrave,'s animation of manner; he saw that lie took her hand again at parting. He walked very slowly, and bated Hargrave bitterly for his chances, and then he turned and walked the other way, crossing the street so as to be noir Nan; while Hahgrave Whilled off into a side street. Is was in the forenoon. Ihere was no one on the avenne for a long distance. Nan looked around, saw Humphrey. and stopped short, waiting for him, and looked directly at him as he approached her, feeling irresistibly the fascination flf his ey“s. I 'can't explain it. I only know that it happened. Frank I stopped near her, and they looked full ' into each other’s eyes for a second. Then Nan drew her scarlet shaw l around her shoulders with a shiver and almost rant her home, while Frank walked away in a tumult of emotion. Nan had only one—-a feeling of outrage, of keen indignation. M':e had seen that faed somewhere, bitt it had never impressed ! her. The tnan might be a ribbon clerk or a slipper man. for aught she knew. ■ He had no rigdrt to look at her so, and make her unable to help looking at him. There was the sting. Nin sat down on | the floor and cried. There was no meaning in her crying. She couldn't help it on general principles, and that would have been the end of this queer little moment of the girl's life if Hart H irgrave had not seen the silent meeting and parting. Humphrey had seen him talking w ith Nan; and fate, with a little bit of her own irony, gave Hart a tremendous twinge of jealousy at seeing this strange I little encounter, although he w as nearly | two squares away. R mnd whirled his good bicvele. and track into the avenue came the English- \ man. rushing toward Nan and destiny in a desperate sort of way. He had seen men in society talking to her, and felt confident that he was preferred before them all. And now he saw her stop for a moment beside some one whom she d d not know, and the sunshine went out of the world suddenly. Hart Hargrave saw that the future light of his summer days was all in Nan Browning's eyes. He wondered why he had been waiting to tell her. and turned with the impulse of his heart in words upon his lips. Whether he was blinded by the sunshine, or the swift insight into his own j well-regulated emotions, I cannot tell I you, but, someway or other, he fell. Humphrey heard and saw the fall, and ran toward him. A fall of that 1 sort is nothing to a man like Hargrave, 1 ordinarilv; but a bad pavement corner I and a frosty morning make small mis- : haps great, and Hargrave lay uncon- , scions, with a little blood on his face, as Humphrey lifted his head. To the first passer by he left Hart, ran straight to Mrs. Delly’s house and asked for Miss Browning. To you that mav show undisciplined youth; to me it looks generous and good; to Hnmphrey it meant a chance to see Angela, per aps to hear her speak to him, even theugh it was to say loving, pitying words of Hargrave. Nan came into the parlor with her scarlet shawl still around her shoulders, and the signs of tears in her golden i eyes. She stopped short, looking frightened when she saw who her visitor was. Hnmphrey rose, grave and calm. He told her his name, saying, “Mr. Hargrave has just met with an accident on his wheel. Do vou wish him brought here?” “Why, no; he doesn't live here,” said Nan, simply. Then, “I will call my aunt;" and she vanished. This was too good an opportunity for Mrs. Delly to lose. Certainly Hargrave should be brought to her house, and Humphrey's spirits, which had risen at Nan's indifference, sunk fatally again at her aunt’s inte est. But he went off bravely with the servant Mrs. i Delly sent, and helped bring Hart up to the house; then he went down on I the lake shore and looked at the water, and wished he could lie down forever in 1 its cool, green depths. That afternoon Humphrey wrote a poem, which was printed later on in one of the big magazines and copied all over the country, bringing a pang of memory to many hearts which had loved and longed and lost. Not that Humphrey knew when he wrote the poem that he had lr st something never attained. It was one of those prophetic lovers’ insights that do happen to people sometimes. That same afternoon Nan sat reading to Hargrave, who lay on the sofa in her aunt's library. Mrs. Delly was busy with her embroidery, in the bay window, across the room. Hargrave looked pale and touching. His forehead was bound up in fine linen, and a purple rug that Nan had made was spread over him. I don’t care alxmt telling the rest of this story, so I will fell back upon that ' good rule of lettin g the characters do so. My thoughts are with Frank Hnmphrey, and I c rn't help wondering if he could possibly have taught Nan the g’ory in the deep way he had learned it. Perhaps if Hart Hargrave hail not fallen off his bicycle into the arms of a friendly future, the light Frank dreamed of might have gleamed in Nan's coldr-n "ves; she mia-ht have learned the depths and heights of 'he meaning she saw in Frank Humphrey’s eyes in that moment when they two stood face to face, heart looking at heart. Hargrave stopped Nan’s reading. “Please bring your chair a little nearer. I can’t hear vou distinctly,” he said. Nan did so, feeling a little tremor of . apprehension, but not having much i time for her Saxon; he spoke at once in I a low, but, tremendously earnest tone: “I should like this soit of thing to go on always. I can make you happy, l Nan; I will. I promise yon I will. There is no one you like better, is i there?” Nan looked down at her hands, and : said “No.” truthfully, and without a flutter of her heart. “Will you take me, then? I will make you a good husband, dear. I never pared so much for any girl, and I have seen a good many. Your home 1 w ill be a long way from here, but I will I make it a happy one. WiU you trust I me?” “Yes. if Aunt Dally says so,” said Nan. She rose and rushed off to her room and cried for the second time that day. , Then she bathed her eyes and began to plan about her wedding gown, and to wonder what her English home would be like. And they all had dinner very I happilv. During the next half year the

jChleago yrorning Between-Seas published a colilnin account ot the wedding festivities of Miss Angela Browning and i Mr. Hart Hargrave, of Blankshire, Eni gland. Humphrey did not write the report, i He had been promoted, and somebody i else had charge of the Social Department.—The K'keelman. Aktlii>t>F TroHobc’s Wonderful Fertility. He published too much; the writing of novels had ended by becoming, with him, a perceptibly mechanical process. ' Dickens was prolific; Thackeray pro--1 duced with a freedom for which we are bbn.sttatlv grateful I b.ut feel that these writers had their periods 8f gestation. They took more time to look at their subject; relatively (for to-day there is not much leisure, at best, for those who undertake to entertain a hungry public) they were able to wait for inspiration. Trollope’s fecundity was prodigious; ’here »ls flo limb to the work he was ready to do. It is not unjust to say that he sacrificed quality to quantity. Abundance, certainly, is in itself a great merit; almost all the greatest writers been abundant But Trollope's fertility -“d? fantastic, incredible; he himself contended, we believe, that he had given to the world a greater number of printed pages of fiction than any of his literary contemporaries. Not only did his novels follow each other without visible inter mission, dverlapping and treading on each other’s heels, but most of these works are of extraordinary length. “Orley Farm,” “Can You Forgive Her?’’ “He Knew He Was Right." are exceedingly voluminous tales. "The Way We Live Now” is one of the longest of modern novels. Trollope produced, moreover, in the intervals of larger labor, a great number of short stories, many of them charming; aS w?U as various books of travel and two oi three biographies. He was the great improvvisatore of these latter years. Two distinguished story-tellers of the other sex—one in France and one in England—have shown an extraordinary facility of composition; but Trollope's pace was brisker even than that of the wonderful Madame Saud and the delightful Mts. Oliphant. He had taught himself to keep this pace and had reduced his admirable faculty to a habit. Every day of his life he wrote a certain number Os pages of his current tale, independent of mood and place. It was . once the fortune of the author of these lines to cross the Atlantic in his company, and he has never forgotten the magnificent example of stiff persistence which it was in the power of the eminent novelist to give on that occasion, i The season was unpropitious, the ves- i sei overcrowded, the voyage detestable; but Trollope shut himself up in his cabin every morning for a purpose which, on the part of a distinguished writer who was also an invulnerable ! sailor, could only be communion with the muse. He drove his pen as steadily on the tumbling ocean as in Montague Square: and, as his voyages were many, it was his practice before sailing to I come down to the ship and confer with the carpenter, who was instructed to rig up a rough writing-table in his small sea-chamber. Trollope has been accused of being deficient in imagination; but, in the face of such a fact as that, the charge will scarcely seem just. The power to shut one’s eyes, 1 one’s ears (to say nothing of another sense' upon the scenery of a pitching i Cunarder and open them upon the i loves and sorrows of Lily Dale, on the conjugal embarrassments of Lady Glencora Palliser, is ceitainly a faculty which has an element of the magical. ' The imagination that Trollope possessed he had, at least, thoroughly at his command. I speak of all this in order to explain (in parti why it was that, with , his extraordinary gift, there was always in him a certain touch of the common. He abused his gift, overworked it, rode his horse too hard. As an artist, he never took himself seriously; many people will say this was why he was so delightful. — Henry James, in. the I Century Savings For Old Age. Noone denies that it is wise to make provision for old age, but we are not all agreed as to the kind of provision it is best to lay in. Certainly we shall want a little money, for a destitute old man is. indeed a sorry sight; yes, save money, by all means. But an old man just needs that particular kind of I '• strength which young men are most apt to waste. Many a foolish young fellow will throw away on a holiday a certain amount of nervous energy which he will never feel the want of until he is 70 and then how much he will want it! It is curious, but true, that a bottle of champagne at 20 will intensify i the rheumatism of three-score. It is a fact that overtaxing the eyes at 14 may necessitate the aid of spectacles at 40 instead of 60. We advise young readers to be saving of health for their oi l age, for the maxim holds in regard to health as to money—“Was’e not, want not.” It is the greatest mistake to supi pose that violation of the law.-, of health can escape its penalty. Nature forI gives no sin, no error;’ she lets off the offender for fifty years sometimes, but she catches him at last, and inflicts the punishment just when, just where, and just how he feels it most. Save up for i old age, bnt save knowledge; save the recollection of good and noble deeds, innocent pleasures, and pure thoughts: save friends, save love. Save rich stores of that kind of wealth which time cannot diminish nor death take away. Oriental Wit, A young man going on a journey, en- ' rusted a hundred denars to an old man : vheu he came liack the old man denied 1 laving had any money deposited with lim, and he was had up before the : Kazee. “Where were you, young man, when con delivered this money ?” “Under a tree.” “Take my ring and summon that ree,” said the Judge. “Go, young nan, and tell the tree to come hither, md the tree will obey you when you j ihow it my seal. ” The young man went in woiider. After he had been gone some time, he Kazee said to the old man: “He is long—do you think he has got here yet ?” “No,” said the old man, “it is at <ome distance; he has not got there j zet.” “How knowest thou, old man," cried he Kazee, “where that tree is?” The young man returned and said he tree would not come. “He has has been here, young man, md given his evidence—the money is i ihine.” Hurrah Grass. Several years ago, before the war. an Arkansas Congressman introduced to ; ' his agricultural constituents a new kind of grass, which he declared would form i sod enough to kill all the weeds and I other growths of worthless nature. The i Arkansaw Traveler says: The seed was sown quite extensively in the southern part of the State, and 'he farmers were much gratified to see that a very thick i sod *as at once formed. Next year, however, the grass began to take root in additional fields until it was found to be impossible to keep it down. The grass was soon discovered to be worth- i less for hay, and was in fact, only good | for choking out all kinds of weeds, corn and eotton. This disastrous growth gained the nauj’e of "hurrah grass,” and is so known “ever, to this day.” It is said that large plantations have been abandoned on that account.

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idioas M 3 t f i r R—l nnd TM« . ■A ..., imi • ' iU<iMßiEnwMMrf«iegaßl*crf<MM> Xever Fails to Restore Grey or Failed Hair ' to the youthful color. c’-s. and f 1 Bites at all druggi.U. «ft lhe Wi ! Giuzer. Biichu. Mandrake. Stillineia and many of the best medicines know n are here combined into a medicine of such varied and effective powers, as to make the Greatest B!<x?d Punfierithe Best Health and Strength Restorer Ever Used. Jtcures Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Sleeplessness, at! diseases of the St much, Bowels Lungs, Laver, Kidneys, and all Female Complaints. If you aie waging away with Cunsumptien or any disease, vse the T rc tc-d.iy. It will surely Ip fox j. remember! it is far superior to Baters, Essencesof Guider and other Tonics, as it builds ;mi u -■ tt intoueatinf. 5 •*. andst Bsbes, at aii dealers in drugs None genuine without n • fHi cox&< .NT. S? -dtr circular JI.LAR SIZE. HOW WATCHES ARE MADE. In a Solid Gold Watch, aside from the necessary thickness for engraving and polishing, a large proportion of metal is needed only to stitfen and hold the engraved portion.* in place, and supply strength. The surplus gold is actually needless. In JtiMfst Bobb' Patent Gold Watch Cobcb this waste is saved, ami solidity and strength increased by a simple process, at one-half the cost. A plate of solid gold is soldered on each side of a plate of hard nickel composition metal, and the three are then passed between polished ; steel rollers. From this the cases, back*, centers, bezels, etc., are cut and shaped bydies and formers. The gold is thick enough to admit of all kinds of chasing, engraving and engine turning. These cases have been worn perfectly smooth by use without removing the gold. This u the Giily case made under this procea. Each cage is accompanied irith 0 valid guarantee signed by the manufacturers varranting it to wear 20 years. 150,000 of these Cases now carried in the United States and Canada. Largest and Oldest Factorv. Established 1854. Ask your Jeweler. TOLEDO, CINCINNATI J ST. LOUIS R. R. Tline Table— In ELect Dec. 11. 1882. Going West, i Western i Going East. I 7 I 5 I Division. I 6| 8 i ... P. M. a. M. Lv. Ar. P. m. pTm .... 8 30: 4 55|T01ed0..... 10 Uo| 535 ... .... 12 35 4 30 . ...Delphos 9 1" 130 ... .... 106 457 ....Venedocia. . 847 105 .... .... 115 508 .. .Jonestown... 83712 52 .... .... 126 521 Shasta 8 27112 40 .... .... 132 5 28-.. .Enterprise... 82112 33 .... .... 140 5 38'Dull 81312 25 .... .... 147 6 45i.., .Abauaka.... 80712 18 .... .... 153 550 .. . ScLiumm.... 80212 13 .... .... 205 6 C 5.. Willshire... T 5012 00 .... .... 215 6 17|.Pleasant Mills. 740 11 49. .... .... 235 6 38'... Decatur..., 72211 30 .... .... 240 655 ....Peterson.... 707 11 131.... .... 3oi 7 08’.. Curryville .. 657 11 <»0 .... 305 7 13‘ ..Craigville.... 653 10 55'.... .... 321 7 3. 1 ’.... Bluffton.... 63710 39 .... .... 339 752 Liberty Centre. 6 2010 20 ; .... .... 349 8(4 .. ..Boehmer.... 6OSJOOB .... .... 353 808 ....Buckeye.... 60610 05 .... .... 407 823 Warren 552 951 .... .... 432 853 ...Van Buren... 527 924 .... ... 4409 oo ...Landessville.. 6219 15 .... .... 445 9 10,’... .Hanfleld.... 5179 10 .... .... 504 930 ....Marion. 456 ' 8 50,.... .... 522 943 ...Roseburgh... 4 4*l. 8 38; .... .... •32 9 51!Herbst..... 4 29; « !9 .... .... 540 958 ... .Swazey’s .... 4 23. 823 .... .... 557i014 .. Sycamore. ... 4 0718 08 .... .... 607 1«» 22i. ..Greentown... 35* 8 02j .... .... 635 io so!Kokomo a tej 7 ... Jp.mJAt. LvJ ...Ja.m. l ... Going West, j i Going East. 11 I 7 | 5 |I 6 | 8 I 12 .... P. M. A.M. Lv. Ar -P.M A.M .... i 6 35 10 50 ... Kokomo .... 3 20| 7 35 ... ! .... 1645 ll , .... 652 11 •«•...Middletons...; 302 7 20, .... ' .... 659 11 13>...Russiaville.. |2 52 713 .... ! .... I 7 11 11 25ForestI 2 401 7 031 .... A.M. 7 25 11 39 .Michigantown. 2 24 6 52 P.M. 6 15 7 45 12 00 ....Frankfort.. . 200 630 800 6 s*: ....I M. ...Clark’s Hill 722 8 21; ...J ...J..Veedersburgl 5 55 945 .... I .... 1.. Ridge Farm 430 10 15 ....I ....IMetcalf. 4 00 1100 ...J .... ....Oakland 8 15 n 30 ...,| Maples 245 1145 .... ...Charleston 2 30 Lv. Ar ... T. A. PHILLIPS. T. H. B. BEALE. Gen Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent. W. 8. MATTHIAS, Asst Gen. Pass. Ajent.

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6RANO RAPIDS & INDIANA RAILWAY. lu Eflfect October 15» TIME.i station-*- 1 -4-- — —i T» ! ... M Isanr 7 4 pin •••• | Richni«>nd ..... .lv 3 ftpui U W ( W J* ' KgSF I IK. uvsm , ’■'S oi • Lumps’ •• '- ” i * *» 1 ! -r F'L H.nrani'lts-.'S ■:S pn ‘ BlirKapkto — “H - ••'■- .-.fl Uv K...,l<ity - W» i* iJS <-rnUUMC ar Cl*>. ! : * “'2? I Cs.hll»<- lv ’S i Tra.er.. I -.xv .. ar .. ...... : , Bfe* i |!i Harl»r KMkM* I 5 ® ) Ms.-fcinaw .....V ..... ■■■■■•: ' 1 ' <RVn«' *•<> hf _ | .I 5 j ' US’ fthX, j* j 3 ®.. CadluL"... "ar ■• ■ j jjw. MBtotn « w • (■stills. lv sis ih ..th ( I*™.!*... ! 3 I:::::::: Fort Warn. ar 1 OOpm I£> ’ » Fort Warne lv 1 -’ll s i.«n> 1 1 Jam , ' brestnr - ‘ , l , r-' ‘ Wira-hester 5 'l2 Lu I tllh’llMXMtl 440 » fj'in 4*» _ 1 | No. 5 leaves Cincinnati and No. * Mackinaw Citv daitv. except Satuniay. All other trains d ily except Sunday. . Woodruff sleeping cars on Nos. u ami b between Cincinnati and Grand Rapids, and sleep- ( ing and chair cars on same train 1 ’ between Grand Rapids and Petoskey; also Woodruff •lee* i n g car* on Noe. 7 and 8 Ijetween Grand BiipJds and Mackinaw City. AB. LEET. Gen’l. Pass. Agent. Chicago and Atlantic R’y. TIME TABLE-EASTERN DIV. Takes Effect Sanday. Jane 17. ISB3. WESTWARD. I |_ EASTWAEP. Psr ’.Hc < Stations. VEx Atlantic . Ex. 3, • Ex. 1 Ar. Lr. s. i 123 26am 2 55pin .iluattnrtou. J s*‘pm 11 upm 315 230 ..Simpsons... 259 1108 306 223 .Markle.... 397 11 16 255 210 L'uion.... 318 11 26 •1 48 203 ..KiDgslatld.. 325 11 S 4 240 i1 55 . ..Tociita... •3 32 11 W . •j 14 1 49 Kirtland .* 38 11 44 2 i 45 ...Preble. .. 3<3 11 220 135 .Decatur... 357 1’ ouar 205 122 -■ Rivare.... 4 o<> ,12 11 j 57 ils . Greenwood 413 12 17 14x 1 of. . Glenni >re.. 4 12 25 , 138 12 57 Enterprise.. 435 12 *4 123 12 40 .. Yorkville. 449 12 47 ■ in* 12 J? Spencerville 5'9 10* 12 52 12 10 ..Conant... 5 17 1 15 12 46 12 'Kjpm .... Kenm.... 523 120 12 41 11 58 Shawnee.. r » 29 125 12 35 11 52 lv.. Lima ... 539 13c 12 27 II 44 ..Townsend .54 1 4'2 12 2o 11 37 Westminster 5 53 1 49 • 12 u 11 31 ...Harrods... 5 '•s i , 12 «<6aru 11 2 J • Preston.. 6 u7 2 01 11 59 11 16 ... Scioto.,.. 6 13 2 Oil I ; 11 54 11 11 Oakland... 6 18 2 14 11 4“ !■' 56 lv.. Kenton.. 64" 235 11 25 I" 4.1 .Dudley.... 6 53 2 46 j 11 19 !<• 37 . hepbum .. 701 252 1109 .0 26 ... Cl fton.... 7 14 3 03 I 11 »».» Ift |7 . Espvvide. 7 25 3 12 10.56 lUI2 Hords... 731 ,3 17 io 50o»nlC' ari Marion ... 74>i ;n 3 2*am Trains run by Cbhrmbns time. Tniins Nos. 12 and 3 run through solid between Chicago and New York. Trains No*. 12 and 3 run daily, all others daily except Sunday. r J CONDIT SMITH. S. M SNOW . Vice Pres, and Gen. Man g. Gen. P&ss. Agt. ’ CHICAGO. J. C. WILLIAMS, General Superintendent. YjrW TRADE J W * W V MARK ■ >«*n tv m BASKET PLUG TOBACCO Is the best combination of the CHOICEST LEAF, PUREST SWEETENING. DELICIOUS FLAVORING. It is unequalled, and is the American CHEW A. TBIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU That the Old Favorite WIGWAM And the New Favorite Wide Awake Are the best SMOKING TOBACCOS of the day. SPENCE BROS. S CO.. Cincinnati, | A I I F“ People are alwavs on the lookout fur 1A / I I to incre>se their --arniog*, \j li I p* and in time become wealthy; tr. -e W V I I 1 I who do not improvs their opp»rtu- " • ■ ■■"niiies remain io poverty. We Jer a great chance to make mom-y. We want many men, women, boys and girio to work for um rizht in their own localities. Any one can do the work from the tirst start. The boriness will pay more than ten nmee the ordinary wages. Exj*nMv« outfit furnished free. No one who eugagf-n fed* to make money rapidly. Y>u can devote your whole time to the work, cr only your spare moment*. Full information and all that is needed sent free. Address brntsos «C0 4 Portland, Marne -6 42 lyr. O;iiisliter*. ♦♦ he*and Mother*. I>r. WarchiSi’w < ath<diron Female Krni^dy, Guaranteed to give satiifaciiou or money refundcl Will cure Female diseases. All ovarian troubles, ibflama'ion and ulceration, falling and displseeiaeßts or bearing down feeling.irregularities barlenness, change of life, luccor. hoes, be- | • sides -n any springing fioin the above, like headache, bloating. spin<T weakness, sltepl’«sne<B, nervous debility • I palpitation of the heart, etc. For sale by i Druggists. Price yl 00 and $1 50 per let- | • lie. Send to r »r. J. B. Marchisi, Utica, N. Y. for pamphlet free. For sale by Dur- , ’ ; . in and H« ithouse.—No. 2 < «»■♦ tor Piitt ■ j To the people of this coun'ry we would say » v !>*ve been given ihe Agency >t Dr -I March i-is iialtau Pile Ointment—warrat- ' • I ed IO cure or money reumtkd—lnternal, I . j External. Blind, Bleeding u< Itching Piles. • • I Price &oc. a box. Foi sale by bvrvin and Holibouse.—No. 2m:;. • Kock Candy Cough Cure, l « arranted locate or money refunded ’ Coughs, < o!d«, Hoarseness, Throat and a Lung troub'es. (alsogood for children.) f 5 Kock Candy Cough Cure contains the ’ healing properties ot - j, ure Kock Candy with extracts of Roots ani Herbs - Only 25 cts. Lxrge bottles S 1.09 cheapest to buy. For sale ty Dorwin and Holthouse No. 2m3.

NIBLICK, CRAWFORD i SONS. Have again made a change of base by adop ting the CASH SYSTEM. From and after this date Will sell for Cash Only. We have the BIGGEST stock and FINEST selection in I the city. We have a fine Line of all kinds of LACE COLLARS. FICHUES AND TIES. , SILK HANDKERCHIFS from nto $2.50 a piece. LADIES’ FVRS, In Setts and also Muffs and capes that we can sell separate i ' OF SHAWLS; 1 n all grades from a cheap Cotton to a Broche. GENTS’NECK WEAK We Lave something new in that line called a Lawn Tenor Bicycle Tie. Gents’ Suspenders in Silk, something i beautiful for a Christinas Gift. dbpa j bltment; 17,-. nip'ete. we are offering a fine line of Table Cloth's md N.-tpkins to match, put up nicely in a box of one sett each. Towels in great variety, from 5c to fl each. We have a elegant line of —gLass-wak I: In plain and engraved. Majolica-ware in Plates, Tea setts. Tr'.:it Baskets, Pitchers, Tea and Coffee Cups and Saucers. Bread Plates, Pickles. ENGLISH AND FRENCH CHINA \v “ have mustache Cups and Saucers from 40 cents toll each Full line of Dinner and Tea setts, in plain and decorated. Wash-stand setts from 2to 12 pieces each. In our CARPET DEFARTMESTT, You can rind something nice in the way of Ruggs, Matts and Crum Cloths, in prices to suit all. WOOL BLANKETS. we defy competition, ranging m price from $1.50 to sl4 per pair. We are offering great bargains in LADIES COATS, I'l, iSTERS and DOLMANS to close for the seas >u—now is your chance to make a oargain. Please call and see before you make your purchases a« we know that wo can do you some good. Niblick, Crawford & Sons. Look Out and Don’t Forget THAT JOHN WELFLEY. Is -oiling <iroceries at less money than anv other house and . is bound not to be UNDERSOLD. SUGAR and COFFEE Lower than for twenty years. ; COFFEES. SUGARS, TEAS, SPICES, CANDIES. SALT MEATS, FISH, SARDINES. TOBBACCOES, QUEKNSWARE, CIGARS. Sugar- all grades. Green and Roasted Coffees of the best quality. Teaas —Good—Cheap—Black and Green—are one of our specialties. Sugar Cured Hams, Shoulders, Bacon and Dried Beef. Tobaccoes and Cigars in choice brands and great variety New Assortment of Lamps. Bronze, Gold and Ebony. Tubs. Buckets, Brooms and wooden ware Generally. Cut Glassware, China dinner and tea sets, a full assortment of Queensware. White Fish. Cat Fish, Mackerel, Cod Fish, Holland Herring. and Sardines. Country Produce TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR GOODS. Come Everybody, wilt find first class groceries fresh . and cheap. JOHN WELFLEY. Opposite Court House. August 10, ‘B2. No. 19 ts C. E. ALBERS & SON has open out in JOHN KING’S CARRIAGE SHOP A full and complete line of Family Groceries, Big Stock o Fresh Goods, at B3TTOM PRICES and everything in the grocery line to select from. All Goods to any part of the City Delivered Free..

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